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Noted Toxicologist to Make Keynote Presentation at International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry

Join your industry colleagues for the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, presented by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. The...

18 Mar 2009

High-Performing Photoconducting Material that Uses Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manu...

18 Mar 2009

nLIGHT Introduces New Highly Doped, Photodarkening Resistant Ytterbium Fibers

nLIGHT Corporation (nLIGHT) announced today the availability of new highly doped, photodarkening resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent (%) higher absorption at 920 nanometer (nm) and pump conversion efficienci...

18 Mar 2009

Quest PharmaTech Forms Strategic Alliance with IntelligentNano to Develop Nanotechnology-Based Next Generation SL052

Quest PharmaTech Inc. (TSX-V: QPT) ("Quest" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer and dermatological conditions, today announc...

18 Mar 2009

Survey Examines Nanotechnology and Emerging Health and Safety Issues

RMIT University has been commissioned by the Office of the Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) to examine options for substitution/modification of engineered nanomaterials, to reduce the potential hazards a...

18 Mar 2009

MIT Scientist to Deliver Keynote Address in Nanoscience at ACS's 237th National Meeting

Angela M. Belcher, Ph.D., a noted scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will deliver the Keynote Address in Nanoscience here today at the American Chemical Society's 237th National Meeting.

From American Chemical Society 17 Mar 2009

BIND Biosciences Installs Siemens Simatic(R) PCS 7 Lab Process Control System

Siemens Energy + Automation, Inc. announced today that BIND Biosciences, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., has selected Simatic(R) PCS 7 Lab hardware and software to help its scientists manage pre- and post-clinical experimental data.

17 Mar 2009

Using Nanotechnology Test to Detect Anthrax Following a Bioterrorist Attack

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has completed a "proof-of-concept" study of a test that quickly and accurately detects the presence of even the smallest amount of the deadly anthrax toxin.

17 Mar 2009

Conference Features Breakthroughs in Next-Generation Metamaterials

The world's largest international conference on optical communications begins next week and continues from March 22-26 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and E...

17 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology-Based Coating Allows Window Panes and Glass Doors to Detect Movements

It is 6 p.m. and the museum is closing down for the night. The building's alarm system is switched on and the security guard does his rounds. A novel motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin could provide even more security in future, enabling window panes and glass doors to detect movements thanks to a special coating.

17 Mar 2009