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Nanotechnology Set To Bring Huge Boost To Canadian Business

The Canadian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) has just released an important new document discussing a policy framework for nanotechnology in Canada. Nanotechnology is the ability to measure, see,...

20 Jun 2007

Cenamps Video Shows How Nanotechnology Enabled Materials and Devices Are Set To Make a Better, Safer and Healthier Future For All

Cenamps is an innovative organisation committed to bringing emerging technologies to the general public by commercialising those scientific breakthroughs. Cenamps is working to bring smarter objects, smarter environments...

20 Jun 2007

2007 Foresight Nanotech Institute Feynman Prize Winners to be Announced

Two prestigious nanotechnology prizes will be awarded at "Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap," a conference sponsored by Foresight Nanotech Institute and the Society of Manufacturing Engin...

20 Jun 2007

Nanotube Innovations Amongst Bayer's Showcase for K 2007

From October 24 to 31, 2007, Bayer Material Science will be presenting a large number of innovative developments at the world’s biggest plastics exhibition, K 2007, in Düsseldorf. Covering over 1,000 square me...

20 Jun 2007

Biosensor Partnership Formed between Farfield Scientific and Monash University

Farfield Scientific Limited (Crewe, United Kingdom) and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University (Clayton, Australia) have recently entered a strategic partnership to create a series of ...

19 Jun 2007

Nanotech Enabled Battery Powers Electric Truck Silently Into The Future

A new video placed on YouTube shows one of the all electric SUVs being produced by Phoenix Motorcars of Ontario, California, USA. The mid-sized sports utility truck (SUT) featured in the video uses the NanoSafe battery p...

19 Jun 2007

World's Smallest Devices Carved With Electron Beam

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10 nanometers, or 10,000 times smaller than the width of a single hu...

19 Jun 2007

Transistor Performance Boosted With New Low Cost 45 Nanometer Fabrication Method

Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the development of an extremely high-performance transistor technology with low-cost fabrication capability for microprocessors and SoC (system-on-a-chip) devices of the 45-nm (nano...

19 Jun 2007

New Executives Appointed To BioForce Nanosciences

BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. announced today Mr. Kerry Frey's appointment as President in addition to his Chief Operating Officer (COO) position, and Gregory Brown’s appointment as Executive Vice Presid...

19 Jun 2007

Natural Protein Clean Up of Nanoparticles May Lead To Environmental Remediation

Deep inside a flooded mine in Wisconsin, scientists from several institutions including the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a world in which bacteria e...

19 Jun 2007

Nanoparticle Treatment For Glaucoma May Stop Millions Going Blind

A unique nanoparticle made in a laboratory at the University of Central Florida is proving promising as a drug delivery device for treating glaucoma, an eye disease that can cause blindness and affects millions of people...

19 Jun 2007

Nanotube Based Adhesive Stickier Than A Gecko's Foot

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have take...

19 Jun 2007

Calculations with Quantum Bits Bring Quantum Computing A Step Closer

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The Delft researchers are publishing an article ...

18 Jun 2007

Reactivity of Nanosystems at the Atomic Level

Nickel-rhodium nanowires exhibit surprisingly high reactivity towards oxygen. As a result, they offer future development potential for new types of chemical catalysts. These findings were the result of research by an Aus...

18 Jun 2007

Novel Nanomachining Process for Nanoscale Devices

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered a novel nanomachining process that will help manufacturers produce superior nanoscale devices to perform import...

18 Jun 2007