IBM's investment in UAlbany Nanotechnology College part of a strategy to push technology education
John E. Kelly III, IBM's director of research, gave a reality check to the upstate business community Friday. Here's one shock: China is churning out 600,000 engineering graduates a year, more than eight times the number coming out of U.S. schools.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreShaping single photons
ou can squeeze it and stretch it and even chop it up, but a photon is still a photon, a particle of light. Physicists have been manipulating single photons for several years, but now a team has modulated the time profile of a photon. Using the same optical equipment that fashions ordinary light pulses, the team molded single photons into arbitrary shapes, such as a pair of square pulses.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreElectronic DNA sequencing in nanopores funded with $6.5m
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $6.5 (over 4 years) grant to a team of Harvard University researchers to further develop electronic sequencing in nanopores.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreIs new nanotechnology regulation needed, and if so, by whom?
Washington Legal Foundation paper by Gardere Wynne Sewell attorney Nancy Brown looks at need to address concerns raised by growing nanotechnology sector.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreActive gold nanocrystals observed with scanning transmission electron microscopy
Using a pair of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) instruments for which spherical aberration is corrected, researchers for the first time achieved state-of-the-art resolution of the active gold nanocrystals absorbed onto iron oxide surfaces. In fact, the resolution was sensitive enough to even visualize individual gold atoms.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreEuropean Commission urges to cut red tape for high-tech research
Urgent action is needed to cut red tape and create a more risk-tolerant environment for high-tech research in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector, the European Commission has said.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreEverything you always wanted to know about nanotechnology
CNRS Images has just released 'Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies', its second thematic DVD, to answer all our questions about the infinitesimally small.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreNew catalysis method will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions
Princeton scientists have discovered a way of stimulating organic molecules that they expect will prompt researchers to create materials from new kinds of chemical reactions.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreExpanded Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at University of Illinois dedicated
On Thursday, September 4, the University of Illinois' hosted Capital Development Board Chairman Anthony Licata and other state officials on campus dedicated the recently expanded Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL).
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreMehr Solarenergieforschung in Deutschland durch Spitzencluster Solarvalley
Das 'Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland' wurde vom Bundesforschungsministerium als ein Spitzencluster ausgewaehlt.
Posted: Sep 5th, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology researchers recognized for top-cited scientific articles
Six scientific articles by researchers in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, appear among the most cited articles published in Volume 23 of Biofouling: The Journal of Bioadhesion and Biofilm.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
Read moreArgonne develops precise molecular ruler for measuring distances within a protein
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have won an $800,000 EUREKA award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop MADMAX, a precise molecular ruler for measuring distances within a protein.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
Read moreNanoparticles hunt down cancer cells
Cancer cells can be detected then destroyed using a nanostructure designed by South Korean researchers.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
Read moreTwo catalysts better than one
US researchers have cracked a long standing problem in chemical synthesis - the catalytic alpha-alkylation of aldehydes - by combining two catalysts in one pot.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
Read moreHow to effectively manage innovation like nanotechnology
How does one predict and direct something that is by nature unpredictable and, by necessity, often undirected? According to David Guston, who is co-director of ASU?s Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and a professor of political science, it is by strengthening society?s ability to nurture and guide innovation within socially acceptable frameworks.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
Read moreSub-nanometer size gold cluster responsible for vital oxidation reaction
Scientists peel away the mystery behind gold's catalytic prowess.
Posted: Sep 4th, 2008
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