http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanotechnology research 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 18:26:42 -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=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=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://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=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=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=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=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=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=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=13593.php Auf einer Flaeche von 2400 Quadratmetern bietet das ZNT eine flexible, interdisziplinaere und interaktive Plattform fuer aktuelle Themen aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik. Rund um die Dauerausstellung zur Nano- und Biotechnologie gruppieren sich Praesentationen der Partner aus Industrie, Wissenschaft und Forschung, ein Veranstaltungsforum, Sonderausstellungen zu neuen Materialien, Robotik und Wellenkraftwerken. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13593.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13595.php For the first time, a European research cooperation has succeeded in constructing an electrical circuit consiting of two single molecules and probe its electrical properties. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13595.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13596.php Researchers describe a new type of molecule that activates so-called voltage-gated potassium channels when exposed to light of a certain color. These molecules could have therapeutic potential in the treatment of some forms of blindness and other diseases. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13596.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13597.php An der Uni Hamburg, wo die Erforschung des Nanomagnetismus seit vielen Jahren einen herausragenden Forschungsschwerpunkt darstellt, hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft bereits 2006 den erfolgreichen Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 668 mit dem Thema 'Magnetismus vom Einzelatom zur Nanostruktur' eingerichtet. Jetzt wurde die Fortsetzung des SFB 668 fuer zunaechst vier weitere Jahre mit einem Forschungsetat von ca. 10 Millionen Euro bewilligt. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13597.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13598.php On KIT Campus North, a beryllium handling laboratory has now been established by the company of Goraieb Versuchstechnik in cooperation with KIT, which is unique in Europe. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13598.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13601.php The Freiburg Bioware Team, an important part of the Excellence Cluster bioss, has done it again: one gold medal and two special prizes at the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition, the largest event in the world for undergraduates in synthetic biology. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13601.php