Informex today announced that it will invite young chemists to attend the upcoming InformexUSA exhibition in San Francisco free of charge. The invitation opens the door for chemists and chemical engineers 25 and under to learn more about the chemical technologies manufacturers will require in the years ahead to commercialize exciting new concepts in areas like nanotechnology, pharmaceutical fine chemicals, and green chemistry.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Asylum Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released a detailed 24-page monograph explaining the theory, functionality and applications of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM). Electromechanical coupling is one of the fundamental natural mechanisms underlying the function of many inorganic and macromolecular materials and is ubiquitous in biological systems.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Europe's photovoltaic industry is growing rapidly and is now worth EUR 14 billion a year, according to the 2008 Status Report on Photovoltaics (solar energy technologies) released by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Five-year grants totalling 20m pounds will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science and Innovation Awards.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers life scientists the opportunity to own a unique and highly visual representation of their own DNA profile immortalized on canvas.
Dec 12th, 2008
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A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Winzige Antennen, die Licht sammeln und in Strom umwandeln, wollen Chemiker und Physiker der Uni Wuerzburg herstellen.
Dec 12th, 2008
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The National Nanotechnology Centre (Nanotec) in Thailand has revealed plans to make Thailand the focus of the emerging nanotechnology industry in the Asean region.
Dec 12th, 2008
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MAPPER Lithography and CEA-Leti, a leading French semiconductor research institution, signed an agreement today according to which MAPPER will ship a 300 mm electron-beam direct write lithography platform to CEA-Leti in Grenoble.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Four scientists are responsible for the most influential papers in Korea over the past decade -- Profs. Kim Soo-bong and Hyun Taek-hwan of Seoul National University, Kim Ki-moon of Pohang University of Science and Technology, and Kwon Young-joon of Yonsei University.
Dec 12th, 2008
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An international team of researchers is using a specialized technique called muon spin rotation to better understand the relationship between magnetism and superconductivity in the iron-based pnictides.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Researchers in Japan are aiming to better understand the connection between ferroelectricity and magnetic structure at the microscopic level
Dec 12th, 2008
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In a pioneering effort, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Queensland in Australia have successfully demonstrated that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based (VLP) vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible.
Dec 11th, 2008
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During the technical session 'Nano Food and Agriculture' at the 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 event, Prof. Dr. Basavaraj Madhusudhan, Kuvempu University commented that Indian farmers are five years away from Nanotechnology revolution.
Dec 11th, 2008
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A single electron initiated self-perpetuating chain reaction with potential application for information storage and nanotechonology.
Dec 11th, 2008
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Finland has long been supportive of new technologies, and one way it encourages young nanotechnology companies is the new nanosurface@otaniemi microclustering program.
Dec 11th, 2008
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