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Novel Spectroscopic Technique Reveals New Fundamental Property of Air/Water Interfaces

Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered1. Tahei Tahara and colleagues from the RIKEN...

15 Oct 2009

NanoBio to Present Preclinical Data at Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference

NanoBio Corporation, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing dermatological products, anti-infective treatments and intranasal vaccines derived from its patented NanoStat&trad...

From BlueWillow Biologics 15 Oct 2009

Five Year Grant Allows MIT Physicist to Explore Unique Features of Graphene

MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.

15 Oct 2009

Researchers Discover Way to Make Quantum Devices using Technology Common to Chip-Making Industry

In the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small. The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices...

15 Oct 2009

First Definitive Measurements of "Persistent Current"

Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of "persistent current," a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.

15 Oct 2009

Researchers Conduct Basic Chemistry Experiment in World's Smallest Test Tube

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair. The nano-scale ...

15 Oct 2009

Farfield Partners with the European FP7 Programme ASMENA

Farfield is a proud partner in the European FP7 programme ASMENA, which held its first annual project review meeting recently in Budapest. The project will run over three years, and aims to develop new platforms for drug...

15 Oct 2009

BioNanomatrix Receives New Supplemental Grants from NHGRI

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough single-molecule genomic analysis technology, today announced receipt of two new supplemental grants totaling $833,490 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

15 Oct 2009

Generating Hydrogen Fuel using Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotechnology

A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight. The project has caught the attention of the U.S. Departmen...

15 Oct 2009

Oxford Nanopore Congratulates Professors for Winning NIH Grant

Oxford Nanopore Technologies congratulates our collaborators Professor Mark Akeson and Professor David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on receiving a $1.1 million NIH grant under the US National...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 15 Oct 2009

Graphene Pioneer Wins Royal Society Anniversary Professorship

A leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary. Prof Andre Geim is Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester and is known primarily for the discovery of graphene.

15 Oct 2009

Physicists Taming the Quantum World

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies. Professor Gerard Milburn and Professor Andrew White...

15 Oct 2009

TSMC and SVTC Forms Innovation Incubation Alliance

SVTC, the leading provider of silicon technology development and commercialization services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330) (NYSE: TSM) have formed an Innovation Incubation Alliance tha...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 15 Oct 2009

Mobius Photonics Names New Chairman of its Board of Directors

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), has named Robert L. Byer Chairman of its board of directors. "As co-founder of Mobius Photonics, Robert Bye...

15 Oct 2009

DFI Continues Global Growth with Patented CVD Industrial Nanocoating System

Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced today the signing of a new license agreement in Spain with CRISTEC VIPLA, a highly reputable Catalunya-based company.

15 Oct 2009