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Northeastern Awards the 2008 Roger H. Grace Fellowship in Nanomanufacturing

The award is a renewable one-year position with a stipend to work in the area nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing at the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern University.

June 3, 2008 Read more

NanoEurope 2008: Call for posters

Europe's leading nanotechnology event, NanoEurope, will take place on September 16-17, 2008 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

June 3, 2008 Read more

Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head

Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.

June 2, 2008 Read more

Shell creates nanofiltration water purification system for rural areas

Many Shell operations in rural areas have no safe drinking water sources nearby. So Shell sought a water purification unit that would provide safe water, be vandalism proof and be essentially maintenance-free, with low-skilled operators able to carry out the limited maintenance tasks necessary.

June 2, 2008 Read more

UAlbany NanoCollege selects students for prestigious summer internship program

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced the selection of 25 undergraduate students from the United States, Canada and Mexico for participation in its prestigious Summer Internship Program.

June 2, 2008 Read more

N-type junction solar cell efficiency raises to 23.2%

Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important type of solar cell (n-type with front junction) from 21.9 to 23.2 per cent.

June 2, 2008 Read more

Quantum systems could flout physics law

Scientists in the Weizmann Institute's Faculty of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Germany, have made a startling prediction: Simply 'taking the temperature' of certain quantum systems at frequent intervals might cause them to disobey a hard and fast rule of thermodynamics.

June 2, 2008 Read more

Electronic sensor for bad bacteria

Nanoscale transistors made from silicon nanowires can detect a bacterial toxin responsible for the most common form of food poisoning, claim US scientists.

June 2, 2008 Read more

Lecture: 'The Age of Nanotechnology'

The Institute of Nanotechnology and the Institute of Engineering and Technology are delighted to announce the prestige launch lecture for their joint Micro and Nano Technology Network, to be given by Professor James Gimzewski at 6.30 pm, July 8,in London.

June 2, 2008 Read more

Researchers improve foods for elderly

Improved foods for elderly patients with swallowing difficulties are a potential outcome from a new industry linkage grant awarded to a team of University of Queensland researchers.

June 2, 2008 Read more

A flexible approach to new displays

The moving pictures seen in books and newspapers in the Harry Potter films are a step closer to reality with new display technologies developed by European researchers.

June 1, 2008 Read more

Synergy between biology and physics drives cell-imaging technology

Developing techniques to image the complex biological systems found at the sub-cellular level has traditionally been hampered by divisions between the academic fields of biology and physics. However, a new interdisciplinary zeal has seen a number of exciting advances in super-resolution imaging technologies.

June 1, 2008 Read more

Australian farmers set new standard for nanotechnology control in the organic sector

Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA) and subsidiary company Australian Certified Organic have released for industry and stakeholder comment a new policy to deal with nanotechnology in the organic industry.

May 31, 2008 Read more

Nanotechnology accountability: Responsible Nano Code update

After a public consultation and several rounds of meetings, the Working Group of the Responsible Nano Code has finalized the Seven Principles of the Code for Responsible Nanotechnology and a series of Examples of Good Practice.

May 31, 2008 Read more

Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain

New research shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount transferred was relatively low and there was no evidence of the nanomaterials concentrating in the higher level organisms.

May 30, 2008 Read more

Tiny particles solve big problems

Cutting edge nanotechnology research at North Carolina State University is leading to advances in everything from revitalizing HIV drugs to creating harder, stronger nanocrystalline iron that can really take the heat.

May 30, 2008 Read more