Dr. Robert Magnusson has been appointed to the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, a $5 million endowed chair for The University of Texas at Arlington.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreSpeaking at the 10th anniversary conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Berne, Switzerland, its director Professor Ron Appel described his institute as a 'Swiss success story'. He said that he was proud that as pioneers at the heart of science one of the SIB's 25 working groups was today able to announce the completion of the annotation of human proteins.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreNano Research is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary research journal from Springer and Tsinghua Press that focuses on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreThe 2008 Cleveland NanoMedicine Summit is the anchor event for NanoWeek in Cleveland, now in its fifth year. It is being co-hosted by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and NorTech's Nano Network.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreAt 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own European record of 37.6% which they achieved just a short time ago.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreResearchers have found that reactions occurring when nanotubes are shaken in particular solvents - a routine procedure - produce chemicals that draw electrons from the nanotubes, effectively doping them.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read morePolymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown. The composition of the protein cloak depends not only on the surface properties of the nanoparticle, but also, surprisingly, on its size.
Sep 24th, 2008
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Philips Research and the University of Urbino (Urbino, Italy) have signed a research agreement to study the encapsulation of magnetic nanoparticle contrast agents inside living blood cells to prolong the retention time of these agents in the blood.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreLeading researchers and companies gathered in Copenhagen on September 23-25, 2008 for Europe's largest annual nanotechnology conference and exhibition to hear about latest research findings, to convey visions for the market impact of nanotechnology and to demonstrate commercial products and tools at the exhibition.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreTwo University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers are among the first-ever recipients of $42.2 million in federal grants supporting projects that take scientific risks, but also offer potentially huge rewards.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreUniversity of Queensland researcher Dr Shizhang Qiao is working on developing a new self-assembly technology to synthesise new nanoparticles for selective separation of biomolecules.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreAmid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering has won a six-year, $19.2 million National Science Foundation grant that will support research, K-12 educational outreach programs and vital shared experimental facilities.
Sep 24th, 2008
Read moreThe University of Queensland has promoted a researcher renowned for his work with minute matter in order to scale up its global research networks.
Sep 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe bill now incorporates green nanotechnology language that calls for a proactive research plan to account for environmental, health and safety issues involved in nanotechnology research.
Sep 23rd, 2008
Read moreThe newest and upcoming micro-devices used to heal.
Sep 23rd, 2008
Read moreTechnology Review, Inc. is hosting its eighth annual Emerging Technologies Conference, EmTech08, September 23-25th at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
Sep 23rd, 2008
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