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OECD Releases New Report on Manufactured Nanomaterials

OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) released a new report in their series on the safety of manufactured nanomaterials. Based on an OECD workshop held on the topic in Paris Oct 2008, the report's f...

31 Aug 2009

New Method for Fabricating Silk-Based Optical Waveguides that are Biocompatible and Biodegradable

There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications - from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguides are ...

31 Aug 2009

Researchers Discover Metallofullerenes Capable of Forming Ordered Supramolecular Structures

Small, smaller, "nano" data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes - carbon "cages" with embedded metallic compounds - as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at Empa have discovered that metallofullerenes are capable of forming ordered supramolecular structures with different orientations.

31 Aug 2009

Polymer-Coated Gold-Platinum Nanorods for Industrial Use

Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week with a polym...

31 Aug 2009

NSF Awarded Clemson $2 million to Mimic Nature's Probes

The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University researchers $2 million to study ways to mimic the suction mechanism used by butterflies and moths to feed so that the same method can be used in medical diagnostics.

31 Aug 2009

Collaboration Will Demonstrate New EUV Materials at Resist Materials and Development Center at CNSE's Albany NanoTech

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest suppliers of semiconductor materials, announced today that Shin-Etsu has joined SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center (RMDC) at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex.

31 Aug 2009