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Call for Expressions of Interest on Nanotechnology

By this Call for Expressions of Interest (CEI) the Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Management Support Unit, will made up the list of service providers which will be used for the concl...

25 May 2009

Gift to Fund Research on Carbon Nanotube for Sports Equipment and Aerospace Applications

James L. Easton, chairman and CEO of sports equipment company Jas. D. Easton Inc., has given $2 million to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to fund research on advanced carbon materials fo...

23 May 2009

Bulgarian Government and IBM Announces Cooperation in the Area of Nanotechnology

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Bulgarian government today officially announced their cooperation in the area of nanoscience and a deal for IBM to support the creation of what will be the first Bulgarian nanotechnology center. ...

22 May 2009

UC Riverside Assistant Professor Named Cottrell Scholar

Yadong Yin, an assistant professor of chemistry at UC Riverside, has been named a Cottrell Scholar - an honor that carries with it an award of $100,000 to further his research and teaching.

22 May 2009

Using Protein Cages to Analyze Platinum Nanoparticles

A Montana State University graduate student whose research has the potential to make a difference in how light is harvested for alternative energy applications has won a $90,000 fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

22 May 2009

Webinar Identifies New Opportunities in the Conductive Coatings Space

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in electronics created by developments in advanced materials, today announced that it will be conducting a webinar title...

21 May 2009

Engineer Explores Properties of Materials

In the 1990s, semiconductor companies began to incorporate a wider variety of materials into the construction of computer chips, selecting materials based on how they would perform electrically and not necessarily on how they would stand up to the rigors of the manufacturing process or continued use.

21 May 2009

Modumetal and University of Washington to Develop Innovative Anti-Corrosion Technology

Washington Technology Center (WTC) has awarded an Entrepreneur's Access grant to the University of Washington to support an advanced material research collaboration with Modumetal, Inc. of Seattle, Washington. Mod...

From Modumetal 21 May 2009

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

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