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More efficient palladium fuel cell catalysts created

Researchers have wrestled with creating palladium nanoparticles with enough active surface area to make catalysis efficient in fuel cells while preventing particles from clumping together during the chemical processes that convert a fuel source to electricity. Two Brown University chemists have found a way to overcome those challenges.

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CTSI completes successful annual policy tour in Washington D.C.

CTSI today announced that more than forty-five clean technology executives joined forces in Washington DC last week as part of the Clean Technology + Sustainable Industries Organization annual policy tour.

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World's first nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces

Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.

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IMEC launches research to improve dynamic behavior of embedded systems

To deal with the increasing dynamism in (networked) embedded systems, IMEC launches a new research program. This program will focus on moving the management of the system's resources from the design phase to runtime software solutions.

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Keynote presentation at TAPPI conference: 'Nanooptics: Illuminating Nanostructures'

TAPPI and Alberta Ingenuity Fund are co-sponsoring the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, scheduled for June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. The theme of this year's event is 'Unlocking the Potential of Nano-Enabled Biomaterials'.

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USC Nanotube Lab demonstrates flexible, transparent supercapacitors

It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.

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Forum: 'Recent Developments and Applications in Polymer Nanostructured-Materials'

The Rheology and Materials Processing Centre (RMPC) of RMIT University is organising an international symposium on 'Recent Developments and Applications in Polymer Nanostructured-Materials' in Melbourne, Australia.

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Discovery of current spike phenomenon in semiconductor materials leads to new understanding of nanoscale plasticity

Plasticity in certain semiconductor materials at the nanoscale is actually linked to phase transformation rather than dislocation nucleation, as previously thought.

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First Saudi company launched to make nanomembranes

Prince Bader Bin Saud, Chairman of the Saudi Nanotechnology Company, announced on Monday the launch of the first Saudi company specializing in the manufacture of nanomembranes.

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Light-activated molecular 'lock' controls blood clotting, drug delivery

Scientists have shed new light -- literally -- on a possible way to starve cancer tumors or prevent side effects from a wide range of drugs.

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Ribbon-cutting ceremony at UAlbany NanoCollege

$150M, 350,000-square-foot expansion will support more than $1 billion in new investments and 600 new high-tech jobs at CNSE's Albany Nanotech Complex.

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Engineered molecules can 'sniff out' trace molecules

Tel Aviv University has developed a molecule that can magnify weak traces of 'hidden' molecules into something we can detect and see.

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New high-throughput screening technique makes probing puzzling proteins possible

Research will allow identification of numerous potential cancer and other treatments.

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'From Donuts to Drugs: Nano-Biotechnology Evolution or Revolution?' - that was the title of a seminar by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Chicago last month.

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IBM deal with UAlbany Nanocollege expected to continue another 5 years

The Times Union reports today that IBM is expected to announce today a five-year extension of its research and development partnership with the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

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Green tech research and develoipment to remain strong in spite of crisis

European companies will remain world leaders in developing green technologies even in times of economic recession, but Europe must work on attracting more venture capital to bring these products to the market, business leaders told a European Business Summit session last week.

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