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Five Cities Lead Nanotech Activities in The USA

With nanotechnology poised to be the globe’s next big economic driver, five U.S. cities have emerged as the country’s top “Nano Metro” locations-areas with the nation’s highest concentration...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 18 May 2007

Consumer Products Using Nanotechnology Double, from 212 to 475

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufactur...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 16 May 2007

Optical Properties of Fluorescent Nanoparticles Open Possibilities for Cellular Imaging

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succ...

9 May 2007

The Evolution of Nanotechnology

UC Santa Barbara professor of history W. Patrick McCray takes a close look at the evolution of nanotechnology in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology. McCray, a member of UCSB’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society, ar...

8 May 2007

On-Line Registration Available for Veeco's Seeing at Nanoscale V Conference

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced on-line registration for the "Seeing at the Nanoscale V" conference to be held at the University of California, Santa ...

8 May 2007

Veeco and Leica Integrate AFM and Microscope to Create BioScope II AFM

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, a leading designer and manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have finalized a product...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 7 May 2007

Platinum Nanocrystals Provide Increase Catalytic Activity

A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity per unit area ...

5 May 2007

Nanoparticle Coated Fabric Prevents Cold and Flu and Never Needs Washing

Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken "functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that des...

3 May 2007

New System for Accurately Placing Nanowires on Semiconductor Wafers

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires on semiconductor wafers. Their technique, described in a rece...

1 May 2007

University of Cincinnati Lead The World in Extremely Long Carbon Nanotube Arrays

University of Cincinnati researchers lead the world in the synthesis of extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays; research has implications for medical, aerospace, electronic and other applications. UC engineer...

26 Apr 2007