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Ultrafast DNA nanosensor can detect bacteria in minutes

A portable instrument based on an ultrasensitive nanoscale sensor could detect bacteria in minutes, helping to catch infectious diseases early and prevent their spread.

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Pushing light beyond its known limits

The researchers in the University's new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have discovered that light within optical fibers can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than was previously believed possible.

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Nanotechnology researchers turn algae into high-temperature hydrogen source

In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles.

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Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment.

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Quantum Light technology lights up President Obama's MIT laboratory tour

QD Vision's green-tech Quantum Light technology platform lit up President Obama's recent tour of laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where low-power, long-life Array Lighting LED lamps from Nexxus Lighting, Inc. are utilizing breakthroughs in quantum dot technology from QD Vision, Inc. to emit high-quality warm LED light.

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New England Clean Energy Council Names QD Vision 'Emerging Company of the Year'

The New England Clean Energy Council has named QD Vision, Inc., developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, the 2009 'Emerging Company of the Year.'

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NanoKTN publishes a UK nanotechnology health, safety and environment directory

The directory includes over 30 institutes, Government departments, networks and commercial service providers who are recognised in some way in contributing to the HSE debate.

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Working together to design robust silicon chips

Three major European semiconductor manufacturers ? Infineon, NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics ? got together in ROBIN to define and deal with such problems early in the design phase, thus avoiding problems further down the development flow or in the production phase.

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European collaboration explores nanoelectronic behavior of two C60 molecules

For the first time a collaboration of researchers across Europe now achieved to investigate the electrical behaviour of only two C60 molecules touching each other.

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ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research at the cutting edge of biology and nanotechnology

Professor Cees Dekker of TU Delft has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research at the cutting edge of biology and nanotechnology. He will use the funding to investigate the evolution of bacteria in specially manufactured miniature 'nano landscapes', a type of very small Galapagos archipelago for bacteria.

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Funding boost for developing metamaterials for 'invisibility cloaks' and 'perfect lenses'

Research into designing and building unique metamaterials has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust.

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Ionic liquid's makeup is measurably non-uniform at the nanoscale

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen?s University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions of ionic liquids that could lead to greater understanding and manipulation of these multi-purpose, designer solvents.

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Bowtie-shaped antennae function as the first tunable nano colorsorters

Looking sharp and looking for light - Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These 'nano-colorsorter' devices act as antennae to focus and sort light in tiny spaces, a useful technique for harvesting broadband light for color-sensitive filters and detectors.

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Unexpected properties of nanostructures: When holes obscure the view

Physicists at the University Stuttgart discovered that tiny holes make metal opaque.

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Silicon nanowires pave the way for nanoelectronics and other nanodevices

New research from North Carolina State University shows that silicon nanowires are far more resilient than their larger counterparts, a finding that could pave the way for smaller, sturdier nanoelectronics, nanosensors, light-emitting diodes and other applications.

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Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis attracts international leading scientists in catalysis research

For her outstanding achievements in developing new catalytic concepts in organic synthesis Professor Dr. Sanford has won the BASF Catalysis Award 2009.

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