Nanotechnology News – Latest Headlines

The world's smallest snowman

The folks at the at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London have made what surely must be the world's smallest sbowman.

December 4, 2009 Read more

Technology commercialization event looks at nanotechnology for biomedical breakthroughs

Yesterday, ACAMP, the Alberta Centre for Advanced MNT Products, hosted a health and medical seminar, explaining how technologies like nanotechnology, biomaterials and microfluidics can play a powerful role in the creation of innovative healthcare products that help promote health and improve the quality, cost and outcomes of patient care, while opening new markets for Alberta companies worldwide.

December 4, 2009 Read more

Researchers succeed in building a working single-atom transistor

Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon.

December 3, 2009 Read more

Researchers discover new method for measuring hydrophobicity at the nanoscale

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much - or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.

December 3, 2009 Read more

New nanomaterial be used as the basis for self-cleaning windows and more efficient batteries

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New research details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make these futuristic visions come true in just a few years.

December 3, 2009 Read more

USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative has now built out the core nanotechnology labs

After four years the USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative has built out the core laboratories specified in Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias' original vision.

December 3, 2009 Read more

Professur (W3) Experimentalphysik (Nanomaterialien und Energieumwandlung) and der LMU

Zur Staerkung und Ergaenzung der Nanowissenschaften an der LMU Muenchen ist an der Fakultaet fuer Physik zum naechstmoeglichen Zeitpunkt eine Professur (W3) fuer Experimentalphysik 'Nanomaterialien und Energieumwandlung' zu besetzen.

December 3, 2009 Read more

NanoCentral publishes a resource guide to nanotechnology and nanomaterials services

NanoCentral is instituting a Resource Guide to Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials services. Called NanoPerspective, the guide will initially be a UK-focused edition, but will develop over time to include the key European and American markets.

December 3, 2009 Read more

UK government offers GBP 5 million prize in unique advanced manufacturing competition

The UK Government-backed Technology Strategy Board is to manage a unique competition that will see a GBP 5 million ($8.3 million) prize awarded to British business to develop innovative composite manufacturing techniques for high-performance, high-value products.

December 3, 2009 Read more

Invitation for expressions of interest: Nanomission on 'Nanomaterials Processing for Renewable Energy'

This Mission will focus on production processes for manufacturing nanomaterials for renewable energy applications such as photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage, fuel cells, bio-derived energy, thermoelectric and insulation materials.

December 3, 2009 Read more

Czech government launches four major new research initiatives with EU support

Toxicology, mechanical engineering, nanoscience and veterinary medicine are the subjects of four major new EU-funded research initiatives launched recently in the Czech Republic. The projects, which will share over CZK 2 billion (EUR 77 million), are financed under the Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, which receives EU support through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

December 3, 2009 Read more

Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry out vital biological processes

A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes.

December 3, 2009 Read more

Huge long-term potential for new breed of gas sensors

A little bit of gas can provide a lot of important information which can be used for things as diverse as saving lives during fires and making vehicles run more efficiently. Now a new generation of optical sensors, developed by European researchers, is revolutionising trace gas detection.

December 2, 2009 Read more

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor.

December 2, 2009 Read more

Nanoethics: Big ethical issues with small technology

This book explores in an accessible and informative way how nanotechnology is likely to impact the lives of ordinary people in the coming years and why ethical reflection on nanotechnology is needed now.

December 2, 2009 Read more

MedicalNanoTec launches new website

Medicalnanotec has launched its new website medicalnanotec.com with an improved layout.

December 2, 2009 Read more