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Molecular Biologist Wins 2010 Max Delbruck Medal

The American molecular biologist Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Max Delbruck Medal awarded in Berlin, Germany. Lindquis...

7 Nov 2010

Tours and Activities Highlight Nanotechnology and Global Leadership of CNSE and NYS

More than 1,000 people, including children, adults and families from throughout upstate New York, converged today on the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany to part...

7 Nov 2010

PI Releases New Catalog on Piezo Mechanisms

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of piezo ceramic actuators and precision motion-control equipment for semiconductor, bio-medical and nanotechnology applications -- has released a new catalog on Piezo Mechanisms.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 5 Nov 2010

Scientists Create Low-Cost Thermoelectric Materials using Nanotechnology

Although climate-controlled car seats don’t spring to mind when you think of energy efficiency, the latest technology underpinning this luxury automobile feature is based on thermoelectrics—materials that convert electricity directly into heating or cooling.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5 Nov 2010

Partnership Pursues Expanding Opportunities for Design and Engineering of ‘Green' High-Tech Facilities

Rejecting opportunities to move outside of New York State, EYP Architecture and Engineering PC ("EYP") of Albany today announced plans to remain in the Capital Region and establish expanded headquarters and ope...

5 Nov 2010

Company to Demonstrate New Conductive Ink Technology at Printed Electronics And Photovoltaics Show

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), the leader in high quality, single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT), will be presenting performance data on its new conductive carbon nanotube inks at the Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics USA 2010 conference. SWeNT will also have information available in the exhibition area (Booth 80).

5 Nov 2010

Scientists Create ‘Super-Twisted’ Light for First Time

The research team at the University of Glasgow twisted the light like a corkscrew by using a polarising filter, before shining it onto a specially shaped piece of gold to create the world’s first ‘super twisting’.

5 Nov 2010

Market Leader Descend on Technology World-UK Nanoforum Conference

More than 60 speakers from market-leading organisations including Microsoft, the BBC and Cambridge University - including former IBM EMEA chairman Larry Hirst - are appearing at this year's Technology World in partnershi...

4 Nov 2010

Hysitron Receives Advanced Manufacturing Award st 2010 Tekne Awards

The Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA), in partnership with LifeScience Alley, Enterprise Minnesota and the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, has named Hysitron as the recipient of the 2010 Tekne Award in the Advanc...

4 Nov 2010

World’s Highest-Energy Collisions Of Lead Ions

The Large Hadron Collider’s first record-setting run of high-energy proton collisions ended today, and scientists are now readying the accelerator to meet its next challenge: the world’s highest-energy collisions of lead ions.

4 Nov 2010

Revolutionary New Polymer Film Changes Shape Upon Irradiation with UV and Visible Light

Japanese researchers at RIKEN have successfully developed a revolutionary new polymer film that changes shape upon irradiation with UV and visible light.

4 Nov 2010

New Therapy Will Prevent Growth of Bone Formations That Hamper Amputees' Use of Prostheses

Carnegie Mellon University's Bone Tissue Engineering Center is working to help soldiers who have lost limbs in combat. CMU's Jeffrey O. Hollinger, director of the center, and Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ...

4 Nov 2010

International Agreement Between Australia and China to Further Expand Nanotechnology Research

An international agreement between Australia and China to further expand nanoscience research has been welcomed today by Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr, and the Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans...

4 Nov 2010

Improving Stability Of Nanoscale Technologies

Patricia Thiel of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory put a box of tissues to the right, a stack of coasters to the middle and a trinket box to the left.

4 Nov 2010

Plastics Could Help Re-Invent Manufacture of Computer Chips

Plastic, heated in a simple microwave oven, is the technique researchers at the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology believe could help to re-invent the manufacture of computer chips.

4 Nov 2010