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New Swiss online knowledge platform for nanotechnology

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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Competence Consortium Electrochemistry start German lecture series

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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Nanoparticle-based, fast blood poisoning test can save lives

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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Using graphene to decode DNA

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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New EU project CORONET: Novel interfaces between brain and computer

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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Three-dimensional chemistry at grinding powder

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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Project pioneers use of silicon-germanium for space electronics applications

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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