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Synthetic platelet maker receives innovator award

CWRU researcher aims to stem bleeding from traumatic injury.

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Graphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing

Researchers from Harvard University and MIT have demonstrated that graphene, a surprisingly robust planar sheet of carbon just one-atom thick, can act as an artificial membrane separating two liquid reservoirs.

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Nanotechnology workshop and other bilateral cooperation berween NCKU and Argonne

National Cheng Kung University and Argonne National Laboratory hope to expand their cooperation.

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Physicists break color barrier for sending, receiving photons

Research at the University of Oregon could boost quantum computing and deliver advanced Web security.

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Carl Zeiss announces winners of its Nano Image Contest

After a two-week final stretch the winners of the first Carl Zeiss Nano Image Contest have now been chosen.

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Mount Sinai leads program of excellence in nanotechnology with $16.5 million grant

Mount Sinai School of Medicine received a contract for almost $16.5 million from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLBI) through the Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology (PEN). The contract is one of four issued nationally to develop multidisciplinary research Centers with the goal of developing nanotechnology tools for diagnosing and treating heart, lung and blood diseases.

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Nanotechnology team reports the strongest organic nanomaterial ever developed

A revolutionary new spherical nanostructure, fully derived from very simple organic elements, yet strong as steel, has been developed and characterized at the laboratories of Ehud Gazit of Tel Aviv University and Itay Rousso of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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3 tiny qubits, another big step toward quantum computing

A team led by Yale researchers has achieved the entanglement of three solid-state qubits, or quantum bits, for the first time.

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WUSTL awarded $18 million to treat heart, lungs with nanotechnology

An $18 million research program headed by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will research therapies and diagnostic tools for heart and lung diseases that use nanotechnology.

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Quantum computer moves closer to reality

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol in the UK has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used to perform complex calculations that cannot be done by today's computers.

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UNC scientists receive grant to develop nanotechnology for pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment

A team of University of North Carolina (UNC) scientists has received a five-year $2,308,800 grant from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships to address the critical need for early diagnosis of and more effective treatments for pancreatic cancer.

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REACH register to ensure traceability of nanomaterials

Ahead of a regulatory review next year, the Belgian EU Presidency is proposing to create a specific register for nanomaterials under the bloc's REACH chemicals regulation and wants to make it mandatory to label their presence in consumer products.

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Nanoparticles for therapy and regeneration of osteoarthritis

Researchers aim at inducing the self healing capacity of damaged cartilage and bone by coordinated cooperation/interaction of gene vectors, mesenchymal stem cells, polymers and magnetic nanoparticles.

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Carbon nanoobjects will facilitate the construction of futuristic power sources

The Layer-by-Layer method (LbL) is applied in particular to create three-dimensional structures made of polymers only or alternating layers of polymers and nanoparticles on the surface of electrodes.

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Development of high performance electron source for world's highest resolution in electron microscope

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in establishing a surface cleaning and crystal control technologyfor lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6), nanowires and are able to set a goal of practical applications of LaB6 nanowires, which is expected to significantly improve the performance of electron microscopes.

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Applied physics: A head-to-head comparison

Hard disk drives could cram ten terabits of data per square inch of area using a new read head design.

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