Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Confusion over classification of nanomaterials under the Reach chemicals legislation has led to two groups of companies using different criteria to submit data on carbon nanotubes to the European Chemicals Agency.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Jeremiah T. Abiade, assistant professor in materials science and engineering and in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his research to increase the electrical output of thermoelectric materials and devices.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Von Schmetterlingsflügeln bis Keramik - Farbgebung in Natur und Kunst sowie Anwendungen in der Biomimetik sind Themen der deutsch-französischen Sommerschule "Nanophotonics in Nature and Art", die vom 7. bis zum 14. September 2009 in St. Pierre d'Oléron an der französischen Westküste stattfindet.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
'The future path through cyberspace is filled with threats and opportunities, most of which cannot even be imagined today,' says Gene Stephens, a member of the FBI Futures Working Group
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
The highest-ranked health official in the EU executive has hit out at lobby groups who stoke fear of nanotechnology. Robert Madelin, director-general at the European Commission's health and consumer affairs directorate, said it was 'irresponsible' to use panic in order to attract attention.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.
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Posted on: Jun 16th, 2009
Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth - concrete - to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and nuclear waste containment vessels.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists have created a material that does not expand when heated, as does nearly every normal metal, and acts like a metal with an entirely different chemical composition.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Researchers at Arizona State University are working to create lower cost PEMFCs by directly growing carbon nanotubes on carbon paper substrates, otherwise known as the gas diffusion layer, rather than spherical carbon particles and then deposit platinum nanoparticles onto the surface of the nanotubes.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Finding reliable information about products on the European market which currently contain nanomaterials is becoming increasingly difficult, according to high-level experts addressing a meeting of consumer groups from the EU and US.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
A case study in the June 2009 issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry examines changes and transport in aluminum nanoparticles, currently used in energetics, alloys, coatings, and sensors, when they are exposed to relevant environmental conditions.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Move over, silicon - it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
On June 17, a panel of representatives from various sectors will discuss the major challenges to future IP developments related to synthetic biology, identify key steps to addressing these challenges, and examine a number of current tensions surrounding issues of use and ownership.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Nano Digest, an English monthly magazine hits the news stands. India's first magazine on Nanotechnology, Nano Digest is produced from Hyderabad.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Robert S. Schwartz, MD, medical director of the Minnesota Cardiovascular Research Institute, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, will describe the new paradigm of the biocompatibility of intravascular devices during his keynote presentation at the leading conference on materials for medical devices.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
A new report prepared for the Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN) will outline disturbing parallels between asbestos and nanotechnology in order to illustrate the eight needed steps that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) should take to improve disclosures made to investors.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II).
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Technical experts to showcase new research results in advanced gate stack, high mobility channels, and 3D interconnect TSVs at VLSI symposium.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Eine neue Publikation im Auftrag vom Bundesministerium für Bildung Forschung von der VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH erarbeitet, beschreibt die Entwicklung der Nanotechnologie und den aktuellen Stand in Deutschland.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
Scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
This questionnaire is the final stage of the consultation phase of the FP7 FramingNano Project which is aimed at formulating a comprehensive proposal for a future governance framework for the responsible development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.
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Posted on: Jun 15th, 2009
A team of researchers has discovered a biological marker for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in older adults.
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