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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology launches new 'key technology' research program 'BioInterfaces'

BioInterfaces represents an ambitious new 'Key Technologies' research program supported by the Helmholtz Association, the largest German scientific funding organization. With an annual budget of approximately 20 Million Euro, the program brings together 67 research team of biologists, chemists, physicists, materials scientists and informaticians.

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Conference provided look into future of nanotechnology enabled construction building materials

The Nano Cement, Steel and Construction Industries Conference, held May16-17, 2009 at the Marriott Zamalek, provided a look into the future of construction building materials using nanotechnology.

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Nanotechnology event in Cairo will conect Middle eastern Capital with nanotech innovations

SabryCorp announced that the Nanotech Business Summit will be held from the 6th to 7th December, 2009 in Cairo, Egypt.

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New nanoparticle fights cardiovascular plaque

Scientists and engineers at UC Santa Barbara and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have developed a nanoparticle that can attack plaque - a major cause of cardiovascular disease.

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Researchers create a superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.

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University College Dublin hosts EMBO conference in cancer proteomics

International experts in cancer research and proteomics are gathering in Dublin this week to discuss how the convergence of these research areas can improve the process of identifying new cancer biomarkers.

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FramingNano Project Consortium publishes its third newsletter edition

The FramingNano Project Consortium has published the third newsletter which summarises outcomes from the Delphi consultation exercise and the recent FramingNano stakeholder workshop which took place on February 26, 2009 in Brussels.

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Leti workshop on innovative memory technologies

Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, is hosting a workshop on innovative memory technologies at MINATEC on Wednesday, June 24.

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Research identifies 3D structure of key nuclear pore building block

Guarding access to the nuclear chamber is the job of large, intimidating gatekeepers known as nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), which stud the nuclear membrane, filtering all of the biochemical information passing in or out. In new research, scientists have for the first time glimpsed in three dimensions an entire subcomplex of the NPC.

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Master in Nanotechnology at the University of Twente

The university of Twente in The Netherlands offers a MSc program in nanotechnology which starts in Fenruary and September.

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Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies

A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light - photons - on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and ultra-precise measurements.

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Scientists studying the 'colossal magnetoresistance effect'

Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the 'giant magnetoresistance effect,' which made it possible to pack more data onto smaller and smaller hard drives. Now scientists are on the trail of another phenomenon, called the 'colossal magnetoresistance effect' which is up to a thousand times more powerful and could trigger another revolution in computing technology.

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Romain Quidant wins the Fresnel Prize 2009 for his research in applied photonics

The Fresnel Prize recognizes the highest level of excellence amongst emerging researchers, under the age of 35, in the field of photonics.

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Cold Atoms and Molecules: Concepts, Experiments and Applications to Fundamental Physics

A survey of the physics of ultracold atoms and molecules, taking into consideration the latest research on ultracold phenomena, such as Bose Einstein condensation and quantum computing. This textbook covers recent experimental results on atom and molecule cooling as well as the theoretical treatment.

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UK nanotechnology expert gives evidence to House of Lords

University of Ulster nanotechnology expert Professor Vyvyan Howard has given evidence to a House of Lords Select Committee.

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CNRS 2009 Gold Medal : Serge Haroche, physicist and explorer of the quantum world

Haroche is a specialist in atomic physics and quantum optics. He is one of the founders of cavity quantum electrodynamics, a field which uses conceptually simple experiments to shed light on the fundamentals of quantum theory and develop prototype quantum information processing systems.

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