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"Nano 101" Reaches Out to High School Students

Alexis Abramson, Ph.D., NorTech Fellow in Nanotechnology, Co-Director of the Nano-Network, and Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, will be speaking at six local...

20 Sep 2008

Oxonica Signs Strategic Agreement Relating to Nanoplex Technology with BD

Oxonica plc, a leading international nanomaterials group, today announces that it has signed a strategic agreement relating to its Nanoplex(TM) technology with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical...

From Oxonica Inc. 20 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology Shows Promise in Quest for Improved Power Storage Devices

Car batteries as we know them today may soon be relics. Storing energy in clunky containers with limited shelf lives has plagued car makers and military engineers who need lightweight, powerful and reliable means to crank engines into life, enliven radios and operate other electronic appliances.

20 Sep 2008

World's Thinnest Balloon, Just 1 Atom Thick

Using a lump of graphite, a piece of Scotch tape and a silicon wafer, Cornell researchers have created a balloonlike membrane that is just one atom thick -- but strong enough to contain gases under several atmospheres of pressure without popping.

20 Sep 2008

BioAlliance Pharma Receives Prestigious Award from the French State

BioAlliance Pharma SA, the specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of opportunistic infections in cancer and AIDS, today announced that Madame Dominique Costantini, President of the company's Execut...

20 Sep 2008

Applied Nanoscience to Assist EFP in Response to FDA Comments

Applied Nanoscience Inc., a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, today announced that it has committed to fully assist its future merger partner Emergency Filtration Products, Inc. (EFP), the developer of...

From Applied Nanoscience Inc. 20 Sep 2008

Conducting DNA Tests Quickly and Inexpensively Using New "Lab on a Chip" Technology

Using new "lab on a chip" technology, James Landers hopes to create a hand-held device that may eventually allow physicians, crime scene investigators, pharmacists, even the general public to quickly and inexpensively conduct DNA tests from almost anywhere, without need for a complex and expensive central laboratory.

20 Sep 2008

Firms Specializing in Nanotechnology from Israel the Single Largest Pavilion at NanotxUSA’08

Anyone wanting to do business with Israel’s scientific community will be able to meet all the important companies in one place, event organizers in Dallas announced today. Firms specializing in nanotechnology from ...

20 Sep 2008

Turning Plant Cells into Medical Factories

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will coordinate the large EU research project called SmartCell. The four-year project focuses on developing methods for production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds using plant...

19 Sep 2008

Unique Nanostructures Paving the Way for Safer and More Efficient Chemical Reactors

Unique nanostructures which respond to stimuli, such as pH, heat and light will pave the way for safer, greener and more efficient chemical reactors. Being developed by a consortium of UK universities, the nanostructu...

19 Sep 2008

Finetex Technology and Awa Paper Jointly Develop Nano Filter Media

Awa Paper Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of various specialty paper products in Tokushima, Japan, announced that they have jointly developed a new filter media with Finetex Technology Global Limited from Hong Kong. The new fil...

19 Sep 2008

Teaching an Old Chemical Reaction New Tricks

A new twist on a common chemical reaction has enabled RIKEN scientists to create molecules that are useful building blocks for making new pharmaceuticals.

19 Sep 2008

Model May Advance Our Understanding of Fundamental Concept in Particle Physics

From a recent theoretical study, Japanese high-energy particle physicists have provided an important new method to apply to a fundamental concept known as supersymmetry.

19 Sep 2008

Transport Properties of Organic Conductors Strictly Connected to Internal Geometry of Crystals

Recent findings by a team of researchers from Japan and the United Kingdom could prove essential in explaining the origin of superconductivity in organic materials*, and pave the way for the development of new organic materials. The origin of superconductivity has been attributed to magnetic interactions, but this has never been fully accepted because some non-magnetic insulators can become superconducting.

19 Sep 2008

Researchers Uncovered Fundamentals of Insulating Behavior of Nickel Oxide

Owing to its simplicity in chemical composition and crystal structure, nickel oxide (NiO) is a model system for the understanding of a whole family of oxide compounds. However, even for such as basic two-atom compound the physics governing its physical properties can be rather complex. Indeed, a detailed fundamental understanding as to why this basic oxide is insulating rather than conductive has eluded physicists since the 1930s. Now researchers from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima have uncovered the fundamentals of the material's insulating behavior.

19 Sep 2008