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Exciting World of Nanotechnology On Display at Crossgates Mall

The exciting world of nanotechnology will be on display at Crossgates Mall in Albany this week as the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany presents a unique "Na...

29 Mar 2010

P3SENS Consortium to Develop New Biosensor

A 3.6M€ project cofunded by the 7th EU Framework Program is developing Photonic Crystal technology for multi-target biodetection of Cerebrovascular Disease Expertise spanning Photonic Crystals to Proteomics is al...

29 Mar 2010

Samsung Announces Shipping of 40nm-Class 32GB Memory Modules

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun shipping samples of the industry’s highest-density memory module for server systems. The 32 gigaby...

29 Mar 2010

New Approach to Control Liquid Spreading in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

Controlling the way liquids spread across a surface is important for a wide variety of technologies, including DNA microarrays for medical research, inkjet printers and digital lab-on-a-chip systems.

29 Mar 2010

ORNL Honors Thin Polysilicon Solar Technology Developed by Students

Graduate students from the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland received first place at the 2010 Global Venture Challenge that was hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory March 24-26. The challenge is...

29 Mar 2010

Middle East Scientists Join to Build New Particle Accelerator

In Jordan, an international project to build a particle accelerator, called SESAME, hopes to bring together scientists from across the Middle East.

29 Mar 2010

New Nanogenerator Helps to Make Small Sensing Devices

By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of mechanical energy.

29 Mar 2010

NSSA Recognizes Mook's Contributions to Quantum Phenomena Study

Herbert A. Mook Jr., a UT-Battelle Senior Corporate Fellow at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2010 Clifford E. Shull Prize by the Neutron Scattering Society of America (...

29 Mar 2010

Tiny Chemical Sensors Could Help Diagnose Disease and Track its Progress

Tiny chemical sensors implanted into patients could help diagnose disease and track its progress, following a development by scientists. Researchers have developed tiny probes comprising gold-coated particles. These ...

28 Mar 2010

Aberdeen Introduces New Servers with Xeon 5600 32nm Microprocessors

Aberdeen LLC aggressively rolls out new servers based on Intel Corp.'s latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors which promise better performance and lower power consumption. The Aberdeen Stirling 267, VMware certified 2U serv...

27 Mar 2010

EVSO Sources Solar Wafer Needs for Polyven

Evolution Solar Corporation's (PinkSheets: EVSO) Director of Asian Operations, Michael Franklin, has successfully sourced special solar wafer needs for Polyven International. Polyven International is a US based co...

27 Mar 2010

Groundbreaking Curriculum Offers Education and Training to Support Nanotechnology Career Opportunities

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany announced today that it will offer a pioneering baccalaureate program in Nanoscale Engineering.

27 Mar 2010

Nanobiophotonics, Developing Tools for Advancement in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Biophotonics, or photomedicine, is a relatively unknown discipline, though it has existed for years now. You may have even benefited from it without realizing it. Some of the greatest advances of this field can be found in applications for the areas of oncology, dermatology, ophthalmology, surgery and cardiology.

26 Mar 2010

Competition Grows as Result of Electronic Purchases

The shift to an electronic procurement system, which RUSNANO made on February 1, 2010, has increased the number of competing suppliers 1.5 times and reduced the price of purchases by 24 percent. These figures come from a...

26 Mar 2010

Fluorescence Microscopy for Observing Objects on the Nanoscale

The imaging of living cells at the molecular level was barely a dream twenty years ago. Today, however, this dream is close to becoming reality. In the Max Planck Institute for NanoBiophotonics in Göttingen, Stefan ...

26 Mar 2010