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Nomination period for $1m Kavli Prize in nanoscience opens today

The nomination period for the three $1 million prizes start today (Sept. 10) and is open until Dec. 15, 2007.

September 10, 2007 Read more

Tiny tubes and rods show promise as catalysts, sunscreen

New ways to make, modify titanium oxide nanostructures for industrial, medical uses.

September 10, 2007 Read more

Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way

Scientists have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquids.

September 10, 2007 Read more

Northern Europe's largest nanotechnology event comes to Denmark in 2008

Nanotech Northern Europe, international nanotechnology conference, exhibition and tech transfer event, takes place September 23-25, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

September 10, 2007 Read more

Sustainability and nanotechnology focus of Bayer Foundation $380,000 grant to West Virginia University

West Virginia University announced that it has received $380,000 from the Bayer Foundation to create the Bayer Scholars for Extrusion-Compounding Program in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

September 9, 2007 Read more

First Italian nanotechnology art exhibit in Bergamo

The first Italian nanoart exhibit will be held in Bergamo, from October 2-21, 2007.

September 9, 2007 Read more

Interested in a nanotechnology postdoc position with Sumio Iijima in Japan?

The research center for Advanced Carbon Materials at AIST, Japan invites highly-motivated applicants from various research backgrounds for post-doctoral positions to work on the development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials, and nanodevices.

September 8, 2007 Read more

Ball lightning - a cloud of nanobatteries

According to a new model, the processes of electrochemical oxidation within separate aerosol particles are the basis for the phenomenon of ball lightning, which is a cloud of composite nano or submicron particles, where each particle is a spontaneously formed nanobattery which is short-circuited by the surface discharge because it is of such a small size.

September 8, 2007 Read more

Giant buckyball tops new nanoscience building

The city of Bristol's (UK) skyline will get an exciting addition today when a large-scale representation of a carbon molecule is installed on the new Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.

September 7, 2007 Read more

Biodegradable polymers replace viruses to deliver genes

MIT works toward safer gene therapy.

September 7, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology editorial in the Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun today carries an editorial that mostly deals with the safety issues of nanotechnology.

September 7, 2007 Read more

Improved e-jet printing provides higher resolution and more versatility

By combining electrically induced fluid flow with nanoscale nozzles, researchers have established new benchmarks for precision control and resolution in jet-printing processes.

September 6, 2007 Read more

Researchers find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling

IBM and Imago have observed, for the first time, distributions of individual dopant atoms in semiconductor devices.

September 6, 2007 Read more

The best scientific images of the nanoworld

The International Scanning Probe Microscope Image Contest (SPMage07) has announced their five awarded images.

September 6, 2007 Read more

Nanococktails from the laser bar: The production of pure nanomaterials by laser ablation in liquids

Laser technology is used to generate nanoparticles. The laser "blasts" the nanoparticles out of a substrate surface â?? the engineer calls this material ablation - directly into a suitable liquid such as oil, water, or solvent, which at the same time stabilizes the precious and highly sensitive nanomaterial.

September 6, 2007 Read more

New website highlights European Competence Research Centers

A new website linking together 350 Competence Research Centres from across Europe has been launched by the EU-funded COMPERA project.

September 6, 2007 Read more