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Nanotechnology Innovators Taking on Asthma, Bird Flu and Cancer

British businesses with products that can combat bird flu, provide an instant asthma diagnosis and illuminate cancer cells won Business Innovation Awards today at a major nanotechnology event. The third annual UK Nano...

24 Nov 2008

Silica Based Nanoparticles "Battered" Polymers Could Create Clever Packaging and Self Healing Paints

Research chemists at the University of Warwick have devised an elegant process which simply and cheaply covers small particles of polymer with a layer of silica-based nanoparticles.

24 Nov 2008

Possible Recipe for Building a Variety of Nanoscale "Footballs" with Boron

If you look carefully at a football, you will notice that its surface is composed of hexagons and pentagons. Hexagons lie side by side while any pentagon is surrounded by five hexagons. How many corners and edges are there? Football players do not have to know that as long as they do pass and shots right; an architect or structural physicist, however, could readily give the answer.

23 Nov 2008

Bringing Nanotechnology to Life

Just as artists at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios bring Mickey Mouse, Shrek and Nemo to life, life science artists are using animation to bring viruses, bacteria and even nanowires to life and demystify scientific concepts.

23 Nov 2008

Polish Chemist Predicts Collapse of Helium's Chemical Nobility

140 years since its discovery, and despite the best endeavours of many scientists, helium, the lightest of the 'noble' gases, still stubbornly refuses to enter into any chemical alliance. now a new glimmer of hop...

23 Nov 2008

Assessing Potential Health Risks from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

In which foods and products are nanoparticles used? In what ways do consumers come into contact with nanoparticles? Does this lead to health risks? How can they be assessed? What information do consumers need about nanot...

23 Nov 2008

University of Warsaw in Poland Offering New Nanotechnology Program

A new International PhD program - supported by the Polish Foundation of Science - is offered by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw.

23 Nov 2008

Experiments at Paul Scherrer Institute Show Processes in Magnetic Data Reading Devices

A research team led by Dr Alan Drew (University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Queen Mary, London) and Dr Elvezio Morenzoni (Paul Scherrer Institute - PSI, Switzerland) is the first one to have tracked the magnetic process...

23 Nov 2008

Physicists Found Easier Way to Make Things Invisible

Two physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisi...

23 Nov 2008

Leading Nanomaterials Producer Receives AS 9100 Certification

Raymor Industries Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RAR), a leading developer and producer of single-walled carbon nanotubes, nanomaterials and advanced materials, announces that SE Techno Plus, a division of Raymor Aerospace, has recei...

23 Nov 2008

Intel Introduces the Fastest Processor Based on Nanotechnology

Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput.

22 Nov 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Detect Drugs in Saliva

Royal Philips Electronics NV said Thursday it has developed a handheld device that uses nanotechnology to detect marijuana, cocaine, Speed and other drugs in saliva within 2 minutes.

22 Nov 2008

Renesas Landshut Fab Transfers to Silicon Foundry Holding

Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor solution providers, has transferred all shares of the former Renesas Semiconductor Europe (Landshut) GmbH (RSEL), to Silicon Foundry Holding GmbH (SF...

22 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology Solutions Provider Introduces Self-Sanitising Hygienic Coatings for Interior Applications

Nanotechnology improves environment and saves costs to keep maintain hygienic environment inside food production and clean room facilities; less water and chemicals are needed to disinfect walls and ceilings, less impact...

22 Nov 2008

Results Represent Largest Computational Efforts to Calculate Particle Mass

An EU-funded study by physicists in Germany, France and Hungary has demonstrated conclusively that the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory describing the fundamental interactions of the elementary particles that make up all visible matter in the universe, accurately accounts for the mass of protons and neutrons.

22 Nov 2008