http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanotechnology news headlines from Nanowerk Copyright 2005-2009 Nanowerk LLC http://www.nanowerk.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/images/logo10.gif michael@nanowerk.com (Michael Berger) en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:57:34 -0500 http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13637.php Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13637.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13638.php Physikern der Empa ist es zusammen mit Chemikern des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Polymerforschung nun erstmals gelungen, ein graphenaehnliches Polymer mit atomarer Genauigkeit zu synthetisieren. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13638.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13639.php Stanislaus S. Wong, a scientist with a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, has won the Buck-Whitney Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Eastern New York Section. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13639.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13640.php CRAIC Technologies, the leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions for science and industry, announced Windows 7 compatibility of its MINERVA microspectrometer control and spectral analysis software. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13640.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13641.php To develop tools for tracking histone acetylation in live cells, Minoru Yoshida of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako paired his knowledge of histone acetylation with colleague Kazuki Sasaki's expertise in fluorescent biosensor design. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13641.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13642.php Energieeffiziente und umweltfreundliche Technologien ruecken immer mehr in den Mittelpunkt. Welchen Beitrag die Mikro- und Nanotechnologie dabei leisten kann, zeigt eine Veranstaltung am 1. Dezember in Dortmund auf. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13642.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13643.php A new application note, freely available on the Malvern Instruments' website, describes how the new ZEN1010 high concentration zeta potential cell for the company's market-leading Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system, overcomes a major hurdle in measuring the zeta potential of high concentration samples. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13643.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13644.php The University of California Board of Regents on Nov. 19 named Paul Alivisatos director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the university. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13644.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13645.php ClassOne Equipment, Inc., a leading supplier of refurbished equipment for the semiconductor and nanotechnology markets, has recently purchased all of the equipment assets of Colibrys' MEMS facility in Stafford, Texas, outside of Houston. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13645.php http://this-week-in-nanotechnology.blogspot.com/ This week's most interesting nanotechnology news. http://this-week-in-nanotechnology.blogspot.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13647.php Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTI) has announced that it has filed three new PCT patent applications to protect our intellectual property worldwide. The patents are for Flow-Through Cavitation Assisted Rapid Modification of Crude Oil, Modification of Beverage Fluids, and Method for Cavitation Assisted Refining, Degumming and Dewaxing of Oil and Fat, for its Nano Cavitation Technologies. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13647.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13648.php Nano ePrint Ltd, the pioneer in planar nano-electronics, announced that it has secured a Grant for Research and Development to demonstrate Nano ePrint's unique printed programmable logic architecture. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13648.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13649.php On behalf of its parent company SiMPore, Inc., TEMwindows.com is pleased to introduce the SepCon Spin Column, a revolutionary separation device that makes it possible to separate nanoparticles that differ in size by 5 nm or less. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13649.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13650.php Ever wonder what something looks like up close and personal? ASPEX wants your samples! ASPEX, makers of the Personal Scanning Electron Microscope (PSEM), kicked off its 'Send Us Your Sample' campaign, encouraging people to send in samples to be scanned by one of their PSEMs. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13650.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13613.php Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) has recently won a contract with French research centre, STnano in Strasbourg, France for the supply of a Plasmalab System80 Plus ICP system. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13613.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13614.php The idea is to build an entirely new kind of battery, whose key components would be kept at high temperature so that they would stay entirely in liquid form. The experimental devices currently being tested in an MIT lab work in a way that's never been attempted in batteries before. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13614.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13555.php A Canadian software company and a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, Lumerical Solutions Inc., is donating 10 simulation engine licenses of its finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software to Compute/Calcul Canada at one of the new WestGrid installations. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13555.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13615.php OECD and UNITAR will hold Awareness-Raising Workshops for Developing and Transition Countries on Nanotechnology and Manufactured Nanomaterials. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13615.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13616.php A scientist at The University of Nottingham has been recognised for his outstanding and creative early career research with a prestigious EUR 1m grant to study speculative and ground-breaking research into molecular depleted uranium chemistry. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13616.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13617.php The University of Ghent and the nanoelectronics research center IMEC demonstrated repulsive and attractive nanophotonic forces, depending on the spatial distribution of the light used. These fundamental research results might have major consequences for telecommunication and optical signal processing. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13617.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13618.php Microchannel processing has the potential to greatly increase the efficiency, effectiveness and commercial value for next generation biofuel production. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13618.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13619.php Russian innovative developments in the field of high technologies have always attracted a great interest among political leaders in many countries. The proof is a long-term history of collaboration between India and Russia is being offering the challenge of mutually beneficial growth. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13619.php http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=13620.php Europe is a key player in nanotechnology and, about on the same level as the U.S., invests hundreds of millions of dollars, or rather euros, into nanotechnology research and development projects. Whereas the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in was established in 2001 to coordinate Federal nanotechnology research and development, the European Union's slowly grinding bureaucratic mills came up with a comparable program only three years later. In May 2004, the European Commission adopted the Communication Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology. It seeks to bring the discussion on nanoscience and nanotechnology to an institutional level and proposes an integrated and responsible strategy for Europe. Since then, the EU has issued updates on how they are doing with two implementation reports, the last one issued just a few days ago. http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=13620.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13621.php Beneq has entered a strategic agent partnership with Armgate SIA for representation in the Baltic countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13621.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13622.php WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced a new, innovative service for gene-expression profiling of thousands of genes using the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13622.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13623.php A RUSNANO delegation headed by CEO Anatoly Chubais will visit Sweden on November 19-20, 2009 to study the support that government offers for innovative developments, share with Sweden's business and scientific communities the goals and principles that guide RUSNANO's activities and discuss opportunities to collaborate in commercialization of nanotechnologies with their Swedish counterparts. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13623.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13624.php Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic circuits. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13624.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13625.php Including technology in the curriculum in early childhood could help to raise the interest of both girls and boys in science and technology, according to recently published, EU-funded research. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13625.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13626.php The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used in many everyday products such as sunscreens, cosmetics and electronics. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13626.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13627.php New nanoscale materials and devices are required to replace the silicon transistor that's at the heart of today's semiconductors, but to build these new devices, researchers will have to be able to measure the thickness - if that's the right word - of layers consisting of only a few atoms http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13627.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13628.php Toshiba Corporation has announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13628.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13629.php The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13629.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13630.php Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors that could do just this. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13630.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13631.php Asylum Research, the technology leader in Scanning Probe and Atomic Force Microscopy (SPM/AFM), has announced a new grant program for early adopters to explore the capabilities and applications of the unique new Band Excitation technique. Existing or new Asylum AFM users are encouraged to apply for grants valued at up to $50,000 USD. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13631.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13632.php PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. - the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems - has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 micrometer in XY and XYZ. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13632.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13633.php Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, scientists from Empa's nanotech@surfaces laboratory have for the first time succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like polymer with well defined pores http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13633.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13634.php Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures to the nanometer scale while preserving long-lived vibrations. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13634.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13635.php Scientists at the University of Michigan have determined the atomic-level, three-dimensional structure of a SEVI precursor known as PAP248-286 and discovered how it damages cell membranes to make them more vulnerable to infection with HIV. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13635.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13636.php Spectrographic data taken from an Ocean Optics spectrometer has helped NASA confirm the presence of water ice on the moon. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13636.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13593.php Auf einer Flaeche von 2400 Quadratmetern bietet das ZNT eine flexible, interdisziplinaere und interaktive Plattform fuer aktuelle Themen aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik. 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