http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanotechnology news headlines from Nanowerk Copyright 2005-2008 Nanowerk LLC http://www.nanowerk.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/images/nanorss.gif 35 88 michael@nanowerk.com (Michael Berger) en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5661.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 As far as test tubes go, it doesn't get any smaller than a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT). Among the wide range of interesting properties exhibited by SWCNTs is their capacity to encapsulate molecules within their quasi one-dimensional cavity. The confinement offered by the nanotube could serve as a nanoscale test tube to constrain a chemical reaction. This was demonstrated in principle back in 1998, when the coalescence of adjacent fullerenes was observed by transmission electron microscopy. In the following years, scientists have extensively experimented with filling nanotubes with other fullerenes, atoms, molecules and, very recently, with organic molecules. Owing to their large variety with diverse chemical properties, the incorporated organic molecules can tune the properties of the SWCNTs. Scientists are intrigued by the possibilities that SWCNTs' use as a reaction tube offers for chemistry at the nanoscale. Nanochemistry - a key to control self-assembly processes prerequisite for nanotechnology - in essence would produce stable chemical reactions inside a confined nanoscale space. Encapsulated inside this nanoscale space, molecules are isolated from the outside environment, which allows one to identify and control the source and incidence of chemical reactions. Recent work has demonstrated this new chemistry by using SWCNTs as a nanometer-scale reaction furnace. http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5661.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5662.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 BAE Systems in Merrimack has signed a $38 million agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to lead a team to build insect-sized robots for government spying operations. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5662.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5663.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5663.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5664.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Good insulation for nanowires provided by self-assembling molecular-scale sheaths. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5664.php http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5646.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Regulations and legal provisions can serve several purposes. From a regulator's perspective priority is given to aspects of human safety and environment protection. For commercial firms, regulations on the one hand imply restrictions (compliance) and on the other hand offer a frame of reference and predictability of legal decisions. From a civil society's point of view regulations can be trust-building in the sense that it indicates a certain level of safety. A lack of regulations calls for voluntary measures in order to make sure that this kind of basic trust can be established. The following article aims at shedding light on this field of tension and gives an overview of the current state of European nanotechnology regulation. http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5646.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5647.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Net income increases 50 percent for fiscal year. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5647.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5648.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5648.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5649.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Lux Research report finds nanomedical start-ups generate 77% of returns but get only 27% of investment. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5649.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5650.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Establishing a permanent European Observatory on Nanotechnologies is one of the goals of the EU-funded observatoryNANO project, which started recently. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5650.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5651.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5651.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5652.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Professor Richard A.L. Jones to head Institute's advisory group. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5652.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5653.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Applied Materials, Inc. announced the shipment of its 200th Applied Producer APF system. The Producer APF system has been key to enabling the extension of optical lithography to 45nm and beyond. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5653.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5654.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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). http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5654.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5655.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5655.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5656.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 British microchip designer ARM Holdings has invested $1 million to set up a VLSI test lab at its Bangalore design center. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5656.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5657.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Fabrication technique could yield low-cost, scalable nanowire photonic and electronic circuits. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5657.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5658.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5658.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5659.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 An Arkansas nanotechnology company has been awarded $224,997 from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a green alternative to fluorescent lighting. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5659.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5660.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University invites you to help design the future of nanotechnology. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5660.php http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5628.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 The catalytic conversion of chemical to mechanical energy is ubiquitous in biology, powering such important and diverse processes as cell division, skeletal muscle movement, protein synthesis, and transport of cargo within cells. Catalytic 'engines' will be key components of active micron- and sub-micron scale systems for controlled movement, particle assembly, and separations. A few days ago we took a look at catalytic nanomotors - sophisticated molecular-size biomotors have evolved in nature - and described an example where researchers supercharged their nanomotors by inserting carbon nanotubes into the gold and platinum nanowires (Speeding up catalytic nanomotors with carbon nanotubes). Today we show an example where catalytic nanomotors can, in principle, be tethered or coupled to other objects to act as the engines of nanoscale assemblies. Additionally, an object that moves by generating a continuous surface force in a fluid can, in principle, be used to pump the fluid by the same catalytic mechanism. Thus, by immobilizing these nanomotors, a group of scientists have developed micro/nanofluidic pumps that transduce energy catalytically. http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=5628.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5629.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5629.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5630.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5630.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5631.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 For the quarter ended March 31, 2008, the company reported revenues of $1.07 million, down from $1.14 million in the same quarter of 2007. The net loss was $8.29 million, or ten cents per share, compared to a net loss of $5.18 million, or seven cents per share, for the first quarter of 2007. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5631.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5632.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Industrial Nanotech, Inc. announced today that the Company has begun production of their patented, Nansulate EPX product line at the Company?s new manufacturing and distribution center in New Brunswick, NJ. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5632.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5633.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Research and Markets has announced the addition of the Jain PharmaBiotech report 'Molecular Diagnostics - Technologies, Markets and Companies' to their offering. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5633.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5634.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5634.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5635.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5635.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5636.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5636.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5637.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5637.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5638.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5638.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5639.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 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. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5639.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5640.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Applied Materials, Inc. today launched its Applied Inflexion edge polishing system, a unique, high-precision defect removal system that polishes and cleans the critical wafer edge region. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5640.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5641.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Reverse transcriptase, target of major anti-HIV drugs, dynamically binds both DNA, RNA. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5641.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5642.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Ener1's common stock will begin trading on the AMEX under the new ticker symbol HEV effective at the market open on Thursday, May 8th, 2008. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5642.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5643.php Fri, 09 May 2008 03:42:55 -0400 Nanogen, Inc., developer of innovative, high-quality diagnostic products, will host a conference call on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern to discuss 2008 first quarter results. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5643.php