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Thin films research lands engineering professor Air Force Young Investigator Award

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Shashank Priya, associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a $100,000, three-year renewable grant to conduct basic research in the area of high-frequency electronic components, titled Domain Engineered Magnetoelectric Thin Films for High Sensitivity Resonant Magnetic Field Sensors.

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Biolink USA-Ireland launches new site to meet the demand for Irish scientific networking

Biolink USA-Ireland, the Transatlantic Network for Science and Technology, launched a brand new member-focused, interactive website this month. The site is designed to provide an information portal for the network and enhance communication between members located in Ireland and across the USA.

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VolkswagenStiftung foerdert Nanotechnologie mit 4 Millionen Euro

VolkswagenStiftung unterstuetzt die Nanotechnologie und ihren Einsatz mit rund vier Millionen Euro - Foerderung der ersten sieben Projekte in neu eingerichteter Initiative zu 'makroskopischen Systemen'.

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New recognition for materials professionals in Australia

Professor David StJohn President of Materials Australia today announced the introduction of the Certified Materials Professional CMP membership status for professionals working in the field of materials science and engineering in Australia.

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New CD_ROM database contains 21,000 evaluated phase diagrams of ceramic systems

The American Ceramic Society and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have just released ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams CD-ROM Database (Version 3.2). The new version contains more than 21,000 evaluated phase diagrams of ceramic systems such as oxides, salts, carbides, nitrides, boride, compound semiconductors and chalcogenides, and features over 1,000 new diagrams.

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Nanotechnology will be a key driving force in India's future

The stage is set for the 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 event to be held this week in Bangalore.

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U.S. panel blasts federal nanotechnology risk research strategy

A National Research Council (NRC) committee today issued a highly critical report describing serious shortfalls in the Bush administration's strategy to better understand the environment, health and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology and to effectively manage those potential risks.

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New European projects aims to accelerate micro- and nanotechnology companies

For three years, having started in July 2008, nine partners all along the value chain in micro- and nanotechnologies (MNT) strive for accelerating the businesses of European companies in the new European project CORONA.

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Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells

Researchers at Penn State University are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast cancer cells growing in laboratory cultures.

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Latest edition of the International Scanning Probe Microscopy Image Contest launched

To recognize the continuing contributions that Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) have made to advances in Nanotechnology, the second edition of the International Scanning Probe Microscope Image Contest (SPMAGE' 09) has been announced to identify remarkable SPM images.

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Intel completes next generation, 32-nanometer process development phase

Intel Corporation has completed the development phase of its next-generation manufacturing process that further shrinks chip circuitry to 32 nanometers.

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Nonprofit Spotlight: Michael Terlaak, Nanotechnology Research Foundation

In an industry typically dominated by corporations and capitalistic ventures, the Nanotechnology Research Foundation has emerged as the first volunteer-based nonprofit focused on supporting the acceleration of nanotechnology awareness, education, recognition, funding and research.

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Achieving a 'holg grail' of experimental nuclear physics

With help from newly developed equipment designed and built at Michigan State University, MSU researchers have been able to make first-of-its-kind measurements of several rare nuclei, one of which has been termed a 'holy grail' of experimental nuclear physics.

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New EU nanotechnology project NANOTHER to design cancer-fighting nanoparticles

A new European research project will use the latest techniques in nanotechnology to design nanoparticles capable of detecting and locating tumours.

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Carbon nanofibers cut flammability of upholstered furniture

Carbon, the active ingredient in charcoal, is normally not considered a fire retardant, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have determined that adding a small amount of carbon nanofibers to the polyurethane foams used in some upholstered furniture can reduce flammability by about 35 percent when compared to foam infused with conventional fire retardants.

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Scientists fabricate first of its kind transparent memory device

A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has fabricated a working computer chip that is almost completely clear - the first of its kind.

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