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Science and Technology in India Show Steady Growth In-spite of Recession

The technical sessions at the 2nd Bangalore Nano began today with the opening address by Professor C N R Rao, Chairman of the Science Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister of India, followed by highlight lectures and ...

11 Dec 2008

Report Finds Government Strategy on Nano Safety Inadequate

A 15-member committee of chemists, toxicologists and other experts said it found no adequate statement of clear goals or priorities in the strategy outlined by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, a program set up in ...

11 Dec 2008

EntreTech Forum Presents 'Nanotechnology - Timing Is Everything'

The EntreTech Forum's December 16th panel focuses on Nanotech commercialization, and brings together some of the region's nanotech thought leaders to help the audience outline the present and future of nanotechnology, wi...

11 Dec 2008

Creating Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines More Quickly and Accurately than Previously Possible

In a pioneering effort, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Queensland in Australia have successfully demonstrated* that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based (VLP) vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible.

11 Dec 2008

Thin Film and Organic Photovoltaic Materials Markets to Worth $2.4 Billion by 2011

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced it has released an updated analysis of the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) and organic photovoltaics (OPV) materials markets. Although projected gro...

11 Dec 2008

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have sho...

11 Dec 2008

Nanoscale Process with Sizable Potential in Areas from Nanotechnology to Information Storage

People said it couldn't be done, but researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh demonstrated a molecular chain reaction ...

11 Dec 2008

CAS Institute to Take Charge of World Atomic Mass Evaluation

The French Center for Nuclear Mass Spectrometry signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the CAS Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) recently in Lanzhou to transfer the task of atomic mass evaluation to the latter.

11 Dec 2008

New Report Provides Assessment of Industrial Applications for Nanoscale Coatings

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Market Assessment on Nanocoatings" report to their offering. This new report provides an assessment of industrial applications for nanoscale coatings. Nan...

From Research and Markets 11 Dec 2008

New Generation Deep Sea Lab-on-a-Chip Sensors to Measure Marine Environments

Innovative marine sensor technologies developed by researchers at the University of Southampton have been tested on a research cruise (D333, RRS Discovery, Canary Islands) and are now ready to be developed further for co...

11 Dec 2008

Research May Lead to a New Class of Specialty Plastics

Tomorrow's specialty plastics may be produced more precisely and cheaply thanks to the apparently tight merger of a theory by a University of Oregon chemist and years of unexplained data from real world experiments involving polymers in Europe.

11 Dec 2008

Chicago University Chemist Tames Longstanding Electron Computation Problem

When the University of Chicago's David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can be anticipated from the behavior of just two of its elec...

10 Dec 2008

Detailed Survey on the Chinese Ingot and Wafer Manufacturers Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Chinese Ingot and Wafer Manufacturers Market Survey - 2nd Edition" report to their offering. As China makes its presence felt in the solar photovoltai...

10 Dec 2008

Molecular Imprints Announces Next Phase of its Ongoing S-FIL Adoption and Education Campaign

Molecular Imprints, Inc., a market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, today announced the next phase of its ongoing S-FIL® (Step and Flash® Imprint Lithography) adoption and education...

10 Dec 2008

Ambios Technology Introduces NEW Q-Scope White Light Interferometer/SPM

Q-View is a micro-interferometer module that has been seamlessly integrated into the Q-Scope SPM. This combination provides two synergistic technologies on a single platform. With the addition of interferometric technology to the Q-Scope SPM, Ambios is enabling the research community of AFM users.

10 Dec 2008