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Website Provides Forums for Those Engaged in Materials Science and Nanotechnology

The Minerals, Metals + Materials Society (TMS) has launched a new version of its Materials Technology@TMS web site, an on-line gathering place for materials scientists and engineers throughout the world. All web users ar...

20 Aug 2008

QuikClot NoseBleed Offers Consumers Simple and Effective First Aid to Stop Bleeding Fast

Every year in the United States, there are close to 400 million nosebleeds. While many nosebleeds are minor, about 515,000 result in visits to hospital emergency departments(1) -- stressful, time consuming and expensive ...

20 Aug 2008

Sugar-Frosting Preserve Important Therapeutic Proteins

Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the sugars pharmaceutical companies use to stabilize protein-drugs for storage at room temperature. The group presented their findings* at the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition.

From Frost and Sullivan 20 Aug 2008

PANalytical Supporting Students in 2008 Expedition to the Greenhouse World

As part of the company's ongoing sponsorship of activities that stimulate interest in the sciences, PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands) is pleased to be supporting two students in the 2008 'Expedition to the Greenhouse World' - an initiative that is the brainchild of Utrecht University. Students competed for a place on the expedition with the winning pair being Barbara Terlouw and Robin van der Bles.

20 Aug 2008

Evaluating the Risk of Nanoparticles in the Environment

Thanks to emerging technologies and other advances, nano-enabled products and materials are appearing more often in our environment. But these products may hold unknown risks or dangers to ecosystems and the people who u...

20 Aug 2008

Silver-Coated Tubes Reduces Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of ...

20 Aug 2008

Computer Tests and Lab Data Show How Mutation Alters Key Protein

Using a combination of computer simulations and cutting-edge lab experiments, physical biochemists at Rice University have discovered how a small genetic mutation -- which is known to cause Wilson disease -- subtly chang...

20 Aug 2008

Tegal Announces Partnership to Create Enhanced Operating Systems and User Interfaces for PVD Thin Film Deposition Systems

Semiconductor equipment supplier Tegal Corporation and CIMAC, a leading software service solutions provider, announced today that they have entered into a partnership to create enhanced operating systems and user interfa...

From Collabrx, Inc. 20 Aug 2008

New Razor Thin Temperature-Regulating Film Bringing Nano-Spacecraft Closer to Reality

Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of "micro-spacecraft" weighing barely 50 pounds and 10-pound "nano-spacecraft" closer to reality.

20 Aug 2008

Nanosized Metal Chains as Building Blocks for Novel Optical Devices

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the particle shape. ...

20 Aug 2008

Donation to Fund Katherine Belz Groves Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Nanoscale Science

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany today announced that a California resident will honor the memory of her late daughter through a donation that will fund the ...

20 Aug 2008

Controlling the Energy Levels of Quantum Dots

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new way to fine-tune the light coming from quantum dots by manipulating them with pairs of lasers. Their technique, published in Physical Review Letters,* could significantly improve quantum dots as a source of pairs of "entangled" photons, a property with important applications in quantum information technologies.

20 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology - The Innovation Engine of the Future

Nanotechnology has definitely arrived in the world of commercial applications. An increasing number of businesses are using nanotechnological processes to launch innovative new applications and products, be it in the field of medical devices, solar power generation, or functional textiles. At the sixth NanoEurope 2008, which will be held in St.Gallen on September 16 and 17, the potential offered by nanotechnology will become evident.

20 Aug 2008

Understanding One of Nature's Most Ghostly Elementary Particles

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles - the neutrino - scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading ...

20 Aug 2008

Scientist to Give Talk on Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed using a new instrument at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Built by Brookhaven Lab and SBU scientists, the instrument enables researchers to make nanoclusters of 10 to 100 atoms with atomic precision.

20 Aug 2008