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Carbonhagen 2011 - "increasing the carbon footprint"

Carbonhagen 2011 is a two day symposium on graphene and carbon nanotubes, jointly organised by the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen and Nano Connect Scandinavia. The symposium will cover fabrication, physical, electronic, chemical and optical properties, device integration and applications.

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Hitachi partnership brings new tools and electron microscope reference center to Edmonton's Institute of Nanotechnology

Hitachi High Technologies and Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) today opened the Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Centre (HEMiC) and unveiled a Hitachi H-95000 environmental transmission electron microscope (E-TEM) that is the first of its kind outside of Japan.

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Chemical component separation thousand-fold faster

Numerous industrial processes make use of blends. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have studied how the external electric field affects the rate of component separation in blends composed of polymers and liquid crystals and those composed of various types of polymers.

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Warwick wins GBP 1.7 million research grant to help 'cooltronics'

The University of Warwick Department of Physics has been awarded a prestigious five-year grant to the sum of GBP 1.7 million for "Creating Silicon Based Platforms for New Technologies".

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Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely

Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun.

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Supramolecules get time to shine

Rice technique reveals interactions between nanotubes, photoluminescent materials.

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Engineers build a nanoscale device for brain-inspired computing

Researchers at the Stanford School of Engineering have delivered a nanoelectronic synapse that might drive a new class of microchips that can learn, adapt and make probability-based decisions in complex environments. Their work might one day lead to real-time brain simulators that enhance our understanding of neuroscience.

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Breakthrough improves potential of carbon nanotubes for batteries, biosensors

A team of University of Maryland nanotechnology researchers has solved one of the most vexing challenges hindering the use of carbon nanomaterials for better electrical energy storage and for enhancing the fluorescence sensing capabilities of biosensors.

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Laser light produces synthetic tissue for regenerative medicine

Using a special laser technique, research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT and other Fraunhofer Institutes have succeeded in producing hybrid biomimetic matrices. These serve as a basis for scaffold and implant structures on which the cells can grow effectively.

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Cat litter to become an edible product?

Sepiolites characterized for first time paving way to synthesis.

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Bionic eye hope blends lasers and gold nanoparticles

A novel approach to restoring sight using a 'bionic eye' is being investigated at Swinburne University of Technology. The laser stimulation of optic nerves is the focus of this research to develop a vision prosthesis - perhaps a tiny laser device fitted in a pair of spectacles - much like the cochlear implant for restoring hearing.

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Cracking the code of the mind with nanotechnological systems and tools

Tel Aviv University team connects neurons to computers to decipher the enigmatic code of neuronal circuits.

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Further research needs to be done to bring nanotechnology-tuned solar cells to the market

The sun has enough power to supply the whole earth with electricity. But in Europe solar cells make only a vanishing small share of renewable energy sources. Solar cell production is still an expensive process. And the photovoltaic cells can only exploit about 16 percent of the energy of the sunlight.

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Beijing start-up makes nanostructures that could result In cheaper electric car batteries

A Beijing startup called Wuhe is making electrode materials and batteries that could lower the cost of electric vehicles. The company uses nanostructures for battery materials that, like other recent nanostructures, let the materials deliver the large bursts of power needed for acceleration while maintaining energy storage capacity. But the Wuhe advance also makes the materials easier to work with than similar electrode materials, and as a result, it could cut battery-cell manufacturing costs by 10 percent.

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Seeing red? Making carbon nanotubes clearer to the naked eye

If you were to look at a carbon nanotube with the naked eye you wouldn't see much more than black powder, but now a team of EU-funded scientists has developed a novel way of making these multi-purpose nanotechnology building blocks more visible.

July 11, 2011 Read more

CEA-Leti and Entegris to study cross-molecular contamination between wafers and containers in chip industry

CEA-Leti and Entegris, a provider of critical products and materials used in advanced high-technology manufacturing, have signed a two-year agreement to study cross-molecular contamination to and from semiconductor wafers and containers.

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