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First concrete results of ISO work on nanotechnology definitions

The first concrete result of the work ISO launched in 2005 to develop standards to support the innovative field of nanotechnologies comes with the publication of ISO/TS 27687:2008, which provides terms and definitions related to particles in the field of nanotechnologies.

September 26, 2008 Read more

Meta-screens: Squeezing light into sub-wavelength spots

In a new study, physicists at the University of Toronto have invented a simple structure called a meta-screen, designed to focus light into tiny spots smaller than the wavelength of the photons in use.

September 26, 2008 Read more

Optical tweezers trap nanotubes by color

Physicists at Osaka University in Japan used colored light to selectively manipulate different types of carbon nanotubes. They found that some of nanotubes displayed a tendency to cluster at the focal area of a focused laser beam.

September 26, 2008 Read more

A new imaging method for breast cancer using near infrared nanoparticles

A new imaging method for breast cancer has been developed by a team of scientists from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine and the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Penn State. Their researche utilizes encapsulated fluorescent molecules in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and non-toxic near infrared imaging.

September 26, 2008 Read more

A four-dimensional picture of our three-dimensional world

An international team of scientists from RIKEN at Brookhaven National Laboratory and elsewhere in the USA, Japan and the UK are testing the Standard Model - the foundation of high-energy physics that unifies three of the four known forces found in nature - by calculating a well-known nuclear decay process.

September 26, 2008 Read more

Structural 'snapshots' of a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease

A recent study describes the structure of the active form of BACE1, which is an enzyme implicated in Alzheimer?s disease.

September 26, 2008 Read more

Study obtains protein structures more efficiently using a combination of techniques

The chances of obtaining crystals of sufficient quality and quantity to allow determination of three-dimensional protein structures using synchrotron radiation are significantly increased using a mix of robots geared to different crystallization techniques.

September 26, 2008 Read more

Metamaterials shake up electrons

A team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has predicted that man-made structures called metamaterials could produce instabilities in electron beams.

September 26, 2008 Read more

New work allows scientists to create and study different types of graphene

A new graphene-based material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars, has been created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

September 25, 2008 Read more

New research could lead to practical uses for metal-organic frameworks

Acting like molecular-scale sponges, these MOFs have wide ranging potential uses for filtering, capturing or detecting molecules such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen storage for fuel cells.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Scientists peer into heart of compound that may detect chemical, biological weapons

A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Bottom-up nanotechnology technique will make computers faster and more efficient

For the first time, the UCSB scientists have created a way to make square, nanoscale, chemical patterns - from the bottom up - that may be used in the manufacture of integrated circuit chips as early as 2011. It is called block co-polymer lithography.

September 25, 2008 Read more

The Precautionano Principle - free nanotechnology regulation conference report published

The final report of the 4th NanoRegulation Conference held on from September 16-17 in St.Gallen is now available online on the website of the Innovation Society. The document gives an overview of the presentations, workshops and participants of this year's conference that focused on the topic of 'Voluntary Measures in Nano Risk Governance'.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Save-the-date: Major nanotechnology, energy, and biomed meeting

Next month in Boston, the AVS 55th International Symposium and Exhibition will showcase research from across the spectrum of science and engineering devoted to discoveries on the edge-in a vacuum, at interfaces, in plasmas, and in other controlled environments used to develop new materials and technologies.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Top nanotechnology nations push ahead

Governments and industries in nations around the world are investing billions of dollars, euros, yen, yuan and rubles to position themselves as leaders in the emerging enterprise called nanotechnology.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Nanoelectronics to the rescue of overheating computer chips

Two researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science aim to lay the scientific groundwork that will solve the problem of ever hotter computer chips using nanoelectronics, considered the essential science for powering the next generation of computers.

September 25, 2008 Read more