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Saturday, Jan 30
New knowledge about the deformation of nanocrystals offers new tools for nanotechnology
With new, advanced equipment, scientists at Risø DTU have shown that materials to produce micro-and nanocomponents react very differently depending on whether crystals are large or small. This researc...
Sunday, Jan 24
Infinitesimal leaps
A local start-up, BioMers, developed translucent braces and retainers in late 2008. Nanotechnology was used to create a polymer composite wire that works as well as metal wires currently used in brac...
Friday, Jan 22
IBN Inks Agreement with Four Educational Institutions to Encourage More Young Singaporeans to Pursue Scientific Research
Science education in Singapore will receive a boost with new partnerships forged between the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology r...
Thursday, Jan 21
Surface chemistry experts rely on Zetasizer Nano in ground-breaking Nanoparticles for Cancer Research
Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has selected the Zetasizer Nano ZS from Malvern Instruments to meet the specific particle sizing and ze...
Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN), develop alternative cancer detection procedure
The efficiency of this technique has been demonstrated in the detection of a marker model (the CA15-3), a protein of interest for the diagnosis of breast cancer, reported the CIN2
Monday, Jan 18
Texas scientists develop 'nanodragster'
Scientists at Rice University's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology are reporting the development of a "nanodragster" that measures only 1/50,000th the width of a human h...
Nanomaterials: Ecotoxicity studies are urgently needed
A new study by Swiss researchers has attempted to predict nanomaterial concentrations in the environment. However, the researchers say more data on environmental toxicity are needed before we can make...
Saturday, Jan 16
International meet on nano polymer
The stage has been set for an international conference on ‘Polymer Processing and Characterisation' under the joint aegis of Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Institute...
Friday, Jan 15
Clean-tech focus sparks growth
Y-Carbon Inc., a Ben Franklin-supported company that uses nanotechnology to make carbon materials that have energy, life-sciences and environmental applications, plans to launch its manufacturing and...
Thursday, Jan 14
GenISys to Enhance Layout BEAMER and Layout LAB By Integrating Juspertor’s LayoutEditor
GenISys GmbH, provider of high-performance software solutions for nanoscale fabrication, today announced an agreement with Juspertor UG (haftungsbeschränkt) that will significantly enhance its existin...
Nanoparticle Cocktail Targets and Kills Tumors
A team of researchers from two of the National Cancer Institute's Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have teamed up to develop a "cocktail" of different nanometer-sized particles that work in...
Nanosystems Capture and Destroy Circulating Tumor Cells
Just as fly paper captures insects, a pair of nanotechnology-enabled devices are able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor. These cells, known as circulating tumor cells...
Wednesday, Jan 13
With federal funds, new nano tools
In recent months, researchers at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering have secured nearly $4 million in federal grants. That includes $610,000 from the National S...
Monday, Jan 11
Cheap paper nano-sensor detects water toxins
Scientists have used nanotechnology to turn paper into a sensor that can detect toxins in drinking water. The China-US team dipped normal filter paper into a solution containing carbon nanotubes — w...
Nanotechnology - Tertiary Institution to Operate New Imagery System
The National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), has just received a new imagery system for the reading of bio-chips, based on the plasmonic resonance of surfaces. According to a...
Particle length-dependent titanium dioxide nanomaterials'toxicity and bioactivity
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanomaterials have considerable beneficial applications varying from additives in paint, paper, plastics and cosmetics to uses in photocatalysts, solar cells and medical materi...
Sunday, Jan 10
University of Pittsburgh receives $15 million for nanoscience, physics labs
The University of Pittsburgh will receive $15 million to help pay for new laboratories for nanoscience and experimental physics from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...
The Wall Street Journal on Feynman, Drexler, History, and the Future
Eric Drexler: The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday, "Feynman and the Futurists", about Feynman's ideas, mine, how the nanotechnology bandwagon got rolling, and how the band go...
Saturday, Jan 9
UNL wins $6.9 million grant to help fund nanoscience facility
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received $6.9 million of federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help fund construction of a new nanoscience research...
Thursday, Jan 7
NANO for the Military
Another ‘dark corner' is nanotechnology for military applications. This is by far and away the most controversial area of nanotechnology research and development - for two reasons. Firstly, the milita...
Monday, Jan 4
Nanotech Firm Earns Federal Funds
Dayton-based Angstron Materials has been awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce grant of $1.5 million to support mass production of the next generation of nano-graphene platelet (NGP) materials for use...
The laws of science
Jim Tour wanted to be a trooper. But now he's a leading scientist at Rice, building on groundbreaking work of nanotechnology pioneer Rick Smalley. As a teen pumping gas on a highway north of New Yo...
A Tech-tonic Decade?
Nanotechnology is also set to become ubiquitous in the next decade. It has the potential to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics an...
