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    Video: MIT Flash Mob Demonstrates Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

    Video: MIT Flash Mob Demonstrates Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

    This excellent video from MIT shows a rare phenomenon - an educational flashmob. Around 200 students and staff acted out the delivery of chemotherapeutics to cancer cells via nanoparticles at the David H. Koch Institute as part of the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival.

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    News: Piezoelectric Viruses Power Thin-Film Generator

    News: Piezoelectric Viruses Power Thin-Film Generator

    Berkley researchers create a device which promises to harness vibrations caused by everyday activities to generate electricity.

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    NanoInk Announces Availabilty of High Density Tip Arrays for Polymer Pen Lithography

    NanoInk Announces Availabilty of High Density Tip Arrays for Polymer Pen Lithography

    NanoInk announced today the availability of High Density (HD) Tip Arrays for Polymer Pen Lithography (PPL). These high-density elastomeric pen arrays are ideal for high-throughput deposition of ink materials. Similar to standard Dip Pen Nanolithography® (DPN®) with regular silicon nitride pens, High Density Tip Arrays can be used for the deposition of molecules with well-controlled feature size.

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    Oxford Instruments launches new solution for EDS on TEM

    Oxford Instruments launches new solution for EDS on TEM

    Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, a world leader in microanalysis software and systems, has announced the launch of AZtecTEM, EDS software for the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). Since the launch of the AZtec microanalysis system for the Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) in April 2011, the TEM community has been eagerly awaiting the introduction of AZtecTEM.

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    WEBINAR: Scratch Testing, a useful technique for coating adhesion and scratch resistance

    WEBINAR: Scratch Testing, a useful technique for coating adhesion and scratch resistance

    CSM Instruments are running a free Webinar on Scratch Testing on June 6th 2012. See the event listing for more details and to register.

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    Nanotechnology Thought Leaders
      Harvesting Waste Energy - Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials

      Harvesting Waste Energy - Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials

      Due to the ever increasing energy demand and growing global concern over the environmental impact of CO2 emissions, there is a need to seek solutions to transit from fossil fuels to sustainable energy. This "Thought Leader' article discusses how harvesting waste energy with nanostructured thermoelectric materials just may help this cause.

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      Predictive Thermodynamics for Condensed Phases, and Nanotechnology

      Predictive Thermodynamics for Condensed Phases, and Nanotechnology

      Thermodynamic relations may be regarded as the motor driving chemical processes (while chemical kinetics represents the brakes). In order to operate, the relations need to be powered with the fuel of values for the thermodynamic quantities concerned...

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      Materials Science on a Single Defect Level: Dimensions of Complexity

      Materials Science on a Single Defect Level: Dimensions of Complexity

      The statement that a materials functionality is controlled by defects is perhaps the most recognized paradigm of materials science, solid state electrochemistry, and condensed physics alike.

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      Nanotechnology in the UK

      Nanotechnology in the UK

      Nanotechnology has been well supported in the UK within a rather restricted budget, in ways that have encouraged the effective use of funds and with a clear policy to translate the outputs of basic research into future applications.

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      Microfluidics and Biomedical Applications

      Microfluidics and Biomedical Applications

      Microfluidics is a research area within MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and is concerned with the control of the flow of fluids measured in micro, nano, or even Pico, litre, quantities. The fluid can be liquid or gaseous in nature, or a mixture of both, and flows through microscale channels, pumps, valves, and filters.

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      Responsive Microgel Composite Colloids for Plasmonic Sensing

      Responsive Microgel Composite Colloids for Plasmonic Sensing

      This "Thought Leader' article from Prof Luis M. Liz-Marzan discusses a novel and efficient method to coat CTAB-capped gold nanoparticles, opening up new avenues toward the fabrication of miniaturized sensing devices.

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      Infrared Sub-Cellular Imaging with an Atomic Force Microscope

      Infrared Sub-Cellular Imaging with an Atomic Force Microscope

      AFM-IR, a new infrared spectromicroscope coupling an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to a tunable laser, allows researchers to derive chemical information on a scale not previously possible.

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