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Carbon-free fullerene analogue

A team at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.

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Germany funds its first DFG research centers for another four years

Institutions in Bremen, Karlsruhe and Wurzburg impress with outstanding scientific achievements and capacity-building effects.

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New electrofluidic display technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin

For the first time e-paper will achieve the brilliance of printed media, as described in the May issue of Nature Photonics.

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Future Applications and Markets for Quantum Dots webinar

IntertechPira presents the Future Applications and Markets for Quantum Dots webinar to warm you up for the leading European nanomaterials event, NanoMaterials09.

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Energy storage in bulk glass makes it a candidate for electric vehicle capacitors

Penn State materials researchers have reported the largest known energy storage capacity for a bulk glass, making it a potential new candidate for capacitors for electric vehicles and portable power applications.

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Doppelte Datendichte in holographischen Speichern

Freiburger Forscher vom Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Physikalische Messtechnik IPM haben in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rowland Institute der Harvard University erstmals ein Verfahren entwickelt, mit dem in einem Hologramm gleichzeitig Phase und Amplitude eingestellt werden koennen.

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Webinar: Hardware and Software Solutions for Applications in Spectral Microscopy

Join ITT Visual Information Solutions, CytoViva, and Bruxton Corporation for a live web seminar demonstrating hardware and software solutions for spectral microscopy applications in nanomedicine, nanomaterials, nanotoxicology, pathogen diagnostics, and nanoparticle biomarkers.

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Vanderbilt engineers play key role in new DOE energy frontier research center

A team of Vanderbilt engineers will play a key role in a new federal effort to significantly improve our understanding of how gases and liquids interact with solid surfaces - basic studies that have potential applications ranging from better batteries to more efficient methods for converting solar and electrical energy into fuel, improved fuel cells and enhancing the corrosion resistance of materials.

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The most authoritative reference covering nanotechnology usage in medicine

Internal and external applications of nanoscience and vital topics from gene expression to tissue engineering are explored in this important work by international authors.

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Nanotechnology funding landscape has changed dramatically

The nanotechnology funding landscape has changed dramatically with new players such as Russia and China committing larger amounts to research than the US.

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World's fastest camera relies on new type of imaging

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a novel, continuously running camera that captures images roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conventional camera.

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Over 1000 UK nanotechnology organizations listed in new online guidebook

The Directory is your online guidebook to the UK?s world-class Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) sector, featuring over 600 academics and over 400 organisations active in nanotechnology in the UK.

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Die ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert

Die drei ersten DFG-Forschungszentren werden nach einer ueberaus erfolgreichen zweiten Foerderperiode erneut verlaengert und weitere vier Jahre gefoerdert. Dies beschloss jetzt der Hauptausschuss der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) auf seiner Fruehjahrssitzung in Bonn.

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IMEC integrates high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects.

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Brookhaven Lab's Satoshi Ozaki honored at Asian Pacific American Celebration

Satoshi Ozaki, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be honored as a distinguished Asian American professional at a ceremony on May 9 at the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration to be held at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center.

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NASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer

An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells.

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