http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanowerk Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies news headlines from Nanowerk Copyright Nanowerk LLC http://www.nanowerk.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/images/logo10.gif en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:20:46 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30935.php MIT researchers discover efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30935.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:53:09 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30936.php A team of researchers has created a hybrid material out of gold and milk proteins that looks like a wafer-thin gold leaf. Thanks to its properties, it could be used in a vast range of applications from gastronomy to the jewellery industry. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30936.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:06:29 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30937.php The paper brings together information collected through discussions and projects undertaken by the OECD Working Party on Nanotechnology (WPN) relevant to the development and use of nanotechnology for green innovation. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30937.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:18:34 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30938.php The global operator of renewable energy ACCIONA-Energy in collaboration with the Marine Research Unit of AZTI-Tecnalia has developed a guide that will facilitate the writing of the Environmental Impact Studies (EIS) of Marine Renewable Energy Projects. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30938.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:59:27 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30939.php To make it easier for customers to enter the thin film market, Beneq now offers a unique collection of coating services at its facilities in Espoo, Finland. This lowers the risk of new product development and provides a safe path for scaling up to industrial production. Beneq's capabilities in thin film coating services cover many upcoming commercial technologies. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30939.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:18:18 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=30940.php While nanoparticles are emerging as drug carriers for targeted nanomedicines, preclinical assays to test nanoparticle efficacy are hampered by the lack of methods to quantitatively determine internalized particles. A novel method is suited to pave the way for preclinical testing of nanoparticles to establish dose-efficacy relationships and to optimize biophysical and biochemical parameters in order to make better drug delivery vehicles. The team demonstrated that it is possible to determine the exact number of nanoparticles inside a cell through a combination of three methods and a mathematical model which they developed to link the data from these three methods. http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=30940.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:14:49 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30941.php Researchers have synthesized two peptides (small proteins), which, on irradiation with light, change shape, thereby allowing or preventing an specific protein-protein interaction. The association of these two proteins is required for endocytosis, a process by which cells allow molecules to cross the cell membrane and enter. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30941.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:12:59 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30942.php Polymeric particles act as 'nanomissiles' against determined targets and enable the controlled release in space and time of pharmaceutical drugs, releasing their 'load' only when and where required. This release of medication is controlled by applying a local magnetic field. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30942.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:26:34 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30943.php Astrophysicists from the Complutense University of Madrid have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that this and a further two objects of the group of the Centaurs are co-orbital with Uranus. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30943.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:33:27 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30944.php The world's most powerful microscope, which resides in a specially constructed room at the University of Victoria, has now been fully assembled and tested, and has a lineup of scientists and businesses eager to use it. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30944.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:58:08 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30945.php NetComposites is leading a new collaborative R+D project aimed at developing a synthesis platform to deliver industrial quantities of graphene-filled epoxy resins for advanced composite applications. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30945.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:02:28 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30946.php The EuroNanoForum 2013 starts today at the Convention Centre in Dublin, Ireland. The 6th biannual conference is the place for the global nanotechnology community to hear about the latest research findings, to convey visions for the market impact of nanotechnology, and to demonstrate commercial products at the Nanotech Europe exhibition. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30946.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:08:01 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30947.php A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the United States Department of Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Waterloo. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30947.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:11:43 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30948.php The E2e Project aims to give decision-makers real-world evidence on the most cost-effective ways to reduce energy and emissions. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30948.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:46:37 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30949.php Researchers at the University of New South Wales have proposed a new way to distinguish between quantum bits that are placed only a few nanometres apart in a silicon chip, taking them a step closer to the construction of a large-scale quantum computer. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30949.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:53:15 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30950.php The project BASYNTHEC ('Bacterial synthetic minimal genomes for biotechnology') launched in 2010 with almost EUR 3 million in EU funding. It sought to develop a model-based approach for engineering B. subtilis and create synthetic modules for producing metabolites and proteins of interest. Ultimately, the research could lead to new antimicrobial treatments for bacterial infections. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30950.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:40 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30951.php Scientists apply drug-design lessons to production of industrial minerals. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30951.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:06:52 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30952.php The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft is on track for a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on June 26. IRIS will fill a crucial gap in the ability of scientists to advance Sun-Earth connection studies by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through a dynamic interface region - the chromosphere and transition region - between the solar surface and the solar corona. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30952.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:26:39 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30953.php NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30953.