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Next date for US Patent Office 'Nanotechnology Customer Partnership Meeting' announced

This meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22, 2008, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, in the South Auditorium, Madison Building, Concourse Level, located at 600 Dulany Street, in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Nano-scale structures made from DNA: study

Best known as the blueprint for life, DNA is also a marvel of architecture that can be used to build 3-D structures measured in billionths of a metre, according to a study released Wednesday.

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Yan earns prestigious Sloan Foundation fellowship

Hao Yan, a Biodesign Institute researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named the recipient of a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship.

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Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine more effective than traditional shot

A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable dose of the traditional injected vaccine, researchers report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Copolymers block out new approaches to microelectronics

NIST researchers reported at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society how they have improved manipulation of so-called block copolymers - polymers made of a mixture of two or more different molecule building blocks that are tethered at a junction point - which can form arrays of tiny dots that could be used as the basis for electronic components that pack terabytes (1000 gigabytes) of memory in something as small as a pack of gum.

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A new industrial-scale process for making big molecules with a big future

Scientists are reporting discovery of a new method that will enable manufacturers to produce industrial-size batches of dendrimers for the first time.

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Toward the next generation of high-efficiency plastic solar cells

Researchers in the United States and Austria report an advance toward the next generation of plastic solar cells, which are widely heralded as a low cost, environmentally-friendly alternative to inorganic solar cells for meeting rising energy demands.

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Nanomaterials show unexpected strength under stress

In yet another twist on the strangeness of the nanoworld, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park have discovered that materials such as silica that are quite brittle in bulk form behave as ductile as gold at the nanoscale. Their results may affect the design of future nanomachines.

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University of Texas at San Antonio receives $822,000 from Kleberg Foundation to enhance scientific research

Donation funds the purchase of three high-powered electron microscopes for cutting-edge research

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Tiny wire assembly technique may help detect cancer and other diseases

Bottom-up manufacturing may hold the key to production of tiny medical devices capable of testing for multiple molecules like viruses or cancer markers, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers.

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Iran offers Indonesia nuclear and nanotechnology cooperation

'Tehran is ready to make available to Jakarta its achievements and its valuable experience in a variety of fields, including in nuclear engineering, nanotechnology and economics,' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a joint news conference with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is on a two-day official visit to Tehran.

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Emerging nanotechnologies to be showcased at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on April 8

Conference to provide insight into NIST s studies of nanoelectronics, nanofabrication and nanometrology

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IMEC reports methodology to analyze process variability compatible with DFM tools

IMEC reports a variability-aware modeling (VAM) flow that analyzes process variability of sub-45nm technologies which enables designers to optimize their system design for timing, energy and yield versus expected application load.

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MEDi 2008 Returns to Connecticut Convention Center, September 9-10

MEDi 2008, the most comprehensive medical device conference and exhibition, will be held at the new Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 9-10. MEDi 2008 will showcase the latest developments in nanomedicine, drug delivery vehicles, drug/device combination products, robotic surgery, orthopedic implants and prosthetic devices, artificial organs and eHealth, while also providing conferences addressing important issues and business challenges related to the manufacture and commercialization of these devices.

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European Consortium to push the speed limit of silicon based transistor up to 0.5 TeraHertz

A powerful European consortium held the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project labeled DOTFIVE and titled 'Towards 0.5 TeraHertz Silicon/Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar technology (SiGe HBT)'.

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To sort, simply stretch

Researchers in Sweden have come up with a straightforward method for sorting particles in microfluidics - simply stretching the microchannel.

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