Although the strategic importance of nanotechnologies has been recognized in Italy, and there is substantial and growing activities in research as well as in industry, there is no strategic government plan and it is difficult to find up to date information.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreAn award to help engineers and scientists commercialise early stage research and enable the exploitation of new and exciting ideas in the field of materials science has been launched.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have demonstrated that a new spectroscopy technique can simultaneously measure a material's topography and chemical composition with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreThe next Modelling Training School funded under FP7 project QNano will take place on the 27th March 2013 at the Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue (ETCV), Edinburgh, UK. The school is free to attend and a limited number of attendance spaces remain available.
Feb 13th, 2013
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New room-temperature process could lead to less expensive solar cells and other electronic devices.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreAntibacterial and antifouling polymer coatings could soon relegate catheter-associated infections in the blood to history.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreResearchers from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea have pioneered a simple, but efficient and eco-friendly way to produce Edge-selectively functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (EFGnPs) by dry ball milling graphite in the presence of various gases.
Feb 13th, 2013
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A new theoretical model enables accurate predictions of dipoles at oxide interfaces using the classical property of electronegativity.
Feb 13th, 2013
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A flexible design approach for nanosensors that overcomes practicality and reliability issues is now available.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreA recent article in the journal Nanomedicine, born out of a Federal Bureau of Investigation workshop held at the University of Notre Dame in September 2012, tackles this complex "dual-use" aspect of nanotechnology research.
Feb 12th, 2013
Read moreResearchers discover new detection technique.
Feb 12th, 2013
Read moreOcean Optics has named Christian F. Gainer of the University of Arizona as winner of the 2013 Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award.
Feb 12th, 2013
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FEI today announced that Maria Carbajo from the Universidad de Extemadura, Spain, is the winner of the FEI Image Contest for her "Spider Skin" image.
Feb 12th, 2013
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Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening. Using micro-fabrication techniques and incorporating a unique design of transistor-based heating, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are further advancing the use of silicon transistor and electronics into chemistry and biology for point-of-care diagnostics.
Feb 12th, 2013
Read moreResearchers at USC have developed a new lithium-ion battery design that uses porous silicon nanoparticles in place of the traditional graphite anodes to provide superior performance.
Feb 12th, 2013
Read moreBy loading fragile RNA into silicon nanoparticles, researchers from The Methodist Hospital and two other institutions found a new drug delivery system can reduce the size of ovarian tumors by as much as 83 percent - and stop tumor growth in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer tissue.
Feb 12th, 2013
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