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Friday, Feb 6
Nanotechnology and New Materials for Architecture
In the book, Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance, architectural uses that will arise as a result of the nanotechnology revolution are explained. Windows with variable transparency, walls with variable transparency and mood/context sensitive clothing are...
Thursday, Feb 5
Nanotechnology vs. Religion
Scheufele added the United States is the top funder of nanotechnology, top producer of research regarding nanotechnology and has the most nanotechnology consumer productions on the market than anywhere else in the world. Implications nationally and internationally
$500k grant to integrate nanotechnology research into undergraduate education at CSUN
“Such pre-college nanotechnology exposure, along with participation in related robotics workshops and competitions, fires young imaginations and encourages pursuit of higher education in nanotechnology and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields,” he...
Opinion: ENRHES aims to improve safety of engineered nanoparticles
The overall aim of the project is to perform a comprehensive and critical scientific review of the health and environmental safety of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), metal and metal oxide nanomaterials. The review will consider sources, pathways of exposure, the health and envi...
Uk Committee launch nanotechnology inquiry
What is the current state of nanotechnologies research and development in the UK and how does it compare to research being carried out in other countries? What are the potential applications and benefits of nanotechnologies in the food sector?
Wednesday, Feb 4
Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene
Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, was discovered in 2004 and is considered a potential heir to copper and silicon as the fundamental building blocks of nanoelectronics. Large-scale quantum simulations for the study were run on Rensselaer's supercomputing system, the Comp...
Tuesday, Feb 3
Nanotechnology: Growing interest in small matters
Conboy and Neville invited educators from the University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMM Center) to give an interactive presentation about the coming nanotechnology revolution.
Monday, Feb 2
Nanotechnology can cure cancer
Hyderabad, February 02: A genetic research specialist from the twin cities Rao Papineni, working with Carestream Health Inc, USA, along with other top researchers has devised a method to treat cancer cells by using nanotechnology.
Sunday, Feb 1
Artificial Antibody Delivers Nanoparticles to Tumors
With the two types of antibody-linked nanoparticles in hand, the investigators conducted a series of experiments to determine whether these nanoscale constructs would target tumors and whether tumor cells would take up take the antibody-nanoparticle combos. Indeed, targeted nano...
Friday, Jan 30
Nano World Headquarters Positioned to Boost U.S. Economy
The Houston, Texas area was a natural choice for the Nano World Headquarters since it is already the hub of significant nanotechnology exploration. First, Houston's Rice University is at the forefront of modern nanotechnology with two of the three co-winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize for...
Big brains salute tech that makes things small
RTI vice president David Myers suggested nanotechnology can help us squeeze more from energy resources. “Increasingly, countries will compete based on their energy efficiency,” he argued. Raytheon R&D vice president John Zolper praised nanotech as a defense industry tool to mak...
Thursday, Jan 29
Durand teacher chosen to craft national nanotechnology curriculum
DURAND - A local teacher is helping develop a nanotechnology curriculum for the nation's high schools. Article body The effort is being headed by David Shaw, a University of Buffalo electrical engineering professor, who is working with a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Granted Key U.S. Nanotechnology Patent for World’s Only Nuclear Radiation-Blocking, Anti-Chemical, Biological-Protection Fabric
Demron’s nanotechnology surpasses current NBC suits, which provide limited radioactive protection. Its patent describes and protects the use of nanopolymeric compounds that enable the latest version of Demron, called “Demron-W,” to provide enhanced chemical, biological, radia...
Wednesday, Jan 28
Experts say Canada requesting companies report use of nanomaterials
But some studies suggest that some nanomaterials can act like cancer-causing asbestos. Some nanoparticles also generate cell activity that can alter DNA. The challenge is to come up with a system that balances the need to develop nanotechnology while at the same time protecting health a...
Tuesday, Jan 27
Nanotechnology in the oilfield - a perfect fit?
The Micro and Nano Sensors Interest Group of the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network has organised a free online seminar to highlight the work of the Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC), a multimillion-dollar research consortium dedicated to the development of micro and nanotechnolog...
Nanotechnology will benefit Indonesian people: Scientists
The government must include nanotechnology in national research and development programs if they wish to harness the potential they offer the national economy, scientists say. Article body The government must include nanotechnology in national research and development programs i...
Monday, Jan 26
Tension in the nanoworld
A promising route for highly sensitive and non-invasive mapping of nanoscale material properties is scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (s-SNOM). Part of the team had pioneered this technique over the last decade, enabling chemical recognition of nanostructu...
