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Second Annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit Conference Program Announced

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the industry association for the emerging nanotechnology industry, and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance, a non-profit association that represents the Colorado nanotechnology community, today announced its conference program schedule for the 2nd annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit, which will return to the University of Denver, CO, from June 22 - 23, 2009.

12 Jun 2009

New Chemical System Could Answer Questions About How Life Could Emerge

A team of Scripps Research scientists has created a new analog to DNA that assembles and disassembles itself without the need for enzymes. Because the new system comprises components that might reasonably be expected in a primordial world, the new chemical system could answer questions about how life could emerge.

12 Jun 2009

HRL Laboratories Awarded Phase II Contract from DARPA

HRL Laboratories, LLC, a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electro...

12 Jun 2009

World's First College to Offer a Comprehensive Baccalaureate Program in Nanoscale Science

State University of New York ("SUNY") Chancellor Dr. Nancy L. Zimpher today joined with SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Carl Hayden, Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari, Assemblyman John J. McEneny, Univers...

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 12 Jun 2009

Measuring Charge States of Individual Gold and Silver Atoms

Scientists in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have successfully measured the charge states of individual gold and silver atoms using an innovative approach to atomic force microscopy (AFM).

12 Jun 2009

Rubicon Showcases Large Diameter Sapphire Products for Wafers

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), an advanced electronic materials provider that is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling monocrystalline sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes...

12 Jun 2009

World's First Nanotechnology Based Endodontic Sealer

Researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia have developed the world's first endodontic or root canal treatment sealer using nanotechnology. Using "modified silica nano-composites" as a filler, this material known as "NanoSeal Plus" can greatly increase the success rates of root canal treatments and allow patients to keep their tooth.

12 Jun 2009

Pegasus Provides Silicon Etch Capability for Production and Process Development

Surface Technology Systems plc (STS), a leader in plasma process technologies for manufacturing MEMS and advanced semiconductor devices, today announced that they have received an order from Fraunhofer Institute for Sili...

From SPTS Technologies 12 Jun 2009

Nanoscience Milestone Opens Up New Possibilities in Molecular Electronics

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using noncontact atomic force microscopy.

12 Jun 2009

In-Depth Overview of all Nanomaterial Types and Their Uses in Life Sciences

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of "Nanostructured Oxides" guide to its offerings. These ten volumes provide an excellent, in-...

From Research and Markets 12 Jun 2009

Scientists Working to Perfect Even Smaller Structures by Manipulating Individual Atoms

As electronic devices get smaller and the methods for small-scale manufacturing advance, scientists at Colorado State University are working to perfect even smaller structures by manipulating individual atoms. A new ...

12 Jun 2009

Chemical-Induced Switching of Polymer Magnetism Achieved at Room Temperature

When we smell an aroma or taste a flavor, we convert a chemical stimulus - adsorption of a particular molecule - into an information signal. Researchers are seeking to reproduce such interactions, in a simplified form, to develop new types of chemical sensors for practical and safety applications.

11 Jun 2009

Solving Some of the Fundamental Obstacles Blocking Real Quantum Computing Applications

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum computer...

11 Jun 2009

Innovatech Labs Helping Ensure Product Cleanliness and Composition with FTIR Testing

Innovatech Labs, a contract materials testing lab specializing in materials characterization, is helping ensure product cleanliness and composition for engineers and manufacturers with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectros...

11 Jun 2009

Rowland Institute Director to Serve as Interim Director of Harvard University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems

Frans Spaepen, director of the Rowland Institute, will serve as interim director of Harvard University's Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) starting July 1, upon completion of his term as interim dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

11 Jun 2009