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New Technology Helping Microchip Designers Create Future Integrated Circuits

Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits.

29 Nov 2009

Phenomenon Known From Particle Theory Observed for First Time in Condensed Matter

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin tog...

29 Nov 2009

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Signs European XFEL Agreement

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Anatoly Chubais to sign the European XFEL GmbH shareholder agreement in Hamburg on the 30th November, 2009. Also a convention on the construction and operation of the European ...

27 Nov 2009

Protein Functions as Molecular "Dimmer Switch" Preventing Green Algae from Absorbing too Much Sunlight

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have identified the protein LHCSR as the molecular "dimmer switch" that acts to prevent green algae from absorbing too much sunlight during photosynthesis and suffering oxidation damage as a consequence.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 27 Nov 2009

Company to Initiate Water-Soluble Carbon Nanotube-Based Cancer Drug Delivery System in India

Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India. The water-soluble carbon nanotubes, which have functional groups on the w...

27 Nov 2009

Project Enables MEMS Structures to be Tested One Hundred Times Faster

The EU's SMARTIEHS project will enable MEMS structures to be tested one hundred times as fast as they can today. This will mean cheaper and more reliable electronic equipment for people you us.

27 Nov 2009

Producing Smaller and Cheaper Digital Memories using Multiferroic compounds

Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of CNRS and CEA researchers has recently demonstrated that it is feasible, thanks to a new class of materials known as multiferroics, which combine unusual electric and magnetic properties.

27 Nov 2009

Grant Allows Researchers to Explore Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems

The European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union has awarded prof. dr. Bert Meijer of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands an Advanced Grant of two million Euros. This grant will allo...

27 Nov 2009

New Procedure Reduces Radioactive Waste

Nuclear Power could solve our energy problems but it has rather nasty by-products: radioactive waste. And this does not only concern the old core rods whose disposal causes a lot of problems. Reactor operation also bring...

27 Nov 2009

TSMC Commits to China Automotive Excellence by Meeting AEC Guidelines

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that it plans to launch the automotive industry's first process qualification specification and service package for automotive-...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 27 Nov 2009

Nano Research Could Make Tap-Proof Data Transmission a Possibility in the Future

Würzburg physicists are global leaders in the creation of sophisticated nanostructures. The fruits of their research could make tap-proof data transmission a possibility in the future.

26 Nov 2009

New Generation of Ultrasmall Transistors Using Semiconducting Nanowires are Closer to Reality

A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles.

26 Nov 2009

Project Aims to Promote Application of Nanotechnology to Health

The EU ERA-NET initiative EuroNanoMed will support eight transnational research projects with EUR 17 million based on the result of its first call for proposals, which was launched in May 2009 to promote collaborative an...

26 Nov 2009

JPK Instruments Donates NanoWizard AFM to German Museum of Masterpieces of Technology and Science

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has joined the sponsors of the German Museum of Masterpieces of Technology and Science in Munich by donating a NanoWizard® atomic force microscope worth 150,000 euros.

From Bruker BioAFM 26 Nov 2009

EMBL Scientists Define Hierarchy of RNA Particle Assembly

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal's body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along its entire length before being translated into protein.

26 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology News

New Technology Helping Microchip Designers Create Future Integrated Circuits

Phenomenon Known From Particle Theory Observed for First Time in Condensed Matter

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Signs European XFEL Agreement

Protein Functions as Molecular "Dimmer Switch" Preventing Green Algae from Absorbing too Much Sunlight

Company to Initiate Water-Soluble Carbon Nanotube-Based Cancer Drug Delivery System in India

Project Enables MEMS Structures to be Tested One Hundred Times Faster

Producing Smaller and Cheaper Digital Memories using Multiferroic compounds

Grant Allows Researchers to Explore Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems

New Procedure Reduces Radioactive Waste

TSMC Commits to China Automotive Excellence by Meeting AEC Guidelines

Nano Research Could Make Tap-Proof Data Transmission a Possibility in the Future

New Generation of Ultrasmall Transistors Using Semiconducting Nanowires are Closer to Reality

Project Aims to Promote Application of Nanotechnology to Health

JPK Instruments Donates NanoWizard AFM to German Museum of Masterpieces of Technology and Science

EMBL Scientists Define Hierarchy of RNA Particle Assembly

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