Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
In a series of experiments, researchers at Brown University sought to determine how carbon nanoparticles would affect fruit flies - from the very young to adults.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
As researchers discover new and widespread applications for stimulus-responsive microgels, known as 'smart polymers', the Zetasizer Nano system from Malvern Instruments is fast emerging as their system of choice for particle characterization.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Topics dealing with cost savings or subjects like 'Green MEMS' were popular in Tokyo. The fusion of microsystems technology with bio- and nanotechnology to hetero-functional, integrated devices is in focus of Japanese companies and institutes.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Chinese scientists have used sunlight and DNA to make bimetallic nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of explosives.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Wissenschaftler der TU Muenchen und der Harvard University haben neue Werkzeuge entwickelt, um aus kurzen DNA-Molekuelen Strukturen mit komplexen Windungen und Kruemmungen zu formen.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonator that is strong enough to transfer quantum effects.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
In its fourth year running, this year's annual UK NanoForum and Emerging Technologies 2009 comprises a two-day conference and exhibition bringing over 100 senior international delegates and 350 UK delegates together to network and identify potential business and collaboration opportunities.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Nano Mask, Inc. and Intrinsiq Materials, a private materials technology development company focused on health and wellness-related markets, today announced a collaboration to develop an anti-viral, disposable version of the NanoMask, a protective filtration face mask.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
A dedicated laboratory space on the UC Riverside campus moves Bourns College of Engineering another step closer to a more comprehensive nanoengineering center. The space at Pierce Hall is now home to an advanced metal, organic, chemical, vapor, deposition (MOCVD) reactor.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
From creating a new business in digital pathology to developing next generation diagnostic imaging agents and life sciences tools that are breaking new ground in the detection and treatment of disease, the Biosciences technology organization at GE Global Research today celebrated its fifth anniversary.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Nanotherapeutics, Inc., a privately held specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced that NanoBUP Oral Buprenorphine / Naloxone Capsule, for treating opiate addiction, demonstrated strong oral absorption in a Phase Ia clinical trial.
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Posted on: Aug 7th, 2009
Researchers from RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako have developed a method to immobilize oligonucleotides on gold nanoparticle surfaces with precise control over their number and geometric arrangement.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that it has selected an accomplished physician to head a next-generation NanoHealth initiative that will focus on education, research, and deployment of nanotechnology enabled improvements in occupational, public, and environmental health and safety.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
To study the Casimir force, UC Riverside physicists have received funding of $1.6 million for two years from DARPA and SPAWAR.
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Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions).
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Rice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins -- the biochemical workhorses of all living things.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
FEI Company, a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) molecular, cellular and atomic-scale imaging systems, today announced that the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has installed a multi-million dollar Titan Krios transmission electron microscope (TEM) from FEI.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Air Products will use its expertise in etch and deposition science, gained from more than 35 years' experience in the global electronics industry, to develop materials that could potentially result in significant cost savings for thin-film photovoltaic manufacturers.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
A team of scientists and researchers is working to find ways the unique molecular properties of DNA can be exploited to sort single-walled structures so they will have the same physicochemical properties.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of FDTD Solutions Release 6.5.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
The one-day conference addressed the latest developments and advances in the applications of micro and nanotechnology in food and drink and looked at global regulations and the opportunities and challenges in this area.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Parabon NanoLabs, a leading designer and manufacturer of breakthrough products at the nanoscale, announced today that Dr. Christopher Dwyer, its Co-Founder and Senior Research Scientist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Amtech Systems, Inc., today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received approximately $6 million in solar orders for its diffusion processing systems from two new customers in Asia.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
The National Physical Laboratory in the UK is oranizong two online seminars: 'Sensing Opportunities in the new FP7-NMP call ' and 'Nanosensors: Technology Development, Applications and the Market'.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Altairnano will supply Proterra with advanced battery modules. Each module features Altairnano's 1P10S module configuration. The modules will be used by Proterra for building several EV and hybrid EV buses for municipalities and transportation authorities.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. today announced it has assigned ownership of all patent rights associated with Renazorb and Renalan to Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
A new method can quantify the changes in vesicle shape live i.e. during fusion, and with nanoscale resolution.
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Posted on: Aug 6th, 2009
Hueper Optik International - inventor of the world's first multi-layered patented nano-ceramic window films has announced another great technological breakthrough with the successful global launch of a clear nano-ceramic coating for front windscreen application - Hueper Optik Ceramic 70.
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