Swiss Nano-Cube is a new interactive knowledge and education platform for micro and nanotechnology. It aims to spark interest in nanotechnology and engineering among students and young professionals. It is addressed to teachers and students of vocational schools, secondary schools as well as higher professional schools.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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This online workshop on nanotechnology for clean water enables nanoscientists working in this field to meet and find out about each others expertise, infrastructure and research interests.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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An ambitious teaching project of nine German universities and research institutions started in the southern area of the national 'Competence Consortium Electrochemistry'. Every two years, the institutions involved will organize lectures and seminars that will be transmitted live by video to the other locations.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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A new set of tools released today by Science-Metrix Inc. seeks to improve the way we talk about and understand science - from the classroom to the boardroom.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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Blood poisoning can be fatal. If you suffer from sepsis, you used to have to wait as much as 48 hours for laboratory findings. A new diagnostic platform as big as a credit card will now supply the analysis after as little as an hour. This system is based on nanoparticles that are automatically guided by magnetic forces.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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Fine control of DNA translocation is essential component of nanopore-based DNA strand sequencing.
Dec 2nd, 2010
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Graphene is generating huge excitement as a possible DNA sequencing material following the work of three independent research groups earlier this year.
Dec 1st, 2010
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Tracking down Cooper pairs - researchers confirm theoretical hypothesis.
Dec 1st, 2010
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.5 million grant to a University of Florida chemist to create a center for investigating manufacturing techniques for nanoscale electronics.
Dec 1st, 2010
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Funded with a recent $2.25 million stimulus grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, or ARPA-E, a Case Western professor will try to make a capacitor ready for market within three years.
Dec 1st, 2010
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Interfaces between the brain and electrical circuits in technical devices or computers open new perspectives for basic research and medical application, e.g., for therapeutic brain stimulation and neuroprosthetics. The new EU project CORONET will develop the technological and theoretical foundations for such future 'bio-hybrid' interfaces between biological and artificial nervous tissues.
Dec 1st, 2010
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Groundbreaking research into nanotechnology and advanced polymers will be accelerated with $3.6 million in infrastructure funding awarded to The University of Queensland today.
Dec 1st, 2010
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During the normal grinding of powders in a mortar, the powders can enter into chemical reactions with each other. This phenomenon has been known for years but only now it has become possible to transform in this way three-dimensional clusters of certain chemical compounds into other, also three-dimensional, clusters.
Dec 1st, 2010
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IBM Silicon Nanophotonics uses optical signals to connect chips together faster and with lower power.
Dec 1st, 2010
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A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a novel approach to space electronics that could change how space vehicles and instruments are designed. The new capabilities are based on silicon-germanium technology, which can produce electronics that are highly resistant to both wide temperature variations and space radiation.
Nov 30th, 2010
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Using quantum theory and supercomputers, researchers have revealed the mechanisms of mechanical failure of pure graphene under tensile stress.
Nov 30th, 2010
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