Opinion: WMHT, UAlbany NanoCollege Partner to Feature Nanotechnology on Statewide ‘New York Now’ PBS Program
Report from the NanoDesk," which is produced and hosted by WMHT's Susan Arbetter and debuts on Friday, January 30, will examine the public policy implications of the technology advances being enabled by nanotechnology - described by the National Nanotechnology Initiative as "leadi...
Sunday, Jan 25
Bio-based nanotechnology materials for a green society
Synthetic fibers are ubiquitous in modern society and their manufacture represents a huge, multi-billion dollar worldwide industry. Synthetic fibers – carbon fibers, nylon, polyester, kevlar, spandex, etc. Article body bioplastique.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/bio-based-nanote...
Nano-tetherball biosensor precisely detects glucose
The research was conducted at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Bindley Bioscience Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. The same system could be used in biosensors to detect other types of molecules for medicine and scientific research.
Houston's nanotech researchers ride wave of funding
When Richard Smalley’s labs at Rice University began making a series of breakthroughs by designing and creating materials at the tiny nanoscale in the 1980s, Houston rose to international prominence in the emerging field of nanotechnology.
Saturday, Jan 24
Nanotechnology and our health
What nanotechnology can do for you. Article body What has this got to do with health? Because of the increased reactivity and quantum changes in how materials behave , concerns have been raised about the consequences of nanotechnology for human health.
Bio-based nanotechnology materials for a green society
Natural fibers, on the other hand, such as wool and cotton, come from renewable animal or plant sources but they usually lack the high-performance characteristics of many synthetic fibers. This may change, as the new field of bio-based nanomaterials promises to deliver environmental...
Friday, Jan 23
First University Program to Tackle Need for Two Million Nanotechnology Workers
NanoTecNexus (NTN), formerly known as NanoBioNexus, is a leading non-profit organization headquartered in San Diego with offices in Tucson, AZ, San Jose, Calif., and Vancouver, Wash. NTN is dedicated to catalyzing collaboration and knowledge exchange in the nanotech field by connec...
Thursday, Jan 22
Nanotechnology Bill Would Have Obama Think Small
The U.S. House of Representatives Technology Committee has reintroduced legislation to reauthorize the National Nanotechnology Initiative and beef up environmental and health research related to nanotechnology. Article body
Insurers scrutinize nanotechnology
The technology has already revolutionized electronicsour computers, iPods, and cell phones all contain nanomaterials. Physicians and pharmaceutical companies are using nanotechnology to devise smarter ways to deliver drugs. From sunscreens and bedsheets to socks and swimsuits...
Tuesday, Jan 20
Nanotech companies may be forced to talk
It was a valiant attempt, but it fell far short of what's needed to make informed decisions," said Andrew Maynard, chief science adviser for the Wilson Center Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a public policy group. The tiny particles behave in unpredictable ways, raising concern...
Cincinnati Biotech Firm Moving HQ to Indiana
The news of PDS relocating to Indiana comes less than three months after the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Lab (NCL) announced it will collaborate with the firm to complete preclinical development of its HPV-cancer combating therapy. The NCL, a coll...
Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells
To do so, the researchers brought fluorine-based molecules into contact with the nanotubes. Through a process called cycloaddition, the fluorine molecules efficiently attacked or converted the metallic nanotubes, leaving the semiconducting tubes alone, and creating a perfect ba...
Monday, Jan 19
Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery - Markets Reach $9 Billion by 2015
According to a new report available at Electronics.ca Publications, worldwide nanotechnology lithium-ion batteries are poised to achieve significant growth as units become smaller and less expensive broadening the types of energy applications Article body
Nanotech in supplements unsafe, says report
Released this week by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), the report has already been fiercely criticized by the US supplements industry as presenting a “misleading picture”. expertise and resources to effectively regulate nanomaterials in supplements
Saturday, Jan 17
Opinion: Nanotech bill introduced
Honda's bill, the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board Act of 2002, would establish a nongovernmental advisory board to monitor and influence the National Nanotechnology Initiative and government agencies doing nanotechnology research. Honda is currently looking to na...
Quantum nanotechnology is the next great hope to stop ID theft
Another point in quantum cryptography's favor is that the nanotechnology involved has yet to come under criticism for health issues such as that of nanotech in foods and cosmetics. Ironically, three of four adults in the United States have heard nothing or "just a little" about nanotech...
Thursday, Jan 15
Nanotechnology firm typifies business EDC seeks to attract
To develop and market the use of nanotechnologies to produce environmentally friendly coatings and dispersions for use in a variety of industries. Article body Great ideas and a great location have set EnVont Nanotechnologies on the road to success. At its current rate of growth, it won’...
Nanotechnology and Radically Extended Life Span
Right now, medical nanorobots are just theory. To actually build them, we need to create a new technology called molecular manufacturing. Molecular manufacturing is the production of complex atomically precise structures using positionally controlled fabrication and assembly of n...
Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Report
Innovative approaches to materials science and battery engineering are available from a large number of very significant companies - GE, Panasonic Sanyo / Matsushita Industrial Co., Ltd., NEC, Saft, Toshiba, BYD / Berkshire Hathaway, LG Chem, Altair Nanotechnologies, Samsung, Sony...
Tuesday, Jan 13
Nanotechnology advances generate anticipation, worries
Nanotechnology involves manipulating particles at the atomic or molecular level to create new material or even devices, everything from anti-odor socks to longer-lasting tennis balls to hair spray. Whether nanotechnology is safe is much more than an academic question.
Captivating Review of the Emerging Field of Nanotechnology
A sampling of how nanotechnology has creeped into our lives: The article then moves on to give a fascinating description of Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology (image below ), the country’s front-line command post in nano’s new world order:
IBM Creates 3D MRI With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution
IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. Article body IBM Research scientists, in collabor...
Public Engagement and Nanotechnology – the UK experience
There were concerns, too. The questions that have been raised about potential safety and toxicity issues associated with some nanoparticles caused disquiet, and there were more general anxieties (probably not wholly specific to nanotechnology) about who controls and regulates new...
Sunday, Jan 11
An introduction to nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is extremely inter-disciplinary, comprises of physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and the full variety of the engineering disciplines. Article body invertedumbrellas.com/an-introduction-to-nanotechnology Source title Source Url Related compan...
Nanotechnology - A Boon For Medical Science
Nanotechnology, or more affectionately nicknamed as nanotech, is a field of research that deals with controlling matter on an atomic or molecular level. This has multiple applications that range anywhere from electronics, to energy production, to engineering, to physics, and even t...
The good and bad of nanotechnology
Her latest paper examines evidence that carbon nanotubes, the basic cylindrical building blocks of many nano structures, could act like carcinogenic asbestos in human lungs. It concludes that there are significant similarities. Nanoparticles do hold out much environmental promise.
Enhancing solar cells with nanoparticles
In their work, carried out at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in The Netherlands, Catchpole and Polman showed that light capture for long-wavelength (reddish) light could be improved by a factor of more than ten. Previously Catchpole and co-workers at the University...
Saturday, Jan 10
Nanotechnology: Governments passive, say critics
The NRC report lends all the more urgency to our coalition's call for the independent development of a comprehensive road map to guide federal research on the environmental, health and safety implications of nanotechnology," says the statement signed by chemical giant DuPont, the Na...
Nanotechnology key to research at U of L
Like many scientists across the nation, Wieden and his graduate students rely on nanotechnology to further their work in molecular-level biochemistry. Single-celled organisms, he explains, may be modified to make them “smarter” at what they do.
Friday, Jan 9
FDLI sponsors conference on nanotechnology law, regulation and polic
At FDLI's 2nd Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy, February 18-199, 2009, at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, in Washington, D.C., food and drug industry representatives also will find out what's happening internationally on nanotech regulation, how venture cap...
A Better Way to Make Nanotubes
Jasti conducted the research at the Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy User Facility located at Berkeley Lab that provides support to nanoscience researchers around the world. He worked with Carolyn Bertozzi, director of the Molecular Foundry, as well as other Berkeley Lab s...
Thursday, Jan 8
Food and Drug Law Institute Sponsors Major Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy
Les Makepeace, Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance Erli Chen, Nanotechnology Commercialization Group, NTI Steffi Friedrichs, Nanotechnology Industries Association John Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute David Guston, Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Nanotechnology began with the transistor
“If you make a better catalyst and save energy, that would make a huge difference in productivity,” he says. “I think nanotechnology has a huge potential in this area.” Patitsas’ next project, however, sounds more like southern Alberta this winter. He wants to study molecules and atoms whe...
Local officials: Nano site should remain top priority
Additionally, local officials are hoping to land an IBM nanotechnology packaging facility. Paterson did not talk about nanotechnology in his State of the State address Wednesday, but he did speak about building on existing research and development initiatives.
NanoTecNexus Evolves from NanoBioNexus with an Expanded Nanotechnology Thrust
NTN's broader focus beyond the life science industry is evident in the upcoming Jan. 29 event in San Diego, CA devoted to nano-enabled energy. World renowned nanotech expert, Joseph Wang, Ph.D., Professor at University of California San Diego's Nanoengineering Department will present o...
Wednesday, Jan 7
Nanotechnology in Good Health?
However, the most promise for nanotechnology will come from “nanomedicine,” which has been described as the application of nanotechnology to achieve breakthroughs in healthcare.3 Nanomedicine promises to impact all stages of healthcare:
Sunday, Jan 4
The gold standard: Researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes
Yan and Liu's work in Science responds to one of the fundamental challenges in nanotechnology and materials science, the construction of molecular-level forms in three dimensions. To do so, the team uses gold nanoparticles, which can be placed on single-stranded DNA, compelling thes...
