CEA-Leti has declared that the second Maskless Lithography IMAGINE Workshop will be conducted on September 6, 2011 at the Keio Plaza Hotel located in Tokyo.
There is a large gap in knowledge about the impact of nanomaterials on edible plants, according to the latest episode of ‘Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions’, an award-winning podcast series of the American Chemical Society.
The Cullen College of Engineering of the University of Houston has received a $429,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to finance ‘Innovations in Nanotechnology’, a research experience for teachers (RET) program.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
Researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital’s Centre of Cancer Biomedicine have demonstrated that the introduction and storing of nanoparticles within cells will have a detrimental effect on the transportation of critical substances into and out of the cells, resulting in unwanted changes in the physiology of the cells and their functioning.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
Brown University researchers have discovered that nickel nanoparticles trigger a cellular pathway called HIF-1 alpha that leads to cancer in human lung cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
A research team at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the astonishingly powerful adhesion properties of graphene during a study financed mainly by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
According to Sharon Glotzer and Nicholas Kotov, chemical engineering professors at the University of Michigan, uniformly sized nanoparticle superclusters can be produced by assembling nanoparticles using a fine balance of atomic forces.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
A research team led by Roman Nowak, who serves at Aalto University’s Nordic Hysitron Laboratory, has discovered that materials such as silicon are brittle in larger sizes but when the material is of a nano-size, it can be squeezed into 50% of its size without causing breakage.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Aug 2011
It is easier to transmit information-rich photons several thousand miles via fiber-optic cable than for a few nanometers inside a computer chip.
The scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have invented a method to draw superconducting shapes utilizing an X-ray beam.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 Aug 2011
As part of its FY2011 Innovation Promotion Programme, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Incorporated Administrative Agency, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) will award a grant to Sosei Group’s subsidiary Activus Pharma for the development of advanced ophthalmic solutions.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 Aug 2011
Medina International’s subsidiary WinTec Protective Systems and Wilhelm Security Solutions have entered into a distribution deal to market WinTec Protective Systems’ CorTain, a nano-based polymer anti-corrosi...
By Dr. Cameron Chai
25 Aug 2011
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is happy to appreciate Mark Akeson of the University of California in Santa Cruz and his partners for receiving a three-year grant worth $3.6 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
Two patent analysis reports released this year ranked Angstron Materials and Nanotek Instruments' co-founders Dr. Bor Jang and Dr. Aruna Zhamu among the top five in the world for their development of intellectual pro...
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, who serves as chair and professor of biomedical and chemical engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science of Syracuse University, has created a patent-pending innovative method for the production of stable metal nanoparticle suspensions that can capture sunlight.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
24 Aug 2011