Here is our Slow News Friday story for today. Nano Pet Products, LLC, a company dedicated to bringing cleaner and healthier pet products to pet owners worldwide through nanotechnology, debuts its Dog Gone Smart Wear brand dog apparel.
Feb 15th, 2008
Read moreTo recognize the continuing contributions that Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) have made to advances in Nanotechnology, an International SPM Image Competition last year identified important and remarkable SPM images.
Feb 15th, 2008
Read moreThe Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology, Department of Materials at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) is looking for one postdoc and two Ph.D. candidates interested in nano-optics and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
Feb 15th, 2008
Read moreScientists from the University of Reading have discovered that proteins stick, slide and cluster on solid surfaces. The way in which proteins cluster on a surface affects their activity and the findings from this research will help to develop new materials for use in medical and dental implants.
Feb 15th, 2008
Read moreLiming Dai, a University of Dayton chemical and materials engineering professor, and Yiling Hong, a UD assistant biology professor have made a breakthrough in determining the safety of microscopic carbon materials sometimes used for gene, drug or cancer therapies.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreProfessor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Chair in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at the School of Pharmacy, University of London, and Peter Noyce, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Director of The Workforce Academy, The University of Manchester, will be the respective Science and Practice Chairs for the 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreUCLA chemists report a major advance in reducing heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki University of Technology TKK and UPM to establish an internationally unique Finnish Centre for Nanocellulosic Technologies Science, research and industrial partners are turning nanotechnology into evolving product platform.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreA summary of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Fiscal Year 2009 Budget was released today by the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreThe Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology today released a document describing the National Nanotechnology Initiative's (NNI) strategy for addressing priority research on the environment, health and safety (EHS) aspects of nanomaterials.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreResearchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT reveal that the strength of a biological material like spider silk lies in the specific geometric configuration of structural proteins, which have small clusters of weak hydrogen bonds that work cooperatively to resist force and dissipate energy.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreFinland's national nanotechnology initiative FinNano is rapidly advancing on the international scene. Its record-sized delegation was highly visible at nano tech 2008, the world's largest nanotechnology exhibition in Tokyo. Several cooperation agreements were established during the event. One of the most important was the extension of cooperation between NOF Corporation, a consortium of Finnish industrial companies, and the University of Oulu.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreWith the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a major research project on intelligent nanocomposites has recently kicked off in Beijing.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreThe National Science Foundation see's Moore's Law as becoming irrelevant within the next 10-20 years and is researching a replacement for current silicon technology.
Feb 14th, 2008
Read moreMicrochip processing technology is being updated at faster and faster rates in our age of silicon chip wizardry. By the time you unpack your smart new laptop or digital camera the technology that went into making it is already becoming outdated. But a solution to the problem is now at hand. Researchers working on a project called PICMOS, with EU funding of EUR 2.5 million, have developed new technologies to produce and combine semiconductor microlasers with silicon wave guides for new, efficient and powerful optical connections.
Feb 13th, 2008
Read moreA new Air Force strategy document says the service must control not only the skies, but space and cyberspace too, or risk U.S. security and the failure of future military operations.
Feb 13th, 2008
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