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UAlbany NanoCollege - APIC collaboration will integrate optics and electronics

APIC Corporation, a Los Angeles, CA-based pioneer of photonics technology integrated with electronics, and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany today announced that they have formed a $10 million partnership for joint development and commercialization of innovative "green" technology to enable faster computer chips that use significantly less power.

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Cell viscosity research improves our knowledge of cancer cells

EU-funded researchers from Germany and Poland have made some groundbreaking discoveries about cell cytoplasm viscosity, which could further our knowledge of the cytoplasm of cancer cells.

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Cell rigidity linked to activity in proteins associated with cancer

Innovative collaboration between physics and cell biology demonstrates pathway.

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Leading UK nanotechnology organisations lend support for NANO Live UK 2011

The Institute of Nanotechnology and NanoKTN are lending their significant support to NANO Live UK 2011.

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Karlsruher Tarnkappe: "Sichtbar verschwinden"

Physiker haben am Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) am Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) in der Arbeitsgruppe von Professor Martin Wegener fast ein Jahr daran gearbeitet, die Struktur der Karlsruher Tarnkappe so zu verfeinern, dass sie auch in einem fuer den Menschen sichtbaren Bereich des Lichts wirkt.

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Splitting water to create renewable energy simpler than first thought?

An international team, of scientists, led by a team at Monash University has found the key to the hydrogen economy could come from a very simple mineral, commonly seen as a black stain on rocks.

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Nanoscale Effects in Tribology Meeting - call for papers

The Nanoscale Effects in Tribology (NET 2011) Meeting will address the advances occurring in nanoscale tribology, providing attendees the opportunity to network, and discuss trends and future developments.

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Looking inside nanomaterials in three dimensions

Scientists report a new method for revealing a 3D picture of the structure inside a material,

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Official opening of the Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders labs and launch of the European 'Human Brain Project'

Today, Flanders' ambitious brain research that may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of brain disease, new prosthesis technologies for patients with a disability, a new generation of more intelligent robots, etc. switches into higher gear.

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'Computer synapse' analyzed at the nanoscale

Researchers at Hewlett Packard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have analysed in unprecedented detail the physical and chemical properties of an electronic device that computer engineers hope will transform computing.

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Exotic behavior when mechanical devices reach the nanoscale

Novel nano-mechanics: Mechanical resonators are extensively used in high-tech industry, to mark time in electronic components, and to stabilize radio transmissions.

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Special issue on advanced microelectronics technologies

A special issue on Advanced Microelectronics Technologies is published in Volume 54, Issue 5 of SCIENCE CHINA: Information Sciences, in May, 2011. The issue contains 14 invited papers contributed by some leading researchers and internationally renowned experts in the field of microelectronics in both industry and academic from all over the world.

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UAlbany NanoCollege Professor Shahedipour-Sandvik receives the UAlbany Award for Excellence in Research

Dr. Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik, Associate Professor of Nanoengineering at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), received the UAlbany Award for Excellence in Research on May 3, recognizing her for exceptional research over a sustained number of years.

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Zweite Fragebogenaktion zu Taetigkeiten mit Nanomaterialien in Deutschland

Die Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA) unter Mitwirkung des Verbandes der chemischen Industrie (VCI), des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (BDI) und des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) startet eine zweite Fragebogenaktion zu Taetigkeiten mit Nanomaterialien in Deutschland. Ein pragmatischer Ansatz fuer eine offene Risikokommunikation steht dabei im Mittelpunkt.

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Nanotechnology innovations can improve water purification

Research teams are trying different approaches within the nanotechnological field to improve water membrane technologies. One of these is to improve water purification by using nature's own water-transporting channels, aquaporins. However, constructing suitable membranes for industrial processes is a challenge.

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Free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube thin films

Researchers have discovered a simple and rapid method to prepare thin multifunctional single-walled carbon nanotube films without any substrate (free-standing films).

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