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Researchers Work on Computational Chemistry Tools for Use in Blue Waters Supercomputer

They can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second. But it's not all that computing power that's driving three Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers as t...

28 Apr 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Appoints Bruce M. Peterson as Executive Director

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”) is pleased to announce today the appointment of Bruce M. Peterson, Ph.D., as Executive Director.

28 Apr 2010

NanoeXa to Present Advanced Energy Storage in May and June Conferences

NanoeXa today announced presentations on Advanced Energy Storage at 3 conferences in May and June, 2010. Dr. Deepak Srivastava, CTO, will outline how NanoeXa's proprietary Quantum Simulation Software (QSS) can ad...

28 Apr 2010

New Nano-Engineered Materials Help to Fine-Tune Thermoelectric Properties of Material

Thermoelectricity is a two-way process. It can refer either to the way a temperature difference between one side of a material and the other can produce electricity, or to the reverse.

28 Apr 2010

New Research Report on Nanobiotechnology Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanobiotechnologies- applications, markets and companies. Summary Nanotechnology is the creation and utilization of materi...

28 Apr 2010

Intemper and its Partner Develop 6mm Thick Flexible Solar Film

Homeowners who wanted to produce energy by capturing the sun's rays through solar panels on their roofs used to have to put up with ugly add-ons to their houses in order to help save the planet.

28 Apr 2010

Kaajakari's Shoe Power Generator Featured in MEMS Investor Journal

Dr. Ville Kaajakari, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, is being featured by MEMS Investor Journal, a national online industry publication, for developing a technology that harvests power from a small generator embedded in the sole of a shoe.

28 Apr 2010

Fluidigm Introduces Protocol for Access Array Integrated Fluidic Circuit

Fluidigm Corporation today announced the release of a protocol for the Access Array™ System that enables sequencing of amplicon libraries using GS FLX Titanium Series reagents on the 454 GS FLX sequencing system. ...

28 Apr 2010

Nanotechnology Scientists Solving Some of the World's Biggest Challenges

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major factor in global warming and the bete noire of climate change scientists. But if scientists at the A*STAR have any say in the matter, it could soon be turned into useful energy in a simple...

27 Apr 2010

New Report Calls for Citizen Participation to Inform Decision-Making on Science and Nanotechnology

A new report from the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars defines the criteria for a new technology assessment function in the United States.

27 Apr 2010

NIST Researchers COMMAND a Better Class of Liposomes

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) pioneered a method* using a microscopic fluidic (microfluidic) device that exploits the same principle to create liquid-filled vesicles called liposomes from phospholipids, the fat complexes that are the building blocks for animal cell membranes.