If that office inkjet printer has become just another fixture, it's time to take a fresh look at it. Similar technology may soon be used to develop paper-based biosensors that can detect certain harmful toxins that can cause food poisoning or be used as bioterrorism agents.
Jul 13th, 2009
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This new equipment expands the university's capability of the Electron Microscope Facility.
Jul 13th, 2009
Read moreNanobiosensors, which will make point-of-care testing in GP's surgeries a reality, have the potential to account for 50 per cent of the biosensor market by 2020.
Jul 13th, 2009
Read moreUniversity of Canterbury physicist Associate Professor Simon Brown hopes a report published this week will spur the New Zealand Government to face up to the challenges nanotechnology poses for this country.
Jul 13th, 2009
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Scientists in the UK have developed a method to visualize fingerprints even after the print itself has been removed.
Jul 13th, 2009
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Three scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy?s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were among the 100 researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers.
Jul 10th, 2009
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Rashid Zia, assistant professor of engineering, has been named one of this year's winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The White House named the latest group of winners this week.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreOb Medizin, nachhaltige Energieversorgung oder Umweltschutz, ohne Nanotechnologie lassen sich die Herausforderungen der Zukunft nicht meistern. Parallel dazu gelte es aber auch, potenzielle Risiken - etwa von freien Nanopartikeln - unter die Lupe zu nehmen, so das Fazit der NanoConvention, an der am 6. Juli in Zurich rund 150 Nano-Interessierte aus Forschung, Industrie, Verwaltung und dem Finanzsektor teilnahmen.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreThe process of quorum sensing, which cells use to "sense" cell density, is triggered when the concentration of certain signaling compounds generated by the bacteria reaches a threshold level.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreOPV Today announces its forthcoming Organic Photovoltaics Summit 2009, to be held in Boston (October 15-16) this year.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreAn der Uni Duisburg-Essen wird die Wechselwirkung von kleinen Nanopyramiden, sogenannten Quantenpunkten, mit einer leitfaehigen Kontaktschicht - einem zweidimensionalen Elektronengas - untersucht.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreSome fun stuff to ease your way into the weekend: Here is our Slow News Friday story for this week, which again doubles as our soon to be launched Nanotechnology Snake Oil Special. "Swiss Botanical Nanotechnology Tea Colon Cleanser" anyone?
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreFree membership available to all nanotechnology stakeholders.
Jul 10th, 2009
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Simon Fraser University's 4D LABS materials science research centre is getting about $884,000 from Western Economic Diversification Canada to add new scientific equipment for faster prototyping.
Jul 10th, 2009
Read moreQuantum technologies have become the Holy Grail of the IT industry with research projects springing up all over Europe. Now a major effort is being made to spur development by adopting a coordinated, structured approach.
Jul 9th, 2009
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UC Riverside's Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau has received a national honor that few outstanding researchers who are beginning their independent research careers are given. Lau, an associate professor of physics, is one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for the 2008 competition. PECASE represents the highest honor a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in the United States.
Jul 9th, 2009
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