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Metamaterials Research Receives Multi Million Funding Boost from Leverhulme Trust

The new grant has been made to a team of Imperial College London scientists and engineers, who, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Southampton, will develop new applications for metamaterials that can bend, control and manipulate light and other kinds of electromagnetic waves. Metamaterials is a new, emerging field of science lying at the borders of physics and materials science. The concept relies not on clever chemistry, which is normally used to create new materials, but instead on creating clever patterns on the surface of existing materials, particularly metals.

12 Nov 2009

TU Delft Professor Awarded 2.5 Million Euros for Nanotechnology and Biology Research

Professor Cees Dekker of TU Delft has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research at the cutting edge of biology and nanotechnology. He will use the funding to investigate the evolution of bacter...

12 Nov 2009

Exploiting Recently Discovered Mechanism Allows Biologists to Develop Disease Treatments by Shutting Down Specific Genes

Science and technology journalists pride themselves on the ability to explain complicated ideas in accessible ways, but there are some technical principles that we encounter so often in our reporting that paraphrasing them or writing around them begins to feel like missing a big part of the story.

11 Nov 2009

University of Michigan Professor Receives BASF Catalysis Award 2009

For her outstanding achievements in developing new catalytic concepts in organic synthesis Professor Dr. Sanford has won the BASF Catalysis Award 2009 worth 10,000 Euro.

From BASF 11 Nov 2009

Tiny Holes Making Metal Opaque

Metals are opaque: they reflect light almost completely. For that reason they are utilized as mirrors; as films deposited onto a glassyou find them in any bathroom. If the metal film is very thin, the mirror is semitrans...

11 Nov 2009

Non-Uniform Chemical Compositions of Ionic Liquids at the Nanoscale

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions of...

11 Nov 2009

New Class of Bowtie-Shaped Devices that Capture, Filter and Steer Light at the Nanoscale

Looking sharp and looking for light - Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsorter" devices act as antennae to focus and sort light in tiny spaces, a useful technique for harvesting broadband light for color-sensitive filters and detectors.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 11 Nov 2009

Centre Set Up to Identify Whether a Variety of Nanoparticles Can Enter the Human Body

Nanomaterials, which are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, have been developed to perform a variety of roles, including stain resistance in clothes, preservatives in food and cancer treatment in drugs.

11 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop Catalyst that Converts Methane to Methanol

It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at the Max Planck Inst...

11 Nov 2009

Ecliptek Introduces Two New MEMS HCSL Oscillator Series for Low Jitter Reference Clock Applications

Ecliptek Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of two new high frequency High Speed Current Steering Logic (HCSL) six pad surface mount low profile 5.0mm x 7.0mm MEMS oscillators (MO). These new series enhance ...

11 Nov 2009

Finding Paves Way for Smaller Nanoelectronics and Nanosensors

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, and a wide array of additional applications, will depend on the mechanical properties of these nanowires.

11 Nov 2009

New Way for Exploring the Insides of Living Cells

Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode the cell while it is still living inside a plant or animal, vaporize its contents, and sniff.

11 Nov 2009

Changing the Behavior of Nanoparticles in Municipal Sewage Treatment Plants

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment.

11 Nov 2009

If You Can Slice It, We Can Build It

A group of engineers working on a novel manufacturing technique at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have come up with a new twist on the popular old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it."

11 Nov 2009

Companies Working Jointly to Integrate Carbon Nanotubes as Transparent Conductive Layer in Display Devices

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR) announced today that its majority owned subsidiary, Unidym, Inc., has entered into a joint development agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, to extend their successful collaboration into a third year.

11 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology News

Metamaterials Research Receives Multi Million Funding Boost from Leverhulme Trust

TU Delft Professor Awarded 2.5 Million Euros for Nanotechnology and Biology Research

Exploiting Recently Discovered Mechanism Allows Biologists to Develop Disease Treatments by Shutting Down Specific Genes

University of Michigan Professor Receives BASF Catalysis Award 2009

Tiny Holes Making Metal Opaque

Non-Uniform Chemical Compositions of Ionic Liquids at the Nanoscale

New Class of Bowtie-Shaped Devices that Capture, Filter and Steer Light at the Nanoscale

Centre Set Up to Identify Whether a Variety of Nanoparticles Can Enter the Human Body

Researchers Develop Catalyst that Converts Methane to Methanol

Ecliptek Introduces Two New MEMS HCSL Oscillator Series for Low Jitter Reference Clock Applications

Finding Paves Way for Smaller Nanoelectronics and Nanosensors

New Way for Exploring the Insides of Living Cells

Changing the Behavior of Nanoparticles in Municipal Sewage Treatment Plants

If You Can Slice It, We Can Build It

Companies Working Jointly to Integrate Carbon Nanotubes as Transparent Conductive Layer in Display Devices

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