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Innovative Approach for Studying the Forces that Shape Proteins

Rice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins -- the biochemical workhorses of all living things. New research featured on the cover of ...

6 Aug 2009

$377 million in funding for 46 EFRCs in a Major Effort to Accelerate Energy Breakthroughs

In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-...

6 Aug 2009

New Toolbox for Building Nanoscale Structures out of DNA

Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes.

6 Aug 2009

Step Toward Building Quantum Computers

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions).

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 6 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology Innovations in Health and Safety Applications

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany announced today that it has selected an accomplished physician to head a next-generation NanoHealth initiative that will focus on education, research, and deployment of nanotechnology enabled improvements in occupational, public, and environmental health and safety.

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 6 Aug 2009

Work to Accelerate Commercialization of Clean Solar Energy

Air Products (NYSE:APD) has been selected to receive more than $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under DOE's Solar Energy Technology Program. Air Products will use its expertise in etch and deposi...

6 Aug 2009

Researchers Assemble New Cancer Drug Delivery System

For cancer drug developers, finding an agent that kills tumor cells is only part of the equation. The drug must also spare healthy cells, and - ideally - its effects will be reversible, to cut short any potentially dangerous side effects.

6 Aug 2009

Lumerical Solutions Announces Availability of FDTD Solutions 6.5

Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of FDTD Solutions Release 6.5. Release 6.5 continues to build on the proprietary framework of earlier rele...

From Ansys 6 Aug 2009

Research Holds Promise for Nano-Scaled Electronics

Research by recent UALR Ph.D. graduate Xiaomin "Helen" Tu is the focus of a recent article in Chemical and Engineering News. The article focuses on research she is doing for DuPont Central Research and Developm...

6 Aug 2009

Mildred Holley to Operate UALR's Nanotechnology Center

Mildred Holley, manager of technology programs at the Arkansas Small Business Technology Development Center, is the new operations director of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Nanotechnology Center.

6 Aug 2009

Event Highlights Benefits of Using Micro and Nanotechnology in Food and Drink

Nanotechnology experts meet to discuss recent advances and applications The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, held i...

6 Aug 2009

Amtech Systems Solar Subsidiary Receives $6 Million in Solar Orders

Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsi...

6 Aug 2009

Parabon NanoLabs Co-Founder Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Parabon NanoLabs, a leading designer and manufacturer of breakthrough products at the nanoscale, announced today that Dr. Christopher Dwyer, its Co-Founder and Senior Research Scientist, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

From Parabon NanoLabs 6 Aug 2009

Imaging Cell Communication on the Nano-Scale

Neurons communicate with each other with the help of nano-sized vesicles. Disruption of this communication process is responsible for many diseases and mental disorders like e.g. depression. Nerve signals travel from one neuron to another through vesicles - a nano-sized container loaded with neurotransmitter molecules.

6 Aug 2009

Biotechnology Company Acquires Full Rights to RenaZorb for All Human and Non-Human Indications

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has acquired 100% rights to RenaZorb, a lanthanum-based nanotechnology compound with potent and selective phosphate binding properties, for all human and non-human indications.

6 Aug 2009