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Nanotechnology award shortlist announced for UKTI Business Innovation Awards 2010

The prestigious Business Innovation Awards 2010, which showcases the very best of UK innovation in science and technology, has announced the nine companies shortlisted for its three award categories for 2010 - emerging + nanotechnology, energy + environment, and digital connected world.

November 25, 2010 Read more

Short, on-chip light pulses will enable ultrafast data transfer within computers

University of California - San Diego electrical engineers developed ultra compact, low power pulse compressor on a silicon chip.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Physicists create completely new source of light - a 'super-photon'

Physicists from the University of Bonn have developed a completely new source of light, a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of photons. Until recently, expert had thought this impossible. This method may potentially be suitable for designing novel light sources resembling lasers that work in the x-ray range. Among other applications, they might allow building more powerful computer chips.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Quartz crystal microbalances enable new microscale analytic technique

A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only a few micrograms of material.

November 24, 2010 Read more

New imaging technique accurately finds cancer cells, fast

The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be over, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois.

November 24, 2010 Read more

CIEL and the European Environmental Bureau lead international NGO coalition to define nanomaterials

The Center for International Environmental Law and the European Environmental Bureau submitted proposals today to the European Commission for a definition of the term 'nanomaterials'. Supported by over 40 organizations from 22 countries on five continents, CIEL and EEB prepared their proposal as part of a public consultation on the European Commission's draft definition.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Festival draws half a million fans of science and engineering

The scene was a sea of white tents spread across the National Mall in Washington, DC and science and engineering were the order of the day. That's what greeted visitors to the booth hosted by Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology at the first USA Science and Engineering Festival Expo.

November 24, 2010 Read more

ImagineNano 2011 - connecting Industry and science in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology

Phantoms Foundation, CIC nanoGUNE, DIPC, University of Basque Country and Bilbao Exhibition Centre will host the first edition of ImagineNano event from 11th until 14th of April in the North of Spain, Bilbao.

November 24, 2010 Read more

A new electromagnetism can be simulated through a quantum simulator

One of the best quantum simulators consists of a gas of extremely cold atoms loaded in an artificial crystal made of light: an optical lattice. Experimental physicists have developed efficient techniques to control the quantum properties of this system, to such extent, that it serves as an ideal quantum simulator of different phenomena.

November 24, 2010 Read more

All sprayed at once - Ultrathin coatings made through simultaneous spraying of interacting substances

Researchers have introduced a new process for the production of ultrathin coatings that is especially simple, versatile, and suitable for large-scale processes.

November 24, 2010 Read more

New YouTube videos explain graphene for the baffled

With the aid of science video communication charity, The Vega Science Trust , COST Action MP0901 'NanoTP' has produced two short videos explaining graphene and its amazing properties.

November 24, 2010 Read more

International Council of Chemical Associations addresses key issues for nanomaterial definition

The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) has released a document addressing key issues that need to addressed when considering the definition of manufactured nanomaterials for regulatory purposes. It advocates five 'Core Elements of a Regulatory Definition of Manufactured Nanomaterial'.

November 24, 2010 Read more

The physics of coffee rings

Researchers have devised a predictive model that combines laboratory studies of microscopic glass particles in solution with mathematical theories to predict the existence, thickness and length of the banded ring patterns that formed.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Bio-detection: Building bridges with DNA

A highly specific electronic sensor array detects messenger RNA below femtomolar concentrations.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Surface chemistry: A model of composure

Density-based methods for characterizing molecular volume reveal how liquid mixtures behave at interfaces.

November 24, 2010 Read more

Plasmonics: Smooth operator

Ultrasmooth silver surfaces promise invisibility cloaks, ultrahigh-resolution lenses and other enhanced photonic devices.

November 24, 2010 Read more