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Ethical Debates Regarding New Developments in Nanotechnology Often too Speculative and Imaginative

Ethical debates regarding new developments in nanotechnology are often too speculative and imaginative. This can cast technological developments in an unnecessarily bad light when in fact they are far from fully develope...

28 May 2009

EcoloCap to Acquire Micro Bubble Technology

EcoloCap Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: ECOS) ("EcoloCap") today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to buy 100% of the shares of Micro Bubble Technology Inc. "MBT" of Barrington, IL....

28 May 2009

Main Supplier to the Three Largest PV Production Sites Worldwide

In this context, Air Liquide significantly enhanced its leadership position by signing several new contracts since January 2009 with solar cell manufacturers in 5 countries and will invest globally €13 million to meet the needs of those customers.

27 May 2009

IBM Joins Water Innovations Alliance's Foundation Board

Water Innovations Alliance, an industry association promoting accelerated adoption of water technologies, today announced that IBM joined the organization's Foundation board. IBM will also serve as chair of a subcomm...

27 May 2009

Book Covers in Detail the Tools and Methods for Determining Reliability of Microelectromechanical Materials

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of handbook on the "reliability of MEMS" to their offering. This first book to cover exclus...

From Research and Markets 27 May 2009

Over 170 Organizations Involved in the Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology Throughout the US

Over 170 businesses, research groups and other organizations are involved in the emerging field of synthetic biology throughout the United States, according to a new interactive map launched today by the Synthetic Biolog...

27 May 2009

Clinical Application of Nanomedicine-Based Technology for Non-Invasive Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial exploring a way to diagnose cancer in its earliest stages is being conducted at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute through a National Cancer Institute grant.

27 May 2009

Web-Based Seminar Focuses on Physical Measurements of Photovoltaic Devices

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, will offer a free, web-based seminar titled "Photovoltaic Measurements: Testing the Electrical Properties o...

27 May 2009

Rice Physicist on a Quest to Understand Death

Rice physicist Huey Huang is on a quest to understand death -- or at least a little piece of it. Huang has spent the past 15 years studying the properties of cell membranes in an effort to unravel a mystery about cell suicide, a mystery that starts with a tiny hole.

27 May 2009

Device that Classic Star Trek Fans will Recognize

Triage technology comes with a Star Trek twist, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science + Technology Directorate (DHS S+T).

27 May 2009

Scientists Develop Composites Made of Dissimilar Materials

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU) have examined promising metal-matrix composites, which are very good conductors of heat and are able to withstand mechanical loads at elevated temperatures of up to 550 degrees and expand only very little with increasing temperature.

27 May 2009

Miniaturized Gas Sensor Using Hybrid Nanostructures Supported on Multiwalled CNTs

Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication + Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using hybrid nanostructures consisting of SnO2 nanocrystals supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 27 May 2009