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Graphene Nanoribbons Hold Enormous Promise as Nanoscale Devices

Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, phy...

31 Jul 2008

Ondine Acquires License for the Human Therapeutic Use of Gold-Nanoparticle Photosensitizer

Ondine Biopharma Corporation, a medical technology company developing photodisinfection-based products, today announced that it has acquired an exclusive license for the human therapeutic use of a gold-nanoparticle photo...

31 Jul 2008

TAB Releases Report on Converging Technologies including Nanotechnology

The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Parliament (TAB) just released an English summary to a recent report on Converging Technologies, by Christopher Coenen. He is one of the key speakers during the EthicScho...

30 Jul 2008

Terasem Movement Announced Fourth Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology

Terasem Movement, Inc. announced today its Fourth Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology will be held Sunday, July 20, 2008 to honor the 39th anniversary of the first human lunar landing. The Workshop, accessible t...

15 Jul 2008

A Significant Advance in Nanoscale Lithographic Technology

MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas than have been possible with other methods.

9 Jul 2008

Making IC Chips with Complex Nanotube Components on the Scale

Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electr...

5 Jul 2008

Six Micrograph Contest Winners Announced at EIPBN Conference

The 52nd International Electron Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) Conference announced six Micrograph Contest winners at its annual Conference held this year in Portland, Oregon May 27-30. The...

20 Jun 2008

Creating Nano-Scale Patterns on Uneven Surfaces

Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new generations of microchips.

19 Jun 2008

Implications of Nanotechnology for Society

With more and more frequency, nanotechnology is being offered to the American public as a transformative technology, with the potential to improve every aspect of our social, physical, and economic well-being. As a r...

18 Jun 2008

New Way of Bending X-Rays Could Lead to Better Telescopes and Computer Chips

Gratings used to manipulate X-rays for future space telescopes and other applications, like tiny miniaturized venetian blinds, were created using an interference lithography patterning tool, called the nanoruler.

12 Jun 2008