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Futurecarbon Showcases Latest Super-Composite Materials at Swisstech 2010

FutureCarbon is exhibiting in the Nano Village of this year's Swisstech staged from 16 through 19 November in Basle. The Bayreuth-based company is presenting super-composite materials with new electrical and thermal ...

11 Nov 2010

Euronanoforum and Nanotech Europe to Produce Europe's Largest Nanotechnology Event

EuroNanoForum and Nanotech Europe are joining forces in 2011 to produce Europe's largest nanotechnology event. Supported by the European Commission and organised within the framework of the Presidency of the Euro...

11 Nov 2010

Keithley Instruments Hosts Application Forum

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, is hosting a forum designed to offer customers and users of Keithley instrumentation a central location for find...

11 Nov 2010

MIT Develops Cleaner, Greener Nanotube Manufacturing Process

Carbon nanotubes are a component used in electronics, medicine and industrial design. They are tiny, strong and have very useful electrical properties, but producing them can cause environmental problems due to the chemi...

By Andy Choi 11 Nov 2010

Event Showcases Nanotechnology in Builing Industry

'Nanotechnology and bionics - High tech in the building industry' is the title of a series of events being organised by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology and taking place at BAU 2011.

11 Nov 2010

Nanotechnology and Personalized Cancer Treatment

NaturalNano, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NNAN) (Frankfurt:N3N), a materials science company focused on developing and commercializing advanced nanocomposites, announced that Andrew Hughes is presenting today research from Cornell ...

11 Nov 2010

Micromeritics Matertials Characterization Equipment Will be on Show at PSWC

Micromeritics Instrument Corporation and Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics brand, will exhibit its materials characterization instrumentation that includes the Particle Insight Dynamic Image Analyzer, TriStar II Surface Area and Porosity System, and GeoPyc 1360 Pycnometer at Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC).

From Micromeritics International Sales 11 Nov 2010

Oxford Instruments Installs Cryofree Dilution Refrigerator for Graphene Research

Oxford Instruments has just installed its first Cryofree® dilution refrigerator in Spain to Dr Enrique Diez from Salamanca University. Dr Diez works on the popular subject of graphene, whose importance was recently recognised through the award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From Oxford Instruments plc 11 Nov 2010

Kylin Therapeutics Awarded $250,000 for pRNAi Nanoparticle Cancer Treatment Research

Officials of Kylin Therapeutics Inc. announces that they received a therapeutic discovery project grant from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service that will advance the company's pRNAi nanoparticle cancer treatment research.

11 Nov 2010

Researchers Find Tiny Biomolecules for Imaging by Combining Laser and Atomic Force Microscopy

The researchers characterize their new technique as a neat solution to the "needle in a haystack" problem of nanoscale microscopy, but it's more like the difference between finding the coffee table in a darkened room either by walking around until you fall over it, or using a flashlight.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Nov 2010

BNL Scientists Develop New Electrocatalyst to Enhance Fuel Cell Technology

Stop-and-go driving can wear on your nerves, but it really does a number on the precious platinum that drives reactions in automotive fuel cells. Before large fleets of fuel-cell-powered vehicles can hit the road, sci...

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 11 Nov 2010

EuroNanoMed to Provide €8 Million for Eight Nanomedicine Research Projects in Europe

EuroNanoMed, a European funding initiative under the ERA-Net scheme of the European Commission aimed at advancing transnational research in Nanomedicine, announced today the projects that will be funded following its 2nd joint transnational call for collaborative research projects.

11 Nov 2010

New Way of Carbon Nanotube Production to Minimize Environmental Impact

Given their size, strength and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes — tiny, hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms — hold promise for a range of applications in electronics, medicine and other fields. Despite industrial development of nanotubes in recent years, however, very little is known about how they form or the environmental impacts of their manufacture.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11 Nov 2010

New MEMS Vibration Monitor System Offers Automatic Vibration Profiling

Analog Devices, Inc. is helping industrial equipment designers improve system performance and maintenance costs through vibration detection/isolation/correction.

From Analog Devices 11 Nov 2010

Prof. Ron Folman to Receive 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Ron Folman has been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. The award is presented annually in Utah for o...

11 Nov 2010