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Submission deadline for Australian consultation on nanomaterials is this Friday
Last November, the Australian Secretary for Health released a public discussion paper inviting consultations on a Government proposal to strengthen regulation of industrial nanomaterials use in Australia. The deadline for submissions regarding the discussion paper is 5pm this Friday, February 12.
Posted: Feb 8th, 2010
Read moreNanomedicine expert discusses nanotechnology's role in the fight against cancer
A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Posted: Feb 6th, 2010
Read moreAbility to manipulate a single electron marks a leap in quantum computing
A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or qubits. Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreTurning your T-shirt into a battery
Stanford researchers have moved from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth. Your-T-shirt could become a lighted, moving display.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read morePhysicist measure energy released from a virus during infection
For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University physicist Alex Evilevitch has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA, a pivotal discovery toward fully understanding the physical mechanisms that control viral infection and designing drugs to interfere with the process.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreNear-field microscope yields high precision optical images of an organic semiconductor with 17 nm resolution
Scientists have developed a near-field microscope that can measure the optical properties of e. g. semiconductor thin films with a spatial resolution and sensitivity long thought unachievable due to fundamental physical laws.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreIBM demonstrates world's fastest graphene transistor
In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion cycles/second (100 GigaHertz).
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreGraphene will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable
With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreCars of the future could be powered by their bodywork thanks to new battery technology
Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read morePutin and Chubais discuss nanotechnology
The Government of the Russian Federation has published a transcript of a recent meeting between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Russian Nanotechnologies Corporation CEO Anatoly Chubais. They have discussed the work of the Russian Nanotechnologies Corporation in the previous two years, its priority projects, and streamlining the legal basis of the corporation's work and of the overall development of the innovation sector.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreA quantum physicists' stroboscope - resonator emits brief flashes of light for entangled photons
Researchers have come up with a new method enabling the generation of ultrafast flashes of light in very high intensity in rapid succession, as they are needed for the creation of entangled photons. Aside from the quantum computer as a long-term goal, new possibilities in different areas of application are opening up, for instance optical spectroscopy.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreA simple method for high-purity separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
An automated, continuous and repeatable process would realize cost-efficient separation.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreElectronics for a third-generation artificial retina
Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are now developing the electronics for a third-generation artificial retina as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to produce an 'epiretinal prosthesis' that could restore vision to millions of people around the world suffering from eye diseases.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreImec and Holst Centre prominently present at International Solid State Circuit Conference
At next week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and in organic electronics with an impressive number of contributions including 10 reviewed publications and 6 contributions to tutorials and workshops.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read morePrecision molecular assembly
A finely tuned rare-earth metal catalyzes the exact interactions needed for site-selective molecular synthesis.
Posted: Feb 5th, 2010
Read moreTrends in nanotechnology funding, research and business converge in new webinar series
NanoTecNexus announces a new series of business and scientific webinars intended for industry, investment, research, and academic communities. Topics include strategies in funding, regulatory safety, R+D, and commercialization of applications.
Posted: Feb 4th, 2010
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