Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Researchers in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK have discovered new electron properties that could lead to useful applications in computers and lasers.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Applied Nanoscience Inc., a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, today announced it has reached a joint venture agreement to begin production on a disposable protective face mask with its Asia Pacific region partner.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Good news for people fearful of needles and squeamish of shots: Scientists report the design of a painless patch that may someday render hypodermic needles - as well as annual flu shots - a thing of the past.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
In a presentation today to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take advantage of silver's anti-bacterial properties, while sidestepping the damage silver can cause to cells needed for healing.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
In its laboratory, mPhase has successfully tested a polymer coating that improves the ability to control activation of its Smart NanoBattery.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens on 9 September will make smaller, more powerful nano- and bio-nanotechnologies possible and save industry time and money.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Zollner Elektronik manufactures and tests complete sub-systems for electron microscopy from Carl Zeiss SMT.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Wissenschaftlern des Max-Planck-Institutes fuer Kolloid- und Grenzflaechenforschung in Potsdam-Golm, der Jacobs University Bremen und der Queen Mary University London ist es erstmals gelungen stoffwechselresistente Mikrokapseln in lebende Zellen einzuschleusen und deren Inhalt durch Laserimpuls mit exakter zeitlicher Kontrolle freizusetzen.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
A study published in the forthcoming issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ), has for the first time claimed a concrete link between exposure to nanoparticles in adhesive paint and development of severe pulmonary fibrosis in a group of young female workers; two of whom went on to suffer fatal lung failure.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most living creatures.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of nanolithography required to make future computer chips.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
A young Berkeley Lab and University of California, Berkeley scientist has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as among the world's top innovators under age 35.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
'A biologist, a physicist, and a nanotechnologist walk into a ...' sounds like the start of a joke. Instead, it was the start of a collaboration that has helped to decipher a critical, but so far largely unstudied, phase of how cells divide.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Viscotek, a Malvern company, has published new application notes illustrating the extended capabilities of gel permeation chromatography/size exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC) using the newphotodiode array (PDA) detector for the TDAMax system.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
CNano Technology Limited announced that it has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to sell multi-wall carbon nanotubes through its subsidiary in the USA.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Data released today by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) highlights more than 1,200 companies, universities, government laboratories, and other organizations across all 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia that are involved in nanotechnology research, development, and commercialization.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
NanoEurope is, since 2003, the premium annual European symposium on selected areas of nanotechnology research, development and commercialization of industrial applications. Submit your poster contribution. Don't miss this unique opportunity. Present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Spanish scientists have made antibody-coated nanoparticles that can detect bioanalytes indicative of drug abuse.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Virtuelle Proteinforschung und eine Datenbank fuer biochemische Reaktionen.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
Researchers have modified nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' to make the world's tiniest laser - so small it could be incorporated into microchips to serve as a light source for photonic circuits.
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Posted on: Aug 18th, 2009
A chemist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has developed a kind of invisible fence for trapping and controlling particles as small as a single virus or large protein.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
In a new approach to an effective 'electronic tongue' that mimics human taste, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly and accurately identifies sweetness.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Scientists have copied the natural glue secreted by a tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm in an effort to develop a long-sought medical adhesive needed to repair bones shattered in battlefield injuries, car crashes and other accidents.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Magnetic nanoparticles have been used to bring stem cells to sites of cardiovascular injury in a new method designed to increase the capacity of cells to repair damaged tissue.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
It appears that bacteria can squeeze through practically anything. In extremely small nanoslits they take on a completely new flat shape. Even in this squashed form they continue to grow and divide at normal speeds.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Utilizing fractal patterns similar to those created by lightning strikes, Victor Ugaz, associate professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A+M University, has created a network of microchannels that could advance the field of tissue engineering by serving as a three-dimensional vasculature for the support of larger tissue constructs, such as human organs.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Until now, circuits built with organic materials have allowed only one type of charge to move through them. New research from the University of Washington makes charges flow both ways.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Two nanoscale devices recently reported by University of Pittsburgh researchers in two separate journals harness the potential of carbon nanomaterials to enhance technologies for drug or imaging agent delivery and energy storage systems, in one case, and, in the other, bolster the sensitivity of oxygen sensors essential in confined settings, from mines to spacecrafts.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
A UC Irvine center that aims to make real-time videos of single molecules in action has been awarded $20 million over five years from the National Science Foundation.
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Posted on: Aug 17th, 2009
Nano Solar Technology Ltd. (NST), a newly formed Russian High-tech firm, has ordered a 120 MW end-to-end Oerlikon Solar's Micromorph line for production of thin film solar modules.
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