The seminar, which will feature guest lecturers from both academia and business, will expose participants to the nanotech resources in their own backyards, and bring together local business leaders and university faculty currently applying these technologies.
Aug 16th, 2006
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Researchers have performed the first in vivo tests for carcinogenic effects that allows a direct comparison between nanoparticles and their corresponding bulk materials.
Aug 15th, 2006
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Researchers were able to correlate high-resolution load-displacement measurements with individual video frames, showing how nanoscale volumes of aluminum deform under stress from a diamond nanoindenter.
Aug 15th, 2006
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Using a polymer coating that mimics part of the outer membrane of a cell, a team of investigators have developed a versatile method for targeting carbon nanotubes to specific types of cells.
Aug 14th, 2006
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Scientists have developed a new method to create computed tomography (CT) images using carbon nanotube x-rays.
Aug 14th, 2006
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Using silica beads with nanoscale pores as a carrier for two other nanoscale materials, researchers have created a powerful new tool for conducting rapid, high-throughput assays of biological function.
Aug 14th, 2006
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Researchers in Japan have succeeded in developing a highly porous platinum-alumina catalyst for use in industrial exhaust gas purificators with the characteristic of high temperature resistance coupled with a high efficiency.
Aug 14th, 2006
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Researchers have successfully grown nanotubes at a temperature which permits their full integration into present complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
Aug 10th, 2006
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Researchers are using silver and gold striped nanowires as supports for simultaneous immunological tests for various pathogens
Aug 10th, 2006
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the formation of an internal FDA Nanotechnology Task Force.
Aug 9th, 2006
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Researchers have made a discovery that could allow scientists to exercise more control over the catalytic activity of gold nanoclusters.
Aug 8th, 2006
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Researchers developed a novel material that will enable diamond resonators and oscillators to be directly integrated with microelectronics chips for next-generation telecommunication devices.
Aug 8th, 2006
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Detecting biowarfare agents in the field will become a lot easier thanks to a new barcode system based on biosensing nanowires.
Aug 8th, 2006
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Researchers have developed a convenient mass-synthesis method for nanotubes which uses less than one thousandth of the solvent used in conventional methods, and the time required for the drying process is only a few hours.
Aug 7th, 2006
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Nanoparticles may serve as suitable delivery vehicles for siRNA.
Aug 7th, 2006
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Researchers turned to nanoengineered porous-silicon photonic crystals to create a far faster and more sensitive protease assay system.
Aug 7th, 2006
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