Event: Working safely with nanomaterials
The British Occupational Hygiene Society is hosting an International Conference on Working Safely with Nanomaterials on 6th July 2012.
Jan 9th, 2012
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Mechanics of carbon nanotubes
Parts of this book are based on the fundamental research work on the basic methods for nanoscale mechanics during the initial stages of the establishment of Nanotechnology Programs at the NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, Virginia) and the university-based ICASE Institute (NASA Langley Research Center).
Jan 9th, 2012
Read moreAbschlussbericht zur Entsorgung nanosilberhaltigen Abfalls in der Textilindustrie
Mit einer Fallstudie zur Entsorgung von silberhaltigen Abfaellen, welche ueber die Wertschoepfungskette von Textilien anfallen, sollte der Handlungsbedarf fuer eine spezifische Nano-Anwendung abgeschaetzt werden.
Jan 9th, 2012
Read moreAlmost perfect: A breakthrough in superlens development
A step toward a cheap, simple lens powerful enough to let us see a single virus.
Jan 9th, 2012
Read moreGraphene reveals its magnetic personality
Can organic matter behave like a fridge magnet? Scientists from The University of Manchester have now shown that it can.
Jan 9th, 2012
Read moreNanotechnology shrinks conducting wires to atomic scale (w/video)
The narrowest conducting wires in silicon ever made - just four atoms wide and one atom tall - have been shown to have the same electrical current carrying capability of copper.
Jan 7th, 2012
Read moreNovel microinjection technology delivers nanoparticles to the back of the eye
Technology developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to specific locations in the eye provides the foundation for a startup company that has received a $4 million venture capital investment.
Jan 7th, 2012
Read moreScientists are one step closer to a revolution in DNA sequencing
Harvard researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read moreImplanted biofuel cell converts bug's chemistry into electricity
An insect's internal chemicals can be converted to electricity, potentially providing power for sensors, recording devices or to control the bug, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University report.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read more3-dimensional view of 1-dimensional nanostructures
Researchers at Northwestern University have recently reported that individual gallium nitride nanowires show strong piezoelectricity - a type of charge-generation caused by mechanical stress - in three dimensions.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read morenanoCAGE reveals transcriptional landscape of the mouse main olfactory epithelium
nanoCAGE technology enables comprehensive analysis of transcription start sites from tiny biological samples.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read moreThe next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry
Berkeley Lab scientists push chemistry to the edge, testing plans for a new generation of light sources.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read moreInfektionsforscher durchleuchten Nanokosmos der Zellen
Die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Kombination von Fluoreszenztomographie und klassischer Mikroskopie setzen neue Massstaebe in der Infektionsforschung. Die modernen bildgebenden Verfahren und ihre Ergebnisse werden Thema des internationalen Symposiums "Imaging Infection 2012" sein.
Jan 6th, 2012
Read moreResearchers create a wire 4 atoms wide, 1 atom tall
The smallest wires ever developed in silicon - just one atom tall and four atoms wide - have been shown by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Melbourne University and Purdue University to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires.
Jan 5th, 2012
Read moreUsing UV light to write on a DNA information-storage device
In an effort to make data storage more cost-effective, a group of researchers from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a DNA-based memory device that is "write-once-read-many-times" (WORM), and that uses ultraviolet (UV) light to make it possible to encode information.
Jan 5th, 2012
Read moreGraphene's piezoelectric promise
Engineers at the University of Houston have used quantum mechanical calculations to show that, merely by creating holes of a certain configuration in a sheet of graphene, they can coax graphene into behaving like a piezoelectric material.
Jan 5th, 2012
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