An EU-funded project to improve and strengthen Europe's competitiveness in micro and nano devices has resulted in the successful development of a customer-oriented engineering methodology that will ultimately benefit a wide range of European industries that depend on these technologies.
Oct 15th, 2012
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The British Society for Nanomedicine is being launched by scientists from the University of Liverpool, as part of Liverpool's Knowledge Festival.
Oct 15th, 2012
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Magnetotactic bacteria are organisms which develop membrane-encapsulated nano-particles known as magnetosomes. Magnetosomes allow bacteria to orient themselves along the earth's magnetic field lines in order to migrate to more favourable environments.
Oct 15th, 2012
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Event to be held on November 7 at CNSE's Albany NanoTech Complex will be supported by targeted outreach to attract qualified women, veterans and minority applicants.
Oct 15th, 2012
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Berkeley Lab researchers unlock ferromagnetic secrets of promising materials.
Oct 15th, 2012
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Researchers spray-paint ultrathin coatings that change color with only a few atoms' difference in thickness.
Oct 14th, 2012
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A group led Dr Leonid Ponomarenko and Nobel prize-winner Professor Andre Geim has assembled individual atomic layers on top of each other in a desired sequence.
Oct 14th, 2012
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The circuit is designed to act as the controller in synthetic bacteria that monitor and modify their environment.
Oct 13th, 2012
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The National Science Foundation, University of Cincinnati, and State of Ohio are funding the development of a "Pilot Microfactory for Nanomedicine Devices".
Oct 13th, 2012
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Breakthrough should eliminate need for anti-reflection layer, cutting costs.
Oct 12th, 2012
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Synchrotrons played a key role in the research that won Brian Kobilka, a professor and chair of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at the Stanford School of Medicine, the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.
Oct 12th, 2012
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CMOST's Grand Re-Opening on October 13 to feature launch of permanent interactive display introducing young minds to the fascinating world of nanotechnology.
Oct 12th, 2012
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Making uniform coatings is a common engineering challenge, and, when working at the nanoscale, even the tiniest cracks or defects can be a big problem. New research from University of Pennsylvania engineers has shown a new way of avoiding such cracks when depositing thin films of nanoparticles.
Oct 12th, 2012
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In the far future, superconducting quantum bits might serve as components of high-performance computers. Today already do they help better understand the structure of solids, as is reported by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Oct 12th, 2012
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Particles could become a safer, more effective delivery vehicle for gene therapy.
Oct 12th, 2012
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At very low temperatures, close to absolute zero, chemical reactions may proceed at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should -- because in this extreme chill, quantum effects enter the picture. A Weizmann Institute of Science team has now confirmed this experimentally.
Oct 12th, 2012
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