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New Material Permanently Traps Only its Desired Prey

Not every object is food to a Venus flytrap. Like the carnivorous plant, a new material developed at Northwestern University permanently traps only its desired prey, the radioactive ion cesium, and not other harmless ion...

26 Jan 2010

Mismatched Alloys A Good Match for Future Development of High Performance Thermoelectric Devices

Employing some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that mismatched alloys are a good match for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 26 Jan 2010

AMETEK Acquires Sterling Ultra Precision

AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) announced it has acquired the assets of Sterling Ultra Precision, a privately held reseller of machine tools for the ophthalmic lens market. Sterling Ultra Precision is headquartered in Tampa, FL...

26 Jan 2010

Swedish Graphene Offers High Degree of Accuracy for Quantum Mechanical Effects

The hyper-quick electronics of the future will require new materials and the hottest around is graphene - a single layer of carbon atoms. Graphene produced using a method developed at Linköping University is now bei...

26 Jan 2010

Speeding up Photons Faster Than Speed of Light Through Stack of Materials

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 26 Jan 2010

Engineered Metamaterials Enable Remarkably Small Antennas

In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, the gadget makers for James Bond, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners from industry and academia have designed and tested experimental antennas that are highly efficient and yet a fraction of the size of standard antenna systems with comparable properties.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 26 Jan 2010

sp3 Diamond Technologies Announces Availability of New Turnkey Metalized Diamond Heat Spreading Segments

sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond products, equipment and services, and Stellar Industries Corp. (Stellar), specializing in thermal management materials and metallization, today announce...

From sp3 26 Jan 2010

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies Signs Partnership Agreement with Russian Railways

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Anatoly Chubais and Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin have signed an agreement for strategic partnership in the implementation and commercialization of nanotechnology for rail transport.

26 Jan 2010

Nanoscale Protective Coating Market to Reach $3515 Million in 2015

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanoscale Protective Coatings" report to their offering. The market for nanosca...

From Research and Markets 26 Jan 2010

Collaborative Agreement Expands Ability to Provide Carbon Nanotubes and Technical Support for High Performance Conductive Plastic Applications.

Nanocyl announced today it has appointed NRC to be its commercial partner for NC 7000 multiwall carbon nanotubes and Plasticyl™ thermoplastic concentrates marketed to automakers in Germany. In the agreement, NR...

From NANOCYL SA 26 Jan 2010

Brigham Young University Chooses NanoSight LM-10 for Nanotechnology Research

The Department of Chemistry + Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU) has chosen the NanoSight LM-10 system to support their research into the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles, principally metal oxides.

26 Jan 2010

Stagecoach Signs Supply Agreement for Envirox Fuel Additive Developed Using Nanotechnology

Stagecoach Group, a leading international public transport group, with extensive operations in the UK, United States and Canada, has reduced its CO2 emissions from its bus fleet in the UK by more than 100,000 tonnes over...

26 Jan 2010

U.S. Department of Agriculture Purchases Fluidigm Microfluidic-Based EP1 System

Fluidigm Corporation has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has purchased a Fluidigm microfluidic-based EP1™ System to help develop and validate focused 96- and 384-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) panels for testing America's dairy and beef cattle.

From Standard BioTools 26 Jan 2010

Systems Biologist Named Recipient of Berlin Science Award

Systems biologist Professor Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch in Germany has been named recipient of the Science Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin in recognit...

26 Jan 2010

Researchers to Build Up Body Parts Using Nanocellulose and Body's Own Cells

As the first group in the world, researchers from Chalmers will build up body parts using nanocellulose and the body's own cells. Funding will be from the European network for nanomedicine, EuroNanoMed.

26 Jan 2010

Nanotechnology News

New Material Permanently Traps Only its Desired Prey

Mismatched Alloys A Good Match for Future Development of High Performance Thermoelectric Devices

AMETEK Acquires Sterling Ultra Precision

Swedish Graphene Offers High Degree of Accuracy for Quantum Mechanical Effects

Speeding up Photons Faster Than Speed of Light Through Stack of Materials

Engineered Metamaterials Enable Remarkably Small Antennas

sp3 Diamond Technologies Announces Availability of New Turnkey Metalized Diamond Heat Spreading Segments

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies Signs Partnership Agreement with Russian Railways

Nanoscale Protective Coating Market to Reach $3515 Million in 2015

Collaborative Agreement Expands Ability to Provide Carbon Nanotubes and Technical Support for High Performance Conductive Plastic Applications.

Brigham Young University Chooses NanoSight LM-10 for Nanotechnology Research

Stagecoach Signs Supply Agreement for Envirox Fuel Additive Developed Using Nanotechnology

U.S. Department of Agriculture Purchases Fluidigm Microfluidic-Based EP1 System

Systems Biologist Named Recipient of Berlin Science Award

Researchers to Build Up Body Parts Using Nanocellulose and Body's Own Cells

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