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Forum Showcases Treatments for Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries Involving Nanotechnology

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA announced today that it will host an international forum featuring some of the world's most innovative scientists and technology leaders at the vanguard of treatmen...

15 Aug 2008

Paving the Way to Smaller Electronic Devices and Higher-Capacity Hard Drives

A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic devices and higher-capaci...

15 Aug 2008

Detecting Changes in Protein–Water Network in Real Time

Water is no passive spectator of biological processes; it is an active participant. Protein folding is thus a self-organized process in which the actions of the solvent play a key role. So far, the emphasis in studies of...

15 Aug 2008

Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Delivery Vehicles

The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter.

15 Aug 2008

Silver and Calcium Phosphate Nano-Particles Proves Deadly to Bacteria

Chemical Engineers in Switzerland have created a plastic film that’s up to 1000 times more effective at killing E. coli bacteria cells than conventional methods. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech...

15 Aug 2008

Additional Sales and Expenditures Further Broaden First Nano and CVD Product Lines

CVD Equipment Corporation today announced that it has achieved record 3 and 6 month revenues and its fifteenth consecutive profitable quarter. Revenue for the three and six months ending June 30, 2008 was approximately $...

14 Aug 2008

Leading Fuel Cell Developer Creates Strategic Partnership with IceMOS Technology

Neah Power Systems, Inc., a leading developer of fuel cells for military, industrial and consumer portable electronic devices, announced today that it has created a strategic partnership with IceMOS Technology Ltd. to ut...

14 Aug 2008

Scientists Developing New Storage Modules for Hybrid Vehicles

Hybrid technology combines the advantages of combustion engines and electric motors. Scientists are developing high-performance energy storage units, a prerequisite for effective hybrid motors. The vehicle is powered...

14 Aug 2008

Anasys Instruments Wins Prestigious R+D 100 Award for VESTA Product

Anasys Instruments has won the prestigious R+D 100 award for its new VESTA product, a tool which revolutionizes thermal analysis with its ability to perform “point & click” micro and nano thermal analysis...

14 Aug 2008

Metal Carbide Set to Make Biofuel Production Economically Viable

A new metal carbide Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst developed by Oxford Catalysts looks set to make second-generation biofuel production using small-scale FT microchannel reactors environmentally and economically viable. ...

14 Aug 2008

Remove Bacteria and Other Contaminants from Water using Nanoparticles

UniSA scientists have discovered a simple way to remove bacteria and other contaminants from water using tiny particles of pure silica coated with an active nano-material.

14 Aug 2008

Cell's Recognition of Danger Through Protein Response

In joint experimental work, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories and biologists at the University of New Mexico’s Cancer Research and Treatment Center have combined unusual techniques to make real-time movies that show exactly how a 50-nanometer-thick membrane notifies the cell it encloses that a hostile alien presence — an antigen — has made a landing.

14 Aug 2008