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Posted on: May 11th, 2008
If you work in the electronic, biomedical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, energy, catalytic, and materials industries and your employer uses nanoparticles or materials that contain nanoparticles, you may be at risk for exposure. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Users Organization has named Oleg G. Shpyrko as the recipient of the 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Designer labels have a lot of cachet - a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes - the relatively new power scientists have to make specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Higher temperatures yield tunable, supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Scientists in Singapore have invented a tiny machine that can rapidly prepare, purify and genetically analyse blood or other biological samples in less than 20 minutes ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
In the future, the rigid electronic boards will not place restrictions in the design of new products, as the manufacturing technology is being developed towards more flexible, design-friendly and inexpensive form of electronics. New manufacturing methods will change the production processes and will enable the manufacturing of entirely new kinds of products. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
The UK's Technology Strategy Board has revealed its three-year strategic plan and outlined how it will promote and invest in technology-driven innovation for the benefit of business, to increase sustainable economic growth and to improve quality of life. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Good insulation for nanowires provided by self-assembling molecular-scale sheaths. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Government and private sector should join hands and carry out focussed research to make India a significant player in nanotechnology, former President APJ Abdul Kalam said. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University invites you to help design the future of nanotechnology. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed the first device to directly measure complex ultrashort light pulses in space and time at and near the focus. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Fabrication technique could yield low-cost, scalable nanowire photonic and electronic circuits. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
A cure for cancer, a solution to rising fuel prices or a whole new generation of super-strong materials coming out of the Hoosier state? This and much more possibly lies within the emerging realm of nanotechnology, according to a covey of national nanotechnology experts in Indiana on May 2, 2008. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
The House Science and Technology Committee yesterday unanimously supported H.R. 5940, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act, which will update and expand the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Professor Richard A.L. Jones to head Institute's advisory group. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, researchers from Delft University of Technology, in conjunction with two South Korean and one German research groups, have succeeded in mapping this process properly. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Establishing a permanent European Observatory on Nanotechnologies is one of the goals of the EU-funded observatoryNANO project, which started recently. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure plays in precisely tuning the fundamental properties of nanomaterials and, in particular, nanoparticle assemblies that are important for device applications. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Reverse transcriptase, target of major anti-HIV drugs, dynamically binds both DNA, RNA. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
The Institute of Nanotechnology in the UK is organizing a conference '21st Century Medicine: Breakthroughs and Challenges' being held on November 26-27, 2008 at The Royal Institute of British Architects, London. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
When you try to remove adhesive paper from a surface, you inevitably get a pointy flap, while what you want is to remove the entire piece. A team from the Laboratoire de physique et mecanique des milieux heterogenes, collaborating with the University of Santiago in Chile and with MIT, has explained the physics behind this frustrating experience. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Researchers at Yale University have extended the conventional laser theory such that it can be applied to random lasers, one of the most exotic type of lasers in existence, as well. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Stem cells can differentiate into 220 different types of body cell. The development of these cells can now be systematically observed and investigated with the aid of two new machines that imitate the conditions in the human body with unprecedented accuracy. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
A University of Colorado at Boulder research center has won a $1.5 million contract with its long-time partner Lockheed Martin Corp. to demonstrate new micro- and nanotechnologies that promise to significantly improve thermal management in electronic devices, one of the critical constraints on today's consumer and military electronic systems. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
At the IEEE International Magnetics Conference today in Madrid, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
About 100 researchers from the nanobiotechnology network Nano2Life coming from 12 EU Member States or Associated Countries are expected to attend the last Nano2Life conference to be held in Heraklion, Crete, on June, 25?27. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized 'nanoworms' that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body?s immune defense system and - like tiny anti-cancer missiles - home in on tumors. ...more
Posted on: May 6th, 2008
A better understanding of brain injury, a way to rejuvenate dead nerve endings and a device allowing patients to monitor their glaucoma at home, number among this year's nine winners at New Jersey Institute of Technology?s annual provost?s student research day. ...more
Posted on: May 6th, 2008
Lab-on-a-chip to the extreme: pocket-sized PCR rapid test including sample preparation. ...more
Posted on: May 6th, 2008
The Nanotechnology Institute, a consortium of Philadelphia-area research and technology organizations that includes the University of Pennsylvania, has received $3.5 million in funding from the Commonwealth's Pennsylvania Initiative for Nanotechnology. ...more
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