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Vanderbilt engineers play key role in new DOE energy frontier research center

A team of Vanderbilt engineers will play a key role in a new federal effort to significantly improve our understanding of how gases and liquids interact with solid surfaces - basic studies that have potential applications ranging from better batteries to more efficient methods for converting solar and electrical energy into fuel, improved fuel cells and enhancing the corrosion resistance of materials.

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The most authoritative reference covering nanotechnology usage in medicine

Internal and external applications of nanoscience and vital topics from gene expression to tissue engineering are explored in this important work by international authors.

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Nanotechnology funding landscape has changed dramatically

The nanotechnology funding landscape has changed dramatically with new players such as Russia and China committing larger amounts to research than the US.

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World's fastest camera relies on new type of imaging

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a novel, continuously running camera that captures images roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conventional camera.

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Over 1000 UK nanotechnology organizations listed in new online guidebook

The Directory is your online guidebook to the UK?s world-class Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) sector, featuring over 600 academics and over 400 organisations active in nanotechnology in the UK.

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Die ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert

Die drei ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden nach einer ueberaus erfolgreichen zweiten Foerderperiode erneut verlaengert und weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert. Dies beschloss jetzt der Hauptausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) auf seiner Fruehjahrssitzung in Bonn.

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IMEC integrates high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects.

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Brookhaven Lab's Satoshi Ozaki honored at Asian Pacific American Celebration

Satoshi Ozaki, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional at a ceremony on May 9 at the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration to be held at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center.

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NASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer

An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells.

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Practical quantum cryptography within reach

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors capable of receiving information with much higher key rates, thereby able to receive more information faster.

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Nanotechnology method to induce immunity against certain sexually transmitted diseases

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have now designed a unique method for inducing immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis.

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Attracting a mate, nano-style

Some of the most vivid colours in the animal kingdom are produced by nanostructures scattering light, rather than pigments.

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A new kind of crystalline molecular sieve

Researchers in Spain and Sweden have synthesised and structurally determined a new kind of crystalline molecular sieve with extra large holes and chiral properties.

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New laser technologies to develop novel semiconductor nanomaterials

Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach, thanks to pioneering work by a European consortium.

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Giving artificial cells another hallmark of life

Scientists in Japan are reporting an advance toward giving artificial cells another hallmark of life - the ability to tap an energy source and use it to undergo sustained movement.

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Center to investigate plant cells for better biomass fuels

Cutting edge approaches and methodology employed by plant and molecular biologists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, computational modelers and engineers will be applied to plant cells in the newly funded Center for Lignocellulose Structure and Formation, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center at Penn State.

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