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Nanotechnology SME Coalition expands membership categories

To include Nanotech startups and other companies which have interests in the business of nanotechnology

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DNA nanotechnology symposium at Duke

A one day symposium on using DNA to build structures and machinery on millionths and billionths of a meter scales will bring leading experts from Denmark and throughout the United States to Duke University on Friday, March 20, 2009.

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Palladium fuel cell catalysts get more efficient

Researchers have wrestled with creating palladium nanoparticles with enough active surface area to make catalysis efficient in fuel cells while preventing particles from clumping together during the chemical processes that convert a fuel source to electricity. Two Brown University chemists have found a way to overcome those challenges.

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Researchers discover the origins of nanorod diameter

A new study answers a key question at the very heart of nanotechnology: Why are nanorods so small?

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Nanocoatings that kill superbugs

Researchers at the University of Bath are to be part of a EUR3 million Europe-wide research collaboration to pioneer research into safer, more effective anti-bacterial plastics and coatings that can be used in items such as food packaging, medical devices to wound dressings, and nappies.

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European Parliament discusses tougher scrutiny of food nanotechnology

On Tuesday Members of Parliament will debate a report from the Environment Committee that wants risk assessments nanofoods and calls for labelling if used.

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National Cheng Kung University launches biomedical and nanotechnology integration project

National Cheng Kung University today announced the launch of its Integration of Biomedical and Nanotechnology Systems Project.

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Seeing molecules move in real-time

A team of Japanese scientists have directly observed how an organic molecule named stilbene rearranges its structure.

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Nanocomposite material to repair aircraft

TECNALIA is leading the IAPETUS project, within the European Union 7th Framework Programme, and aimed at developing a new technology for repairing aircraft by means of composite patches applied to both aluminium and to the new generation of compound materials aircraft.

March 18, 2009 Read more

Novel high-performing photoconducting material uses zinc oxide

Northwestern University researchers have designed a high-performing photoconducting material that uses zinc oxide -- an environmentally friendly inorganic compound found in baby powder and suntan lotion -- instead of lead sulfide.

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Nanofair 2009 in Dresden

Die diesjaehrige Nanofair findet am 26. und 27. Mai 2009 im Dresdner Kongresszentrum statt.

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Lab-on-a-chip homes in on how cancer cells break free

Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a method that could be used to help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighboring tissue, an 'escape' that can spread the disease to other parts of the body.

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Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists at Fermilab

Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious characteristics may reveal new ways that quarks can combine to form matter.

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Noted toxicologist Dr. Nigel Walker keynotes the 2009 conference on nanotechnology for the forest products industry

Join your industry colleagues for the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, presented by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. The theme of this year's event is 'Unlocking the Potential of Nano-Enabled Biomaterials'.

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The future of fusion: are diamonds forever?

Scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and across the world have been working to establish one extremely high profile alternative energy source as a major potential player: fusion.

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Human enhancement and nanotechnology conference

The Human Enhancement and Nanotechnology Conference on March 28-29, 2009 focuses on the ethical, social, and related issues that arise in the application of nanotechnology to human enhancement.

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