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Elastic electronics: Rules for fabrication of ordered monolayers of semiconducting polymers

A group of scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with employees of the Warsaw University of Technology and the Atomic Energy Commission in Grenoble, have managed to determine how thin layers of highly ordered polymers can be created - a key element in the production process of organic electronic systems.

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Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize agriculture

Nanotechnology has a number of solutions to make agriculture more efficient.

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Introduction to environmental and health aspects of nanotechnology

The Society for Risk Analysis offers a 'Introduction to Environmental and Health Aspects of Nanotechnology' on December 5, 2010, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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A*STAR IME Leads New Copper-Wire Bonding Consortium In Advancing Industry Performance And Expertise

The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), has announced the launch of the Copper Wire (Cu-Wire) Bonding Consortium.

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'Nano-urchins' as anode material for greener batteries

Montroseite, a vanadium oxide mineral first discovered 60 years ago, could be used as an anode for greener batteries, say Chinese researchers.

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Professor Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute receives Max Delbruck Medal In Berlin

The American molecular biologist Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Max Delbruck Medal awarded in Berlin, Germany. Lindquist, who is also a biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored for her work on protein folding.

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Dubai college's nanotechnology hope for cancer patients

The side effects of chemotherapy could be largely wiped out by a so-called 'magic bullet' nanotechnology system being researched in Dubai, according to an associate professor at Dubai Pharmacy College.

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Nanotechnology cooperation planned by Iran and Venezuela

Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) and the Venezuelan Science Ministry's Center for Science and Technology Researches signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on interacademic cooperation in the field of nanotechnology.

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More than 1,000 people explore nanotechnology during CNSE Community Day at UAlbany NanoCollege

More than 1,000 people, including children, adults and families from throughout upstate New York, converged today on the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany to participate in CNSE Community Day, a highlight of CNSE's unprecedented community and educational outreach initiative known as NANOvember.

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'Prima donna' protein doesn't work well in pairs

Rice University bioengineers measure pulling power of hitched pairs of protein motors.

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Fine-tuning photosynthesis

MIT analysis shows how synthetic systems for capturing the sun's energy could be made more efficient.

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Low-cost, hybrid thermoelectrics

Scientists at the Berkeley Lab constructed a nanoscale composite thermoelectric material by wrapping a polymer that conducts electricity around a nanorod of tellurium - a metal coupled with cadmium in today's most cost-effective solar cells. This composite material is easily spin cast or printed into a film from a water-based solution.

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EYP announces the establishment of expanded headquarters and operations at the UAlbany NanoCollege

New jobs will be created as the growing EYP-CNSE partnership pursues expanding opportunities for design and engineering of 'green' high-tech facilities.

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Spatenstich NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum NETZ in Duisburg

Der erste Spatenstich fuer das NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum, kurz NETZ, ist noch ganz frisch: er wurde gestern im Beisein der NRW-Innovationsministerin Svenja Schulze an der Universitaet Duisburg-Essen gesetzt.

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Nanomedicine drug hits brain tumor

Employing new drug-engineering technology, a research team has created a 'nanobioconjugate' drug that may be given by intravenous injection and carried in the blood to target a brain tumor. It is engineered to specifically permeate the tumor cell wall, entering endosomes, mobile compartments within cells.

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'Super-twisting' light helps detection of biological materials at unprecedented low concentrations

A research team at the University of Glasgow twisted the light like a corkscrew by using a polarising filter, before shining it onto a specially shaped piece of gold to create the world's first 'super twisting'.

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