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Nanotechnology: Regulating the smallest details

Local lawyers and others working with business and technology can hear what nationally prominent scholar Gary Marchant thinks about the nano regulation issue when he talks from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the University of Dayton School of Law's Keller Hall.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Why metal alloys degrade

Metal alloys can fail unexpectedly in a wide range of applications - from jet engines to satellites to cell phones - and new research from the University of Michigan helps to explain why

September 24, 2008 Read more

The Conversion of Energy through Molecular Platforms program (ConvEne)

A new program funded by the National Science Foundation means UC Santa Barbara is now able to offer graduate students deep and broad experience in solving the energy challenges facing the country.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New $5 million Chair in Nanoelectronics at University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Robert Magnusson has been appointed to the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, a $5 million endowed chair for The University of Texas at Arlington.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New protein encyclopeadia covers 20,325 human proteins

Speaking at the 10th anniversary conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Berne, Switzerland, its director Professor Ron Appel described his institute as a 'Swiss success story'. He said that he was proud that as pioneers at the heart of science one of the SIB's 25 working groups was today able to announce the completion of the annotation of human proteins.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New open-access (for now) nanotechnology journal debuts

Nano Research is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary research journal from Springer and Tsinghua Press that focuses on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Case Western Reserve University co-sponsors Nanomedicine Summit in Cleveland

The 2008 Cleveland NanoMedicine Summit is the anchor event for NanoWeek in Cleveland, now in its fifth year. It is being co-hosted by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and NorTech's Nano Network.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Fraunhofer Institute achieves 39.7% record efficiency for solar cells

At 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own European record of 37.6% which they achieved just a short time ago.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Simply shaking up a solution of carbon nanotubes can alter the tubes' electronic properties

Researchers have found that reactions occurring when nanotubes are shaken in particular solvents - a routine procedure - produce chemicals that draw electrons from the nanotubes, effectively doping them.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Polymer nanoparticles cloaked in plasma proteins

Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown. The composition of the protein cloak depends not only on the surface properties of the nanoparticle, but also, surprisingly, on its size.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Research collaboration to develop long retention-time nanoparticle contrast agents

Philips Research and the University of Urbino (Urbino, Italy) have signed a research agreement to study the encapsulation of magnetic nanoparticle contrast agents inside living blood cells to prolong the retention time of these agents in the blood.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Leading researchers and companies gathered for Europe's largest nanotechnology conference

Leading researchers and companies gathered in Copenhagen on September 23-25, 2008 for Europe's largest annual nanotechnology conference and exhibition to hear about latest research findings, to convey visions for the market impact of nanotechnology and to demonstrate commercial products and tools at the exhibition.

September 24, 2008 Read more

$42 million 'Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration' program issues first grants

Two University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers are among the first-ever recipients of $42.2 million in federal grants supporting projects that take scientific risks, but also offer potentially huge rewards.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New self-assembly technology for drug delivery nanoparticles

University of Queensland researcher Dr Shizhang Qiao is working on developing a new self-assembly technology to synthesise new nanoparticles for selective separation of biomolecules.

September 24, 2008 Read more

MIT Materials Science and Engineering wins $19.2m NSF grant

Amid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering has won a six-year, $19.2 million National Science Foundation grant that will support research, K-12 educational outreach programs and vital shared experimental facilities.

September 24, 2008 Read more

University of Queensland promotes nanotechnology expert

The University of Queensland has promoted a researcher renowned for his work with minute matter in order to scale up its global research networks.

September 23, 2008 Read more