Nano News: 04/27/15

Graphene-based technique creates the smallest gaps in nanostructures

A new procedure will enable researchers to fabricate smaller, faster, and more powerful nanoscale devices - and do so with molecular control and precision. Using a single layer of carbon atoms, or graphene, nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a new way of fabricating nanostructures that contain well-defined, atomic-sized...

Researchers model new atomic structures of gold nanoparticle

They may deal in gold, atomic staples and electron volts rather than cement, support beams and kilowatt-hours, but chemists have drafted new nanoscale blueprints for low-energy structures capable of housing pharmaceuticals and oxygen atoms. Led by UNL's Xiao Cheng Zeng and former visiting professor Yi Gao, new research has revealed four atomic arrangements...

Study explores the interaction of carbon nanotubes and the blood-brain barrier

A research published in ("The interaction of carbon nanotubes with an in vitro blood-brain barrier model and mouse brain in vivo") studies the interaction of carbon nanotubes and the blood-brain barrier through two different proceedings. The study was carried by the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science at the King's College London and Elzbieta Pach...