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"Fangqiong Tang, Yi Li of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and colleagues note that wool is naturally water-repellent, or hydrophobic, a feature that acts as a barrier to enhanced features such as anti-wrinkle, anti-shrinkage, finishing and dyeing.....
ACS Nanotation Nanoscience in photographs from Harvard Magazine
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The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, about 100,000 times thinner than the sheet of paper on which these words are printed. If you could shrink to ...
ACS Nanotation To complement a snow-covered holiday season, an Article by Ajayan and co-workers is featured on the December issue of ACS Nano. Cheers for a great year, and here's hoping for an outstanding 2010!
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We have been delighted at the extraordinary response that ACS Nano has received, from the scientific community and beyond. We are indeed achieving our goals not only of publishing top papers but also of guiding the field, pointing out the challenges ahead and what approaches [we] might take...
ACS Nanotation JACS Beta is now featuring Video Abstracts for selected Articles. The first video features Lippard, Mirkin, and co-workers discussing a targeted drug delivery method using DNA–gold nanoparticles.
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JACS Video Abstracts are summaries of recently published JACS articles, filmed by the articles’ authors....Mirkin, Lippard, and co-workers have combined the features of cisplatin and DNA-gold nanoparticles into a single substance to target cancer tumors with few side effects....
ACS Nanotation I can't help but think that this snowman was created from a nano-snowball gently rolled across a giant substrate.
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The National Physical Laboratory has deployed a range of techniques to create the world's smallest snowman - a diminutive fellow just 10 µm across, or "1/5th the width of a human hair."
ACS Nanotation Nano Werk is reporting that Argonne National Laboratory is investing in green technology for new research lab construction. Seriously, we love this stuff.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is more than just a hub of prizewinning science. It's also the home of award-winning – and green – architecture.
ACS Nanotation The December issue of Nano Letters demonstrates a technique "to interrogate how the electronic structure of SWNTs affects electrocatalytic interfacial charge transfer, a process fundamental to photoelectrochemical cells." ( http://bit.ly/57bRv3 )
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Featuring 106 Letters spanning a wide range of nanoscience topics. Happy holidays!
ACS Nanotation It's the small things that count.
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...The article announcing this device, published in Nano Letters, says that the transistor can be controlled precisely enough for it to be useful for future nanoelectronics....
ACS Nanotation Eric Bland of Discovery News has an excellent article on the potential of transparent silver nanoparticle "coffee rings," as originally reported by Layani et al. in ACS Nano.
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Taking advantage of ink's natural tendency to create "coffee rings," a group of Israeli scientists has developed a type of ink jet dye that could one day create a range of power-hungry, and power-producing, devices at home.
ACS Nanotation Emmanuel Dumont's third Nano Pick takes a look at the need to re-invent devices at the nanoscale, even if the physical mechanism is entirely different.
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Mikhail Noginov and colleagues from Norfolk State University, Purdue University, and Cornell University are a bit early for the 50th birthday of the laser, to be celebrated in 2010. They just reported the first spaser–based nanolaser, a novel device proposed by physicists David Bergman and Mark Sto...
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It's relatively easy to create clumped nanoclusters, but what if you need a linear arrangement? A new Nano Picks review by Fen
Zhang explains a viable approach towards achieving the latter.
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...Surface functionalization and patterning has been widely used to direct the assembly of gold nanoparticles into ordered assemblies and clusters. The predictable assembly of linear gold clusters has been more of a problem....
ACS Nanotation Friction is an intuitive concept often taken for granted, but in fact arises from complex electrostatic and repulsive interactions. Emmanuel Dumont steps us through how "friction" is differentiated on the macro- vs. nanoscale in his second Nano Pick Review. The results might surprise you!
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...At the macroscopic scale, [friction] is a dissipative force resisting motion between two solids and it consumes a significant portion of the mechanical work generated by engines. But does friction matter for biological nanomachines? ...
ACS Nanotation If you're wondering what's possible with vaccine delivery via layer-by-layer (LBL) hydrogel capsules, ACS Nano has a podcast with your name on it. (See http://bit.ly/7UedIC for the full article complete with an illustrative ToC image.)
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Managing Editor Penelope Lewis and Meredith Duey highlight features and research content from Volume 3, Issue 11. In this episode, we learn more about layer-by-layer methods for drug and vaccine delivery. Featuring an interview with author Frank Caruso.
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