Acquiring nanotechnology advancements to march ahead of the race

OMICS Group invites researchers, academicians, scientists, Institutions, corporate entities, associations and students from across the world to attend the Nanotechnology Congress & Expo from 11-13 August 2015, at Frankfurt, Germany with a theme “Exploring and Acquiring the Advances in Nanotechnology”....
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Free-standing monolayers made from protein-bound gold nanoparticles

Free-standing nanoparticle films are of great interest for technical applications, such as the development of nanoelectronic devices. In the journal ("Free-Standing Gold-Nanoparticle Monolayer Film Fabricated by Protein Self-Assembly of α-Synuclein"), Korean scientists have introduced very flexible and stable monolayers of gold nanoparticles made by...
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New nanogel for drug delivery

Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs because they can be molded into specific shapes and designed to release their payload over a specified time period. However, current versions aren’t always practical because must be implanted surgically. To help overcome that obstacle, MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of self-healing...
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Microfluidic diamond sensor

Measuring faint magnetic fields is a trillion-dollar business. Gigabytes of data, stored and quickly retrieved from chips the size of a coin, are at the heart of consumer electronics. Even higher data densities can be achieved by enhancing magnetic detection sensitivity---perhaps down to nano-tesla levels. Greater magnetic sensitivity is also useful...
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Cheap nanostructured solar cells made with carbon quantum dots from shrimp shells

The materials chitin and chitosan found in the shells are abundant and significantly cheaper to produce than the expensive metals such as ruthenium, which is similar to platinum, that are currently used in making nanostructured solar-cells. Currently the efficiency of solar cells made with these biomass-derived materials is low but if it can be improved...
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