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Nanotechnology Research In The UK To Be Driven By New Research Strategy Task Force

The UK's Nanotechnology Task Force, convened by the University of Surrey, was launched with a conference at Portcullis House to discuss the future of nanotechnology in the UK. The Taskforce has been created in res...

27 Jun 2007

Nanotechnology, NanoMedicine and Nanotoxicology Experts To Advise President on Bioethics of Nanomedicine

One of today’s hottest areas of scientific research is nanomedicine. Scientists currently are working to create novel nanostructures that can serve as new kinds of drugs for treating cancer, Parkinson’s, and ...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 26 Jun 2007

Springer Launch Journal of Nanoethics - First Issue Available Free

The field of nanotechnology is broad and has the potential to be used in a wide range of industries and fields, but the question is whether it is a good investment. Will it solve fundamental social problems that assure a...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 22 Jun 2007

Tegal Receive Order for Aluminum Nitride PVD System

Tegal Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, MEMS, and nanotechnology devices, today announced that it has received an order ...

From Collabrx, Inc. 18 Jun 2007

Nanomedicine Conference Identifies Training as Key to Rapid and Safe Development

The European Science Foundation (ESF)'s 'Forward Look in Nanomedicine' conference (chaired by Professor Ruth Duncan of Cardiff University) identified a need for truly interdisciplinary Pan-European training i...

12 Jun 2007

Embedded Nanosensors to be Studied at New Research Center at the University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (UC) has received $1 million to establish a research center that will allow competing biomedical companies to pool their funding to develop new medical technologies for minimally invasive sur...

30 May 2007

SVTC Debuts Suite of Commercialization Services at NSTI Nanotech

SVTC Technologies, which recently became an independent development foundry, will introduce a full suite of commercialization services, called FastXfer services, and announce its name change, from Silicon Valley Technolo...

From SVTC Technologies 22 May 2007

The Evolution of Nanotechnology

UC Santa Barbara professor of history W. Patrick McCray takes a close look at the evolution of nanotechnology in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology. McCray, a member of UCSB’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society, ar...

8 May 2007

NIST Nanoscale Science and Technology Accepting Research Proposals

University, industry, government and other researchers who need access to state-of-the-art and beyond-state-of-the-art facilities to study a wide range of nanotechnology topics now have a new resource. The Commerce Depar...

4 May 2007

Center for Functional Nanomaterials to Open at Brookhaven National Lab

EVENT: Dedication of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a state-of-the-art facility about to open at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory for the fabrication and study of materia...

2 May 2007