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Scientists model tiny rotors, key to future nanomachines

Through molecular dynamics simulations, researchers have defined the ground rules for the rotor motion of molecules attached to a gold surface.

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Enterprising high school students build AFM model from Lego bricks

Nine students from Chassell High School know how an atomic force microscope works. In fact, they've built a model of one out of Lego bricks. They're the members of INANO (Identifying New Academic Nanotechnology Opportunities), Chassell High School's Enterprise team.

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UV-transparent coating for image sensors

Image sensors as used in cell phones are partially color-blind. This is because of their coating, which prevents UV light from passing through. CMOS chips have as a result not been suitable for spectroscopy up to now. A new production process makes the coating transparent - and the sensors suitable for special applications.

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EU-funded team puts new semi-conductor material to the test

The electronic chips of the future might not be made of silicon or even graphene but of a material called molybdenite (MoS2). EU-funded research presented in the journal Nature Nanotechnology demonstrates that molybdenite is a highly effective semi-conductor that could be used to make transistors both smaller and more energy efficient.

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Scientists customize a magnet's performance by strategically replacing key atoms

The work could lead to improved methodologies for creating materials by design.

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Call for papers: Dilemmas of choice. Responsibility in nanotechnology development

The Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification (CIGA) at the University of Padua and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, organize an international workshop titled Dilemmas of choice. Responsibility in nanotechnology development, which is aimed at presenting and debating contributions from different disciplines on several issues concerning the relationship between nanotechnology innovation and responsibility.

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Graphen anwendungsreif machen

An der Uni Bielefeld forschen die Physiker Prof. Dr. Armin Goelzhaeuser und Dr. Andrey Turchanin intensiv an dem vielversprechenden Nanomaterial mit besonderen elektronischen Eigenschaften.

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Quantitative nanostructure-toxicity relationships

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leaders in the emerging field of computational nanotoxicology to form an international Community of Practice for accelerated development of the science of QNTR.

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GraphITA - A workshop on synthesis, characterization and technological exploitation of graphene

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scientists and engineers working on different technological uses of graphene in a multidisciplinary and multisectorial (academia/industry) environment.

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Scientists see the solar future, and it's all about nanodomes and plasmonics

Stanford engineers dance with plasmonics to yield new direction for thin, inexpensive solar cells.

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Physicists challenge classical world with quantum-mechanical implementation of 'shell game'

Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as 'shell game', researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the ability to hide and shuffle 'quantum-mechanical peas' - microwave single photons - under and between three microwave resonators, or 'quantized shells'.

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'Cornell Dots' that light up cancer cells go into clinical trials

'Cornell Dots' -- brightly glowing nanoparticles -- may soon be used to light up cancer cells to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of the new technology.

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Novel cancer-targeting investigational nanoparticle receives FDA IND approval for human trial

Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Nanotechnology Center, along with collaborators at Cornell University and Hybrid Silica Technologies, have received approval for their first Investigational New Drug Application (IND) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an ultrasmall silica inorganic nanoparticle platform for targeted molecular imaging of cancer, which may be useful for cancer treatment in the future.

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WUSTL to offer new minor, summer fellowships in nanotechnology

Washington University in St. Louis is starting a Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program with a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Detecting lethal diseases with rust and sand

The next big thing in medical diagnostics could be minutes particles of rust, iron oxide, coated with the material from which sand is formed, silicon dioxide. These magnetic nanoparticles, a mere 29 to 230 nanometers across, can be used to trap antibodies to the virus that causes cervical cancer and to the bacteria that causes potentially lethal diarrhea.

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Metamaterials approach makes better satellite antennas

Cheaper, lighter and more energy-efficient broadband devices on communications satellites may be possible using metamaterials to modify horn antennas, according to engineers from Penn State and Lockheed Martin Corp.

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