New nanotechnology database for societal and ethical implications
The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology has recently launched NanoEthicsBank.
May 14th, 2007
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Nanotechnology to restore Renaissance wall paintings
Italian researchers show that acrylic polymers usually employed in works of art (or architecture) conservation and highly insoluble inorganic deposits containing organic materials can be solubilized in an oil-in-water microemulsions from nonionic surfactants and that a complete cleaning of an acrylic-contaminated painting can be successfully achieved.
May 14th, 2007
Read moreRecommendations for European nanotechnology transfer from lab to fab
This report is the result of the two day workshop "Nano2Business" held at Warsaw University of Technology on February 7-8, 2007.
May 14th, 2007
Read moreDo-it-yourself: 'Make your own nanotechnology device' workshop
Cover your shoes, put on your goggles and zip up your clean-room suit. You're going to make a nano device.
May 14th, 2007
Read moreRevealing photographs of DNA
Smile! Ultrasensitive DNA detection with photographic paper.
May 13th, 2007
Read moreThe first intellectual property rights auction in Europe will be held in Munich
The event has attracted the interest of 84 sellers who are trading licenses and patents for technologies ranging from industrial coating machinery to treatments for psoriasis and skin cancer.
May 13th, 2007
Read moreMagnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics
By injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a magnetic 'tweezer', scientists succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics of the cell nucleus.
May 11th, 2007
Read moreWetter report: New approach to testing surface adhesion
With a nod to one of nature's best surface chemists - an obscure desert beetle - polymer scientists have devised a convenient way to construct test surfaces with a variable affinity for water, so that the same surface can range from superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic, and everything in between.
May 11th, 2007
Read moreDNA sieve: nanoscale pores can be tiny analysis labs
Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using a system that can fit on a microchip or in a drop of salt water. It�??s closer than you might think, say a team of researchers.
May 10th, 2007
Read moreMagnetic computer sensors may help study biomolecules
New experiments suggest that magnetic switches like those in computers also might be used to manipulate individual strands of DNA for high-speed applications such as gene sequencing.
May 10th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology features big among National Science Teacher Award winners
This year's winning student teams imagined amazing advancements in fields such as nanotechnology and polymer creation.
May 10th, 2007
Read moreWorkshop on nanotechnologies for environmental remediation
Presentations from the "Workshop on Nanotechnologies for Environmental Remediation" that was held on April 16 and 17 in Ispra, Italy, are now available for download.
May 10th, 2007
Read moreSupercomputer shows that nanolayers have turning sense
Physicists have discovered that on the atomic level nature differentiates between the image and mirror image of magnetic structures.
May 10th, 2007
Read moreNanotechnology gives thermoelectricity a new glow
Nanomaterials are the foundation for a fast-growing approach to energy saving.
May 9th, 2007
Read moreAddressing societal implications of nanotechnology and their ambivalencies
Prof. Rip's talk, entitled "Addressing Societal Implications of Nanotechnology - and Their Ambivalencies," will provide an overview of the science and its impacts to society, and as well as identify eight key ambivalencies that arise as a result of nanotechnology's rapid growth and progress.
May 9th, 2007
Read moreResearchers examine the environmental effects of silver nanoparticles
Reearchers will examine whether the use of silver nanoparticles in everyday products poses future problems for the environment.
May 9th, 2007
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