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Teaching Nanotechnology In Virtual World

On Mondays at 10 a.m. this fall semester, graduate students in the Nanomedicine in Healthcare course at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) log into an online virtual world known as Second Life, activate their computer-generated personae or avatars and head off to class.

22 Oct 2010

Detecting and Treating Tumors with the Help of Gold Particles

Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles with dimensions measure in mere nanometres.

22 Oct 2010

Making Tough, Resilient Materials Out of Simple Components

Nature has one very big advantage over any human research team: plenty of time. Billions of years, in fact. And over all that time, it has produced some truly amazing materials — using weak building blocks that human engineers have not yet figured out how to use for high-tech applications, and with many properties that humans have yet to find ways to duplicate.

22 Oct 2010

LayTec Named One of 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Germany Second Time in a Row

At the Deloitte‘s Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Berlin on October 20, 2010 LayTec was awarded for the second time in a row as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany. The nomination...

From LayTec GmbH 22 Oct 2010

K-State Professor's Graphene Research Shares Connection With Nobel Laureates

When two scientists were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with graphene, a Kansas State University professor was thrilled with the recognition of the new two-dimensional material. Vikas Berr...

22 Oct 2010

High Quality Epitaxial Services from TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors for 150-mm Wafer Customers

TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors announces today the availability of high quality in-line Si and SiGe epitaxial deposition service for customers, commercial and non-commercial, worldwide to address growing in-line epitaxial layer market requirement for the high speed amplifier and power driver applications.

22 Oct 2010

OSU Researchers Use Microscopes to Study Aged Batteries

In a laboratory at Ohio State University, an ongoing experiment is studying why batteries lose their ability to hold a charge as they age -- specifically lithium-ion batteries, which have generated a lot of buzz for thei...

22 Oct 2010

FSI International Wins Additional Orders for Single-Wafer, CryoKinetic System

FSI International, Inc. announced today that a leading Asia-based logic device producer has placed additional orders for multiple ANTARES® CryoKinetic cleaning systems, further broadening the platform’s installed base.

22 Oct 2010

Coats Selects Industrial Nanotech’s Insulation Coatings for Sustainability Project

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that Coats plc, the world’s largest manufacturer of thread and needlecraft supplies, has invested in Industrial Nanotech’s patented Nansulate® thermal coatings.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 22 Oct 2010