Stretching graphene improves its semiconducting properties
Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world?s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
Sep 28th, 2009
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Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network confirms Oxonica COO as new theme manager
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced the appointment of Dr Barry Park as its new Theme Manager for Manufacturing and Processing.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreNanotechnology mini-innovation and growth team: Survey request
The Nanotechnology Mini-Innovation and Growth Team at NanoKTN in the UK are looking to collect and collate information regarding what UK companies are currently doing in nanotechnology and what their requirements are to ensure major growth over the next ten years.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreAlberta Centre for Advanced Micro Nano Technology Products (ACAMP) hosts clean technologies seminar
Technologies like nanotechnology, biomaterials and microfluidics can play a powerful role in reducing the impact of industrial activity on the environment, while opening new markets for Alberta-developed products and services.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreIBM celebrates 20th anniversary of moving atoms
On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreMetallic glass for bone surgery
It is possible that broken bones will in the near future be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could herald a new generation of biodegradable bone implants.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreETH Zurich's head of research resigns on suspicion of falsified data
At ETH Zurich, there are suspicions that scientific data may have been falsified in two publications and a doctoral thesis in 1999 and 2000.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreNanoparticles - toxic or harmless?
At SINTEF scientist both exploit the benefits of the nanotechnology and try to discover how tiny particles could behave hazardous in nature.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreNew technique siphons entropy out of a collection of atoms, much like a refrigerator
Rather than reducing disorder, physicists find a way to simply move it somewhere else.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreUni Kassel auf der RusNanoTech 09 in Moskau
Auf dem 2. Internationalen Nanotechnologie Forum (RusNanoTech 09) in Moskau, organisiert das BMBF vom 6. bis 8. Oktober einen deutschen Gemeinschaftsstand, auf dem auch die Universitaet Kassel vertreten sein wird.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreUnique multidisciplinary forum for modeling, designing and fabricating nanoscale systems
The Nano-Net conference positions itself at the intersection of two worlds, namely, emerging nanotechnologies on one side, and Information and Communication Technologies on the other side.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreNew nanomedicine chip can detect type and severity of patient's cancer
University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
Sep 28th, 2009
Read moreExitons bring new type of fast computers closer to reality
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called 'excitons' that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality.
Sep 27th, 2009
Read moreNanoTeach project seeks high school teachers for nanotechnology curricula pilot
The NanoTeach project announces a NSF-funded opportunity for high school science teachers to participate in professional development to support the integration of nanoscience and technology into their existing curricula.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreNSF funds Alabama's first imaging system for UAB microscale research lab
The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreRUSNANO to finance nano-ink production in Novosibirsk
The RUSNANO Supervisory Council has agreed to co-finance a project for the manufacture of nano-ink and hi-tech digital printing equipment.
Sep 25th, 2009
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