Nanotube Technology Used To Fight Cancer Cells
In studies done at other universities such as Stanford, scientists found additional ways to use nanotechnology to target cancer cells. One such study found a way for researchers to use nanotubes as "targeted medicinal delivery vehicles" to deliver chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells. T...
Wednesday, Dec 31
Engineering professor aids in important nanotech advance
The project is a continuation of Suhr’s previous work on nanotubes, which was published in Nature Nanotechnology. In this previous work, Suhr tested the strength and fatigue behavior of carbon nanotubes. He collaborated with Lijie Ci and Pulickel Ajayan from Rice University in Houston...
Sunday, Dec 28
2008: Nanotechnology's biggest stories
Lab-based investigations of the health effects of nanoparticles also produced worrying results. One study found that mice that inhaled nanotubes suffered effects similar to those caused by asbestos. Another showed that earthworms that eat nanotubes suffer a reduced reproductive ra...
Sunday, Dec 21
Opinion: Bangalore: Nanotech promises exciting future
The various approaches that have been taken to develop applications using carbon nano tubes are a blend of the traditional top-down approach and the bottom-up approach, but there are several bottle necks in that approach.” Source information
Friday, Dec 19
Perfect silicon replacement could be Flawed nanotubes
Defects can be added to nanotubes exactly where needed using a focused electron beam, he says. The method should be of particular importance for the realisation of the long-expected all-carbon programmable nano-electronics circuits."
Sunday, Dec 14
What is Nanotechnology?
Hybrid fields are emerging at the crossroads of nanotechnology and pharmacology, genetics, aeronautics, and fashion, just to name a few. Researchers are working on a multitude of promising projects, including nano-enabled drug delivery systems that are more targeted and less toxic...
Thursday, Dec 11
Opinion: Nanotech moves to head of the class
Driven by a local economy that increasingly is high-tech, more public schools are launching studies in nanotechnology — the creation, use or manipulation of objects at the nanoscale (nano means one-billionth of something). Albany's "NanoHigh" program is a partnership between the sc...
Opinion: Panel Criticizes U.S. Effort on Nanomaterial Risks
The panel analyzed the risk research strategy of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the program to coordinate federal efforts in nanotechnology research and development. Its report concluded that the initiative’s strategy “does not present a vision, contain a clear set of goa...
Tuesday, Dec 2
Opinion: Green Earth Nano Science, Inc. Expands Operation in India with Permaweld Pvt Ltd
GENS) Global Operations, reported: "India is growing at a very fast pace and its current trade openness creates a good timing for the introduction of our innovative photo catalyst nanotechnology, along with all upcoming products we have in our R&D portfolio; we are very pleased wi...
Saturday, Nov 29
Opinion: Green Earth Nano Science Expands Operation In India
Green Earth Nano Science, Inc., (GENS) a nanotechnology solutions provider and a global supplier and licensor of proprietary photocatalyst* technology, recently signed an Exclusive Master Distributor license agreement with Permaweld Pvt Ltd; Article body
Tuesday, Nov 25
Opinion: IP Model Proposed For North-South Nanotechnology Divide
But “nanotechnology could also have destructive impact on developing countries’ economies,” Hassan Moawad Abdel Al, former president of Alexandria’s Mubarak City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, told Intellectual Property Watch.
Thursday, Nov 13
The Big Question: What is nanotechnology, and do we put the world at risk by adopting it?
One reason is to do with surface area. Nanoparticles have a much bigger surface area-to-volume ratio than microparticles a thousand times bigger. It is like trying to compare the surface area of a basketball with the combined surface area of pea-sized balls with the same total weight of th...
Tuesday, Nov 11
The winners of the Nano 50 awards
Dr. Clayton Teague National Nanotechnology Coordination Office Arlington, VA Products A product that incorporates nanotechnology in its design and/or operation, with significant current or near-term commercial applications.
Sunday, Nov 2
The Broken Kettle of nanotechnology
The speaker I have in mind, who was an synthetic chemist in academia for over 20 years before entering industry, ran through a number of rebuffs to the anti-nanotech constituency which are probably quite familiar to anyone who’s looked at the sector in any depth - risks from nano-silver?...
Friday, Oct 31
Will nanotechnology take over IT security?
Bourra said that for investors, nanotechnology is not yet easily identifiable like biotech products and services. “Nanotechnology is even less easy to grasp than biotechnology,” he said with a smile. “But for insiders, the technology behind miniaturization of sensors, implants of sm...
