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NIST Seeking National Input on Nanotechnology Under the New Technology Innovation Program

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is interested in detailed pitches for critical national and societal needs that could be the basis for new competitions for research funding under its Technology ...

21 Dec 2008

Standford Committee Approves the New $77.5 million Nanotechnology Center

The Stanford University Board of Trustees last week gave construction approval for the $77.5 million Nanotechnology Center, the third building to take shape in the new Science and Engineering Quadrangle. Like its nei...

21 Dec 2008

Flaws May Hold Key to Designing The Perfect Nanoelectric Circuit from Carbon Nanotubes

The paradox of perfection – that flaws make things perfect – could be the key to designing nanoelectronic circuits from carbon nanotubes, according to US scientists. They have discovered that a circuit of nan...

21 Dec 2008

ISO Committee Developing New ISO 14644 for Nanotechnology

A new nanotechnology Working Group (WG), formed in September by ISO Technical Committee 209 (ISO/TC 209) Cleanrooms and associated controlled environments, will begin work in 2009 on developing standards for the nanoscal...

21 Dec 2008

World Leading Semiconductor Producers Demonstrate Leading-Edge Nano Logic Processes at IEDM

Although several of the processes are not expected to go into production in the form presented this week, Intel said during a late paper presentation that it has completed the process development phase of its 32 nm process.

18 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology to Help Build Molecular Computers

Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?

18 Dec 2008

Nano-sized Zinc Oxide Produce Brilliant Light Best Suited to the Human Eye

Duke University and United States Army scientists have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best suited to the human eye. Duke adjunct physics pro...

18 Dec 2008

Biophysicists Advance Understanding of Nanomachines in the Body

A discovery by Canada-U.S. biophysicists will improve the understanding of ion channels, akin to little 'nano-machines' or 'nano-valves' in our body, which when they malfunction can cause genetic illnesses that attack muscles, the central nervous system and the heart.

18 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Elected to World's Largest Scientific Body

Five Brown University faculty have been awarded the distinction of fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new fellows, among 486 chosen from the AAAS membership this year, include...

18 Dec 2008

New Label-Free Imaging Technique Set to Revolutionize Biomedical Imaging

The key to this new chemical imaging technique is the use of two lasers with different frequencies. Researchers visualize samples by tuning the laser frequencies to match the vibrational frequency of a specific chemical bond. Each type of molecule within a sample, including nutrients or drugs, is detectable at a unique frequency.

18 Dec 2008