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$15 million project designed to enable atomically precise manufacturing

A University of Texas at Dallas team will play a key role in a new $15 million research project designed to enable manufacturing at an almost unimaginably small scale: one atom at a time.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Nanotechnology is the future for Indian firms: Commerce Secretary

The Indian growth story is continuing and moving forward at a steady pace overcoming problems, said Commerce and Industry Secretary G.K. Pillai while speaking at the Chem Summit 2008 in the capital on Tuesday.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Corporate Leader in Clean Energy and Environmental Technologies Joins Faculty of UAlbany NanoCollege

Dr. John Elter will head CNSE's Center for Sustainable Ecosystem Nanotechnologies.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Nanoelectronics : the compression of light directly observed by researchers

A team of researchers from CEA and the Universite de Technologie de Troyes associated with CNRS has observed, through a microscope, plasmons on the surface of conductors measuring 30 nanometers.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Artificial photosynthesis moves a step closer - scientists synthesise stable catalyst for water oxidation

Scientists have made an important step on the long road to artificially imitating photosynthesis. They were able to synthesise a stable inorganic metal oxide cluster, which enables the fast and effective oxidation of water to oxygen.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Bidirectional microdisplay (OLED on CMOS)

For the first time ever, OLEDs and OLED-on-CMOS integration offer the possibility to integrate highly efficient light sources with photo detectors on a single CMOS chip. This enables monolithically integrated optoelectronic applications based on standard silicon.

March 25, 2008 Read more

UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy names new chair

Miguel Jose Yacaman, a world-renowned authority in the field of nanotechnology, has joined The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to chair the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Sciences.

March 25, 2008 Read more

Biosensing nanodevice to revolutionize health screenings

One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by Arizona State University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like anthrax, cancer and antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

March 25, 2008 Read more

Hydrogen solutions to replace gasoline inventor will keynote nanoTX USA'08

Stanford R. Ovshinsky has become a living legend in the scientific and business communities, having once been profiled in a one-hour PBS program on NOVA entitled ?Japan?s American Genius.? The most recent exciting advancement is his solid hydrogen storage system, a metal hydride solid which can be stored in a granular, inert form in compact tanks.

March 24, 2008 Read more

Saechsisches Textilforschungsinstitut to host NRA08

The European Disposales and Nonwovens Association (EDANA) has announced that the Nonwovens Research Academy will return in 2008 following its success at the University of Leeds in 2007.

March 24, 2008 Read more

Nanowires may light your home

Light-emitting diodes that give a warm glow to your home or office will be available within a few years, say Swedish researchers working with nanowires.

March 24, 2008 Read more

South Korean, German team can mass produce nano-porous films

South Korean engineers said that they had developed a method to mass-produce nano-porous films needed to make high quality aluminum and used in other advanced materials.

March 24, 2008 Read more

Birth of an enzyme - Scientists succeed in designing artificial enzymes that also undergo 'evolution in a test tube'

A team of scientists from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has succeeded in creating a new type of enzyme for a reaction for which no naturally occurring enzyme has evolved, by using a combination of novel computational methodologies and molecular in vitro evolution.

March 24, 2008 Read more

Electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon

University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature.

March 24, 2008 Read more

A one-step homogeneous immunoassay for cancer biomarker detection using gold nanoparticle probes

A research group at the University of Central Florida has developed a highly sensitive homogeneous one-step immunoassay, nanoDLSA, for cancer marker detection.

March 22, 2008 Read more

Researcher gets $1.4 million grant to study public understanding of nanotechnology health risks

In order to help people better understand emerging research on the safety of the tiny substances called nanoparticles, the National Science Foundation has awarded North Carolina State University's Dr. David Berube a $1.4 million grant to determine how the public absorbs scientific information on the emerging technology and other technical issues.

March 21, 2008 Read more