A not-so-whacky university-based center for entrepreneurism has funded some, well, somewhat unusual research projects that actually may have commercial potential.
May 17th, 2007
Read morePotential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting.
May 17th, 2007
Read moreBritish scientists want to make it possible to use fingerprints to reveal drug and doping transgressions and to diagnose diseases.
May 17th, 2007
Read moreThe 'Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities', a new report by the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), was published today.
May 17th, 2007
Read moreResearchers have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.
May 17th, 2007
Read morePhysicists develop a carbon nanotube aeroegel optimizing strength, shape and conductivity.
May 16th, 2007
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Gold particles have been grown inside silica nanoshells in an inside out approach to synthesis.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreOfficials from the Argonne National Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory signed an agreement today that promises to speed the delivery of technological advances to American military forces while saving taxpayer dollars.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreA team of plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression with controlled precision.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreA new report by J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, EPA and Nanotechnology: Oversight for the 21st Century, examines the EPA role in nanotechnology oversight.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreThe European Commission is now on the road to creating the first ever Europe-wide public-private partnerships to boost research and development, having adopted proposals for initiatives in two strategic industrial sectors.
May 16th, 2007
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A new adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could impact everything from next-generation computer chip manufacturing to energy production.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreThe number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world's first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.
May 16th, 2007
Read moreThe latest issue of Nature Nanotechnology contains a free access review article on DNA nanomachines by Jonathan Bath and Andrew J. Turberfield.
May 15th, 2007
Read moreThe German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have organized a first symposium on nanotechnology to take place in Beijing on June 2, 2007.
May 15th, 2007
Read moreThe exclusive club of magnetic elements officially has a new member-carbon.
May 14th, 2007
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