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Better Understanding of How the Brain Works to Lead from Lab-On-A-Chip that Copies Brain Chemistry

Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool - a lab on a chip - designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system should ...

13 Feb 2008

Improving and Refining Water Cleaning Technology with Nanofilters and Bacteria

Bacteria often get bad press, with those found in water often linked to illness and disease. But researchers at The University of Nottingham are using these tiny organisms alongside the very latest membrane filtration te...

13 Feb 2008

Nominations Open for Entries in the Nano 50 Award of the Best Technology, Innovations and Companies in Nanotechnology

Nominations are open for the annual Nano 50 awards competition. The Nano 50 recognizes the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products with the greatest potential to advance the commercialization of nanotechnology.

13 Feb 2008

Infrared Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials Work Wins Best Paper 2007 Award

Research work using infrared spectroscopy to examine monolayers at solid-solid interfaces wins author Best Paper 2007 Award.

13 Feb 2008

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivered by NanoDynamics to US Army as Part of Solution to Mid Range Power Requirements

NanoDynamics, Inc. announced today its delivery of a 50-watt solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), powered by desulfurized synthetic JP-8 fuel, to the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center&rsquo...

12 Feb 2008

Sustaining the Environment with Nanotechnology, Nobel Laureate Gives University of Sydney Presentation

Nobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer will deliver a talk in the Vice-Chancellor's public lecture series this Thursday, 14 February, in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Dr Rohrer, a Swiss physicist, will discu...

12 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology Business Leaders to Meet With Key Legislators in Washington, D.C

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, today announced that many of its members will converge in Washington, D.C. from February 26 - 28 for its annual Public Policy Tour. As ...

12 Feb 2008

Wisconsin Calles for a State Registry of Nanoscale Materials, What is Being Produced and in What Quantities

Growing concern over the potential risks that nanotechnology might pose to the environment and human health have some lawmakers and state agencies looking into how they might regulate the technology, which is already bei...

12 Feb 2008

Maximising Copper Computer Chip Connections for High Speed Computing

Scanning electron microscope image of two copper pillars bonded together using a novel fabrication technique. Placing these all-copper connections between computer chips and external circuitry will lead to increased computing speeds.

12 Feb 2008

Micro Pharmacy from MIT Delivers Controlled Drug Doses to Specific Targets

A new thin-film coating developed at MIT can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets in the body following implantation, essentially serving as a “micro pharmacy.” The film could eventually be us...

12 Feb 2008

Single Digit EUV Mask Blank Defect Goal Reached by SEMATECH

Technologists at SEMATECH have successfully demonstrated world-class results in low defect density for mask blanks used in extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) - pushing the technology another significant step toward r...

12 Feb 2008

Nuclear Physics and Neutron Activation used to Prove Napoleon Was Not Killed by Arsenic Poisoning

Arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon in Saint Helena, as affirmed by a new meticulous examination performed at the laboratories of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia, together with the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Pavia.

12 Feb 2008

Nanotechnology News

Better Understanding of How the Brain Works to Lead from Lab-On-A-Chip that Copies Brain Chemistry

Improving and Refining Water Cleaning Technology with Nanofilters and Bacteria

Nominations Open for Entries in the Nano 50 Award of the Best Technology, Innovations and Companies in Nanotechnology

Infrared Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials Work Wins Best Paper 2007 Award

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Delivered by NanoDynamics to US Army as Part of Solution to Mid Range Power Requirements

Sustaining the Environment with Nanotechnology, Nobel Laureate Gives University of Sydney Presentation

Nanotechnology Business Leaders to Meet With Key Legislators in Washington, D.C

Wisconsin Calles for a State Registry of Nanoscale Materials, What is Being Produced and in What Quantities

Maximising Copper Computer Chip Connections for High Speed Computing

Micro Pharmacy from MIT Delivers Controlled Drug Doses to Specific Targets

Single Digit EUV Mask Blank Defect Goal Reached by SEMATECH

Nuclear Physics and Neutron Activation used to Prove Napoleon Was Not Killed by Arsenic Poisoning

Solar Cell Efficiency Breakthrough Comes from Telecommunications Semiconductor Research

iPod Nanos up for Grabs as Prizes for Having Nanotechnology Knowledge

Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies Research Adopted by European Commission

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