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Basque public nanotechnologies agency nanoBasque launches new website

The Basque Department of Industry, Innovation, Trade and Tourism has released a new website - nanoBasque.

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Nanotubes 'rob' green algae of space and light

An Empa study shows that while CNTs do not have toxic effects on green algae they do inhibit its growth by depriving the plant of light and space.

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International scientists from USA and India study bioinspired materials in Saarbruecken

Two well-respected guest scientists from India and USA are spending a research period in Saarbruecken. During their research stay at INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Animangsu Ghatak and Anand Jagota are investigating various aspects of bioinspired materials and structures.

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Researchers develop a facile method for preparing liquid-phase metal alloy nanoparticles

Researchers have developed a facile method for the construction of liquid-phase eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) alloy nanoparticles. Particle formation is directed by molecular self-assembly and assisted by sonication.

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IBN's MicroKit wins silver award at the Asian Innovation Awards 2011

The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), is pleased to announce that its disease diagnostics technology, the MicroKit, has won the Silver Award at the Asian Innovation Awards 2011 organized by The Wall Street Journal Asia.

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Nanomedicine researchers help in search for new ways to image and therapeutically target melanoma

Which therapies are appropriate to be loaded into nano-sized vehicles to attach to the right receptors for targeting purposes is an issue.

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Scientists carve nanowires out of ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films

A team of scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Materials has successfully carved ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films into nanowires, boosting the material's functionality and providing potential improvements to the fabrication of biosensors.

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Center director sets sharp focus on collaborative research

As the director of Arizona State University's (ASU) LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science, Thomas Sharp now leads the facility that played an integral role in his graduate education and his continuing research as an ASU professor.

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Researchers develop fully functional flexible memory

Researchers in Korea have developed fully functional flexible non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) where a memory cell can be randomly accessed, written, and erased on a plastic substrate.

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Supercomputers accelerate development of advanced materials

Berkeley Lab helps develop a Google-like search engine for materials research.

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Nanotechnology makes medicine greener

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are behind the development of a new method that will make it possible to develop drugs faster and greener. This will lead to cheaper medicine for consumers.

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Brain nanocomposite probe that softens after insertion causes less scarring

A nanocomposite hard probe inserted in the cerebral cortex of a rat model turns nearly as pliable as the surrounding gray matter in minutes, and induces less of the tough scarring that walls off hard probes that do not change, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found.

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Batteries get a quick charge with new anode technology

A breakthrough in components for next-generation batteries could come from special materials that transform their structure to perform better over time.

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Explosive composite based on nanoparticles and DNA could be an energy source for embedded microsystems

A solid explosive with an energy density equivalent to that of nitroglycerine: this is the composite material produced by researchers in France.

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TNT2011 International Conference announces scientific program

The 12th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT2011) will take place between 21 and 25 of November in Canary Islands (Spain).

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Researchers efficiently extract photons from single semiconductor quantum dots directly into an optical fiber

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have led the development of a new technique for efficiently out-coupling photons from epitaxially-grown quantum dots directly into a standard single-mode optical fiber.

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