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Black metal - laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices.

July 16, 2009 Read more

Quantum experiments on a macroscopic scale

An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) pave the way for quantum experiments on a macroscopic scale.

July 16, 2009 Read more

'Fighting Cancer With Nanotechnology' video wins 2009 Telly Award

NanoTecNexus and the University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center (NTC) have received the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology.

July 16, 2009 Read more

Major nanotechnology partnership to establish the Computer Chip Hybrid Integration Partnership in upstate New York

Joint venture to create hundreds of high-tech jobs, expands upstate New York's nanotechnology industry.

July 15, 2009 Read more

Nanoparticle Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer

In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.

July 15, 2009 Read more

Linking quantum physics with classical physics

A University of Missouri physicist has uncovered some clues about the basis of Einstein's theories and presented a more general approximation, which may better link quantum physics with classical physics.

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Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the past

myExperiment, the social networking site for scientists, has set out to challenge traditional ideas of academic publishing as it enters a new phase of funding.

July 15, 2009 Read more

Micro- and nanotechnology in paper manufacturing

This new book introduces significant developments that micro- and nanotechnologies have brought, and will bring, to the paper industry.

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Organizations fund search for new nanoelectronics transistors

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today teamed with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce funding of $2 million in new supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research.

July 15, 2009 Read more

Development of thin-film electroluminescent device using inorganic oxides

Hiroshi Takashima and coworkers of the Superconducting Devices Group of the Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed red electroluminescent devices using thin-films of chemically stable perovskite oxides.

July 15, 2009 Read more

Detecting blood molecules with an optical chip

A portable "lab on a chip" that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes associated with certain types of cancer.

July 14, 2009 Read more

U. of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems receives U.S. Dept. of Education grant

U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman has announced that the UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems (NSMS) Graduate Program has been awarded the highly competitive grant to provide fellowships for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN).

July 14, 2009 Read more

American Chemical Society announces second nanotechnology video contest

It's back! The American Chemical Society (ACS) Web community site for nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers and enthusiasts - ACS Nanotation - has launched a second installment of the NanoTube video contest that became an Internet sensation a few months ago.

July 14, 2009 Read more

Conductive ink solar panels capture sun power for soldiers

Scientists developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.

July 14, 2009 Read more

Energy harvesting for future unmanned aerial vehicles

Dye-sensitized solar cells are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.

July 14, 2009 Read more

Society of Manufacturing Engineers seeks nominations for 2010 Class of Fellows

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is seeking nominations for the 2010 Class of Fellows. Fellows membership is limited to a select few and is presented in recognition of contributions to the social, technological and educational aspects of the manufacturing profession.

July 14, 2009 Read more