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Microelectronics Developments Brings Award to Sandia

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has selected the Sandia National Laboratories’ MESA project team as recipients of the Secretary’s Achievement Honor Award. The Honor Awards represent the highest internal ...

From Sandia National Laboratories 15 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Based Energy Saving Coating Gets Official European Building Code Approvals

Industrial Nanotech, Inc an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that the Company's patented Nansulate energy saving protective coatings are now approved under the stringent EU building codes. Th...

15 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Careers Days Shows How Nanotech is Enabling ‘New Energy, Clean Environment, Bright Future'

From fuel cells and solar panels to hydrogen-powered vehicles and sustainable building design, more than 300 students from across New York saw firsthand the power of nanotechnology to enable new advances in clean energy and environmental technologies during NanoCareer Day held today at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

14 Apr 2008

Brookhaven Nanotechnology Researchers Inspire Children to Win Future City Competition

If you live on Long Island and are in competition to build the best city of the future incorporating nanotechnology, where do you go to find out what, exactly, is technology at the nanoscale? Teacher Julia Johnson, whose 7th and 8th grade students are members of one of the two Islip Middle School teams that entered the 2007-08 Future City™ competition, turned to the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, home of the recently opened Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN).

14 Apr 2008

IBM Moves Closer to New Type of Computer Memory With Racetrack Memory

Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists. In two papers pu...

14 Apr 2008

Leading Scientists Ask Presidential Candidates to Give Technology Education the Highest Priority

An open letter naming leading scientists has been sent to three presidential candidates, the Associated Press, leading national newspapers, and to be read on the BIZ Radio Network. In it, scientific conference orga...

11 Apr 2008

Sandia Nanotechnology Center Wins Department of Energy Award

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman presented the Sandia/LANL Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) with the Department of Energy Award for Achievement at the bi-annual DOE project management workshop in Washington, DC.

From Sandia National Laboratories 11 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology and Carbon Nanotubes Set to Solve Charging Problems of Lithium Batteries

Nanotechnology could improve the life of the lithium batteries used in portable devices, including laptop computers, mp3 players, and mobile phones. Research to be published in the Inderscience publication - Internationa...

11 Apr 2008

Solar Cell Efficiency Increased with Popcorn Ball Design

A new approach creates a dramatic improvement in cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball design – tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres – researchers a...

11 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Careers Including Clean Energy and Environmental Technologies Featured at NanoCareer Day at UAlbany NanoCollege Features

11 Apr 2008

Scientists Find the Binding Force That Gives High Temperature Superconductivity

Princeton scientists say that high-temperature superconductivity does not hinge on a magical glue binding electrons together. The secret to superconductivity, they say, may rest instead on electrons’ ability to take advantage of their natural repulsion in a complex situation

11 Apr 2008

Oxford Instruments Acquire Leading Supplier of HVPE Technology and Processes

Oxford Instruments plc has announced the acquisition of Technologies and Devices International Inc (TDI), a world leader in the development of Hydride Vapour Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) technology and processes.

10 Apr 2008

Delivering Molecules via Biodegradable Microspheres Enhances the Efficiency and Purity of Stem Cell Differentiation

New research shows that delivering molecules within aggregates of embryonic stem cells via biodegradable microspheres enhances the efficiency and purity of differentiation, which is the process the cells undergo to become more specialized.

10 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Report Highlights Local Options for Overseeing Nanotech Development Risks

State and local governments often have adopted trailblazing initiatives to address environmental, health and safety concerns in advance or in lieu of federal action. With nanotechnology, an emerging field of science with unknown risks, this practice is continuing, a landmark study has found

10 Apr 2008

Strategic Investment for Quantum Dot Based Display and Solid State Lighting Solutions Company

QD Vision has announced a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the b...

10 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology News

Microelectronics Developments Brings Award to Sandia

Nanotechnology Based Energy Saving Coating Gets Official European Building Code Approvals

Nanotechnology Careers Days Shows How Nanotech is Enabling ‘New Energy, Clean Environment, Bright Future'

Brookhaven Nanotechnology Researchers Inspire Children to Win Future City Competition

IBM Moves Closer to New Type of Computer Memory With Racetrack Memory

Leading Scientists Ask Presidential Candidates to Give Technology Education the Highest Priority

Sandia Nanotechnology Center Wins Department of Energy Award

Nanotechnology and Carbon Nanotubes Set to Solve Charging Problems of Lithium Batteries

Solar Cell Efficiency Increased with Popcorn Ball Design

Nanotechnology Careers Including Clean Energy and Environmental Technologies Featured at NanoCareer Day at UAlbany NanoCollege Features

Scientists Find the Binding Force That Gives High Temperature Superconductivity

Oxford Instruments Acquire Leading Supplier of HVPE Technology and Processes

Delivering Molecules via Biodegradable Microspheres Enhances the Efficiency and Purity of Stem Cell Differentiation

Nanotechnology Report Highlights Local Options for Overseeing Nanotech Development Risks

Strategic Investment for Quantum Dot Based Display and Solid State Lighting Solutions Company

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