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$1 million Awarded for Research on Smart, Bacteria Repellent Nanohydrogels

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of five Stevens Institute of Technology researchers a four-year, $1 million grant to develop “smart, self-assembling nano-biomaterials tha...

5 Nov 2007

Nanotech Knowledge Gap Needs to be Bridged Sooner Rather than Later

Want to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes-in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms (100 kilograms = approximately 220 pounds)? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. government doing ...

2 Nov 2007

Nanolabs of the Future to be Inspired by Self Assembling Nanostructures Like Butterfly Wings

With inspiration from bacteria and butterflies, researchers at Stockholm University have developed a new method that shows how nanomaterials can be produced in the future. In an article in the prestigious journal Proceed...

1 Nov 2007

Carbon Nanotubes May Lead to Ballistic Protection and Bullet Proof Vests that Bullets Bounce from Leaving No Damage

Bulletproof jackets do not turn security guards, police officers and armed forces into Robocops, repelling the force of bullets in their stride. New research in carbon nanotechnology however could give those in the line ...

1 Nov 2007

Nanomedicine to be Highlighted at UCLA, Tokyo University Nanobiotechnology Symposium

UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the University of Tokyo's Center for NanoBio Integration (CNBI) will jointly sponsor an international symposium on nanobiotechnology at UCLA Nov. 1–2. T...

1 Nov 2007

Nanotech Safety Measures Delayed by US Government Amid Industry Criticism

Want to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes—in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms (100 kilograms = approximately 220 pounds)? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. governme...

1 Nov 2007

Nanotech Expert Calls for Coordination in Nanotechnology Research

Nanotechnology holds great promise for the future of cancer therapy and water treatment, but concerns about the safety of nanoproducts may limit these important technological developments, Vicki Colvin said today in comm...

From International Council on Nanotechnology - ICON 1 Nov 2007

Turning Soybeans and Water into Clean, Green, Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticles

In 2002, U.S. farmers harvested 2.7 billion bushels of soybeans. Last year in Missouri, farmers harvested 194 million bushels of soybeans worth about $1.2 billion. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri...

1 Nov 2007

NIH Recognizes Clemson Nanotechnology for Molecule Tracking

The National Institutes of Health has awarded two Clemson chemistry faculty nearly $1 million to detect, track and image the interior of cells. Jason McNeill and Ken Christensen will receive the $960,000 grant to develop...

1 Nov 2007

Single Nanotube Used in World's Smallest Radio

Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built the smallest radio yet - a single carbon nanotube one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair that requires only a battery and earphones to tune in to ...

1 Nov 2007