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Electrified nanofilter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water

With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of disease-causing bacteria in water in seconds without clogging.

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Kleine Teilchen - grosse Wirkung?

'NanoMed - Toxikologische Charakterisierung von Nanomaterialien fuer die diagnostische Bildgebung in der Medizin' heisst ein neues Forschungsprojekt, das das Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung mit fast zwei Millionen Euro Gesamtvolumen finanziert.

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Embedded rods

Chitin-silicon dioxide nanocomposite made by self-organization and sol-gel chemistry.

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Biosensors: Morpholino offers you more

Morpholino-based biosensors are more stable, more specific and more sensitive than conventional biosensors for DNA detection.

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Laser patterning: Below the surface

New laser engraving technology can be used to make markings inside a block of stainless steel.

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Striding towards a new dawn for electronics

Conductive polymers are plastic materials with high electrical conductivity that promise to revolutionize a wide range of products including TV displays, solar cells, and biomedical sensors. A team of McGill University researchers now reports how to visualize and study the process of energy transport along one single conductive polymer molecule at a time, a key step towards bringing these exciting new applications to market.

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Beyond the Nobel Prize, what's next for graphene?

Researchers seek to understand similarities and differences in the plans, programs and approaches to commercialize graphene.

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UC Santa Barbara to receive $6 million renewal grant to fund Center for Nanotechnology in Society

University of California, Santa Barbara will receive almost $6.1 million over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to extend support for the campus's innovative Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) through 2015. The grant represents an increase of almost 21 percent from the initial funding in 2005.

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Physicists observe electron ejected from atom for first time

Scientists have observed the motion of an atom's valence or outermost electrons in real-time by investigating the ejection of an electron from an atom by an intense laser pulse.

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International SEMATECH manufacturing initiative to relocate Its headquarters and operations to the UAlbany NanoCollege

$100M initiative will create more than 100 high-tech jobs and establish New York as the global leader for the nanoelectronics' industry's transition to 450mm wafer manufacturing technology.

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Grant to explore nanotechnology anti-infective agent for wounded soldiers

$1.5 million DOD award allows U-M scientists to pursue new application for nanoemulsion technology.

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Modeling shows that factors beyond crowding affect how molecules interact within cells

Using large-scale computer simulations, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified the most important factors affecting how molecules move through the crowded environment inside living cells. The findings suggest that perturbations caused by hydrodynamic interactions - similar to what happens when the wake from a large boat affects smaller boats on a lake - may be the most important factor in this intracellular diffusion.

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WAVE Conference and Exhibition 2011 taking products to market incorporating micro- and nanotechnology

On Oct 2nd 2011, a three day global gathering of stakeholders bent on taking state of the art products incorporating micro- and nanotechnology to market will be converge on Lake Louise.

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A new concept in microscopy: Self-reconstructing laser beams

Researchers in Germany are developing new, unconventional techniques in microscopy whose physical concepts are at least as exciting as their technical realisation.

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Selbst-rekonstruierende Laserstrahlen

Forscher der Uni Freiburg entwickeln ein neues Konzept in der Mikroskopie.

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Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation further fuel nanoelectronics research

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, joined today with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund $2 million in supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research.

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