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Nanotechnology water desalination for Australia
The delivery of energy efficient desalination in Australia received a boost with the establishment of a major new research collaboration between CSIRO and nine of Australia's leading universities.
May 19, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology supercomputing center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute offered the first glimpse of what is planned to be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.
May 19, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology pasta: Toward nanoscale electronics
Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic properties than their non-spiraling cousins.
May 18, 2007 Read more
Tunable photonics with high refractive index
Scientists in Hong Kong have created a polymer with a refractive index that can be tuned as high as 1.81
May 18, 2007 Read more
CAS reports progress in developing nanotechnology data storage
New advancements have been scored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) scientists on ultrahigh-density information storage as they successfully carried out the reversible, erasable and rewritable nanorecording on H2 thin films of rotaxane
May 18, 2007 Read more
Europe races ahead of US in university-industry collaboration
A Europe-wide survey has found that European collaboration between industry and universities exceeds that of the US.
May 18, 2007 Read more
Report accuses government of gross failure in protecting public from nanotechnology
A report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) accuses the U.S. government of gross failure to use its authority to protect citizens from the potentially dangerous effects of nano-scale chemistry.
May 18, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology timelines and mapviews in Google Experimental
New, experimental Google Search features Timeline and Map Views use nanotechnology as example.
May 17, 2007 Read more
Commercializing university research - Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
A not-so-whacky university-based center for entrepreneurism has funded some, well, somewhat unusual research projects that actually may have commercial potential.
May 17, 2007 Read more
Solutions emerging for wafer cleaning at 45 nm and beyond
Potential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting.
May 17, 2007 Read more
Nanotechnology fingerprint analysis could replace blood sample
British scientists want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases.
May 17, 2007 Read more
UK publishes report on environmental benefits of nanotechnology
The 'Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities', a new report by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was published today.
May 17, 2007 Read more
Making strides in quantum dot infrared photodetectors
Researchers have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.
May 17, 2007 Read more
Carbon nanotubes aerogels capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight
Physicists develop a carbon nanotube aeroegel optimizing strength, shape and conductivity.
May 16, 2007 Read more
Growing nanoparticles from the inside out
Gold particles have been grown inside silica nanoshells in an inside out approach to synthesis.
May 16, 2007 Read more
Accelerating the delivery of technological advances to the U.S. military
Officials from the Argonne National Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory signed an agreement today that promises to speed the delivery of technological advances to American military forces while saving taxpayer dollars.
May 16, 2007 Read more
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