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New Report on Nano-Solutions for the 21st Century

A recently released technology report titled Nano-solutions for the 21st century outlines nanotech-based solutions to global challenges. Several years in the making, the report was co-authored by Dennis Pamlin, Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Research Center for Sustainable Development (RCSD web site currently in Chinese only), and Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor with the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology and author of Radical Abundance. The report has a strongly international perspective, and the Abstract is presented in both English and Chinese.

23 Dec 2013

Nano-Sized Copper Pump Safeguards Body's Cells Against Copper Poisoning

We are fundamentally dependent on the presence of copper in the cells of the body. Copper is actually part of the body's energy conversion and protective mechanisms against oxygen radicals, as well as part of the immune system, and it also has great importance for the formation of e.g. hormones and neurotransmitters.

23 Dec 2013

New Report on Global Nanocomposites Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the International Nanocomposites (Carbon Nanotubes, Polymer Metal Fiber, Nanofibers, Graphene, Nanoplatelet And Others) Market - Includes Forecasts to 2018" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 23 Dec 2013

Cambridge Nanotherm Receives 2013 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation

Based on its recent research on the thermal management solutions for the LED lighting market, Frost & Sullivan presents Cambridge Nanotherm with the 2013 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. Trends in the light emitting diode (LED) market point to a shift from costly ceramic–based substrates to basic aluminium-based substrates for better thermal management.

From Frost and Sullivan 23 Dec 2013

DNA Clamp Detects Mutations with Greater Efficiency

As part of an international research project, a team of researchers has developed a DNA clamp that can detect mutations at the DNA level with greater efficiency than methods currently in use. Their work could facilitate rapid screening of those diseases that have a genetic basis, such as cancer, and provide new tools for more advanced nanotechnology. The results of this research is published this month in the journal ACS Nano.

23 Dec 2013

X-ray Free-Electron Laser Helps Image Structure of G Protein-Coupled Receptors at Room Temperature

A group of researchers from Arizona State University are part of a larger team reporting a major advance in the study of human proteins that could open up new avenues for more effective drugs of the future. The work is being reported in this week's Science magazine.

From Arizona State University 23 Dec 2013

3D Flower-Shaped Array with Transparent Liquid Crystal Petals

A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures.

20 Dec 2013

Researchers Reproduce Antiferromagnetic Coupling in Nanoscopic Materials

Electronic devices such as mobile phones and tablets spur on a scientific race to find smaller and smaller information processing and storage elements. One of the challenges in this race is to reproduce certain magnetic effects at nanometre scale.

20 Dec 2013

Provital Places Additional $370,000 Purchase Order for LiqTech’s SiC Membranes

LiqTech International, Inc. ("LiqTech") is pleased to announce that LiqTech received an additional order for SiC membranes valued at USD 370,000 by Danish company Provital Solutions. The purchase order was placed by Provital Solutions as a consequence of additional system orders for 2014, and thus adding to the USD 500,000 order received earlier this year. The SiC membranes will be delivered over the next 12 months.

20 Dec 2013

Regulators Not Adequately Prepared to Manage Risks Posed by Nanotechnology

Three stakeholder groups agree that regulators are not adequately prepared to manage the risks posed by nanotechnology, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One. In a survey of nano-scientists and engineers, nano-environmental health and safety scientists, and regulators, researchers at the UCSB Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and at the University of British Columbia found that those who perceive the risks posed by nanotechnology as "novel" are more likely to believe that regulators are unprepared.

20 Dec 2013

Nanomotors Hold Great Potential for Biomedical Applications

In the quest to shrink motors so they can maneuver in tiny spaces like inside and between human cells, scientists have taken inspiration from millions of years of plant evolution and incorporated, for the first time, corkscrew structures from plants into a new kind of helical "microswimmer."

From American Chemical Society 20 Dec 2013

New Cost Report on Avago FBAR Filter All-Silicon MEMS Duplexer

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Avago FBAR Filter All-Silicon MEMS Duplexer - Manufacturing and Technology Cost Report 2013" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 20 Dec 2013

Molecular Communication Systems Hold Promise for Medical Applications

Scientists have created a molecular communications system for the transmission of messages and data in challenging environments such as tunnels, pipelines, underwater and within the body.

19 Dec 2013

Nanotech’s KolourOptik Platform to Augment ITW Security Division’s Security Solutions

Nanotech Security Corp. (“NTS”), and Illinois Tool Works Inc. (“ITW”) today announced a collaboration that will add Nanotech’s KolourOptik® platform to augment ITW Security Division’s suite of security solutions. KolourOptik® uses advanced nano-structures imprinted on a material’s surface to secure and authenticate products.

19 Dec 2013

Bristol Awarded BBSRC Grant for Advanced Correlative Light Electron Microscopy Systems

The University has won a £970,000 share of a £10 million grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) for advanced scientific research instruments designed to help keep the UK at the forefront of biological sciences research.

19 Dec 2013