Science news articles about 'naomi halas'

  • Researchers shed new light on catalyzed reactions

    ... and silica called nanoshells, invented 10 years ago at Rice by nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas. Nanoshells are about 20 times smaller ... understand," Wong said. To learn more, Wong approached Halas and Rice theoretical chemist Gustavo Scuseria ...
  • Nanocups brim with potential

    ... high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices. Naomi Halas, an award-winning pioneer in nanophotonics ... , a substance that gets its properties from its structure and not its composition. Halas and Mirin found their new material particularly adept ...
  • Rice fine-tunes attack on cancer

    ... and nanoparticles are already being used to treat cancer. A Houston company founded by Rice scientists Jennifer West and Naomi Halas, Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., is conducting ...
  • Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

    ... are about biodistribution -- where particles go inside the body and how they get there," said study co-author Naomi Halas. "Noninvasive tests for biodistribution will be enormously ...
  • Nano imagining takes turn for the better

    ... nanoshells currently in human cancer therapy trials based on research by Rice scientists Naomi Halas and Jennifer West. "Our work is more geared ...
  • Optical Legos: Building nanoshell structures

    ... was led by Harvard University applied physicist Federico Capasso and also included nanoshell inventor Naomi Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore ...
  • Early tests find nanoshell therapy effective against brain cancer

    ... treatment alternatives that have minimal side effects." Gold nanoshells, which were invented by Rice researcher Naomi Halas in the mid-1990s, are smaller than red ...
  • Measurement of 'hot' electrons could have solar energy payoff

    ... Science. "We're merging the optics of nanoscale antennas with the electronics of semiconductors," said lead researcher Naomi Halas, Rice's Stanley C. Moore ...
  • Light might prompt graphene devices on demand

    ... simple, graphene-based diodes and transistors on demand. The work was done by Rice scientists Naomi Halas, Stanley C. Moore Professor ... nanoantennas to graphene affords just such a possibility. Halas and Nordlander have considerable expertise in the manipulation of the quasiparticles ...
  • Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions

    ... remotely on demand. The method created by the Rice labs of Michael Wong, Ramon Gonzalez and Naomi Halas and reported today in the American Chemical ...
  • Rice unveils method for tailoring optical processors

    ... range of colored inputs and outputs. "Versatility is one of the advantages of this process," said study co-author Naomi Halas, director of LANP and Rice's Stanley ...

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