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Funding expands research into nanostructured coatings for joint replacements

Newly announced National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding will expand the reach of ongoing University of Alabama at Birmingham research into a unique nanostructured coating to improve the performance and longevity of total joint replacement components.

July 19, 2009 Read more

New $14m research and product development centre for nanotechnology for Canada

Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology will soon be home to a new electron microscopy research and product development center.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Researchers engineer first artificial graphene

The first artificial graphene has been created at the NEST laboratory of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter in Pisa. It is sculpted on the surface of a gallium-arsenide semiconductor, to which it grants the extraordinary properties of the original graphene.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Key European Nano2012 program will build on European leadership in CMOS platforms

Participating organizations celebrate the formal launch of the Nano2012 Research and Development program in France.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Iberia invests big in nanotechnology center

The leaders of Portugal and Spain on Friday opened a joint research center for nanotechnology that they hope will become one of the world's leading laboratories.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Fundamental nanotechnology - making nano rulers

Researchers in Japan have fabricated a nanometer-sized ruler to be used as a primary standard, which is integral to nanotechnology research and production, by taking advantage of the crystal structure of diamond.

July 17, 2009 Read more

UK government calls on industry to help develop national nanotechnology strategy

Lord Drayson, Science and Innovation Minister and chair of the Ministerial Group on Nanotechnologies, is calling on industry and interested groups to get involved in shaping a UK strategy for nanotechnologies

July 17, 2009 Read more

Semiconductors for cool computers

Researchers present a semiconductor that transmits electric current without heating up in the process.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Coole Computer

Wissenschaftler entwickeln einen Halbleiter, der elektrischen Strom leitet und dabei nicht warm wird.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Birck Nanotechnology Center rents out research space to Indiana firms

An Indiana medical-device company has signed a research agreement through the Purdue Research Foundation to use laboratories and equipment at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center.

July 17, 2009 Read more

Capturing electrons in action

A technique for characterizing ultrafast light pulses will lead to better optical probes for studying electron dynamics.

July 17, 2009 Read more

World's most precise microscope is being built for the University of Victoria

Hitachi is manufacturing the one-of-a-kind instrument

July 16, 2009 Read more

Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material

It's commonly accepted that electrical resistance of a given material cannot be adjusted as is the case with, for example, density and color. However, Dr Meike Stöhr and her collaborators have now succeeded in developing a new method to selectively tune surface properties such as resistance.

July 16, 2009 Read more

Scientists refine technique for DNA sorting of carbon nanotubes

Scientists at DuPont and Lehigh University have refined a technique, first published in 2003, to sort carbon nanotubes using specific sequences of DNA. This technique offers the first demonstration that nanotubes can be sorted by size, property and symmetry (chirality).

July 16, 2009 Read more

International Conference on Magnetism will look at magnetic nanostructures and photonic materials

The International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) is the most important international conference for scientists conducting research in the fields of magnetism and magnetic materials.

July 16, 2009 Read more

Laser-illuminated gold nanoparticles may be able to detect and treat cancer

At a technical breakfast, Romain Quidant presented his research into the detection and treatment of cancer using gold nanoparticles illuminated with laser light.

July 16, 2009 Read more