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First annual photonics innovation awards will be presented at Photonics West 2009

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Laurin Publishing, publisher of Photonics Media, have announced the 67 finalist companies for the 2008 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, the premier competition for the photonics industry worldwide.

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EPA releases nanotechnology NMSP interim report

On January 12, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. released its interim report on the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP). The document is available as a download from the EPA site.

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IBM extends 3D MRI to nanoscale with 100 million times finer resolution

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

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Stanford launches $100 million research institute to tackle energy issues

Recognizing that energy is at the heart of many of the world's tribulations - economic, environmental and political - Stanford is establishing a $100 million research institute to focus intently on energy issues, President John Hennessy announced today.

January 12, 2009 Read more

Advanced battery research lab centerpiece of growing UMichigan and GM technical relationship

Engineers at the University of Michigan have formalized an important relationship with General Motors to accelerate the design and testing of advanced batteries for electric vehicles.

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Wireless microgrippers grab living cells in 'biopsy' tests

In experiments that pave the way for tiny mobile surgical tools activated by heat or chemicals, Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices that can be used to grab and remove living cells from hard-to-reach places without the need for electrical wires, tubes or batteries. Instead, the devices are actuated by thermal or biochemical signals.

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South Bend is forging its high tech future, says nanoelectronics executive

Jeffrey Welser, Ph.D., director of the Semiconductor Research Corp.'s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative, made those comments following South Bend?s Jan. 5 announcement of a brand new name for an emerging 83-acre technology park ? Ignition ParkSM - which the city will market to nanoelectronic and other technology-based businesses.

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Department of Energy approves construction start of National Synchrotron Light Source II project

To advance its science mission that focuses on critical national challenges, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved the construction start of the state-of-the-art National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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'Biology in Pico-Liter Droplets' presentation at LabAutomation 2009

Darren R. Link, Ph.D., of RainDance Technologies, Inc., will present 'Biology in Pico-Liter Droplets,' a discussion of the commercialization of the use of picoliter droplets in microfluidic channels for applications in the life sciences, at the LabAutomation2009 conference on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in Palm Springs, Calif.

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UALbany NanoCollege students to receive paid internship opportunities at CNSE partner tenant CommerceHub

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany and Commerce Technologies Inc. today announced the creation of a joint workforce development and recruitment program that will offer students unique educational and training opportunities at a leading global information technology company headquartered at the UAlbany NanoCollege.

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Label free sensing with silicon nanowires

As a part of its ongoing efforts to improve the UK sensing innovation by transferring knowledge to businesses, the Micro and Nano Sensors Interest Group (MiNSIG) of the Sensors and Instrumentation KTN is organising a free online seminar titled 'Label free sensing with silicon nanowires' on 12th February 2009.

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Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

January 11, 2009 Read more

Fully biodegradable nanocomposite plastic

A group of Vietnamese researchers say they have developed a plastic material that is both biodegradable and much cheaper to produce.

January 10, 2009 Read more

European Commission awards 3.4m euro project to study toxicity of nanomaterials

Researchers from Sweden, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States have been awarded 3.358.500 euros from the European Commission to study the hazardous effects of engineered nanomaterials on the immune system.

January 9, 2009 Read more

Researchers 'see' reactive oxygen species in vital enzyme

Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about a class of enzymes involved in everything from photosynthesis to the regulation of biological clocks.

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New model material can adopt a series of different properties

Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass.

January 9, 2009 Read more