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:55:54 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30954.php Novel application of 3-D printing could enable the development of miniaturized medical implants, compact electronics, tiny robots, and more. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30954.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:15:27 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30955.php Delivers nanometer SPICE accuracy for 28nm EEPROM and flash IP for SoC applications. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30955.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:19:14 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30956.php The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is launching an open-source system for storing, integrating, and aligning energy-related time-series data. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30956.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:58 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30957.php Researchers from the United Kingdom, the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the University of Kentucky have recently published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme from a marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata, commonly known as the gribble. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30957.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:30 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30958.php Senior Brandeis research scientist Daniel Perlman has discovered a way to make phytosterol molecules from plants dispersible in beverages and foods that are consumed by humans, potentially opening the way to dramatic reductions in human cholesterol levels. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30958.php Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:20:30 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=30919.php Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL's 4-legged 'cheetah-cub robot' has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=30919.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:20:52 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30920.php Moderne Kommunikationstechnologie basiert darauf, dass Lichtimpulse durch Glasfaserkabel übertragen werden. An die Stelle von Lichtimpulsen, die aus 'Bündeln' von Lichtteilchen bestehen, sollen in Zukunft einzelne Lichtteilchen als Informationsträger treten - was unter anderem eine vollständig abhörsichere Datenübertragung in der Quantenkommunikation ermöglicht. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30920.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:29:02 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30921.php A new report concludes that emerging and breakthrough technologies promise indispensable energy efficiency improvements. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30921.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:48:10 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=30922.php Alion Energy, an innovative installation and maintenance service company that uses automated technologies to optimize utility scale solar plants, today unveils ROVER and SPOT, a pair of patented robotic installation and cleaning technologies. Together, they enable the fastest construction and lowest EPC costs for utility scale solar while producing more energy than standard fixed-tilt projects. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/robotics/newsid=30922.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:39:34 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30923.php Plastic bags coated by plasma at atmospheric pressure serve as a GMP laboratory for the cultivation of adherent cells. The plasma is used to modify the internal surface of the bag specifically, so that different cell types can grow on it. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30923.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:44:21 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30924.php Researchers at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have produced the first genome-wide investigation of cap-independent translation, identifying thousands of mRNA sequences that act as Translation Enhancing Elements (TEEs), which are RNA sequences upstream of the coding region that help recruit the ribosome to the translation start site. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30924.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:50:11 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30925.php The European Technology Platform for Nanomedicine (ETPN) and the EU-funded consortium, Nanomed2020, have launched the first ever Nanomedicine Award to honor the best international nanomedicine innovation for 2013. Entries for nominations for the Award will be open from 6th June to 7th September 2013. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30925.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:45:44 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30926.php Scientists from ETH Zurich have developed a nanomaterial that protects other molecules from oxidation. Unlike many such active substances in the past, the ETH-Zurich researchers' antioxidant has a long shelf life, which makes it just the ticket for industrial applications. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30926.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:04:18 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30927.php Ultrathin sheets of MoO3 are highly efficient photocatalysts. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30927.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:03:55 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30928.php With the aid of state-of-the-art electron microscopy, the researchers discovered that the function of the nanometre-scale catalyst particles is decisively determined by their geometric shape and atomic structure. This discovery opens up new paths for further improving catalysts for energy conversion and storage. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30928.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:28:19 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30929.php Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology developed a novel, simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous frameworks of nanocrystalline metal oxides such as magnesia and ceria by the thermal conversion of well-designed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/newsid=30929.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:34:40 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30930.php Researchers have modified so called superstrate solar cells with their highly efficient architecture in order to obtain hydrogen from water with the help of suitable catalysts. But the solar cell rapidly corrodes when placed in the aqueous electrolyte solution. Now, they have found a way to prevent corrosion by embedding the catalysts in an electrically conducting polymer and then mounting them onto the solar cell's two contact surfaces. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30930.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:41:43 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30931.php Researchers develop method to design synthetic materials and quickly turn the design into reality using computer optimization and 3-D printing. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30931.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:22:42 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30932.php Chemical engineers' new synthesis could make biofuel more appealing for mass production. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30932.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:27:22 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30933.php Using patient-specific stem cells to correct deficient insulin-producing cells. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=30933.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:58:09 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30934.php ESA's mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract today with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air and Space Show. http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=30934.php Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:05:36 -0400