Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Princeton University physical scientists will partner with researchers at four other institutions to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National Cancer Institute.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Ultrasound and underwater sonar devices could 'see' a big improvement thanks to development of the world's first acoustic hyperlens.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
What do spore-launching mushrooms have in common with highly water-repellant surfaces? According to Duke University engineers, the answer is 'jumping' water droplets. As it turns out, the same phenomenon that occurs when it's time for certain mushrooms to eject spores also occurs when dew droplets skitter across a surface that is highly water repellant, or superhydrophobic.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Applied Materials' Solar Technology Center, the largest non-government solar energy research facility in the world, is comprised of laboratory and office buildings covering more than 400,000 square feet and contains an entire Applied SunFab thin film manufacturing line and a complete crystalline silicon pilot process.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded a $14.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Helped by more than EUR 7 million of Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) funding, the EUROPRACTICE IC3 and EUROPRACTICE IC4 projects have produced state-of-the-art micromechanical and microelectronic technologies that are being used in universities and industry worldwide to create microchip applications for uses ranging from space technology to medical diagnostics.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Optomechanical crystals could be used in information processing, as supersensitive biosensors, and more.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
CIC biomaGUNE is researching the possible impact on health of metal oxide nanoparticles, such as those of zinc, cerium, titanium and iron.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new measurement technology that makes use of optical resonances in nanoparticles. The method, which opens new possibilities in the field of catalytics.
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Posted on: Oct 25th, 2009
Forscher des Paul-Drude-Instituts haben eine Quelle entwickelt, mit der sie einzelne Photonen in hoher Wiederholrate und in geanau definierten zeitlichen Abstaenden versenden koennen. Sie nutzen dazu akustische Oberflaechenwellen.
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Posted on: Oct 25th, 2009
A new study shows that inhaling carbon nanotubes can affect the outer lining of the lung, though the effects of long-term exposure remain unclear.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
Cargill, one of the world's biggest companies in the food industry, and Topchim, a Belgian company of specialty chemistry research, announce their strategic partnership to produce a sustainable line of products in Brazil to be used for paper and board applications.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
Nanosurf will provide the AFM components for CETR's Nano and Micro product lines of material testers and indenter/scratchers (UNMT and Apex).
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany held its NanoCareer Day program on October 22 as part of its continuing effort to prepare students for a growing number of nanotechnology-related career opportunities in the Capital Region and New York State.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale structures that are not possible to grow or obtain otherwise.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
The educational website for fluorescence microscopy www.zeiss.com/campus has been supplemented with sections on Spectral Imaging and Fluorescent Proteins and now also provides comprehensive information on these topics.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation held their ninth technology symposium in Shanghai on October 23. The seminar attracted more than 300 customers, design service providers, technology partners and vendors from around the world.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
Materialforscher der Uni Jena stellt internationale Zusammenarbeit auf neue Ebene / Symposium vom 26. bis 30. Oktober 2009.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
Biotechnica 2009 was a positive experience for most of the 650 exhibitors, even when signs of the crisis can be seen.
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Posted on: Oct 23rd, 2009
The pair laid the foundation for a modern approach to the chemistry and physics of materials. Their methodology was revolutionary, increasing the speed of simulations and propelling a major force in science. Such simulations are now used in physics, materials science, chemistry, semiconductors, surface science, catalysis, biological processes, mineralogy, and the new field of nano-sized structures, including industrial applications.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., a leading provider of silicon wafers to the semiconductor and solar industries, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire privately held SunEdison LLC, a developer of solar power projects and North America's largest solar energy services provider.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
HRL scientists announced today they have fabricated and demonstrated graphene-on-silicon field effect transistors (FETs) at full wafer scale - a revolutionary advancement in electronics that will enable unprecedented capabilities in high-bandwidth communications, imaging and radar systems.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
A team of Harvard chemists has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control both the elastic and the magnetic properties of a nanomaterial at a very localized level.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
For his PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Xudong Wang was part of a team that developed a piezoelectric nanogenerator and experimented with a variety of materials to power it.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
Drugs based on engineered proteins represent a new frontier for pharmaceutical makers. Even after they discover a protein that may form the basis of the next wonder drug, however, they have to confront a long-standing problem: how to produce large quantities of the protein in a highly pure state. A research team may have found a new solution in an enzymatic 'food processor' they can activate at will.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
A new paper describes a highly simplified model cell that not only sheds light on the way certain real cells generate electric voltages, but also acts as a tiny battery that could offer a practical alternative to conventional solid-state energy-generating devices.
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Posted on: Oct 22nd, 2009
If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.
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