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Preview of Current Applications in Nanotechnology

This week saw a group of "thought leaders" involved in the field of nanotechnology gather in the US to discuss the potential of the sector. The EntreTech Forum, held in Waltham, Massachusetts, on December 16th ...

17 Dec 2008

MEMSIC Introduce New Magnetic Sensor with Enhanced Digital Compass

MEMSIC, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEMS), a leading MEMS solution provider, combining proprietary MEMS technology with advanced mixed signal processing and system solution, today announced a new line of magnetic sensors with enhanced...

From MEMSIC Inc. 17 Dec 2008

Advanced School on Hybrid Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Applications

An advanced school on hybrid nanostructured materials for photovoltaic applications will be held from 9 to 11 March 2009 in Valencia, Spain. The school is intended for PhD students, post-doc and junior faculty members...

17 Dec 2008

Animation Reveals the Mysterious Properties of the Quantum World

Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.

17 Dec 2008

New Nanochemistry Laboratory to Serve Worldwide Research Group with Custom-Made Nanomaterials

The new Nanochemistry Laboratory is located at the Institut de Science et d’Ingenierie Supramoleculaires (ISIS) of the University of Strasbourg, France and will be headed by Dr. Nina Matoussevitch, an experienced N...

17 Dec 2008

Examining the Ethical Issues on the Future of Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology takes genetic engineering techniques developed in the 1970s many steps forward. Those methods were largely confined to moving genes from one organism to another. Now, using techniques from molecular bio...

17 Dec 2008

Introducing NanoArt Online Competition - A New Art Discipline

NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanosculptures (structures created by scientists and artists by manipulating matter at molecular and atomic scales using chemical and physical processes).

17 Dec 2008

Researchers Identified Cancer Cells Defensive Mechanism

A team of researchers headed by Professor Roland Stauber of Mainz University's ENT clinic has identified a molecular mechanism used by cancer cells to "defend" themselves against chemotherapeutics in an att...

17 Dec 2008

The Use of Microencapsulation Technology in a Novel Self-Warming Hand and Body Lotion

Microencapsulation isn't a new technology, but it's always finding new applications. Familiar uses include the scratch-and-sniff perfume ads in magazines, certain time-release pharmaceuticals, and (perhaps mostly...

17 Dec 2008

3D Nano-Porous Optical Biosensor Receives Most Innovative Product (MIP) Award

Silicon Kinetics SKi Pro is the world's first 3D label-free platform for biomolecular interaction analysis in proteomics research, biomarker and drug discovery, vaccine development as well as quality control in drug manufacturing.

17 Dec 2008

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Select Heidelberg Laser Patterning System for Fabrication of Advanced Biomedical Applications

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a µPG101 table top maskless laser patterning system to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Maryland, USA. System will be used for prototyping and fabrication of ...

17 Dec 2008

France to Invest $480 Million in Research and Development in Nanotechnology

At the first European sessions on innovation, on Dec. 9 in Paris, the President of the French Republic and President of the European Council, Nicolas Sarkozy, announced the French government plans to double its research ...

17 Dec 2008

Novel MEMS-based Pedestrian Navigation System Help Keep Pedestrian Safe

VTI Technologies has announced a novel MEMS-based pedestrian navigation solution demonstrator. Making its debut at CES 2009, the small wearable device can track the position, speed and distance of a pedestrian. It relies...

17 Dec 2008

Printing Circuited Lattices of Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

17 Dec 2008

Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest Functional SRAM Cell

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers (μm...

17 Dec 2008