Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Researchers led by Daniel Kohane, MD, PhD of Children's Hospital Boston, funded by the National Institutes of Health, have devised a solution that combines magnetism with nanotechnology to create an on/off switch for drug release inside the body.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
The RUSNANO Supervisory Council has approved RUSNANO's participation in a project that would launch a commercial production of cutting tools using the cubic boron nitride nanopowder (CBN) which is the second hardest known material after diamond.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Carbon Nanotubes machen Kunststoffe stabiler, haltbarer und elektrisch leitfaehig. Vom 20. bis 23. September steht dieser neue Verbundwerkstoff im Zentrum der vierten International Conference on Carbon Based Nanocomposites an der TU Hamburg-Harburg.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Julius Rebek, Jr. and Trevor J. Dale at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California (USA) have developed a new class of sensors that detect certain neurotoxins up to five orders of magnitude faster than previous reagents.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Nano Mask, Inc. is the inventor of the NanoMask, a disposable anti-microbial facemask currently under development in partnership with Intrinsiq Materials USA, Inc. of Menlo Park, California has issued a corporate update.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
EV Group, a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it will host an EVG Technology Day on October 2, 2009 at the Bilkent Hotel in Ankara, Turkey.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are making incremental but important strides in the fuel cell technology that could make clean cars a reality.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
For the first time, MIT scientists have observed ferromagnetism in an atomic gas, addressing the decades-old question of whether gases could show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Carmen Lilley, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is working on new procedures for making nanowires more electrically stable - and hence more reliable. She was recently awarded a $505,532 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award to help advance her project.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
ENER1, Inc., developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries to power the next generation of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles, is teaming-up with Volvo Car Corporation to provide American-made lithium-ion batteries for the Volvo C30 Battery Electric Vehicle prototype, being unveiled in Gothenburg, Sweden today.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Delaware has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering Program.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Introduces Mitos Wellplate for small-scale reagent droplets or cells.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Baccini Esatto Technology, a high precision, multi-step screen printing capability for Applied's market-leading Baccini back-end solar cell processing systems.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Vom 21. bis 24. September 2009 findet in Dresden die 31. Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonanzspektroskopie der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) statt.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Nanocyl announced today it will highlight the advantages of using CNTs for innovative HDD storage applications at DISKCON USA 2009, Sept. 23-24, in Santa Clara, CA.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Auto researchers and engineers are examining the use of lighter-weight materials and components in their quest to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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Posted on: Sep 17th, 2009
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 million to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water (H2O) into clean hydrogen fuel, which could power cars and be used to generate electricity.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Scientists from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Researchers at North Carolina State University have received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Center for Chemical Innovation (NSF-CCI) to pursue research in the emerging field of molecular spintronics.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Rochester Institute of Technology scientist Tom Smith is experimenting with synthesizing liquid salts into a gel. He recently received an EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant from the National Science Foundation to create an entirely new material - a polymer, or a plastic, from ionic liquid monomers - that will confine charge-carrying ions in a gelled, pseudo-liquid state.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Micro Bubble Technology, the new subsidiary of EcoloCap Solutions, has signed an agreement with Next-Alternative Inc, which agreed to pay $2 million in return for the exclusive right to market and distribute MBT's Carbon Nano Tube Battery for wheeled applications in North America.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, today announced it has won the prestigious Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Award in the Materials and other Base Technology category.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
There's a new way to explore biology's secrets. With a flash of light, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley zeroed in on the type of neural cell that controls swimming in larval zebrafish.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Functionalized nano- and microscale particle systems have become a key component in biomedical applications, from drug delivery to prosthetics. Their small size and potential for modification and functionalization make them ideal for performing specific tasks within the human body. But can these materials be controlled at the structural level, to create particles capable of complex interactions with biological systems?
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit nanostructure films on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
In an interdisciplinary study, scientists have developed a method that allows them to monitor the distribution of compounds in whole animals by taking snapshots at different times after injection. The technique relies on the attachment of fluorescent nanocrystals to fragments of DNA.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Italian scientists suggest that we need a much more detailed toxicological approach to hazard assessment before judgement regarding the long-term safety of carbon nanotubes can be made.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
If you are in the business of developing high-speed electronic components, it pays not to lose sight of the electrons. To keep track of them you will need to use dedicated optical elements, such as those now on offer from UltraFast Innovations GmbH.
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