Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody - an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances - works in the bloodstream of a living animal.
Jun 9th, 2010
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Jyrki Suominen will make a keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry.
Jun 9th, 2010
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The Royal Society awarded Professor Andre Geim the Hughes Medal for his revolutionary discovery of graphene, and explanation of its remarkable properties.
Jun 9th, 2010
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Graphene has the potential to replace carbon fibres in high performance materials that are used to build aircraft.
Jun 9th, 2010
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Predicting the precise shape of metal nanostructures evaporated on an array of spheres is now possible using a mathematical algorithm.
Jun 9th, 2010
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Tiny optical circuits could operate at even higher speeds because of a simple structure that rotates the polarization of light.
Jun 9th, 2010
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Imec today officially opens the extension of its state-of-the-art cleanroom at its campus in Leuven, Belgium. Moreover, imec also kicks off the construction of a new office building fitting in its plan for further expanding its high-tech ecosystem.
Jun 8th, 2010
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The Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and the European Commision Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) have kicked off collaboration to support risk management and improve consumer protection through new approaches in the areas of nanotechnology and alternative methods to animal testing.
Jun 8th, 2010
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This document is intended to support the testing undertaken in the context of OECD's Sponsorship Programme and to ensure that the information collected from this testing programme be reliable, accurate and consistent.
Jun 8th, 2010
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This document aims to assist sponsors of the OECD Sponsorship Programme as well as others involved in the safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials, through providing general and common issues as well as specific considerations on sample preparation and dosimetry.
Jun 8th, 2010
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Imec presents an improved processing technique for germanium-based thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells resulting in significant reduction of cell cost, an essential step to develop a market for thermophotovoltaic applications.
Jun 8th, 2010
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Moore's law marches on: In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time.
Jun 8th, 2010
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Discover the many facets of MINATEC in four days and twenty events.
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The Institute of Electronics in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is coordinating an European contract in the INTAS program named: 'Study of atomic vapor layers of nanometric thickness and atom-surface interaction'.
Jun 8th, 2010
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A group of Iranian researchers at University of Tehran succeeded in finding a new method to functionalize carbon nanotubes in a short period.
Jun 8th, 2010
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Wann ein Metallteilchen den elektrischen Widerstand verliert, ist auch eine Frage seiner Groesse. Die Temperatur, unterhalb derer ein Material zu einem Supraleiter wird, kann naemlich drastisch steigen - wenn der Stoff als Nanokuegelchen mit bestimmtem Durchmesser vorliegt.
Jun 8th, 2010
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