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Geplantes NanoEnergie Zentrum soll 43 Millionen bekommen

Das geplante NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum an der Universitaet Duisburg-Essen (UDE) ist in der diesjaehrigen Begutachtungsrunde des Wissenschaftsrats zur Foerderung empfohlen worden. Wenn sich die gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz diesem Votum anschliesst, werden rund 43,3 Millionen Euro an die Universitaet Duisburg-Essen fliessen.

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Molecules which flip into their own mirror image

During their experiments the Empa scientists observed that the excited molecules began to hop about and move around, rotating about their own axes. They also underwent very rapid 'inversion', that is, flipping over into their mirror image shape.

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Job fair to Help M+W Zander fill 40 project management positions in new chip facility

M+W Zander to fill 40 positions on project management team to support construction of GlobalFoundries' computer chip manufacturing facility.

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Cellular circuits that 'remember' events

MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order.

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Non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals promising for future applications

Substantial advances for applications of nanocrystals in the fields requiring a continuous output of photons and high quantum efficiency may soon be realized due to discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals.

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The 2009 TechConnect World trio of events draws a record number of attendees, speakers and vendors to Houston

NTSI and CTSI today announced today that the recently held TechConnect World trio of conferences, which included Clean Technology '09, Nanotech '09, and the TechConnect Summit events, drew a record number of attendees, speakers, and vendors to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

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NanoKTN invites UK nanotechnology companies to jointly promote products and services

The NanoKTN invites UK Micro and Nanotechnology companies and facilities to promote their products and services alongside the NanoKTN at key nano events in Europe.

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Improving the catalytic converters of motor vehicles

The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frederic Thibault-Strarzyk at the Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie in Caen.

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Scientists demonstrate all-fibre quantum logic

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.

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2009 Francis M. Pipkin Award for work with radioactive atomic species and applications

U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory senior physicist Zheng-Tian Lu has received the 2009 Francis M. Pipkin Award of the American Physical Society.

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Lithographers to address critical challenges at international EUVL workshop

Leading lithographers from North America, Asia and Europe will gather in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 13-17 for the 2009 International Workshop on EUV Lithography to discuss potential solutions to critical technical issues on bringing extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) into high-volume manufacturing.

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The impossible crystal: crystallization at the molecular level

Molecules with five-fold symmetry arrange themselves on a surface as a two-dimensional crystal, although theoretically this ought not to be possible. Recently researchers at Empa and the University of Zurich have taken the first steps to a better understanding of this 'impossible' behavior by monitoring the complicated crystallization process with a scanning tunnel microscope.

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Panel to explore new approaches to metallization at IITC Conference

On June 1st, at a forum hosted by Applied Materials, a panel of industry thought leaders will share their strategies to advance the state of the art in interconnect metallization technology.

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Nanoscience and nanotechnology - A collection of reviews from Nature journals

World Scientific and Nature Publishing Group's first book collaboration.

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Superconducting chips to become reality

Most chemical elements become superconducting at low temperatures or high pressures, but until now, copper, silver, gold, and the semiconductor germanium, for example, have all refused superconductivity. Scientists were now able to produce superconducting germanium for the first time.

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Particle physics is not just black holes and antimatter

While the perils associated with particle physics, from Earth-gobbling black holes to Vatican-destroying amounts of antimatter, gain news headlines, it?s easy to overlook the large economic and societal benefits of particle physics research.

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