After more than 20 years with the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, Mildred Holley, manager of technology programs at the Arkansas Small Business Technology Development Center, is the new operations director of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock?s Nanotechnology Center.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Fibrin, the chief ingredient of blood clots, is a remarkably versatile polymer. On one hand, it forms a network of fibers -- a blood clot -- that stems the loss of blood at an injury site while remaining pliable and flexible. On the other hand, fibrin provides a scaffold for thrombi, clots that block blood vessels and cause tissue damage, leading to cardiovascular disease. The answer is a process known as protein unfolding.
Aug 7th, 2009
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In a series of experiments, researchers at Brown University sought to determine how carbon nanoparticles would affect fruit flies - from the very young to adults.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Topics dealing with cost savings or subjects like 'Green MEMS' were popular in Tokyo. The fusion of microsystems technology with bio- and nanotechnology to hetero-functional, integrated devices is in focus of Japanese companies and institutes.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Chinese scientists have used sunlight and DNA to make bimetallic nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of explosives.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Wissenschaftler der TU Muenchen und der Harvard University haben neue Werkzeuge entwickelt, um aus kurzen DNA-Molekuelen Strukturen mit komplexen Windungen und Kruemmungen zu formen.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonator that is strong enough to transfer quantum effects.
Aug 7th, 2009
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In its fourth year running, this year's annual UK NanoForum and Emerging Technologies 2009 comprises a two-day conference and exhibition bringing over 100 senior international delegates and 350 UK delegates together to network and identify potential business and collaboration opportunities.
Aug 7th, 2009
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A dedicated laboratory space on the UC Riverside campus moves Bourns College of Engineering another step closer to a more comprehensive nanoengineering center. The space at Pierce Hall is now home to an advanced metal, organic, chemical, vapor, deposition (MOCVD) reactor.
Aug 7th, 2009
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Researchers from RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako have developed a method to immobilize oligonucleotides on gold nanoparticle surfaces with precise control over their number and geometric arrangement.
Aug 7th, 2009
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The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that it has selected an accomplished physician to head a next-generation NanoHealth initiative that will focus on education, research, and deployment of nanotechnology enabled improvements in occupational, public, and environmental health and safety.
Aug 6th, 2009
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To study the Casimir force, UC Riverside physicists have received funding of $1.6 million for two years from DARPA and SPAWAR.
Aug 6th, 2009
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Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes.
Aug 6th, 2009
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Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions).
Aug 6th, 2009
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In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation.
Aug 6th, 2009
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Rice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins -- the biochemical workhorses of all living things.
Aug 6th, 2009
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