The State of Hawaii has announced a plan to bring all-electric vehicles and an electric vehicle infrastructure to the Hawaiian island of Maui through a partnership with Phoenix Motorcars by 2009.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreThe U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Shashank Priya, associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a $100,000, three-year renewable grant to conduct basic research in the area of high-frequency electronic components, titled Domain Engineered Magnetoelectric Thin Films for High Sensitivity Resonant Magnetic Field Sensors.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreBiolink USA-Ireland, the Transatlantic Network for Science and Technology, launched a brand new member-focused, interactive website this month. The site is designed to provide an information portal for the network and enhance communication between members located in Ireland and across the USA.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreVolkswagenStiftung unterstuetzt die Nanotechnologie und ihren Einsatz mit rund vier Millionen Euro - Foerderung der ersten sieben Projekte in neu eingerichteter Initiative zu 'makroskopischen Systemen'.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreProfessor David StJohn President of Materials Australia today announced the introduction of the Certified Materials Professional CMP membership status for professionals working in the field of materials science and engineering in Australia.
Dec 10th, 2008
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The American Ceramic Society and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have just released ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams CD-ROM Database (Version 3.2). The new version contains more than 21,000 evaluated phase diagrams of ceramic systems such as oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, boride, compound semiconductors and chalcogenides, and features over 1,000 new diagrams.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreThe stage is set for the 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 event to be held this week in Bangalore.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreA National Research Council (NRC) committee today issued a highly critical report describing serious shortfalls in the Bush administration's strategy to better understand the environment, health and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology and to effectively manage those potential risks.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreFor three years, having started in July 2008, nine partners all along the value chain in micro- and nanotechnologies (MNT) strive for accelerating the businesses of European companies in the new European project CORONA.
Dec 10th, 2008
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Researchers at Penn State University are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast cancer cells growing in laboratory cultures.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreTo recognize the continuing contributions that Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) have made to advances in Nanotechnology, the second edition of the International Scanning Probe Microscope Image Contest (SPMAGE' 09) has been announced to identify remarkable SPM images.
Dec 10th, 2008
Read moreIntel Corporation has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers.
Dec 9th, 2008
Read moreIn an industry typically dominated by corporations and capitalistic ventures, the Nanotechnology Research Foundation has emerged as the first volunteer-based nonprofit focused on supporting the acceleration of nanotechnology awareness, education, recognition, funding and research.
Dec 9th, 2008
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With help from newly developed equipment designed and built at Michigan State University, MSU researchers have been able to make first-of-its-kind measurements of several rare nuclei, one of which has been termed a 'holy grail' of experimental nuclear physics.
Dec 9th, 2008
Read moreA new European research project will use the latest techniques in nanotechnology to design nanoparticles capable of detecting and locating tumours.
Dec 9th, 2008
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Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have determined that adding a small amount of carbon nanofibers to the polyurethane foams used in some upholstered furniture can reduce flammability by about 35 percent when compared to foam infused with conventional fire retardants.
Dec 9th, 2008
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