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New Epcot Center Exhibition Brings Nanotechnology to the Masses

A new long-term exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fl., will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld.

25 Feb 2010

PHOCUS Project Meeting the Challenges of Photonics Networks Head On

We have witnessed major advances in optical information processing over the years but there are still some hurdles we need to jump over if we want to secure better photonics networks. The PHOCUS ('Towards a photonic ...

25 Feb 2010

Oxford Instruments' TDI Awarded $600,000 To Boost Production of Solid-State Lighting Materials

Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), part of the Oxford Instruments Group, today announced it has been awarded $600,000 by the Maryland Energy Administration to help industry expedite the broad adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting, and better position Maryland to become a national solid-state lighting materials and equipment manufacturing leader.

25 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Corporation Approves Project for Reconstruction and Expansion of Production of Paving Asphalt Modifier

The Supervisory Council of Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies approved the project for reconstruction and expansion of production of a paving asphalt modifier Unirem, developed and manufactured by Novy Kauchuk. This...

25 Feb 2010

New Material Traps Radioactive Ions Using "Venus Flytrap" Method

Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater-it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear waste.

25 Feb 2010

Engineers Create Water Repellent Flat Surface That Relies Entirely on Microscopic Shape

Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice. The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon. Instead, Univers...

25 Feb 2010

600.000 Euros for the 2010 Best Business Ideas in Nanotechnology and Polymer-Based Materials

Veneto Nanotech, the Italian cluster of nanotechnology, is launching the sixth edition of Nanochallenge and Polymerchallenge, an internation business plan competition aiming at funding startups in nanotechnology with a G...

25 Feb 2010

IonSense Launches 3+D Scanner for Rapid Mass Spectrometry Chemical Analysis

IonSense, Inc. today announced the availability of the 3+D Scanner for rapid chemical analysis of surfaces. The 3+D Scanner is interfaced to the DART®-SVP open-air ionization source, which was introduced at Pittcon 2009.

25 Feb 2010

Magma Design Automation and CDICC Jointly Open IC Design Lab in China

Magma Design Automation (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, and Chengdu ICC (CDICC), a government-funded organization that promotes integrated circuit (IC) design in Chengdu, today announced the recent ope...

25 Feb 2010

Scientists Study How Metallic Contacts on Graphene Change Material's Electron Transport Properties

Using large-scale supercomputer calculations, researchers have analyzed how the placement of metallic contacts on graphene changes the electron transport properties of the material as a factor of junction length, width and orientation.

25 Feb 2010

Biophysicists Develop New Technology That Helps Improve Decision Making in Drug Development

The search for new therapeutic agents is time-consuming and expensive. Pharmaceutical companies may have to screen thousands of compounds for the ability to bind a target molecule before they hit upon a promising drug ca...

25 Feb 2010

IDE Announces Upgradation to MK4 EMI Compensation System That Protects Electron Microscopes

The globally proven MK4 EMI Compensation System from Integrated Dynamics Engineering (IDE) has been extensively upgraded with a unique graphical interface software program called Kathak, an advanced installation and diag...

25 Feb 2010

Landmark Discovery Will Lay Path for Energy-Efficient, Cost-Effective Creation of Nanocrystals

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), in collaboration with counterparts from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and King Abdullah Univ...

25 Feb 2010

By Mimicking Cells, Researchers Design Electronic Circuits for Ultra-Low-Power and Biomedical Applications

A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, a cell performs about 10 million energy-consuming chemical reactions, which altogether require about one picowatt (one millionth millionth of a watt) of power.

25 Feb 2010

Nanogap Sensor Array Wafer Chip Detecting DNA Rapidly and Cost-Effectively

IBN has successfully developed a novel electronic sensor array for more rapid, accurate and cost-efficient testing of DNA for disease diagnosis and biological research. This study by IBN Group Leader Dr Zhiqiang Gao and his team was published in the leading international chemistry journal, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

From Nanogap 24 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology News

New Epcot Center Exhibition Brings Nanotechnology to the Masses

PHOCUS Project Meeting the Challenges of Photonics Networks Head On

Oxford Instruments' TDI Awarded $600,000 To Boost Production of Solid-State Lighting Materials

Nanotechnology Corporation Approves Project for Reconstruction and Expansion of Production of Paving Asphalt Modifier

New Material Traps Radioactive Ions Using "Venus Flytrap" Method

Engineers Create Water Repellent Flat Surface That Relies Entirely on Microscopic Shape

600.000 Euros for the 2010 Best Business Ideas in Nanotechnology and Polymer-Based Materials

IonSense Launches 3+D Scanner for Rapid Mass Spectrometry Chemical Analysis

Magma Design Automation and CDICC Jointly Open IC Design Lab in China

Scientists Study How Metallic Contacts on Graphene Change Material's Electron Transport Properties

Biophysicists Develop New Technology That Helps Improve Decision Making in Drug Development

IDE Announces Upgradation to MK4 EMI Compensation System That Protects Electron Microscopes

Landmark Discovery Will Lay Path for Energy-Efficient, Cost-Effective Creation of Nanocrystals

By Mimicking Cells, Researchers Design Electronic Circuits for Ultra-Low-Power and Biomedical Applications

Nanogap Sensor Array Wafer Chip Detecting DNA Rapidly and Cost-Effectively

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