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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

A Step Closer to One of the Holy Grails of Drug Delivery

A team of scientists led by Dr Simon Richardson at the University of Greenwich has got a step closer to one of the holy grails of drug delivery. The goal - to find a vehicle that can carry drugs not just to a specific...

24 Feb 2010

ASM International Extends Market Leadership for High-k ALD

ASM International N.V. (NASDAQ: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM), today announced two new Pulsar® orders from leading logic customers. One system was purchased by a new customer for the development of next generatio...

From ASM International 24 Feb 2010

PI Publishes Digital Flash Catalog on Piezo Technology and Nanopositioning Products

PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a digital flash catalog on Piezo Technology and Nanopositioning Products. The 560 page digital publication also contains extensive tutorials on piezo motion technology, the fundamentals of nanopositioning, micropositioning and nanometrology.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 24 Feb 2010

Sandia Researcher Named IEEE Fellow for Microelectronics Research

Paul Dodd, a Sandia National Laboratories researcher, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to the understanding and simulation of single-event effects in microelectronic," according to a notification sent out by the organization.

From Sandia National Laboratories 24 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology News

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

A Step Closer to One of the Holy Grails of Drug Delivery

ASM International Extends Market Leadership for High-k ALD

PI Publishes Digital Flash Catalog on Piezo Technology and Nanopositioning Products

Sandia Researcher Named IEEE Fellow for Microelectronics Research

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