The Nanoethics Group today announced appointing a distinguished list of members to its Advisory Board, as public interest grows concerning the impact of nanotechnology on ethics and society.
Jan 23rd, 2006
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The National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Tohoku University have succeeded in manufacturing a high-performance upright-type double gate MOS transistor capable of ultra-large scale integration using neutral beams which cannot damage silicon substrates.
Jan 23rd, 2006
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Researchers at Columbia University's Nanoscience Center are on the verge of solving one of the most vexing barriers facing advances in molecular electronics: incorporating individual molecules into functional nanoscale devices and exploiting their electrical and chemical properties.
Jan 20th, 2006
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The Swiss Innovation Society Ltd. has launched a database with relevant information about safety and risk research of nanotechnology. This database will be updated regularly with scientific and policy information.
Jan 20th, 2006
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The 180 researchers and 50 companies co-operating at the Center for Nanotechnology at DTU (NANO-DTU) will have the most advanced microscope in the world at their disposal a so-called Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope.
Jan 19th, 2006
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in scale, known as quantum dots. The islands, made from germanium and placed on the surface of silicon with two-nanometer precision, are capable of confining single electrons.
Jan 19th, 2006
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A single-walled carbon nanotube heated to more than 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit became nearly 280 percent stronger than it was in its original form, and its diameter shrunk by 15 times. The discovery has implications in strengthening ceramic and other nanocomposites at high temperatures and is useful in tuning electronics.
Jan 19th, 2006
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Researchers have made an important theoretical breakthrough in the understanding of energy dissipation and thermal breakdown in metallic carbon nanotubes. Their discovery will help move nanotube wires from laboratory to marketplace.
Jan 19th, 2006
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Researchers from the University of Maryland describe an exciting assay platform technology that promises to fundamentally address two underlying physical constraints of modern assays and immunoassays, namely, assay sensitivity and rapidity.
Jan 18th, 2006
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Research could promote safe delivery of drugs and pesticides, filter toxins from wastewater and improve chemical production.
Jan 18th, 2006
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An MIT researcher's atom-by-atom simulation of cracks forming and spreading may help explain how materials fail in nanoscale devices, airplanes and even in the Earth itself during a quake.
Jan 18th, 2006
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