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Turning Soybeans and Water into Clean, Green, Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticles

In 2002, U.S. farmers harvested 2.7 billion bushels of soybeans. Last year in Missouri, farmers harvested 194 million bushels of soybeans worth about $1.2 billion. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri...

1 Nov 2007

NIH Recognizes Clemson Nanotechnology for Molecule Tracking

The National Institutes of Health has awarded two Clemson chemistry faculty nearly $1 million to detect, track and image the interior of cells. Jason McNeill and Ken Christensen will receive the $960,000 grant to develop...

1 Nov 2007

Single Nanotube Used in World's Smallest Radio

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built the smallest radio yet - a single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair that requires only a battery and earphones to tune in to ...

1 Nov 2007

New Magnet Design to Revolutionise Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Research

Engineers at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor resea...

1 Nov 2007

Nanotech Enabled Coatings to Benefit from New Building and Construction Regulations in the UAE

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that new guidelines issued recently by the Dubai government will require all new construction in Dubai to comply with state-mandated...

1 Nov 2007

World's Largest Nanotechnology Event to Showcase Materials, IT & Electronics, Biotechnology, MEMS, Environment & Energy, Evaluation & Measurement and Nano Fabrication Technology in Japan

Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) announces – BIZMATCH@nanotech 2008 program. The exhibition and conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan, 13-15 February 2008, targeting nanotechnology companies. “A...

31 Oct 2007

Nanoscale UV-Visible Absorbance Detector Wins R&D 100 Award

In recognition of the development of its innovative ActiPix D100 miniature UV-visible absorbance detector, Paraytec Ltd was presented with a prestigious R&D Award at the 45th Annual Awards ceremony held in Chicago on...

31 Oct 2007

New Era in Beam Profiling Launched

Lambda Photometrics are pleased to announce the arrival of the Gentec-EO Beamage family of compact, portable CCD/CMOS laser beam profilers. The Beamage is USB2.0 port powered with a 3 metre cable, 4MB image buffer and on...

31 Oct 2007

Semiconductor Wafer Reclamation Turns Waste into Solar Energy

IBM has announced an innovative new semiconductor wafer reclamation process pioneered at its Burlington, Vermont manufacturing facility. The new process uses a specialized pattern removal technique to repurpose sc...

31 Oct 2007

Self Selection and Evolution in the Nano World

The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions whi...

31 Oct 2007

Cell Tractor Beam Could Be Used to Manipulate Tiny Things on Chips

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other ob...

31 Oct 2007

World's Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip May Prompt New Methods for High Speed Wireless Data Transfer

UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. This DARPA-funded advance is expected to find its way into U.S. de...

31 Oct 2007

Wireless Sensors use MEMS to Monitor Bearings in Jet Aircraft Engines

Researchers at Purdue University, working with the U.S. Air Force, have developed tiny wireless sensors resilient enough to survive the harsh conditions inside jet engines to detect when critical bearings are close to fa...

31 Oct 2007

AZoNano Editor Claims Nobel Peace Prize for Nanotechnology

The latest news review podcast has been released by AZoNano. This weeks podcast looks at how nanoscale robots are helping to save lives, how really small technology is helping people to fight obesity and how carbon nanot...

31 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology tp Revolutionize Natural Gas Industry

Nanotechnology could revolutionize the natural gas industry across the whole lifecycle from extraction to pollution reduction or be an enormous missed opportunity, claim two industry experts writing in Inderscience's...

31 Oct 2007