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UCSB Graduate Fellow Wins Award at National Nanotech Symposium

Mary Ingram-Waters, graduate fellow with the National Science Foundation’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and Ph.D. student in sociology at UC Santa Barbara, has won the award for “Best Poster&rdq...

14 Jun 2007

Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre To Open

Nobel laureate Professor Sir Harry Kroto will officially open the Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre (NNNC) at The University of Nottingham on Monday 18th June. The new £3.2m interdisciplinary researc...

14 Jun 2007

Fluorescent Nanotubes Now OK For Use In Medical Applications

Vanderbilt researchers have removed an obstacle that has restricted fluorescent nanotubes from a variety of medical applications. In a paper published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society they describe ...

14 Jun 2007

Nanoparticles Unlock The Future Of Superalloy Metals

Sandia National Laboratories is pioneering the future of superalloy materials by advancing the science behind how those superalloys are made. As part of Sandia's nanoscale research, a group of experts specializing...

14 Jun 2007

Bacteria Ferry Nanoparticles Into Cells For Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease

Researchers at Purdue University have shown that common bacteria can deliver a valuable cargo of "smart nanoparticles" into a cell to precisely position sensors, drugs or DNA for the early diagnosis and treatme...

14 Jun 2007

Small Spectrometer With A Big Future

In a raid the police seize some suspicious white powder. But is it really a narcotic substance? Previously the powder would have had to be sent to a laboratory for testing. A portable infrared spectrometer now enables th...

14 Jun 2007

Oxford Instruments Nanoanalysis Ship 100th INCAx-act Analytical Drift Detector

Oxford Instruments shipped its 100th INCAx-act Analytical Drift Detector from its factory in the UK on May 11th 2007. INCAx-act is the result of a unique marriage of experience between Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, th...

14 Jun 2007

Nanoindent Biometrics Appoint Exclusive German Distributor

Dimension Data Germany, a worldleading IT service provider, and Linz-based NANOIDENT Biometrics GmbH, a leading provider of multimodal biometric hardware and software solutions, today announced an exclusive partnership. ...

13 Jun 2007

Foresight Nanotech Appoints New President

Foresight Nanotech Institute has appointed Dr. Pearl Chin to the position of President. Dr. Chin brings to the organization her extensive experience in business consulting, operations, sales and marketing, and customer s...

13 Jun 2007

Improved Nanobridge Nanometer-Scaled Switch Could be Used in Smaller Chips

NEC Corporation, the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), have together succeeded in improving the turn-on voltage of a new nanometer-scaled switch, NanoBr...

12 Jun 2007

Light Induced Molecular Reorientation Observed for the First Time

Ultrafast intramolecular electronic charge separation during photo-chemical reactions cause up to tenthousand surrounding molecules to perform aligning pirouettes. Researchers observed for the first time such light induc...

12 Jun 2007

Nanomedicine Conference Identifies Training as Key to Rapid and Safe Development

The European Science Foundation (ESF)'s 'Forward Look in Nanomedicine' conference (chaired by Professor Ruth Duncan of Cardiff University) identified a need for truly interdisciplinary Pan-European training i...

12 Jun 2007

Use of Nanomaterials in Stem Cells Grant for University of Surrey Researcher

University of Surrey researchers, Dr Alan Dalton and Dr Richard Sear, have received grants totalling £100k from the SETsquared Applied Collaborative Research Programme and the EPSRC to support collaborative work wi...

12 Jun 2007

Panel Investigate Weirdness of Quantum Mechanics

Arizona State University’s innovative “cosmic think tank” – BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science – will host an international workshop this month to probe the innermost secrets...

12 Jun 2007

New Hybrid Memory Device Using Silicon Nanowires and Traditional Data Storage

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with colleagues at George Mason University and Kwangwoon University in Korea, have fabricated a memory device that combines silicon nanowires...

12 Jun 2007