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Call for Greater Freedom for Nanotechnology Researchers and Scientists

In his vision talk at the valedictory function of Bangalore Nano 2007, Prof. C.N.R. Rao urged the Government to give greater freedom for Scientists and Researchers of the country to continue their work in the institution...

10 Dec 2007

Advances in Nanotechnology Set to Change the World but Products Take a Long Time to Reach the Marketplace

The applications of Nanotechnology extends from sensors, displays, transistors, data storage, storage of hydrogen for fuel cells, photovoltaic cells for harnessing solar energy, water purification to steel and rocket pro...

10 Dec 2007

Commercialization of Nanotechnology Investigated in New Podcast

Nanotechnology Victoria (NanoVic) and AZoNetwork are pleased to release the third in a series of Nanotechnology Reviews in a Podcast format. This third Podcast titled "Commercialization of Nanotechnology" fe...

10 Dec 2007

Bacteria Able to Produce Nanotubes for High Tech Applications

Two engineers at the University of California, Riverside are part of a binational team that has found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living bacteria – a discovery that could help in the creation of a new gene...

10 Dec 2007

NanoDynamics Secures Contract to Develop Nanotechnology Based Infection Resistant Driveline Coatings for Ventricular Assist Devices

NanoDynamics Inc. announced that its subsidiary ND Life Sciences received a six-month, $100,000 Phase I SBIR contract from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)...

7 Dec 2007

Red Herring Award Won by Printed Semiconductor Company, Nanoident

NANOIDENT Technologies AG, the technology leader in the development and production of printed semiconductor-based optoelectronic sensors, today announced that it has been selected as one of the 2007 Red Herring 100 Globa...

7 Dec 2007

Finland and China Team up on Nanotechnology Research

Finland is a leading partner in the Europan Union's nanotech group NMT, and directs the EU's material technology group MATERA. The partners in Finland-China NAMI cooperation aim to create world class research and...

7 Dec 2007

Ultra Bright Single Photon Source Article Makes Cover of Nature Photonics

Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (...

7 Dec 2007

Supercomputers on a Single Computer Chip on the way After IBM Researchers Use Light not Electricity in New Style Chips

Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced toda...

7 Dec 2007

Laser can Switch a Film Back and Forth between Reflective and Transparent without Changing Temperature

It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without heating or cooling it. ...

7 Dec 2007

New Materials Analysis Identification Software Exclusive to HORIBA Scientific

HORIBA Scientific is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with xk, Inc. to become the exclusive provider of SLICE, the Spectral Library Identification and Classification Explorer, to the XRF community. SL...

From HORIBA 7 Dec 2007

Commercialization of Nanotechnology: Expert Advice on Podcast

7 Dec 2007

Nanorings Made from Double-Stranded DNA

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Micha...

7 Dec 2007

Cryo-Electron Tomography Allows Closest Ever View of Human Tissue and Shows Molecular Organisation of Skin

Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Bi...

6 Dec 2007

Louisiana Tech Nanotechnology Professor Named Innovator of the Year

Dr. Yuri Lvov, a chemistry professor in Louisiana Tech’s Institute for Micromanufacturing, has been named Small Times’ 2007 Innovator of the Year, beating candidates from Princeton University and companies ac...

6 Dec 2007