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Gold "Snowflakes" on Graphene

In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene. Vikas Berry is a K-State assistant professor...

12 Oct 2009

UCSB and IME of Singapore Enters into a "Green Electronics" Research Agreement

UC Santa Barbara and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of Singapore have entered into a "green electronics" research collaboration agreement focused on developing ultra-efficient nanoscale transistors and...

12 Oct 2009

Leading Research Institution Chooses BNC in Multi-Million Environmental Nanotechnology Project

The specialist product development consultancy, Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to lead the UK arm of a collaboration with a major research institution in the Middle East in a mul...

12 Oct 2009

Making RNA Crystallize in Weightlessness

The biochemist, Professor Volker A. Erdmann, of Freie Universität Berlin has sent samples containing 50 different ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules into space aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket TMA-16. The samples were due to return to Earth on October 10.

12 Oct 2009

Global Market for Nanotubes

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of new report "The Global Market for Nanotubes to 2015: A Realistic Assessment " to their o...

From Research and Markets 12 Oct 2009

Shrink Nanotechnologies Forms Strategic Alliance for Development of Solar Products

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink"), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology r...

12 Oct 2009

Springer and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to Publish Strategic Scientific Reports

Besides the general report, this project comprises 18 sub-group reports covering over a dozen scientific disciplines. According to the CAS report, it is necessary to conduct this strategic research for the future of China and all of mankind as well. The past 250 years of industrialization have resulted in a modernized, improved standard of living for almost one billion people. The next 40 years will bring improvements and a better life to a population of two to three billion as well as challenge the limited resources and eco-environment on earth.

12 Oct 2009

Cockcroft Institute Awarded Funding to Further Research into Accelerator Science and Technology

The Cockcroft Institute, a partnership between the Universities of Liverpool, Lancaster and Manchester, has been awarded £16.4million to further research into accelerator science and technology. The funding, awa...

12 Oct 2009

Celsense Reaches Critical Milestone

Celsense, Inc. announced today it has reached a critical milestone in the push to market for its lead in vivo imaging reagent, Cell Sense CS-1000 (Cell Sense).

12 Oct 2009

Dow Corning Extends SiC Epitaxy Capabilities with Latest Generation AIXTRON Planetary Reactor

Dow Corning and AIXTRON AG today announced that Dow Corning is extending its SiC epitaxy capabilities with the latest generation AIXTRON Planetary Reactor platform AIX 2800G4 WW for 10x100 mm and future 6x150 mm SiC wafe...

From AIXTRON SE 12 Oct 2009

Discovery Offers New Insight into the Growth of Graphene Layers

Researchers analyzing the assembly of graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) on a surface of iridium have found that the sheets grow by first forming tiny carbon domes. The discovery offers new insight into the growth of graphene layers and points the way to possible methods for assembling components of graphene-based computer circuits.

12 Oct 2009

Optics of Nanomaterials

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of a new handbook "optics of nanomaterials" to their offering.

From Research and Markets 12 Oct 2009

Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics Held in Lanzhou

The 12th Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'09) hosted by Institute of Modern Physics(IMP), CAS took place in Lanzhou on August 31st, 2009, with over 80 beam cooling experts from France, Germany, Japan...

11 Oct 2009

Nanophotonic Market Expect to Reach $3.6 Billion in 2014

The global nanophotonics market is expected to be worth US$3.6 billion by 2014, out of which the Asian market will account for nearly 74% of the total revenues. The global market is expected to record a CAGR of 100.7% fr...

10 Oct 2009

Physicists Resolved a Decade-Long Puzzle

A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications for use of one of the most versatile classes of materials available to us for future technology applications: copper oxide ceramics.

From Nanomix Inc 9 Oct 2009