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Next Generation Facility for Research with Neutrons

Senior representatives from the Danish and Swedish Governments are to speak this Friday at a major industrial conference organised by the European Spallation Source project. Uffe Toudal Pedersen, Permanent Secretary o...

16 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Researchers Uses Funding to Create Nanomaterials for Energy

Direct assembly of nanomaterials for highly efficient energy conversion will be the goal of a five-year, $750,000 project led by Cornell researcher David Erickson.

16 Feb 2010

Companies Producing Goods Containing Nanomaterials Need to Find Tools to Transfer Information Down Supply Chain

Companies producing goods that contain nanomaterials need to find tools that will allow them to transfer information about the risk management of such materials down the supply chain.

16 Feb 2010

Could Nanomaterials Save the World, and Make a Profit?

The latest issue of NANO Magazine explores the advances in nanotechnology towards creating sustainable technologies. Nanomaterials for the Future - clean, green and profitable contains articles on clean tech, next-genera...

16 Feb 2010

Modumetal Receives Contract from NAVAIR for Advanced Nanolaminated Coating

Seattle-based Modumetal announced today that it has received a contract award from NAVAIR for an advanced nanolaminated coating that is expected to replace vapor-deposited cadmium in a high temperature, high impact envir...

16 Feb 2010

Arkema Pursuing R+D Commitment to Develop Increasingly Effective and Lightweight Materials

A global chemical company and leader in the field of nanostructured materials, Arkema is pursuing its R+D commitment to develop increasingly effective and lightweight materials. Arkema will present its two product li...

15 Feb 2010

Diamond-Based Nanowire Devices Advance Quantum Science and Technology

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team of Harvard researchers has taken another step toward making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

15 Feb 2010

Diamond Nanowires Providing New Options for High-Speed Computing

Diamonds are renowned for their seemingly flawless physical beauty and their interplay with light.Now researchers are taking advantage of the mineral's imperfections to control that light at the atomic scale, generating one photon at a time.

15 Feb 2010

Gold Nanoparticles Stop Cancer from Reproducing

Taking gold nanoparticles to the cancer cell and hitting them with a laser has been shown to be a promising tool in fighting cancer, but what about cancers that occur in places where a laser light can't reach? Sc...

15 Feb 2010

Sneaking siRNA into Cancer Cells using Hydrogel Nanoparticles

One of the difficulties of fighting cancer is that drugs often hit other non-cancerous cells, causing patients to get sick. But what if researchers could sneak cancer-fighting particles into just the cancer cells?

15 Feb 2010