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Texans requests billions in earmarks

Here is a story that goes very nicely with one of our Nanowerk Spotlights from last week - "Congressional pork bloats U.S. military nanotechnology spending".

June 24, 2007 Read more

Nano Summit 2007 nanotechnology conference in Texas

Dr. Zhong Lin Wang, an expert in nanotechnology and inventor of the world's first nanogenerator, will be the keynote speaker at Nano Summit 2007, which will be hosted by Texas A&M University's Dwight Look College of Engineering.

June 24, 2007 Read more

European nanotechnology commercialisation workshop identifies need for greater industrial engagement

New report identifies the use of public funding to enable greater industrial investment as the key challenge facing nanotechnology commercialisation in Europe.

June 22, 2007 Read more

EPA issues award for nanotechnology safety research

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the award of two grants totaling almost $600,000 to Oregon State University for nanotechnology research. These grants will evaluate whether some manmade nanomaterials could be toxic to human health.

June 22, 2007 Read more

German nanotechnology spending outstrips that of other EU member states

Germany is by far investing more in nanotechnology than other European country. German companies are also more enthusiastic about nanotechnology than their counterparts around Europe.

June 22, 2007 Read more

New nanotechnology method may help compress computer memory

A simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage, but have been difficult to make in bulk.

June 22, 2007 Read more

Multifunctional nanoparticle platforms for targeting and imaging cancer cells

A multifunctional nanoparticle platform comprising nanoparticles synthesized within dendrimers equipped with targeting molecules and dyes is able to seek out and specifically bind to cancer cells.

June 22, 2007 Read more

The nanocarbon material with the highest capacity to remove active oxygen

Scientists measured the ability of each nanocarbon material to remove singlet oxygen, a kind of active oxygen species.

June 22, 2007 Read more

Catching Waves - measuring self-assembly in action

By making careful observations of the growth of a layer of molecules as they gradually cover the surface of a small silicon rectangle, researchers have gained basic insights into how self-propagating self-assembly wave fronts develop.

June 21, 2007 Read more

New Hampshire urges significant changes to the Patent Reform Act of 2007

Over 200 organizations express a united opposition against three problematic elements of the Patent Reform Act of 2007.

June 21, 2007 Read more

Nanoethics - new nanotechnology journal free first issue

NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale provides a multidisciplinary forum for exploration of ethical issues related to nanotechnology.

June 21, 2007 Read more

Trust and communication: keys to public acceptance of nanotechnology

Speakers at session at the EuroNanoForum 2007, taking place in Düsseldorf in Germany, gave an overview of what various surveys have established regarding societal perceptions of nanotechnology, and offered advice on how to deal with scepticism.

June 21, 2007 Read more

The smallest piece of ice reveals its true nature

Combining experimental observations with theoretical modelling reveals with unprecedented resolution the structures of the smallest pieces of ice that form on hydrophobic metal surfaces.

June 21, 2007 Read more

New rules expected on safety of nanotechnology products

Today, Environmental Defense and DuPont publicly launch of the Nano Risk Framework.

June 21, 2007 Read more

Chiral quantum dots

Fluorescent semiconductor nanoparticles that exhibit chiral luminescence.

June 20, 2007 Read more

A high-performing room-temperature nanolaser

Honeycomb-like photonic crystal helps nanolaser achieve high efficiency.

June 20, 2007 Read more

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