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NGO Urges ICCM to Take Effective Action on Nanotechnology

The ICCM addressed nanotechnolgoy and manufactured nanoparticles as an emerging policy issue for the first time. ETC Group's Diana Bronson attended the meeting and worked with NGO partners to urge the ICCM to take effective action on nano-scale technologies.

21 May 2009

Chinese Scientists Finish Upgrade Project of Electron-Positron Collider

Chinese scientists have successfully finished a five-year upgrade aimed at keeping the country's electron-positron collider (EPC) a leading global high-tech device. With the upgrading, the collider's capabilit...

From Chinese Academy of Sciences 20 May 2009

Researchers Demonstrate How Nanotechnology can be Incorporated onto a Disc in Order to Increase Data Capacity

Futuristic discs with a storage capacity 2,000 times that of current DVDs could be just around the corner, thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology. For the first time researchers from the university's Centre for Micro-Photonics have demonstrated how nanotechnology can enable the creation of 'five dimensional' discs with huge storage capacities.

20 May 2009

Company Develope Environmentally Friendly Nanocoating that Acts to Protect Silver Against Tarnishing

Oxford Advanced Surfaces Group Plc, the advanced materials company, announced that it has developed a 1nm thick, environmentally friendly Onto® coating that acts to protect silver against tarnishing. The effect o...

20 May 2009

Novel Way of Estimating How Much Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticle is in the Environment

Civil engineers at Duke University believe they have come up with a novel way of estimating how much of one such material – titanium dioxide – is being generated, laying the groundwork for future studies to assess any possible risks.

20 May 2009

Organic Electronics Pioneer Named CTO of Nano Terra

Dr. Graciela Blanchet, a pioneer in the field of organic electronics, has been named Chief Technology Officer at Nano Terra, Inc., a leading surface engineering and nanotechnology development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

20 May 2009

Tinted See-Thru Coating for Generating Electricity on Glass Windows Makes Use of Ultra-Small Solar Cells

New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), today announced that, in addition to the active development of its MotionPower™ technologies for generating electricity by harvesting the kinetic energy of moving vehicles, the Company is continuing to further advance the development of its tinted transparent glass SolarWindows™ capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known organic solar cells.

20 May 2009