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UK body cautions about carbon nanotubes
The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has called for a precautionary approach to the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in its new information sheet, released this month.
March 16, 2009 Read more
Nanodumbbells target cancer cells
Scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells.
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Dancing 'adatoms' help chemists understand how water molecules split
The result might help understand chemical processes in energy generation or pollution cleanup.
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The Israeli nanotechnology survey
The survey, which looked at the situation of academic research in Israel, reveals that the average investment per Israeli investor averages USD 1.1 million. It is estimated that some USD 320 million were invested, to date, in academic research.
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Scientist confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon
Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, where at a certain temperature two different states of liquid silicon exist.
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IMEC celebrates its 25th birthday
On January 16, 1984, the memorandum of association of IMEC was signed, and on March 15, now exactly 25 years ago, IMEC appeared as newly established research center in the Belgian Statute Books.
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SME announces its annual 'Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture'
To keep the manufacturing and the larger community well informed about what's radical and revolutionary in innovation, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announces its annual Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture.
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Electrifying paper with copper nanoparticles
The Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles.
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Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells
A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
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Brain on a chip
How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is already working.
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New organic material may speed Internet access
An international team of researchers has developed an organic material with an unprecedented combination of high optical quality and strong ability to mediate light-light interaction and has engineered the integration of this material with silicon technology so it can be used in optical telecommunication devices.
March 15, 2009 Read more
Call for Contributions: NanoEurope Symposium 25 / 26 November 2009
Submit a proposal either for a short oral presentation or for a poster contribution and present breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress.
March 14, 2009 Read more
Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks
Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.
March 13, 2009 Read more
Novel electrochemical method for locating microscale objects as they move through a liquid
Researchers were able to use an array of microelectrodes to follow the two-dimensional motion of a tiny, individual basalt sphere in space and time.
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EU project to develop nanomaterials for more efficient solar cells
A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells.
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Quantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power
Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
March 13, 2009 Read more
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