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Nanotechnology Companies Being Encouraged to Take Part in New Technology in Healthcare Conference

Nanotechnology companies are being encouraged to take part in a major New Technology in Healthcare Conference being launched in May. The conference takes place on 13 May 2009 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff as Wales...

16 Mar 2009

IMEC Celebrates 25 Years of Service

This year, IMEC celebrates its 25th birthday. On January 16, 1984, the memorandum of association of IMEC was signed, and on March 15, now exactly 25 years ago, IMEC appeared as newly established research center in the Be...

From IMEC 16 Mar 2009

Nanoprobes Pinpointing the Location of Tumors

A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

16 Mar 2009

Survey of Israel's Nanotechnology Industry Conveys Careful Optimism

A survey of Israel's nanotech industry held by the Israel National Nano-technology Initiative (INNI) in anticipation of the 2009 NanoIsrael Week, conveys careful optimism. The survey, which looked at the situation of academic research in Israel, reveals that the average investment per Israeli investor averages USD 1.1 million.

16 Mar 2009

New Look at Nature Through the Eyes of Physicists

Take a new look at nature through the eyes of physicists at next month's March Meeting of American Physical Society (APS), which takes place from March 16-20, 2009 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

16 Mar 2009

Harta Instruments Introduces New Microplate Luminometer and Luminometer Reference Microplate

Scientists who want to ensure reliable chemiluminescent sensitivity and specificity measurements for their tests should consider the MicroLumi-L2 glow microplate luminometer, the successor to the popular MicroLumi-XS lum...

16 Mar 2009

Small Organic Molecules with High Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities May Speed Internet Access

The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes wil...

15 Mar 2009

Project Turning to Nanotechnology to Dramatically Ramp Up Efficiency of Solar Cells

A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells. Called ROD-SOL ('All-inorganic nano-rod based thin-film solar cells on glass').

14 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology - Ingredients for More Reliable Power

Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source. Such advances are among aims of research ...

13 Mar 2009

Nanocups Lighting the Way Toward Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.

13 Mar 2009