Nanotechnology News – Latest Headlines

EPFL Professor Michael Graetzel wins the Millennium Technology Prize

The jury in Helsinki has awarded the prize for the extraordinary career of the man whose dye-sensitized solar cells that bear his name.

June 9, 2010 Read more

The first fullerene organic metal

A Russian and Japanese team has produced the first material made of two-dimensional fullerene layers that acts like a metal.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Nanomedizin nimmt Fahrt auf

Im Dezember 2010 treffen sich Experten aus der ganzen Welt auf der 7. NanoMed-Konferenz in Berlin, um den aktuellen Stand biomedizinischer Anwendungen der Nanotechnologie zu diskutieren. Schwerpunktthema der Veranstaltung ist die nanotechnologie-basierte Diagnose und Behandlung von Krebs.

June 9, 2010 Read more

NanoTecNexus announces collaboration with the Switzerland Trade and Investment Promotion

As a first step in the collaboration efforts, NTN will host a free live online webinar featuring an expert panel convened to discuss the latest investment and collaboration opportunities in Switzerland.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Nanomaterialien - friedliche Zwerge? Nutzen und Visionen einer neuen Technologie

Am 16. Juni spricht der Empa-Nanotoxikologe Harald Krug am Technoseum in Mannheim im Rahmen einer grossen Nano-Ausstellung ueber Vor- und Nachteile der Nanotechnologie und erklaert, worin die Chancen bestehen und wo Vorsicht angesagt ist.

June 9, 2010 Read more

A major step forward in mass production of graphene

Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of graphene - a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for revolutionizing electronics devices ranging from supercomputers to cell phones.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Plastic nanoparticulate antibody works in first tests in living animals

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody - an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances - works in the bloodstream of a living animal.

June 9, 2010 Read more

TAPPI nanotechnology conference features Suominen as a keynoter

Jyrki Suominen will make a keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Andre Geim awarded the Hughes Medal for his revolutionary discovery of graphene

The Royal Society awarded Professor Andre Geim the Hughes Medal for his revolutionary discovery of graphene, and explanation of its remarkable properties.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Graphene makes light work of aircraft design

Graphene has the potential to replace carbon fibres in high performance materials that are used to build aircraft.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Plasmonics: Timely forecasting

Predicting the precise shape of metal nanostructures evaporated on an array of spheres is now possible using a mathematical algorithm.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Silicon photonics: A new twist on light

Tiny optical circuits could operate at even higher speeds because of a simple structure that rotates the polarization of light.

June 9, 2010 Read more

Imec inaugurates first phase in its high-tech pole expansion

Imec today officially opens the extension of its state-of-the-art cleanroom at its campus in Leuven, Belgium. Moreover, imec also kicks off the construction of a new office building fitting in its plan for further expanding its high-tech ecosystem.

June 8, 2010 Read more

EU-Chinese collaboration in nanotechnology consumer protection

The Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and the European Commision Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) have kicked off collaboration to support risk management and improve consumer protection through new approaches in the areas of nanotechnology and alternative methods to animal testing.

June 8, 2010 Read more

OECD revises Guidance Manual for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials

This document is intended to support the testing undertaken in the context of OECD's Sponsorship Programme and to ensure that the information collected from this testing programme be reliable, accurate and consistent.

June 8, 2010 Read more

OECD publishes Guidance Notes for the safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials

This document aims to assist sponsors of the OECD Sponsorship Programme as well as others involved in the safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials, through providing general and common issues as well as specific considerations on sample preparation and dosimetry.

June 8, 2010 Read more