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Joint venture explored between Russian and Finnish nanotechnology efforts
On the 28th and 29th of April the representatives of Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and the Finnish Nanotechnology Development Institute FinNano discussed the possibilities to implement the joint projects during their meeting in Saint-Petersburg.
Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
Read moreDie ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert
Die drei ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden nach einer ueberaus erfolgreichen zweiten Foerderperiode erneut verlaengert und weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert. Dies beschloss jetzt der Hauptausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) auf seiner Fruehjahrssitzung in Bonn.
Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
Read moreIMEC integrates high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry
IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects.
Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
Read moreBrookhaven Lab's Satoshi Ozaki honored at Asian Pacific American Celebration
Satoshi Ozaki, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional at a ceremony on May 9 at the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration to be held at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center.
Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
Read moreNASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer
An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells.
Posted: Apr 30th, 2009
Read morePractical quantum cryptography within reach
Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors capable of receiving information with much higher key rates, thereby able to receive more information faster.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreNanotechnology method to induce immunity against certain sexually transmitted diseases
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have now designed a unique method for inducing immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreAttracting a mate, nano-style
Some of the most vivid colours in the animal kingdom are produced by nanostructures scattering light, rather than pigments.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreA new kind of crystalline molecular sieve
Researchers in Spain and Sweden have synthesised and structurally determined a new kind of crystalline molecular sieve with extra large holes and chiral properties.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreNew laser technologies to develop novel semiconductor nanomaterials
Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach, thanks to pioneering work by a European consortium.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreGiving artificial cells another hallmark of life
Scientists in Japan are reporting an advance toward giving artificial cells another hallmark of life - the ability to tap an energy source and use it to undergo sustained movement.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreCenter to investigate plant cells for better biomass fuels
Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreAmes Laboratory physicists demonstrate unique mechanism of superconductivity
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other known classes of superconductors.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreThe Photonic Universe - faster, further, smarter
The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), the newest institute in the University of Sydney and the only one of its kind in Australia, launched last week with a one-day symposium The Photonic Universe - Faster, Further, Smarter.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read morePresentation at Nanotech 2009: 'Scientific Business Intelligence for Nanotechnology'
Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced that Dr. Frank Brown, Chief Science Officer of Accelrys, will be presenting at the Nanotech Conference next week in Houston.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
Read moreNanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect
Spanish and U.S. physicists studying nanoelectronics have found that size really does matter when it comes to predicting the behavior of electrical contacts that are just one atom wide.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2009
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