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Bottom-up nanotechnology technique will make computers faster and more efficient

For the first time, the UCSB scientists have created a way to make square, nanoscale, chemical patterns - from the bottom up - that may be used in the manufacture of integrated circuit chips as early as 2011. It is called block co-polymer lithography.

September 25, 2008 Read more

The Precautionano Principle - free nanotechnology regulation conference report published

The final report of the 4th NanoRegulation Conference held on from September 16-17 in St.Gallen is now available online on the website of the Innovation Society. The document gives an overview of the presentations, workshops and participants of this year's conference that focused on the topic of 'Voluntary Measures in Nano Risk Governance'.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Save-the-date: Major nanotechnology, energy, and biomed meeting

Next month in Boston, the AVS 55th International Symposium and Exhibition will showcase research from across the spectrum of science and engineering devoted to discoveries on the edge-in a vacuum, at interfaces, in plasmas, and in other controlled environments used to develop new materials and technologies.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Top nanotechnology nations push ahead

Governments and industries in nations around the world are investing billions of dollars, euros, yen, yuan and rubles to position themselves as leaders in the emerging enterprise called nanotechnology.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Nanoelectronics to the rescue of overheating computer chips

Two researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science aim to lay the scientific groundwork that will solve the problem of ever hotter computer chips using nanoelectronics, considered the essential science for powering the next generation of computers.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Nanotechnology: Regulating the smallest details

Local lawyers and others working with business and technology can hear what nationally prominent scholar Gary Marchant thinks about the nano regulation issue when he talks from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the University of Dayton School of Law's Keller Hall.

September 25, 2008 Read more

Why metal alloys degrade

Metal alloys can fail unexpectedly in a wide range of applications - from jet engines to satellites to cell phones - and new research from the University of Michigan helps to explain why

September 24, 2008 Read more

The Conversion of Energy through Molecular Platforms program (ConvEne)

A new program funded by the National Science Foundation means UC Santa Barbara is now able to offer graduate students deep and broad experience in solving the energy challenges facing the country.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New $5 million Chair in Nanoelectronics at University of Texas at Arlington

Dr. Robert Magnusson has been appointed to the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics, a $5 million endowed chair for The University of Texas at Arlington.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New protein encyclopeadia covers 20,325 human proteins

Speaking at the 10th anniversary conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Berne, Switzerland, its director Professor Ron Appel described his institute as a 'Swiss success story'. He said that he was proud that as pioneers at the heart of science one of the SIB's 25 working groups was today able to announce the completion of the annotation of human proteins.

September 24, 2008 Read more

New open-access (for now) nanotechnology journal debuts

Nano Research is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary research journal from Springer and Tsinghua Press that focuses on all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Case Western Reserve University co-sponsors Nanomedicine Summit in Cleveland

The 2008 Cleveland NanoMedicine Summit is the anchor event for NanoWeek in Cleveland, now in its fifth year. It is being co-hosted by Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and NorTech's Nano Network.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Fraunhofer Institute achieves 39.7% record efficiency for solar cells

At 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own European record of 37.6% which they achieved just a short time ago.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Simply shaking up a solution of carbon nanotubes can alter the tubes' electronic properties

Researchers have found that reactions occurring when nanotubes are shaken in particular solvents - a routine procedure - produce chemicals that draw electrons from the nanotubes, effectively doping them.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Polymer nanoparticles cloaked in plasma proteins

Polymer nanoparticles suspended in human blood become cloaked in plasma proteins, new research has shown. The composition of the protein cloak depends not only on the surface properties of the nanoparticle, but also, surprisingly, on its size.

September 24, 2008 Read more

Research collaboration to develop long retention-time nanoparticle contrast agents

Philips Research and the University of Urbino (Urbino, Italy) have signed a research agreement to study the encapsulation of magnetic nanoparticle contrast agents inside living blood cells to prolong the retention time of these agents in the blood.

September 24, 2008 Read more