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Ensysce Biosciences Inc. Appoints New President and CEO

Ensysce Biosciences Inc. announced today the appointment of Dr. Lynn Kirkpatrick as President and CEO. Dr. Kirkpatrick has an extensive background in targeted small molecule cancer drug development, and has brought three...

5 Jan 2009

University of Surrey Awarded Major Grant as Part of 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business'

The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded a major research grant by the energy giant E.ON based in Germany as part of their 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business'.

5 Jan 2009

Mimicing Dolphin's Skin Using Nanotechnology

Inspired with the speed at which dolphins swim through the water compared to other aquatic life, Jonghwan Suhr of the University of Nevada, Reno, decided to mimic the dolphin's skin using nanotechnology in order to make objects move more efficiently through the air.

4 Jan 2009

DNA Nanotubes Soon Finding Way into Ultra-Tiny Electronic and Biomedical Innovations

Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building material offering near limitless construction potential.

4 Jan 2009

Discovery Paves the Way for Lower Cost Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material. In recent years, the possible applications for...

29 Dec 2008

Standard Researchers Develop New Nanoscale Cancer Detection System for the Human Body

Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have developed a system that should be able to detect cancer in the human body. The blood scanner,...

23 Dec 2008

New Study Shows Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes

Owing to the novel properties of carbon nanotubes (CBNs), a series of problems associated with in vitro toxicity assessments of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have appeared in many literatures. In order to properly evaluate ...

22 Dec 2008

Bayer MaterialScience Receive EPA Approval for its Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

This enables the company to sell Baytubes® on the American market and reinforces Bayer MaterialScience's role as one of the world's leading manufacturers of carbon nanotubes.

From Covestro AG 22 Dec 2008

Carbon Nanotubes the Ideal "Smart" Brain Material

Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Na...

22 Dec 2008

Engineering Professor Selected to Develop Nanomanufacturing Curriculum

Sarah Leach, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology at South Bend, is one of 25 faculty nationwide selected as a field-test instructor as part of a National Science Foundation project to develop curr...

21 Dec 2008