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Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science

Princeton University will be home to a new $20 million energy research center for combustion science, as part of a federal initiative to spur discoveries that lay the groundwork for an economy based on clean replacements for fossil fuels.

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Smart Grid Implementation Summit gathers major stakeholders in smart grid deployment

Organized by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC), this public-private sector forum focuses on the 'how to' of launching, implementing and operating smart grid projects.

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Electrospun nanofibers could be used for protective clothing, wearable power and more

In his office, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material, softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a human hair and holds promise for a wide range of applications including protective clothing, drug delivery and tissue engineering.

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'Food mill' for proteins - new method improves protein analysis considerably

Until now, extracting as many proteins as possible from biological samples has required a combination of several methods. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employable sample preparation method that combines the advantages of the usual methods and allows an unprecedented depth of proteome coverage.

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Argonne researcher wins 2009 U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize

U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory researcher John W. Lewellen was recently named a recipient of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) Prize in Accelerator Physics and Technology.

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New finding has potential to optimize the performance of nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy of impurities in semiconductor nanowires is affected by the surrounding dielectric and can be modified by the choice of the nanowire embedding medium.

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Leti and EPFL expand research partnership with monthly seminars on micro- and nanotechnology

Leti and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have begun a monthly seminar series for students and professionals to discuss technical issues facing micro- and nanotechnology researchers.

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KITECH and IVMA cooperate to accelerate information exchange between Korea and Germany

The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) and IVAM Microtechnology Network have concluded a cooperation agreement on April 22, 2009 at MicroTechnology/HANNOVER MESSE in Hanover, Germany. Both organizations want to accelerate the information exchange between their high-tech countries with this.

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Dozens of new clean tech and nanotechnology products unveiled at TechConnect World Expo in Houston

Hundreds of vendors and thousands of attendees make TechConnect World the largest nano and clean technology expo in the US.

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To the heart of darkness: a laboratory study of dark energy

It seems extraordinary that a device on the nanoscale, smaller than a human hair, could hold clues to the fundamental driving force shaping the entire universe.

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Regional Australian government tables nanotechnology recommendations

The New South Wales Government has tabled its response to the NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the use and applications of nanotechnology.

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Stabile Quantenbits

Bereits 2007 hat Prof. Dr. Goetz S. Uhrig, Physiker an der TU Dortmund, eine Methode ersonnen, wie die fragilen Zustaende von Quantenbits moeglichst lange stabil gehalten werden koennen. Seine theoretisch in Formeln beschriebene Optimierung wurde jetzt von amerikanische Wissenschaftler im Experiment ueberprueft.

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Membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of molecules into living cells

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. In addition to ferrying tiny amounts of cargo, the nanoneedle can also be used as an electrochemical probe and as an optical biosensor.

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Stony Brook University will be home to the new Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center, an EFRC

Stony Brook University will be home to the new Northeastern Chemical Energy Storage Center (NOCESC), which involves a team of experimentalists and theorists at SBU (Clare P. Grey, Director and Peter Khalifah, in the Chemistry Department), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Jason Graetz and Xiao-Qing Yang), Rutgers, Binghamton University, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U. Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, and U. Florida.

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World's largest student science competition winners cover energy, medicine, and steroids

ExploraVision winners envision innovative energy solutions, new lifesaving medical treatments and more - even a possible solution to the current sports steroids scandal.

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As technology advances, industrial manufacturing becomes less efficient

A comprehensive study of old and new manufacturing processes, from machining metal to making carbon nanofibers, shows that the more advanced technologies are less efficient in their use of energy and materials per kilogram of output.

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