A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New research details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make these futuristic visions come true in just a few years.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreAfter four years the USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative has built out the core laboratories specified in Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias' original vision.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreZur Staerkung und Ergaenzung der Nanowissenschaften an der LMU Muenchen ist an der Fakultaet fuer Physik zum naechstmoeglichen Zeitpunkt eine Professur (W3) fuer Experimentalphysik 'Nanomaterialien und Energieumwandlung' zu besetzen.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreNanoCentral is instituting a Resource Guide to Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials services. Called NanoPerspective, the guide will initially be a UK-focused edition, but will develop over time to include the key European and American markets.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreThe UK Government-backed Technology Strategy Board is to manage a unique competition that will see a GBP 5 million ($8.3 million) prize awarded to British business to develop innovative composite manufacturing techniques for high-performance, high-value products.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreThis Mission will focus on production processes for manufacturing nanomaterials for renewable energy applications such as photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, bio-derived energy, thermoelectric and insulation materials.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreToxicology, mechanical engineering, nanoscience and veterinary medicine are the subjects of four major new EU-funded research initiatives launched recently in the Czech Republic. The projects, which will share over CZK 2 billion (EUR 77 million), are financed under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, which receives EU support through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Dec 3rd, 2009
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A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.
Dec 3rd, 2009
Read moreA little bit of gas can provide a lot of important information which can be used for things as diverse as saving lives during fires and making vehicles run more efficiently. Now a new generation of optical sensors, developed by European researchers, is revolutionising trace gas detection.
Dec 2nd, 2009
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Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor.
Dec 2nd, 2009
Read moreThis book explores in an accessible and informative way how nanotechnology is likely to impact the lives of ordinary people in the coming years and why ethical reflection on nanotechnology is needed now.
Dec 2nd, 2009
Read moreMedicalnanotec has launched its new website medicalnanotec.com with an improved layout.
Dec 2nd, 2009
Read moreA global database of government documents on nanotechnology is being launched by three law professors at Arizona State University who, with their colleagues in Australia and Belgium, have corralled and organized a massive number of regulatory documents dealing with the rapidly advancing technology.
Dec 2nd, 2009
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The demonstration not only paves the way for exploring the complex natural phenomena involving charged particles in magnetic fields, but may also contribute to an exotic new form of quantum computing.
Dec 2nd, 2009
Read moreA new study reveals how molecular motors that power important subcellular movements can generate cyclical motion.
Dec 2nd, 2009
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For the first time, researchers used x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to directly visualize protein structures essential for catalysis at the rare high-energy state.
Dec 2nd, 2009
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