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Summit Hightlights Nanotechnology, Energy and Environment

Technology experts from over 20 countries are in Edmonton, Alberta, for discussions on energy and the environment, topics of global importance and immediacy. The 15th Annual World Micromachine Summit is an international ...

6 May 2009

Experts Present Evidence to Committee on Nanotechnology in Food

In a hearing held yesterday in the U.K. House of Lords, Professor Ken Donaldson from the University of Edinburgh and Dr Qasim Chaudhry from the Food and Environment Research Agency presented evidence to the Select Commit...

6 May 2009

ThalesNano Playing Important Role in Advancement of Drug Discovery

University has led to the discovery of a novel class of benzodiazepines with submicromolar activity against trypanosoma brucei spp., a parasitic species that causes African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness in humans.

From ThalesNano Nanotechnology Inc, 6 May 2009

Konarka Technologies Enters into Advanced Product Development Agreement with Arch Aluminum + Glass

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Konarka Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has entered into an advanced product deve...

5 May 2009

Lamp that Integrates Quantum Dot Technology to be Demonstrated at Lightfair 2009

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: NEXS) and QD Vision, Inc. today unveiled the world's first quantum dot lighting solution that combines the efficiency of LED lighting with the warm color of incandescent bulbs.

5 May 2009

New Method Combining Advantages of the Usual Methods and Allows an Unprecedented Depth of Proteome Coverage

Until now, extracting as many proteins as possible from biological samples has required a combination of several methods. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have now developed a new universally employ...

5 May 2009

Sandia National Laboratories Researchers Scored Big in $777 Million Five-Year DOE EFRCs

Center researchers expect to investigate three areas: the conversion of electrical energy to light through radical designs involving luminescent nanowires, quantum dots, and hybrid structures; energy conversion processes in photonic structures smaller than the wavelength of the light they create; and understanding and eliminating defects in the semiconductor materials that presently limit solid-state lighting efficiency.

From Sandia National Laboratories 5 May 2009

RainDance Technologies President and CEO to Discuss Impact of New Transformational Tools Shaping Life Sciences

Christopher McNary, RainDance Technologies President and Chief Executive Officer, will discuss the impact of new transformational tools shaping life sciences research during a panel session at the 2009 BIO International ...

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 5 May 2009

Photovoltaic Systems Growing Faster than Other Renewable Sources

Photovoltaic power generation grew by 73 percent between 2007-08, making it the fastest growing source of alternative energy, Monica Oliphant, president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), said upon her arrival in Delaware from Australia to attend the 2009 Karl Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit ceremony at the University of Delaware on Thursday, May 7.

5 May 2009

How Jan Hendrik Schön's Fraud Shook the Scientific World

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to th...

5 May 2009

University of Arizona in Tucson Home to New Energy Frontier Research Center

The University of Arizona in Tucson will become the home of a $15 million Energy Frontier Research Center, or EFRC, one of 46 new centers of its kind announced this week.

5 May 2009

Early Detection Pancreatic Cancer using Nanotechnology

Pancreatic cancer has a devastatingly low survival rate (less than five percent after five years) because it is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage. The initial symptoms, such as pain, jaundice or weight loss, often d...

5 May 2009

NIST Physicist Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Physicist James C. Bergquist, a Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) whose research helped usher in the age of optical atomic clocks, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.

5 May 2009

First Reference Materials to Support the New and Growing Field of Tissue Engineering for Medicine

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week issued its first reference materials to support the new and growing field of tissue engineering for medicine. The new NIST materials are samples of a typical tissue scaffold material that have been measured and documented by NIST for three different degrees of porosity.

5 May 2009

Electrospun Nanofibers Hold Promise for Development of New Breathable Materials

In his office, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material, softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a ...

5 May 2009

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Summit Hightlights Nanotechnology, Energy and Environment

Experts Present Evidence to Committee on Nanotechnology in Food

ThalesNano Playing Important Role in Advancement of Drug Discovery

Konarka Technologies Enters into Advanced Product Development Agreement with Arch Aluminum + Glass

Lamp that Integrates Quantum Dot Technology to be Demonstrated at Lightfair 2009

New Method Combining Advantages of the Usual Methods and Allows an Unprecedented Depth of Proteome Coverage

Sandia National Laboratories Researchers Scored Big in $777 Million Five-Year DOE EFRCs

RainDance Technologies President and CEO to Discuss Impact of New Transformational Tools Shaping Life Sciences

Photovoltaic Systems Growing Faster than Other Renewable Sources

How Jan Hendrik Schön's Fraud Shook the Scientific World

University of Arizona in Tucson Home to New Energy Frontier Research Center

Early Detection Pancreatic Cancer using Nanotechnology

NIST Physicist Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences

First Reference Materials to Support the New and Growing Field of Tissue Engineering for Medicine

Electrospun Nanofibers Hold Promise for Development of New Breathable Materials

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