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UK Launch New Center Focus on Synthetic Biology

Programming biological cells so that they behave like engineering parts is the focus of research at a new UK centre launched today, thanks to an £8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research ...

22 Dec 2008

nLight Introduce Erbium Fibers Produced from Direct Nanoparticle Deposition Technology

Highly doped, LMA erbium fibers are ideal for high-power, eye-safe applications at 1.5+ µm such as LIDAR, range finding, sensing, medical and even directed energy applications.

22 Dec 2008

Bayer MaterialScience Receive EPA Approval for its Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

This enables the company to sell Baytubes® on the American market and reinforces Bayer MaterialScience's role as one of the world's leading manufacturers of carbon nanotubes.

From Covestro AG 22 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotubes the Ideal "Smart" Brain Material

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Na...

22 Dec 2008

Nanocavities Capable of Slowing Down Light Shows Potential for Making All-Optical Circuits

Researchers at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan have succeeded in making the first large-scale coupled nanocavities that can slow light down to one-hundredth of its normal speed.

21 Dec 2008

World Nanotools Market Report Now Available

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Nanotechnology industry is available in its catalogue. This report analyzes the US market for Nanotools in US$ Million. The major End use mar...

21 Dec 2008

Carl Zeiss Imaging Software Examines Intracellular Process in Nanoseconds

The Dual Camera module for the AxioVision image analysis software from Carl Zeiss is intended for all users in the life sciences, including cell biologists, virologists and physiologists

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 21 Dec 2008

New Study Shows the Nanotoxicity of Nanoparticles

The ability of nanoparticles to cross the lung-blood barrier suggests that they may translocate to blood and to targets distant from their portal of entry. Nevertheless, nanotoxicity in organs has received little attenti...

21 Dec 2008

Engineering Professor Selected to Develop Nanomanufacturing Curriculum

Sarah Leach, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology at South Bend, is one of 25 faculty nationwide selected as a field-test instructor as part of a National Science Foundation project to develop curr...

21 Dec 2008

Market Research Shows Output of Nanoscience Development Increasing at 16% Annually

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/577124/nanotechnology_w) has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology - World R&D Report 2008 - Research in Materials Nanoscience and Nanotec...

From Research and Markets 21 Dec 2008

New Market Research Report on the World's Nanomaterial's Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Nanotechnology industry is available in its catalogue. World Nanomaterials Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p098289/World-Nanomaterials-Market...

21 Dec 2008

New Biological Camera Overcome Limitations with Mulitple Molecule Imaging

Doctors and scientists can visualize specific biological processes in living creatures by monitoring radioactive tracer molecules. So far, imaging techniques have largely been limited to seeing one tracer molecule at a t...

21 Dec 2008

New Chemical Sensor Based on Nano-Structured Composite Materials

A high-tech device integrating expertise from such academic fields as electronics, chemistry and materials science, the chemical sensor is capable of transferring physical and chemical qualities into electronic signals to be analyzed and processed by integrated instrument.

21 Dec 2008

Scientists Create Economical Titanium-Based Structural Metallic-Glass Composites

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a range of structural metallic-glass composites, based in titanium, that are lighter and less expensive than any the group had previously created

21 Dec 2008

IBM Unveil the World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

This accomplishment is an important milestone for the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications (CERA) program sponsored by DARPA, as part of the effort to develop the next-generation of communication devices.

21 Dec 2008