Saturday, Jan 2
Molecular Wheels Need Hubs to Form
A team of chemists has unraveled the process by which a complex nanoscale structure self-assembles, finding that a wheel-shaped molybdenum oxide molecule takes shape with the help of a transient scaff...
Thursday, Dec 31
15 Reasons To Live For The Next 10 Years
14. Molecular machines As nanotechnology emerges from science fiction into the laboratory, one of the most promising nanotech applications is the molecular motor - an engineered molecule tha...
Tuesday, Dec 29
Nanotech, Single-Molecule Methods, Personalized Medicine Remain Top of Mind for VCs
Despite the recently soured economy, venture capitalists have remained relatively optimistic about investment opportunities in the life science research tools and molecular diagnostics sectors, accord...
Nanotech Grows Up: The Little Robots that Ate Civilization
Nanotechnology and Civilization - by Mateo Cueva. The manipulation of matter at the atomic level opens up the possibility of designing nanostructures with radically new properties. Applications in...
Monday, Dec 28
UCSB Researchers Develop Drug Delivery System Using Nanoparticles and Lasers
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser. Their results are published in a recent article in ACS N...
MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology Technical Colloquia
Every third Thursday of the month MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology organizes a technical colloquium. The aim of the technical colloquia is to convey expertise and know how of the various equipment a...
Small Talk
The contemporary essence and potential of nanotechnology can be understood in the context of manufacturing. Nanotechnology entails manufacturing at the nano level wherein per-capita consumption of us...
Saturday, Dec 26
IMRE Industry Day - Nanotechnology Showcase for Industry Commercialization
A few exciting topics caught our attention were new polymer nanocomposite material for many applications including UV curable hard coating, which involves ...
Thursday, Dec 24
Promoting Nanotechnology Awareness in Singapore's Business Community and ...
Dr Liu delivered an overview of nanotechnology applications however with more emphasis on commercialization efforts of companies worldwide. ...
Monday, Dec 21
Malvern specialists present three papers at Isranalytica 2010 - Nanotechnology News
press release) Malvern specialists present three papers at Isranalytica 2010 press release) Analytical instruments from Malvern are used in the characterization of a wide variety of materials, from industrial bulk powders to nanomaterials and ... and more »
Are We Moving from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxicity? - Nanotechnology News
press release) Are We Moving from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxicity? press release) Yet the less advertised risks of nanotechnology applications require close scrutiny. The application of nanotechnology began with semiconductors, ...
Sunday, Dec 20
Better Boardrooms
Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology C.E.O. Ravi Fernando brought his insights to the forum and challenged the business leaders in attendance to make a commitment to strategic corporate sustainabilit...
Saturday, Dec 19
Review Articles Explore Nanotechnology Applications in Food Safety
The Institute of Food Technologists released three review articles in the Journal of Food Science that were presented at the IFT Annual Meeting in 2009. The articles provide greater detail on n...
Nanostart invests in Singapore medical technology company BioMers
Nanotechnology-based solutions for biomedical applications * Revolutionary product for USD 2.4-billion orthodontic device market * Regulatory approval already obtained for U.S., EU and Japan
Friday, Dec 18
Angstron Awarded $1.494 Million In Funding From National Institute Of ... - Nanotechnology News
Angstron Awarded $1.494 Million In Funding From National Institute Of ... press release) We'll also be able to help industries that currently need and use carbon nanotubes, but would benefit from higher performance and a lower cost," said Dr. ...
Thursday, Dec 17
Defazio Secures Final Funding Approval For Vital Research Projects In Oregon - Nanotechnology News
press release) Defazio Secures Final Funding Approval For Vital Research Projects In Oregon press release) The project conducts research into defense-related nanoscale electronic applications such as high density memories on silicon integrated circuits. ...
Intravenous Hemostat: Nanotechnology to Halt Bleeding
We have developed synthetic platelets based on Arg-Gly-Asp functionalized nanoparticles, which halve bleeding time after intravenous administration in a rat model of major trauma. The effects of these...
Water Droplets Shape Graphene Nanostructures
Graphene -- a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desi...
Nanotechnology Update in Vietnam - From a visit in Vietnam in Nov. 2009
I continued our world nano tour in Vietnam in November 2009 month when I participated in two nanotech conferences as an invited speaker. ...
Wednesday, Dec 16
Scandinavian cleanrooms launch collaboration - Nanotechnology News
Scandinavian cleanrooms launch collaboration press release) But we have also noticed an interest from companies, researchers and authorities to work together on other aspects of nanotechnology. One example is nano ... and more »
Tuesday, Dec 8
More Efficient Space Engine Uses Carbon Nanotubes
Ion-propulsion systems have propelled a handful of Earth-orbiting and interplanetary spacecraft over the past 50 years. Now researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are developing more efficient...
