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Finland Designated as Setting for Internationally Recognized Nanotechnology Event in 2010

TAPPI, the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging and converting industries and co-publisher of Paper360° and TAPPI JOURNAL, has announced the dates and location for its 2010 International Confe...

23 Dec 2009

Creating A New Imaging Technique to View Graphene

It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinn...

23 Dec 2009

Scientists Succeeded in Creating the First Transistor Made From A Single Molecule

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, published their findings in the December 24 issue of the journal Nature.

23 Dec 2009

Nanoscientists Receive Prestigious Grant to Develop New Magnetic Materials

Nanoscientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have received a prestigious grant to develop new magnetic materials that could help reduce global warming and the nation's dependence on foreign resources. Res...

23 Dec 2009

Project Will Bring Russian Bifacial Crystalline Silicon Solar Modules to World Market

Realization of the project will bring Russian bifacial crystalline silicon solar modules to the world market. The new modules will have efficiency factors that surpass unifacial modules by 10% to 70%-10% when installatio...

23 Dec 2009

TowerJazz Awarded Contract to Support MATES Program

TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced its USA Aerospace and Defense Division has been awarded a contract by General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD...

23 Dec 2009

Nanogram Concentrations of a Toxic Compound Detected in Chlorinated Tap Water

Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking water must be disinfected. After treatment and disinfection, the water is usually safe.

23 Dec 2009

BASF and KIT Open Joint Nanotechnology Research Laboratory

"IP3" - innovative products, intelligent particles, integrated processes - is a joint laboratory for process technology at Karlsruhe, which has been founded by KIT and BASF SE. The JointLab has been established for five years for the time being. Both partners are represented equally. Activities will focus on the development of nanostructured functional materials for use in organic electronics, as pigments, agrochemicals, medicine, or catalysts.

From BASF 23 Dec 2009

Powering Energy Transfer Between Nano-Electromagnets with Magnetic Field of Light

A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light. This breakthrough is of...

23 Dec 2009

Combining Calorimetry with Vibrational Spectroscopy to Identify Heat Evolutions During Chemical Processes

Chemists must be aware of the heat flow that accompanies their reactions; otherwise, disastrous consequences can occur during practices such as industrial scale-up of chemical production yields. Heat can be experimentall...

23 Dec 2009

Detecting Differences in DNA Strands using Nanotechnology

A sensitive yet uncomplicated method to detect differences in DNA strands using metal nanoparticle solutions has been developed by Roejarek Kanjanawarut and Xiaodi Su at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering at A*STAR, Singapore.

23 Dec 2009

Fast Bioluminescence Imaging Technique Keeping an Eye on Cancer Cells

Scientists from A*STAR in Singapore and the USA have developed a fast bioluminescence imaging technique that may greatly assist in the search for drugs that target mobile-or metastatic-cancer cells. Chemotherapy treat...

23 Dec 2009

House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to Publish Report on Nanotechnologies and Food

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will publish its report on Nanotechnologies and Food on Friday 8 January 2010. The Committee has been looking in detail at the use of nanotechnologies in the food i...

22 Dec 2009

Ecology Coatings Develop UV-Cured Coatings for the Paper and Packaging Industry

Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, advanced coatings, has developed UV-cured coatings specifically to address opportunities within the ...

22 Dec 2009

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Researchers Named APS Fellows

Five researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have joined the ranks of the more than 200 American Physical Society (APS) fellows for 2009.

22 Dec 2009