The Belgian Trade Commission, through its Walloniatech program (www.walloniatech.org), is hosting a seminar on advanced materials, including nanomaterials on October 17 in Houston.
Aug 13th, 2008
Read moreA team of Clemson University researchers has invented a way to make beds of tiny, shock-absorbing carbon springs which possibly could be used to protect delicate objects from damaging impacts.
Aug 13th, 2008
Read moreChildren learn by exploring their world and will now be able to see a tiny version of our world that looks quite different with powerful microscopes to challenge their imaginations.
Aug 13th, 2008
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By combining gasification with high-tech nanoscale porous catalysts, researchers hope to create ethanol from a wide range of biomass, including distiller's grain left over from ethanol production, corn stover from the field, grass, wood pulp, animal waste, and garbage.
Aug 13th, 2008
Read moreFrom October 29-31, 2008, the 'International workshop on the science with and the instrumentation for Small Quantum Systems at the European XFEL' will take place in Aarhus, Denmark.
Aug 13th, 2008
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In joint experimental work, physicists have combined unusual techniques to make real-time movies that show exactly how a 50-nanometer-thick membrane notifies the cell it encloses that a hostile alien presence - an antigen - has made a landing.
Aug 13th, 2008
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show that they have developed a technique to examine tiny protein molecules called peptides on the surface of a gold nanoparticle.
Aug 13th, 2008
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Materialwissenschaftler der Universitaet Jena erzeugen erstmals neue Form von Copolymeren
Aug 13th, 2008
Read moreHalf a dozen eye hospitals in India are collaborating with a research centre here to create the inner layer of the cornea, the vital window of the human eye. It may allow 14,000 eye transplants a year.
Aug 13th, 2008
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Researchers in Spain have developed a highly efficient, surface-catalysed route to fullerenes.
Aug 12th, 2008
Read moreNanoemulsion could save more lives by removing current vaccines' drawbacks.
Aug 12th, 2008
Read moreIn a new article co-authored by University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute associate professor Jennifer Kuzma titled 'An Integrated Approach to Oversight Assessment for Emerging Technologies,' she and her colleagues offer a detailed analysis of oversight and regulation procedures designed to protect the user.
Aug 12th, 2008
Read moreMechanical engineers over the next two decades will be called upon to develop technologies that foster a cleaner, healthier, safer and sustainable global environment. According to the ASME report, 2028 Vision for Mechanical Engineering, mechanical engineers will need to collaborate with partners worldwide in order to apply innovative solutions and best practices to improve quality of life for all people.
Aug 12th, 2008
Read moreUC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers who suffer severe, life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Aug 12th, 2008
Read moreThe 6th New England International Nanomanufacturing Workshop, 'Breaking the Barriers to Nanomanufacturing to Enable the Commercialization of Nanotechnology,' will bring together experts from all sides of nanomanufacturing to discuss how they can collaborate to bring nanotechnology from the research laboratory to the manufacturing floor.
Aug 12th, 2008
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Japanese researchers say they have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable 'e-skin' that can feel heat and pressure like humans.
Aug 12th, 2008
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