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Virginia Commonwealth University to offer state's first doctorate degree in nanosciences

Virginia Commonwealth University has received approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree program in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Lower-cost solar cells to be printed like newspaper, painted on rooftops

Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle 'inks' that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Compendium of Quantum Physics - A milestone among quantum mechanics publications

A reference work involving exactly 100 authors just recently appeared: Compendium of Quantum Physics. Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology speeds desalination

A team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Metamaterialien lassen Licht tanzen

Wissenschaftler am Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) beschreiben jetzt erstmals dreidimensionale Metamaterialien, die in spektroskopischen Messgeraeten Anwendung finden koennten.

August 24, 2009 Read more

EPA withdraws final SNURs for carbon nanotubes

In a Federal Register notice published last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its withdrawal of the final significant new use rules (SNURs) for single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Einblicke in Nanowelten: Die TU Graz versammelt Forscher in der Elektronenmikroskopie

An der TU Graz, die den Kongress veranstaltet, arbeiten fuehrende Forscher im Bereich der Elektronenmikroskopie. Die Entwicklungen des Institutes fuer Elektronenmikroskopie und Feinstrukturforschung ermoeglichen der Wissenschaft und der Industrie Einblicke in Mikro- und Nanowelten, die beispielsweise das Erkennen von Krankheiten erleichtern, das Fliegen sicherer und Computer schneller machen.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Electrospinning nanofibers with aureole morphology

Scientists at the University of Tehran have advanced the production of nanofibers with new morphologies by synthesizing functional aureole nanofibers.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Australian water innovation using nanotechnology

The University of South Australia and SA Water are set to extend a research partnership deal that has seen SA Water invest $3.5m of funding into finding smart ways to manage and re-use water in South Australia.

August 24, 2009 Read more

Nasa, Air Force test environmentally-friendly nanoscale rocket propellant

NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice, called ALICE.

August 23, 2009 Read more

Materials research gets a boost with new supercomputer

New Iowa State supercomputer, Cystorm, unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second.

August 23, 2009 Read more

Nanocatalysts could be helpful in reducing air pollution

A research team at the chemical process technology laboratory of Tabriz University, Iran found solutions for reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in air.

August 23, 2009 Read more

New carbon nanotube sensor can reversibly detect nitric oxide

A new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT is the first sensor that can reversibly detect nitric oxide, a gas that cells commonly use to communicate with each other.

August 22, 2009 Read more

Argonne nanoscientist named one of the world's top innovators

Elena Shevchenko, nanoscientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has joined a select list of the world's youngest top innovators chosen by Technology Review magazine for her work at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials.

August 21, 2009 Read more

New images capture cell's ribosomes at work, could aid in molecular war against disease

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time captured elusive nanoscale movements of ribosomes at work, shedding light on how these cellular factories take in genetic instructions and amino acids to churn out proteins.

August 21, 2009 Read more

Nano-Sunscreens: Issue continues to be controversially discussed

Only a few days after the release of the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) '2009 Sunscreen Investigation' report, a coalition of public interest groups including Friends of the Earth (FoE), Consumers Union and the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) have taken position in the highly controversial debate about the safety of sunscreens containing manufactured nanomaterials.

August 21, 2009 Read more