Explosive Nanotechnology

A team of American scientists have developed highly reactive nanoenergetic formulations based on periodate salts

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Sound solution to nanoparticle handling problems

Sound solution to nanoparticle handling problems
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/08/ultrasonic-technique-sticks-nanoparticles-catalytic-activity
	An unexpected discovery allows scientists to stick nanoparticles together using ultrasound without destroying their catalytic activity

Boron vapour trail leads to heterofullerenes

The simple route to borafullerenes could open up an interesting new avenue of heterofullerene research © Wiley-VCH

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/12/boron-fullerene-heterofullerene-atom-exchange

A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesise heterofullerenes – fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure – by exposing fullerenes to boron vapour during their growth. They found that atom exchange with a carbon takes place to form a derivative known as borafullerene. The team believes the process can be easily scaled up and applied to other all-carbon analogues including nanotubes or graphene.

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http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2012/12/boron-fullerene-heterofullerene-atom-exchange

Nano-Technoloogy Makes Medicine Greener

The ultra small nanoreactors have walls made of lipids. During their fusion events volumes of one billionth of a billionth of a liter were transferred between nanoreactors allowing their cargos to mix and react chemically. We typically carried out a million of individual chemical reactions per cm2 in not more than a few minutes. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Copenhagen)http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103132357.htm

 Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are behind the development of a new method that will make it possible to develop drugs faster and greener. Their work promises cheaper medicine for consumers.

Over the last 5 years the Bionano Group at the Nano-Science Center and the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen has been working hard to characterise and test how molecules react, combine together and form larger molecules, which can be used in the development of new medicine.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111103132357.htm

Novel uses of nanoparticle catalytic systems

Novel uses of nanoparticle catalytic systems

Easily prepared and recoverable nanoparticles with a diameter of 10–40 nm, with a high surface area and stability may provide a catalytic system or the support for a catalyst.

http://www.sciencereviews2000.co.uk/blog/view/journal-of-chemical-research/58/novel-uses-of-nanoparticle-catalytic-systems/676