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Microbial Ecosystem Sheds New Light on Climate Change

MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work, reported in the January print i...

15 Dec 2008

Development of Nanosensor Shows Potential for Food Safety and Security

A microscopic biological sensor that detects Salmonella bacteria in lab tests has been developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and university colleagues. The sensor could be adapted to detect other foodborne pathogens as well.

15 Dec 2008

European Union Invests 2.6 million to Examine Saftey of Nanoparticle Products

Scientists are to examine the potential dangers of "nanoparticles" in everyday products such as sunscreen in a ?.6 million project funded by the European Union. Dr Anddrew Nelson, a chemist at the University of Leeds,...

15 Dec 2008

Comprehensive Market Report on Nanotechnology in the European Coatings Industry

Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/eedef6/nanotechnology_in) has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology in the European Coatings Industry" report to their offering. The author is...

From Research and Markets 15 Dec 2008

Dalsa to License Low Cost Fabrication Process Using TSV Technology for MEM Production

DALSA Semiconductor, a premier supplier of specialized and custom wafer foundry services and a division of DALSA Corporation (TSX:DSA), is pleased to announce successful tests in creating conformal copper seed layers on ...

From Teledyne DALSA 15 Dec 2008

Electron Tunneling Could Enable Nanomotors to Rotate Faster than their Biological Counterparts

Molecular dynamics simulations show that electron tunneling through nanoscale rotary motors based on carbon nanotube shafts may enable nanotech motors to rotate more than a million times faster than their biological coun...

15 Dec 2008

Forecast of MEMS Accelerometers and Gyroscopes Markets

Forecasts for the years 2007 to 2008 for MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes in consumer electronic devices is included. There are also comparative revenue figures for 2007 and 2010 for all the consumer electronic segment...

14 Dec 2008

Overview of the Global Market for Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology continues to be a thriving area of R&D in 2008. Public funding of nanotechnology worldwide in 2008 was approximately $6.7 with over US$5 billion initially committed by the Russian government and a raft...

14 Dec 2008

Nanoethics Publications Features Ethical and Societal Problems Arising from Nanotechnology

The Nanoethics Group today announced publishing a symposium of papers focusing on ethical and societal problems arising from human enhancement applications of emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology. The symposi...

14 Dec 2008

Adding Salt and Nanoparticles as Alternative Energy Source

Instead of fossil fuels going in your gas tank, how about adding a pinch of salt? That may be the case in the future as a new process is under development to convert a type of salt into a biofuel. New properties of im...

14 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology May Help in Development of Alternative Fuel Source

As we are facing the uncertainly in supply of crude oil, as well as affluent prices, other fuel source is a happening and hot topic. An interesting option could be ethanol, now made out of plants like corn and sugar cane...

14 Dec 2008

Discovery of Nano Rapid Transit System for Delivery of Nanoparticles

In 2004, Gunter Oberdorster and colleagues demonstrated that upon inhalation, ultrafine particles, the dimensions of which are measured in nanometers, can move from the nasal passages of rodents to the brain via a specia...

14 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotube Sensor Capable of Seeking Out Cancer Cells in the Body

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The sensors, made of carbon nanotubes wrapped in DNA, can detect chemotherapy drugs such a...

14 Dec 2008

New Applications of Graphene Attract Large Grants form EPSRC

Five-year grants totalling £20m will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science ...

14 Dec 2008