An international team of scientists in the University of Leicester's Department of Geology has found a solution to a research problem involving fossils right next door - in the University's Chemistry Department.
May 22nd, 2012
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A new handbook has been published under Empa leadership which aims to unify European standards in nanoparticle research. It contains detailed regulations for the manufacture and analysis of specific nanoparticles in the laboratory environment, placing research work in this field on a unified foundation and enabling valid comparisons to be made between studies.
May 22nd, 2012
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A new report - Carbon nanotubes: Exposure, toxicology and protective measures in the work environment - has been written on behalf of the Swedish Work Environment Authority by researchers working at Lund University in research collaborations between Metalund and Nano-Safety.
May 22nd, 2012
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A new manufacturing technology allows researchers to mass produce components for use in next-generation computer storage devices and disposable medical and chemical test kits.
May 22nd, 2012
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For the first time, individual biomolecules have been assembled to form a molecular complex with its own unique function.
May 22nd, 2012
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Francesca Ferlaino's research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The Innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.
May 22nd, 2012
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The 6st International Nano-Authorities Dialogue with Government officials from Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland took place on 8./9. May in Zurich. The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment invited representatives of the public authorities dealing with regulatory issues of nanotechnology in health, environment or occupational safety areas.
May 22nd, 2012
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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) under ultra high vacuum conditions enables the monitoring of organic reactions in solution when carried out in mixtures of reactive ionic liquids, as demonstrated by scientists for a thermally activated alkylation of a nucleophilic amine by a chloroalkyl species.
May 22nd, 2012
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At ITF2012, renowned industry speakers, policy makers, imec executives, and top researchers from across the world will present their views on market trends and evolutions in nanoelectronics, healthcare, smart vision and communication systems, and energy.
May 22nd, 2012
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From May 22-25, the public can vote for their favorite science research video on IGERT.org/competition2012 . The Public Choice Award is one of 25 IGERT Video Competition awards given this week in recognition of outstanding work in the communication of scientific research.
May 21st, 2012
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Non-invasive test promises rapid, pain-free diagnoses without the use of fluorescent dyes.
May 21st, 2012
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Findings could mean good news for protein-based therapeutics.
May 21st, 2012
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Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts.
May 21st, 2012
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A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy.
May 21st, 2012
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Rice University physicists find reversible way to alter VO2's unique electronic about-face.
May 21st, 2012
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A team of engineers at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used "plasmonic cloaking" to create a device that can see without being seen - an invisible machine that detects light. It is the first example of what the researchers describe as a new class of devices that controls the flow of light at the nanoscale to produce both optical and electronic functions.
May 21st, 2012
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