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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

Nanoscale UV Absorbance Detector Scoops R+D 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 100 Award at the 45th Annual Awards ceremony held in Chicag...

31 Oct 2007

IBM Vice President to Present Keynote at Livingston Nanotechnology Conference

Axiom Capital Management and Scott Livingston today announced that the third annual Axiom Capital Management "Livingston Nanotechnology Conference" will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Bernard Meyerson, I...

30 Oct 2007

Companies From USA and Japan Invest in French Nanotechnology

More and more companies from the USA and Japan are investing and launching partnerships in France to take advantage of its cutting-edge nanotechnology expertise. Minalogic, in Grenoble, is among the fast-growing high-tec...

30 Oct 2007

Radiactive Microspheres Treat Liver Cancer

Placing tiny radioactive spheres directly into the liver through its blood supply halted growth of tumors that had spread to the organ in 71 percent of patients tested in a small clinical trial, researchers from Mayo Cli...

30 Oct 2007

SEMATECH Advances Infrastructure for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL)

SEMATECH engineers have made significant advances in moving forward the infrastructure that will prepare extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) for cost-effective manufacturing, according to papers being presented here a...

30 Oct 2007

Helium Ion Microscope from Carl Zeiss Wins Wall Street Journal 'Technology Innovations Award'

Dr. Nicholas P. Economou and Bill Ward from Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts, recently received the Wall Street Journal “Technology Innovation Award” 2007. The award was presented in the category ...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Oct 2007

Detailed 3D Look at Beta Blocker Drug Molecular Target, the Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor

More than 40 years after beta blockers were first used clinically, scientists can finally get a detailed, three-dimensional look at the drugs’ molecular target - the beta2-adrenergic receptor. This receptor hails f...

30 Oct 2007

Researchers Nationwide Team up to Control Optical Energy at Nanoscale Levels

The University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The Nanoscale Inter...

30 Oct 2007

Rotating Magnetic Separation Technique Might Detect Multiple Pathogens at Once

A magnetic separation technique developed by researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Purdue University makes it relatively simple to sort through beads hundreds of times smaller than the peri...

30 Oct 2007

Nanoparticles Improve Flowability of BASF's Polybutylene Terephthalate

Three years after the market introduction of Ultradur® High Speed – BASF’s very easy-flowing PBT – BASF is now presenting its first Ultramid® High Speed products. For now, these are the three hi...

From BASF 30 Oct 2007

Piezo Step Linear Motors for Ultra-High Precision Applications New Brochure Released by PI

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

29 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology Inspired by Eyes of Moths and Wings of Cicadas to Lead to Anti-Reflective and Water Repellant Coatings and Better Solar Cells

Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. Peng Jiang, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, is drawing i...

29 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology Leader Presents Talk About His Career Path From Engineer to Marketer to CEO

The CEO of Unidym, an Arrowhead Research Corporation subsidiary working in carbon nanotubes, will share the story of his career path from technical contributor to marketer to CEO. The free, online interview will begin at...

29 Oct 2007