An academic in conjunction with the Student Branch of the IEEE at the University of Southampton plans to enter a solar-powered boat in the world championship of intercollegiate solar/electric boating next year.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreResearchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a strong, flexible, bio-material that may be used someday to close wounds with minimal scarring and rejection by the immune system.
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Researchers at the University of Delaware have provided what is believed to be the first experimental evidence that plants can take up nanoparticles and accumulate them in their tissues.
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Scientists breed 'made-to-measure' molecular 'furs' on surfaces, with the individual 'hairs' consisting of peptides, short proteins. These peptides control the biocompatibility, i.e. which proteins adsorb.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreThe TECNALIA Technological Corporation is taking part in the Cenit Intelimplant project, the goal of which is to develop advanced biomaterials based on innovative technologies (microtechnologies, nanotechnologies, tissue and surface engineering) for the manufacture of a new generation of implants which have greater durability and reliability, need less recuperation time and that provide data on their state and progress.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreResearchers in Missouri have borrowed the technology that living cells use to produce energy to develop a tiny, self-powered sensor for rapid detection of hidden explosives.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreThere is an urgent need for more testing, extending existing governance arrangements and creating new arrangements for the control of the rapidly developing field of nanomaterials, according to a report by the influential Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreThe international summit of the world's leaders in nanofibers - Nanofibers for the 3rd Millennium - NANO FOR LIFE organized in the cooperation of Elmarco Ltd., Technical University in Liberec, North Carolina State University and Institute of Experimental Medicine AS CR, will take place on 11th and 12th March 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreThe worldwide competition NanoArt 2008 is open to all artists 18 years and older. The online exhibition will open for the public on January 20, 2009.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreThe Chemical Heritage Foundation's 'Molecule that Matters' exhibition and lecture series is more than half way through its run. The exhibition showcases 10 organic molecules that profoundly altered our world: aspirin, isooctane, penicillin, polyethylene, nylon, DNA, progestin, DDT, Prozac, and buckminsterfullerene. The exhibit connects each molecule to one decade of the 20th century.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
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According to recent theoretical papers, it should soon be possible to explore the weird effects of quantum mechanics with a drum-like reflective membrane vibrating in an optical cavity.
Posted: Nov 12th, 2008
Read moreTomorrow, on November 12, 2008, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) in the UK will publish its latest report on Novel Materials in the Environment: The case of Nanotechnology.
Posted: Nov 11th, 2008
Read moreThe analysis of nanotechnology coverage in German print media was the subject of a research project conducted by the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). The results: In the media coverage nanotechnology is not presented as a risk technology; most articles stress the benefits of this new technology.
Posted: Nov 11th, 2008
Read moreOn October 27th-31st 2008 'The First School of Metrology and Standardization in Nanotechnologies, Nanoindustry and Nanomaterials' was conducted by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) together with the Federal Agency for Technical Regulating and Metrology.
Posted: Nov 11th, 2008
Read moreThe supervisory council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) recommended the board of directors to approve the investment in a medical project aimed at the development, design and building of high technological scientific and industrial beta complexes for the production of medical technology.
Posted: Nov 11th, 2008
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Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting.
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