For centuries, human beings have been entranced by the captivating glimmer of the diamond. What accounts for the stunning beauty of this most precious gem? As mathematician Toshikazu Sunada explains in an article appearing today in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, some secrets of the diamond's beauty can be uncovered by a mathematical analysis of its microscopic crystal structure.
Posted: Jan 3rd, 2008
Read moreA new strategic plan for the work of the National Nanotechnology Initiative has just been released by the interagency Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Technology with support from the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2008
Read moreThe Food and Drug Law Institute is sponsoring an annual conference on Nanotechnology Law Regulation and Policy, February 28-29, 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2008
Read moreResearchers recorded what happens when pillars of nickel with diameters between 150 and 400 nanometers are compressed under a flat punch made of diamond.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2008
Read moreResearchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and The Scripps Research Institute in California are designing an artificial viral shell as a valuable nano-container for pinpoint drug delivery, molecular computing components, and a host of other applications.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2008
Read moreResearchers have developed a new modeling technique to study and design miniature biosensors, a tool that could help industry perfect lab-on-a-chip technology for uses ranging from medical diagnostics to environmental monitoring.
Posted: Jan 2nd, 2008
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The risks of nanotechnology are real, but running a lopsided story titled 'Alert over the march of the 'grey goo' in nanotechnology Frankenfoods' - quoting such nanotechnology experts as Price Charles - does not contribute to a fact-based discussion.
Posted: Jan 1st, 2008
Read moreCarbon nanotechnology much older than carbon nanoscience.
Posted: Jan 1st, 2008
Read moreThe 95th Indian Science Congress (ISC), to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday, will focus on creating a knowledge-based society to transform India into a developed country in the coming decades.
Posted: Jan 1st, 2008
Read moreTiny device under skin would help monitor soldiers' health signs.
Posted: Jan 1st, 2008
Read moreThe city-based Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (Goic) will be conducting a conference here on Knowledge-based industries (KBI) and Nanotechnology on February 11 and 12, 2008.
Posted: Dec 31st, 2007
Read moreOne year into the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and action is well underway, with the third call for proposals currently active. Information on the first projects accepted for funding under FP7 has now also been published on CORDIS, the EU's official information service for research and development.
Posted: Dec 31st, 2007
Read moreAlthough nano-materials are currently high on research agenda, efforts should be made to promote nano-information technology in China because nanoelectronics is the nanotechnology with most market potentials, says Prof. HU Weiwu from the CAS Institute of Computing Technology.
Posted: Dec 31st, 2007
Read moreAltairnano Batteries Power Electric Dragster to National Electric Drag Racing Association World Speed Record for Electric Vehicles in the Quarter Mile.
Posted: Dec 31st, 2007
Read moreA scientist at Israel's Bar-Ilan University claims that he has managed to create a solar cell 100 times bigger than a typical solar cell, using nanotechnology methods.
Posted: Dec 31st, 2007
Read moreTo be located on a two million square metres facility in Riyadh Techno Valley, it will be named after King Abdullah, and serve as an advanced technology research centre for KSU.
Posted: Dec 29th, 2007
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