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Call for posters at the Nanoparticles for the European Industry Conference
Institute of Nanotechnology invites abstracts for poster presentation at the second annual "Nanoparticles for the European Industry" conference and exhibition to be held at the Olympia Conference Centre, London on October 24-25, 2007.
July 19, 2007 Read more
New report on end-of-life regulation of nanotechnology
It is important to consider how various forms of nanomaterials will be disposed of and treated at the end of their use, and how the regulatory system will treat such materials at the various stages of their lifecycle.
July 19, 2007 Read more
Marcy NanoCenter called best North American site for nanoelectronics manufacturing
A $4 million investment by New York State has further prepared Marcy NanoCenter for immediate development by the nanoelectonics industry.
July 19, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology in food and farming is inadequately regulated
Nanotechnology in food and farming is inadequately regulated, say Australian researchers.
July 18, 2007 Read more
Inexpensive, easy process to produce carbon nanotube solar panels
Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.
July 18, 2007 Read more
Nature's nanotechnology secrets yield new adhesive material
Scientists report they have merged two of nature's most elegant strategies for wet and dry adhesion to produce a synthetic material that one day could lead to more durable and longer-lasting bandages, patches, and surgical materials.
July 18, 2007 Read more
Nanoparticles send peptides round the twist
Nanoparticles with flexible side chains cause peptides to adopt a helical form, making them promising anticancer agents.
July 18, 2007 Read more
Efficient electrical spin injection into silicon
Scientists have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization in the silicon.
July 17, 2007 Read more
Natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction
Engineers have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the nanometer scale. The finding provides an atomically tuneable nanocomposite 'workbench' that is cheap and easy to produce and provides a super-lattice foundation potentially suitable for building nanostructures.
July 17, 2007 Read more
New report describes nanotechnologies for environmental remediation
This report describes the outcomes from the workshop on "Nanotechnologies for Environmental Remediation."
July 16, 2007 Read more
Geoethical nanotechnology workshop to explore downloading human minds
The Workshop, accessible to the general public as a webinar, will explore downloading minds into bio-nano bodies and similar technologies thought to be essential for interstellar colonization. Geoethical nanotechnology is atom-by-atom assembly techniques that are subject to a consensual review, approval and audit process.
July 16, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology propellers pump with proper chemistry
Chemists have created a theoretical blueprint for assembling a nanoscale propeller with molecule-sized blades.
July 16, 2007 Read more
Microscopic polystyrene balls - now jet-propelled
Physicists have created an armada of self-propelled polystyrene balls about as wide as a strand of your hair. Their efforts are moving toward self-propelled nanoswimmers that could navigate narrow channels such as the human circulatory system.
July 16, 2007 Read more
Miraculous mosquito legs
The secret to mosquito water walking appears to be feathery scales a few microns across that in turn are covered with nanoscopic ribbing, forming what the physicists have dubbed (in an apparent fit of excessive prefixing) a micronanostructure.
July 16, 2007 Read more
Nanoparticles that cancer cells can't resist
Turning cancer cells into mini magnets by using nanoparticles could make biopsies so sensitive and efficient that there will be no need to repeat these invasive tests.
July 13, 2007 Read more
Wake up and smell the aromatheraphy nanotechnology pencil
Wake up and smell the pencil lead, says Japanese stationery and writing instrument manufacturer Pentel, who has combined the power of nanotechnology with the knowledge of expert aromatherapists to develop a new type of fragrant pencil lead.
July 13, 2007 Read more
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