Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
Technologies like nanotechnology, biomaterials and microfluidics can play a powerful role in reducing the impact of industrial activity on the environment, while opening new markets for Alberta-developed products and services.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
It is possible that broken bones will in the near future be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could herald a new generation of biodegradable bone implants.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
At ETH Zurich, there are suspicions that scientific data may have been falsified in two publications and a doctoral thesis in 1999 and 2000.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
At SINTEF scientist both exploit the benefits of the nanotechnology and try to discover how tiny particles could behave hazardous in nature.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
Rather than reducing disorder, physicists find a way to simply move it somewhere else.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
Auf dem 2. Internationalen Nanotechnologie Forum (RusNanoTech 09) in Moskau, organisiert das BMBF vom 6. bis 8. Oktober einen deutschen Gemeinschaftsstand, auf dem auch die Universitaet Kassel vertreten sein wird.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
The global Nanotechnology market will burgeon as leading corporations, firms, research entities, government agencies and venture capitalists jump on the abundant commercial opportunities already germinating in a recovering economy.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
The Nano-Net conference positions itself at the intersection of two worlds, namely, emerging nanotechnologies on one side, and Information and Communication Technologies on the other side.
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Posted on: Sep 28th, 2009
University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
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Posted on: Sep 27th, 2009
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called 'excitons' that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
The NanoTeach project announces a NSF-funded opportunity for high school science teachers to participate in professional development to support the integration of nanoscience and technology into their existing curricula.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced its participation at BATTERIES 2009 'The international power supply conference and exhibition' in Cannes-Mandelieu, France.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
The RUSNANO Supervisory Council has agreed to co-finance a project for the manufacture of nano-ink and hi-tech digital printing equipment.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Decision-making on science - especially emerging technologies such as nanotechnology - must become more democratic, a new report on science policy released today argues.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Professor Ian W Boyd of the London Centre for Nanotechnology will take the first leadership role over the new Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication from the 1st of October.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
SELA is engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of automated SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) sample preparation equipment, primarily for the semiconductor industry.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Researchers at the University of Kurdistan have devised special electrochemical nanosensors to measure diabetic patients' insulin level.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
QuantaSol Ltd, an independent designer and manufacturer of strain-balanced quantum-well solar cells has exclusively licensed advanced materials growth technology from the University of Houston to make its manufacturing process simpler and cheaper, while further improving solar cell efficiency.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Titanium dioxide nanotubes can now attain a quality, which was until recently missing: an electrical conductivity that resembles those of metals.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Kilopass Technology Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory intellectual property, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporatio, one of the world's leading foundries, today announced their embedded OTP partnership.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Nanobiosym has announced that John Abele, Cofounder and former Co-Chairman of the multibillion-dollar global medical device company, Boston Scientific, has joined the Nanobiosym Global Advisory Board.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
New chemical sensor chips made with carbon nanotubes could enable rapid, low-cost detection of TNT and poison in rivers, reservoirs.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Intel Corporation unveiled the Intel Atom processor CE4100, the newest System-on-Chip (SoC) in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
Oxford Instruments, one of the UK's leading high technology companies, has been voted a Business Superbrand for the first time.
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Posted on: Sep 25th, 2009
To test whether graphene, a good conductor on its own, can help, researchers at PNNL added graphene, sheets made up of single carbon atoms, to titanium dioxide.
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