National Nanotechnology Initiative's strategic planning stakeholder workshop
Gaining stakeholder inputs and exploring the goals and objectives for the NNI's updated strategic plan.
Jul 8th, 2010
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Instant testing for sore throats with DNA nanobarcodes
A novel application for applying DNA nanobarcodes in a clinical assay could help primary-care physicians quickly and more accurately determine what's causing a patient's acute pharyngitis from an easy throat swab.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreMagnetic fields can turn highly conductive carbon nanotubes into semiconductors
Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons in their tracks?
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreEuropean Environmental Bureau welcomes European Parliament's vote on nanofoods
The European Environmental Bureau, Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens' organisations, welcomes the outcome of yesterday's vote in European Parliament, endorsing strong safety and labelling measures for food containing nanomaterials.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreEuropean superconducting quantum information processor
Quantum physics is entering the computer age thanks to the work of a dedicated band of European researchers.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreNew microscope captures amazing images of embryonic cell development
It is now possible to film development of fruit fly and of zebrafish's eyes and brain.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreERC Forschungsgelder an Dresdner Nanomechanik und Molekulare Motoren Projekt
Zwei Gruppen am Biotechnologischen Zentrum der TU Dresden koennen durch eine Foerderung des Europaeischen Forschungsrates fuenf weitere Jahre forschen. Diese Starting Grants wurden zum ersten Mal an Wissenschaftler der TU Dresden vergeben.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreImproved MRI contrast agents made from nanoscale metal-organic frameworks
A new class of materials that appear promising in this quest were introduced in 2006 by Prof. Wenbin Lin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ever since, this emerging area has been growing rapidly as new materials with improved properties are discovered.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreLOPE-C 2010: Powering the next wave organic and printed electronics
In its second year on the international stage, LOPE-C 2010 (Large-area, Organic and Printed Electronics Convention) has successfully positioned itself as the central market place of a newly emerging basic industry, serving as the meeting platform of its industrial, scientific, engineering, investor and end-user communities.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreNeuer Quantenzustand der Materie in Heusler-Verbindungen entdeckt
Forscher aus Mainz und Stanford zeigen Wege fuer Spin-Elektronik, Quantencomputing und fuer voellig neue physikalische Effekte.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreRevolutionary medical dressing uses nanotechnology to fight infection
The dressing will work by releasing antibiotics from nanocapsules triggered by the presence of disease-causing pathogenic bacteria, which will target treatment before the infection takes hold.
Jul 8th, 2010
Read moreSynthetic nanopolymer makes it easier to study cancer ptoteins
A Purdue University researcher can better retrieve specific proteins needed to study how cancer cells form by using a newly developed technique and synthetic nanopolymer.
Jul 7th, 2010
Read moreEnergy Secetary Chu advances nanotechnology in spare time
Chu has a dense research paper being published online Wednesday in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The title: 'Subnanometre single-molecule localization registration and distance measurements'.
Jul 7th, 2010
Read moreCenter for NanoScience professor wins ERC starting grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has again granted one of the prestigious Starting Independent Researcher Grants to a researcher of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) at LMU Munich.
Jul 7th, 2010
Read moreResearchers aim at hard disk with a storage density capacity of one terabit per square inch
Scientists from the EU-funded TERAMAGSTOR ('Terabit magnetic storage technologies') project are aiming to push the boundaries of disk storgae further with a hard disk that has the storage density capacity of one terabit per square inch.
Jul 7th, 2010
Read moreTeam finds new parallel between cold gases and 'hot' superconductors
Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple shared explanation for equivalent behaviors of the two very different systems.
Jul 7th, 2010
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