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Nanotechnology - A Thriving Area of Research and Development in 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "global market for nanoscale technologies". This 828 page report provides the most comprehensive global market assessment yet of industrial application...

From Research and Markets 12 Apr 2009

New Way to Manufacture One of the Important Building Blocks of Nanotechnology

McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA. A team of research...

12 Apr 2009

Scientists Examine the Effect of Synthetic Nanoparticles

Cerium oxide is a ceramic nano-abrasive. Scientists have now examined, under conditions close to reality, what happens when it is breathed in and deposited on the lung surface. Initially, the result was rather reassuring.

12 Apr 2009

Bill Now Sets the Legal Course for the KIT Merger

With today's passing of the bill for the "Act on the KIT Merger", the cabinet of the state of Baden-Württemberg has set the course for the legislation procedure to establish the KIT. After a hearing th...

12 Apr 2009

Mini Protein Chains Good Candidates as Anti-Bacterial Coating for Implants

Annually, 50 to 100 million people worldwide receive surgical implants. Some 1 to 7% of the patients suffer serious complications due to bacterial infection; therefore, prevention of such implant-associated infections is a high priority.

12 Apr 2009

Event Discusses Nanoscience for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery

Students and faculty are encouraged to submit posters for the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology third annual symposium Monday, May 18, 2009 at the School of Medicine.

11 Apr 2009

Metal Hydride Particle Bringing Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality

Purdue Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to drive 300 miles.

11 Apr 2009

Novel Nanoparticle-Based Biopharmaceutical Company Announces New President and CEO

Cerulean Pharma Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on novel, intelligently designed, nanoparticle-based drugs, announced today that Oliver S. Fetzer has been named as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has ...

From Cerulean Pharma 11 Apr 2009

Electron Microscopy Sciences Announces Availability of APTech LaB6 and CeB6 Cathodes

The Applied Physics Technologies (APTech) lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) and cerium hexaboride (CeB6or CeBix) cathodes are now available through Electron Microscopy Sciences. Both LaB6 and CeBix cathodes are ideal for many ...

10 Apr 2009

World's First Three-in-One Spectrometer for Carbon Nanotubes

Applied NanoFluorescence, company that constructs and sells state-of-the-art optical instruments to detect, quantify, and characterize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in bulk samples, is pleased to announce the world's first three-in-one spectrometer for carbon nanotubes.

From Applied NanoFluorescence LLC 10 Apr 2009

Innovative Approach to Removing or Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Products Sold in California

Cal/EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) today announced the selection of 27 members to the state's new Green Ribbon Science Panel, an advisory panel created for California's Green Chemistry program, an in...

10 Apr 2009

Making Proteomics Research More Accessible to Scientists Worldwide

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center in Milwaukee have just made the very expensive and promising area of protein research more accessible to scientists worldwide. T...

10 Apr 2009

Aluminate and Zincate Compounds Providing New Tools for Chemists

An aluminum-based chemical reagent designed by a RIKEN scientist could prove to be a useful way of building complex carbon compounds, such as novel pharmaceuticals.

10 Apr 2009

Researchers Reconciled Two Theories that Explain the Properties of Pion

An international research team has reconciled two theories that explain the properties of the pion. The work is important because this subatomic particle plays a key role in the strong interaction-the fundamental force that holds atomic nuclei together.

10 Apr 2009