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NanoImpactNet - for a healthy environment in a future with nanotechnology

NanoImpactNet's first Integrating Conference will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 23-27 2009.

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Ultrafast lasers procide a snapshot of electrons in action

In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes shape.

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Argonne teams with Chicago research universities to form Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has teamed with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University to form the Illinois Center for Advanced Tribology, which will develop solutions to technical issues related to transportation, health and systems that operate in extreme environments.

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Annual Biotechnology Conference returns to Charlotte

It has been a success for the past six years, and it's back again. The 7th Annual Charlotte Biotechnology Conference (CBC) will be held in the Student Activities Center (SAC) on October 28, 2008 and will feature an array of different speakers elaborating on the different aspects of biotechnology.

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U.S. Department of Energy is sponsoring the inaugural Science + Energy Research Challenge

The U.S. Department of Energy is sponsoring the inaugural Science + Energy Research Challenge (SERCh), Nov. 9-10, 2008, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is partnering with Oak Ridge Associated Universities to host the event.

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Irish universities team up to develop 'smart' nanotechnology cancer drugs

A coalition of Irish universities and colleges came together today for an ambitious plan to develop 'smart' drugs to fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

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Das weltweit schnellste Nanolichtmikroskop

Christoph Cremer durchbricht nach der Konzeption der 4Pi-Mikroskopie 1971 das zweite Mal in seiner Forscherkarriere die Grenze dessen, was bislang in der optischen Mikroskopie moeglich war.

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IMEC calls for true European collaborations

To increase Europe's microelectronics competitiveness, the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC asks Europe and its governing public authorities to stimulate true cross-border collaborations, not only by setting up networks but also by creating financial means.

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Fraunhofer opens 'Center for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices' in Dresden

The purpose of the center is the development of processes for organic semiconductor devices such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic solar cells.

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Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation awards grant for carbon dot imaging-agent research

Clemson University researchers developing imaging agents to allow a new method of detecting breast cancers have received $180,000 from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American women.

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Card-swipe for medical tests uses same principle as hard disks, MP3 players

University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples.

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Conductance plateaus of graphene p-n junctions discovered

Sun Qingfeng with the Lab for Condensed Matter Theory and Materials Computation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Physics made an intensive study on the electron transport through graphene p-n junctions.

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New assembly technique for three-dimensional carbon nanotube structures

This technique will be useful for the large scale, accelerated assembly of SWNTs at room temperature, which is more suitable for nanoscale electronic applications, such as flat panel displays and electronic memory devices.

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Top nanotechnology researcher from Yonsei University joins CNSI as visiting scientist

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA announces the arrival of visiting scientist Jinwoo Cheon, professor of chemistry at Yonsei University in Korea.

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The High School Nanoscience Program brings nanotechnology to the classroom

As developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology reshape our world on a daily basis, the California NanoSystems Institute ( CNSI ) at UCLA is helping Los Angeles-area high school science teachers incorporate these subjects into their standard core curriculum.

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Nanotechnology motors approach the speed of the most efficient biological nanomotors

A team of scientists from University of California, San Diego and Arizona State University has now developed nanorods that swim extremely fast.

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