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Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics Pioneers Win Inaugural Kavli Prize

Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes. The laureates were sele...

29 May 2008

Smaller and Faster Computers From Carbon Nanoribbons

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which...

29 May 2008

Researchers Trying to Flip Electron Spin Find Electron Switch

University of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds (a trillionth of a second) instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin -- knowledge that may prove us...

29 May 2008

World’s First Graduate in NanoEconomics Comes From UAlbany NanoCollege

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that a doctoral degree has been awarded to a CNSE student who is the world's first graduate in Nanoeconomics

28 May 2008

New Book on Nanotechnology and Nanotubes Set to Make the Complex World of the Super Small Easy to Understand

When Sandia's Francois Leonard explains the physics of carbon Leonard has written a book on the subject to be published later this summer

28 May 2008

Records Set in Fabrication of Largest Thin Film Solar Cell Module

Signet Solar, a manufacturer of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, today, announced the fabrication of the industry’s first ever Gen 8.5 (5.7 m2) silicon thin film solar PV module at its new factory near ...

27 May 2008

CRAIC Technologies QDI 2010 Microspectrophotometer Detects and Analyzes Trace Contaminants with a Single Instrument

CRAIC Technologies, Inc., a global leader in application-focused microanalysis solutions, provides the capability to both detect and analyze trace contaminants with a single instrument. This is done by combining both ultraviolet microscopy with ultraviolet microspectroscopy in the CRAIC Technologies QDI 2010™ microspectrophotometer equipped with the optional QDI ImageUV™ package

26 May 2008

European Nanotechnology Research Boosted By French Research Tax Credit

The government has put in place the best research tax credit in Europe for the sector’s R&D activities, so that 50% of R&D costs can be reimbursed during the first year. In the past two years, attention ...

26 May 2008

Nanotechnology and Cutting Edge Design Combine to Create Yamaha Exoskelton Style Motorbike

At Art Center Pasadena, California professor, Bumsuk Lim, has taken his passion for motorcycle riding and developed a new motorcycle design class, enviro-motorcycles. One of the first designs to come from this is an exoskelton style project vehicle called ‘Deus Ex Machina’ (God Out of a Machine). It is an electric, single passenger, vertically parking, and wearable motorcycle

23 May 2008

U.S. Army and UAlbany NanoCollege Research Agreement to Develop Super Fighting Force With Nanotechnology

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany signed an agreement today to create a new research partnership that is designed to accelerate the develop...

22 May 2008