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2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize awarded to Geim and Novoselov

The European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division is proud to announce the award of the 2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties.

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NANO KOREA war fuer deutsche Unternehmen erfolgreich - Automobiltechnik ein Thema

Im Rahmen der NANO KOREA hat IVAM, Fachverband fuer Mikrotechnik, am 28. August 2008 den dritten Korean-German Micro/Nano-Business Workshop durchgefuehrt.

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Nature inspires new highly specific drugs and organic products

Scientists now realise that the precise molecular arrangements within natural pathways in organisms have been highly tuned for specific processes and provide both compounds that can be exploited directly and vital information over how to synthesise new products by mimicking biochemical processes.

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IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab as a cost-effective silicon photonics prototyping service

IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006.

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Chinese scientists develop new approach for early diagnosis of cancer

A research project entitled 'A real-time analysis of the early diagnosis of cancer markers', undertaken by the CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, recently passed the acceptance check by an expert team under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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Chinese researchers experimentally demonstrate method of quantum coding to overcome qubit loss error

For the first time ever, the group experimentally demonstrates a method of quantum coding to overcome the qubit loss error, a kind of decoherence especially prevailing in photonic quantum computation.

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Nuclear engineering education will be boosted at Rensselaer with new grants

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded two grants totaling $850,000 to boost nuclear engineering education, research, and workforce development at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging Forum will present at the 2nd Electronic System-Integration Technology Conference

The Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) Forum today announced it will participate in the 2nd Electronic System-Integration Technology Conference (ESTC) in Greenwich, London, UK, from September 1 through 4, 2008.

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Two advanced microscopy techniques show how malaria parasites attack blood cells

In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

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'Nanotechnology - Science of the Future' conference organized in India

The first Conference in the Series 'India R + D 2008: Nanotechnology - The Science of the Future' is scheduled on September 5, 2008 in New Delhi.

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Owners Image Contest now open for 2009 FEI calendar

Be published in the 2009 FEI Company Calendar.

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New type of property-changing polymer has switchable bio-adhesion

Researchers have developed a new type of property-changing polymer: It is water-repellent at 37 degrees C, which makes it an ideal culture substrate for biological cells. At room temperature it attracts water, allowing the cells to be detached easily from the substrate.

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Graphene pioneers follow in Nobel footsteps

Two physicists from The University of Manchester who discovered the world's thinnest material have scooped a major award for their work.

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IMEC and Plextronics collaborate on high-efficiency reproducible organic solar cells

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreement to collaborate on state-of-the-art materials and inks for organic solar cells.

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New molecular imaging techniques aim at detection of earliest steps of disease development

An emerging discipline of noninvasive cardiac imaging, molecular imaging, has evolved constantly in the last few years and is increasingly being translated from the preclinical to the clinical level.

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Dialog NanoCare: Gesundheitliche Wirkungen von Nanopartikeln

Am 27. September 2008 findet in Muenchen der Austausch von interessierten Buergerinnen und Buergern mit Experten statt. Organisiert wird die BMBF-Veranstaltung von Zukuenftige Technologien Consulting der VDI Technologiezentrum in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Museum und der Muenchner Projektgruppe fuer Sozialforschung.

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