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Senior Attorney Analyzes Need For Nanotechnology Regulation

Although analysts forecast that more than 15 percent of all products will incorporate some form of nanotechnology by 2014, there is very little federal regulation or oversight on this burgeoning sector. The challenge, as...

6 Sep 2008

NSF Funds Danville Community College Nanotechnology Program

Danville Community College and Luna Innovations Incorporated have entered into a partnership to provide nanotechnology technician training to Southside Virginia residents. The partnership is being funded through a three-year, $638,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which the NSF announced award of recently to DCC.

6 Sep 2008

Thinking Big at the Small Scale

The dedication ceremony, which takes place at 11:30 a.m., celebrates the completion of an $18 million, state-funded expansion of one of the nation's premier and largest research laboratories in academia for micro and nanoelectronics, nanophotonics and optoelectronics, nanomedicine and bionanotechnology, and MEMS/NEMS and integrated systems research. The expansion added new lab, research, classroom and meeting space.

6 Sep 2008

Urgent Action is Needed to Cut Red Tape for High-Tech Research

Urgent action is needed to cut red tape and create a more risk-tolerant environment for high-tech research in the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector, the European Commission has said. In a Communic...

6 Sep 2008

CNRS Releases "Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies" DVD

At the scale of a billionth of a meter, the nanoworld is taking shape. CNRS Images has just released "Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies", its second thematic DVD, to answer all our questions about the infinitesimally small. Aimed at both experts in the field and non-specialists, this bilingual DVD (English and French) is an open invitation to discover an awe-inspiring world.

6 Sep 2008

Cleanfield Energy Receives Grant to Further Nanowire Photovoltaics Research

Cleanfield Energy Corp a subsidiary of Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. announces that its project partner, McMaster University, has been awarded a Collaborative Research and Development grant from the Natural Sciences...

6 Sep 2008

Visualizing Individual Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Surfaces

For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the "bigger is better" rule isn't the case for those interested in exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) into harmless carbon dioxide at room temperatures.

6 Sep 2008

Harvard Researchers Awarded Grant to Further Develop Electronic Sequencing in Nanopores

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $6.5 (over 4 years) grant to a team of Harvard University researchers to further develop electronic sequenc...

6 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology and Industry Set to Meet at Top Industry Event

With more than 60 specialist presentations and a comprehensive exhibition, MiNaT will attract specialist visitors from many areas of industry from 7th to 9th October. The trade fair for precision engineering, ultra preci...

5 Sep 2008

Leading Manufacturer of Solar Wafers Signs Contract with Japan- Based Sumitomo Corp

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, announced today that it has signed an eight-year contract with Japan- based Sumitomo Corporation, one of the leading trading and investment houses in Japan to ...

5 Sep 2008

Nanofair 2009 Brings Together Science and Industry in Dresden

Nanotechnology is certainly one of the future-looking technology and research fields of the 21st century. The international Nanofair 2009 conference on May 26th and 27th in Dresden (Germany) will for the seventh time be bringing together experts from industry and science for an interdisciplinary exchange of information.

5 Sep 2008