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Springer and Nanoethics Group Publish Anthology Looking at Issues Facing Nanotechnology

Springer and The Nanoethics Group have released a collection of important papers addressing a range of near-term issues related to nanotechnology’s ethical and social implications. The anthology “Nanotechnolo...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 29 Apr 2008

First Prototype Nanoassembler Built, Further Advances in Nanotechnology Expected Including Nano Sized Robots or Nanobots

The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Ind...

29 Apr 2008

Researchers Measure Peel Forces for Sticky Nanotubes That May Lead to Advanced Materials and Technologies of the Future

Researchers at Purdue University are the first to precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing and harnessing a gecko's ability to walk up walls.

29 Apr 2008

New Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, IMNI, Opens at Brown University

Brown professors, students and affiliated scholars will engage in the study of matter at the molecular and nanoscale level at the new Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation at Brown University. The center holds its official opening from May 5-7, 2008.

29 Apr 2008

SUSS Microtech Signs Up for New Nanoimprinting Technology, Substrate Conformal Imprint Lithography or SCIL

SUSS MicroTec, supplier of innovative solutions for the 3D, MEMS, Advanced Packaging and Nanotechnology markets, has entered a license agreement with Philips Research, Eindhoven/The Netherlands, for a new enabling techno...

29 Apr 2008

Global Solar Energy Selected by Dow Chemical as Key Team Member in Developing Energized Building Products

Global Solar Energy, a solar industry leader that manufactures highly-efficient thin-film solar cells for glass modules or flexible material products, today announced Dow Building Solutions, a business unit of The Dow Ch...

29 Apr 2008

Quantum Cryptography Using Quantum Mechanics to Outpace Codebreakers

Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache. Cryptography is an arms race, but the finish line may be fast approaching...

29 Apr 2008

Specialty Gases Supplied by Matheson Tri-Gas to Enable IBM Semiconductor Advances

International Business Machines Corporation and Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., the largest subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, Japan, announced today that they have signed a unique, four-year agreement to jointly deve...

29 Apr 2008

Society of Manufacturing Engineers Tour Nanotechnology, Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology Facility

The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation, Boston University Photonics Center and the BU Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology hosted the prestigious Society of Manufacturing Engineers this week for a tou...

28 Apr 2008

National Nanotechnology Initiative Facing Change

In 2001, the U.S. launched the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), the federal coordinating program for nanotechnology research which has channeled $7.2 billion in funding since inception. The NNI has been a great ...

28 Apr 2008

First Transistor Made Using Nanotechnology

Transistors are an indispensable building block in electric appliances, where they amplify weak electric currents. Now researchers have developed a new type of transistor that is 50 times more energy efficient than today...

28 Apr 2008

New North American Headquarters for Carl Zeiss SMT

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis solutions, today officially opened its new North American headquarters in Peabody, Mass., near Boston. Representing an investment o...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 28 Apr 2008

US Senator Kerry Pushes for Funding of Nanotechnology Environmental Safety Research

Senator John Kerry presided over the Commerce Subcommittee hearing, “National Nanotechnology Initiative: Charting the Course for Reauthorization,” urging that the Senate reauthorize funding for cutting-edge nanotechnology research, including increased funding for studies that research how nanotechnology affects human bodies and the environment over time.

28 Apr 2008

Fluid Testing Rig More Accurately Simulates Operating Conditions for Nanomaterials

Micro Materials have been making innovative nanoscale test instrumentation for more than twenty years. Centre to their range is the NanoTestT platform which offers options to study a wide variety of materials properties. While many systems have made measurements under ambient conditions, Micro Materials have recognized that environmental testing is key when evaluating true "in-use" performance characteristics.

26 Apr 2008

SEM Resolution can be Checked under All Operating Conditions

Agar Scientific's universal tin on carbon resolution test specimen has been specially developed in their laboratory to enable resolution checks to be made under all operating conditions.

26 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology News

Springer and Nanoethics Group Publish Anthology Looking at Issues Facing Nanotechnology

First Prototype Nanoassembler Built, Further Advances in Nanotechnology Expected Including Nano Sized Robots or Nanobots

Researchers Measure Peel Forces for Sticky Nanotubes That May Lead to Advanced Materials and Technologies of the Future

New Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, IMNI, Opens at Brown University

SUSS Microtech Signs Up for New Nanoimprinting Technology, Substrate Conformal Imprint Lithography or SCIL

Global Solar Energy Selected by Dow Chemical as Key Team Member in Developing Energized Building Products

Quantum Cryptography Using Quantum Mechanics to Outpace Codebreakers

Specialty Gases Supplied by Matheson Tri-Gas to Enable IBM Semiconductor Advances

Society of Manufacturing Engineers Tour Nanotechnology, Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology Facility

National Nanotechnology Initiative Facing Change

First Transistor Made Using Nanotechnology

New North American Headquarters for Carl Zeiss SMT

US Senator Kerry Pushes for Funding of Nanotechnology Environmental Safety Research

Fluid Testing Rig More Accurately Simulates Operating Conditions for Nanomaterials

SEM Resolution can be Checked under All Operating Conditions

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