Sentences with phrase «developed by nanotechnology»

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In his first few years as a principal investigator (PI), working with stem cells and emerging nanotechnologies to develop nanomedicines, Ferreira was able to make do by licensing some of his technologies and securing industry funding and Portuguese government grants.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

«The silver that went into wastewaters when millions of people had their photographs developed taught us that small additions of silver to the environment make a big difference,» said Dr. Samuel Luoma, a former U.S. Geological Survey senior researcher who was lead author of a report by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.

The recent growth is driven, experts say, by aging populations and increased life expectancy in the developed world; combination products that couple a medical device with a drug, the device usually acting as a drug - delivery vehicle; miniaturization (via nanotechnology), making medical devices less invasive; and the use of molecular diagnostics to customize therapeutic regimens and to assess individual disease risk.

«We can now take linear nano - materials and direct how they are organized in two dimensions, using a DNA origami platform to create any number of shapes,» explains NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the paper's senior author, who founded and developed the field of DNA nanotechnology, now pursued by laboratories around the globe, three decades ago.

The magnetic hyperthermia system used was developed by co-author P. Jack Hoopes, DVM, PhD co-director of Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Nanotechnology Working Group.

Richards - Kortum's work brings together nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and microfabrication to address global health challenges by developing low - cost medical technologies — such as a portable microendoscope to diagnose and treat cervical cancer — for use on the ground in low - resource settings around the world.

Dr. John Randall is an adjunct professor at UT Dallas and president of Zyvex Labs, a Richardson, Texas - based nanotechnology company specializing in developing tools and products that fabricate structures atom by atom.

By combining nanotechnology with cheap materials such as cotton and tea bags, however, researchers have recently developed mobile water filters that can be manufactured for less than a penny.

«By chemically modifying the nanotube surface to controllably introduce light - emitting defects, we have developed carbon nanotubes as a single photon source, working toward implementing defect - state quantum emitters operating at room temperature and demonstrating their function in technologically useful wavelengths,» said Stephen Doorn, leader of the project at Los Alamos and a member of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).

Two new standards developed by ASTM International Committee E56 on Nanotechnology will assist a variety of users in aspects of nanomaterial measurement.

Ever since the 1980s, when Gerd Binnig of IBM first heard that «beautiful noise» made by the tip of the first scanning tunneling microscope (STM) dragging across the surface of an atom, and he later developed the atomic force microscope (AFM), these microscopy tools have been the bedrock of nanotechnology research and development.

In the third project, Shusteff, a microsystems engineer in the Center for Micro and Nanotechnology, is developing a microfluidic device to separate malarial parasites by their viability.

But a new nanotechnology approach developed by Xiaoli Liu and Madhan Kumar in the Department of Neurosurgery could transform gliomas from a death sentence into a treatable condition.

The groundbreaking nanotechnology - inspired sensor, devised by Prof. Fernando Patolsky of Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and developed by the Herzliya company Tracense, picks up the scent of explosives molecules better than a detectinanotechnology - inspired sensor, devised by Prof. Fernando Patolsky of Tel Aviv University's School of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and developed by the Herzliya company Tracense, picks up the scent of explosives molecules better than a detectiNanotechnology, and developed by the Herzliya company Tracense, picks up the scent of explosives molecules better than a detection dog's nose.

Inspired by Marty McFly's self - lacing Nikes, Associate Professor Jayan Thomas, a nanotechnology scientist at the University of Central Florida's NanoScience Technology Center, developed solar - powered filaments that also store energy and can be woven into textiles.

A chemistry professor at UC Santa Cruz, working with teams from California, Mexico and China, has published a paper reporting a breakthrough which may improve the conversion efficiency of incoming light photons to electrical current by as much as three times.The material developed by Jin Zhang relies on two existing technologies from the field of nanotechnology.

They developed the Ecological Paper Printing and Ink Collector (EPPIC) system recycles and reuses printed - paper and its ink created by binding an organic renewable pigment to a graphene sheet with a large surface area made using nanotechnology.

The potential for nanotechnology, such as that being developed by materials scientist Craig Grimes and his colleagues at Pennsylvania State University show some of the brighter possibilities.

On the other hand, with the advent of molecular nanotechnology we may be able to develop micron sized factories with a uniform design, accurate down to the molecular level, capable to convert readily available raw materials to some high energy density, non-flammable, non-toxic chemical using short wave solar photons captured by molecular antennas, with no harmful emissions whatsoever.

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