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3rd Bangalore Nano to showcase exciting state-of-the-art nanotechnology during 8th and 9th December 2010

Bangalore Nano 2010 will be two full days of presentations and powerful discussions as well as interactive networking activities.

December 3, 2010 Read more

UCLA receives $8.4 million to lead research on ultra-low-power, non-volatile logic technologies

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science an $8.4 million grant for research on a technology known as non-volatile logic, which enables computers and electronic devices to keep their state even while powered off, then start up and run complex programs instantaneously.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Tracking molecules at video rate - pushing SRS microscopy to new levels

A novel type of biomedical imaging, made possible by new advances in microscopy from scientists at Harvard University, is so fast and sensitive it can capture 'video' of blood cells squeezing through capillaries.

December 2, 2010 Read more

A simple way to make carbon nanotubes shine brighter

The Rice lab of researcher Bruce Weisman, a pioneer in nanotube spectroscopy, found that adding tiny amounts of ozone to batches of single-walled carbon nanotubes and exposing them to light decorates all the nanotubes with oxygen atoms and systematically changes their near-infrared fluorescence.

December 2, 2010 Read more

The future of metabolic engineering - designer molecules, cells and microorganisms

Will we one day design and create molecules, cells and microorganisms that produce specific chemical products from simple, readily-available, inexpensive starting materials? Will the synthetic organic chemistry now used to produce pharmaceutical drugs, plastics and a host of other products eventually be surpassed by metabolic engineering as the mainstay of our chemical industries? Yes, according to Jay Keasling, chemical engineer and one of the world's foremost practitioners of metabolic engineering.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Blacker than black - NASA develops nanotechnology material for astronomic measurements

Black is black, right? Not so, according to a team of NASA engineers now developing a blacker-than pitch material that will help scientists gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements or observe currently unseen astronomical objects, like Earth-sized planets in orbit around other stars.

December 2, 2010 Read more

University of Michigan Nanotechnology Institute collaborates in $6 million vaccine program

The University of Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences (MNIMBS) will be collaborating with a U-M spinout company to develop a safe and effective Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) intranasal vaccine.

December 2, 2010 Read more

NanoSafe 2010 presentations now available online

On the NanoSafe website you can now access and download the Poster presentationsas and the Oral presentations that were held at the 2010 event.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Anwendungsverfahren optimiert gesprayte Nanoschichten

Wissenschaftler des Charles Sadron Instituts des CNRS haben ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem das Aufspruehen von Nanoschichten optimiert wird. Diese Sprays werden dazu verwendet, Oberflaechen mit Schichten zu versehen, die ihnen bestimmte optische, elektrische oder biologische Eigenschaften verleihen sollen.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Nanomedicine cancer scientists form new company with international pharmaceutical firm

University of Missouri leaders celebrated a nanomedicine milestone today as they announced the creation of a new drug development company. The new company forms a partnership between university researchers and an international pharmaceutical firm to advance testing of a potential cancer treatment created at MU.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Dutch royal honors for Manchester graphene researchers

They are now Knight Commanders in the Order of the Netherlands Lion - the country's most prestigious award. The academics, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of graphene, were handed the royal honour at a ceremony in Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Georgia Tech's Walt de Heer awarded Materials Research Society Medal

The Materials Research Society awarded Walter A. de Heer, professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the MRS Medal at its annual fall meeting in Boston today. De Heer was cited by the society for his 'pioneering contributions to the science and technology of epitaxial graphene'.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Direct writing of sub-5 nm metallic nanostructures

A group of Beckman Institute researchers have discovered a practical method for direct writing of metal lines less than five nanometers (5 nm) wide, a big step in creating contacts to and interconnects between nanoscale device structures like carbon nanotubes and graphene that have potential uses in electronics applications.

December 2, 2010 Read more

New Swiss online knowledge platform for nanotechnology

Swiss Nano-Cube is a new interactive knowledge and education platform for micro and nanotechnology. It aims to spark interest in nanotechnology and engineering among students and young professionals. It is addressed to teachers and students of vocational schools, secondary schools as well as higher professional schools.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Online workshop on nanotechnology for clean water

This online workshop on nanotechnology for clean water enables nanoscientists working in this field to meet and find out about each others expertise, infrastructure and research interests.

December 2, 2010 Read more

Competence Consortium Electrochemistry start German lecture series

An ambitious teaching project of nine German universities and research institutions started in the southern area of the national 'Competence Consortium Electrochemistry'. Every two years, the institutions involved will organize lectures and seminars that will be transmitted live by video to the other locations.

December 2, 2010 Read more