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Japanese Researchers Awarded 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship

Four Japanese researchers were awarded the 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship and are currently studying in the United States through 2010 as part of the two-year program. These scholars are Kenji Fukushima, Tokyo W...

7 Oct 2008

Impact of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on Modern Life

With more and more frequency, nanotechnology is being offered to the American public as a transformative technology, with the potential to improve every aspect of our social, physical, and economic well-being. As a resul...

7 Oct 2008

Industrial Nanotech Announces Results of Meetings with Petrobras

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced the results of the recent visit by a team from Petrobras' headquarters. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, is the Brazilian o...

6 Oct 2008

Altair Nanotechnologies Announces $10 Million Private Placement with Al Yousuf

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced materials and products for power and energy systems, today announced the execution of an agreement for a $10 million private placement of its common stock to A...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 6 Oct 2008

Researchers Designed Material Made of Graphene Sheets for Hydrogen Storage

Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical hydrogen-powered vehicles. Their study on a way of safely storing hydrogen, an explosive gas, is scheduled for the Oct. 8 issue of ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal.

6 Oct 2008

Elpida Memory Shrinks 65nm Chip

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM that delivers 20%(1) more chips from a...

6 Oct 2008

Nanotech Device that Resembles Flippers on a Pinball Machine

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices on and off? In an advance toward giving humans that control, scientists in The Netherlands are reporting use of an external electrical signal to control an atomic-scale mechanical device that looks like the flippers on a pinball machine.

6 Oct 2008

CombiMatrix to Discuss the Development of Cancer Array (CCA) Test for Cancer Screening

CombiMatrix Corporation will hold a conference call to discuss the development of its CombiMatrix Cancer Array (CCA) test for cancer screening. Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of CombiMatrix will host this call and wil...

From Invitae Corporation 5 Oct 2008

Thin Film Photovoltaics Take Center Stage at Nanotechnology Conference

A special Thin Film Photovoltaics Forum will focus on new developments and groundbreaking research in the field of solar energy during the 5th Annual International Congress of Nano Bio Clean Tech 2008, October 27-30, at the San Francisco Airport Mariott Hotel.

5 Oct 2008