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Editorial: Reasons to give thanks
news-record.com ".string_date(11,28,2009)." Cooperation between the city's two public universities -- N.C. A&T and UNCG -- is growing. Exhibit A: The groundbreaking two weeks ago for the new Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. Exhibit B: The joint meeting last week of both schools' boards of trustees.

Vom Klimakiller zum Rohstoff
faz.net ".string_date(11,28,2009)." Grundsätzlich besteht bei dem Vorhaben, Kohlendioxid chemisch zu verwandeln, eine große Schwierigkeit: Das Molekül ist äußerst energiearm und damit recht reaktionsträge. Daher muss man ihm auf die Sprünge helfen, beispielsweise mit zugeführter Energie oder durch entsprechende Katalysatoren. Kürzlich berichteten Forscher vom Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapur über eine neuartige Methanolsynthese, die unter milden Bedingungen recht effizient abläuft ("Angewandte Chemie", Bd. 121, S. 6770). Als Katalysator verwendeten die Wissenschaftler ein sogenanntes heterozyklisches Carben. Dieses Molekül besitzt ein freies Elektronenpaar, welches an das Kohlendioxid-Molekül andockt und es auf diese Weise aktiviert. Als Wasserstoffquelle dient Hydrosilan. Da diese Substanz vergleichsweise teuer ist, suchen die Forscher nach günstigerem Ersatz.

UA project tackles spread of cancer cells
nwanews.com ".string_date(11,28,2009)." Researchers at the state's medical school and its land-grant university have discovered a way to magnetically trap tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream. Their finding, published Nov. 15 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, might ultimately stop cancer's deadly metastasis and improve early diagnosis of the disease in its various forms. A team led by Vladimir Zharov of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences worked with Jin-Woo Kim,a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, on the project.

Glimpses of the Medicine of Tomorrow
Aktionslinie Hessen-Nanotech ".string_date(11,28,2009)." 6th Nanotechnology Forum Hessen at the Congress Park Hanau

Scientists taking closer look at nanoparticles
ctv.ca ".string_date(11,29,2009)." European Union regulators have forced cosmetic producers to list any nanoparticles contained in their products, which has many consumer groups calling for Canada to follow suit. The EU action comes on the heels of a United States study released this week on the hazards of their inclusion in cosmetic products. The University of California study found that titanium dioxide particles found in some vitamins and toothpastes damaged the DNA of mice. Another study in the European Respiratory Journal found nanoparticles led to the severe illnesses of several Chinese factory workers who worked closely with them, contributing to the death of one woman.

Reshaping Business
thesundayleader.lk ".string_date(11,29,2009)." Reshape your business' is the theme of this year's CIMA Technical Symposium which will take place on December 3 in Colombo. Other speakers include: Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Pvt) Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Ravi Fernando.

Multi-purpose nanotechnology innovation parks for India
ptinews.com ".string_date(11,29,2009)." US-based Nanotechnology firm Nanobiosym is planning to set up multi-purpose nanotechnology innovation parks, the first of its kind in India. "Nanobiosym is already at work forming strategic alliances and innovative public-private partnerships with governments and NGOs and the private sector to help make its flagship Gene-RADAR technology available and affordable to people in developing countries sooner rather than later," Nanobiosym Chairman and CEO Anita Goel told PTI from Boston.

A big race for tiny research at North Texas universities
star-telegram.com ".string_date(11,29,2009)." Executives and researchers at some of the region's private companies and at UT-Arlington, the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of North Texas in Denton are determined to make North Texas a major player in this field. To do that, the region must establish itself against leading nanotechnology research institutes, such as Rice University in Houston, and technological titans, such as those in Silicon Valley in California and the greater Boston area, experts say. At stake are billions of federal and investment dollars. China, Japan, Germany and Russia are also in the nanotechnology race. According to Lux Research, nanotech funding totaled $18.2 billion in 2008, as government spending ballooned to $8.4 billion, corporate funding edged to $8.6 billion, and venture capitalists provided $1.2 billion. To explain the potential of the science, TechAmerica Texas Executive Director Jeff Clark recalls a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate when a man advises Dustin Hoffman, the movie's star, that the future is in plastics. "Nano is the plastics of our generation," said Clark, whose group represents high-tech industries. "Plastics completely revolutionized everything we do, everything we use. Nano is going to be revolutionary on an even larger scale."

'Nanogeek,' the man behind SUNYIT's nanotech project
uticaod.com ".string_date(11,29,2009)." There's a new kind of geek in town. One who drives a Ferrari with the license plate "DR NANO" and a supercharged Range Rover with the license tag "NANOGEEK." One who admits that he lived "a quarter of a mile from all the bars" when he was working on his Ph.D at the University of Illinois, but "didn't know they existed." He's Alain Kaloyeros, and geek or not, he is one of the prime movers in bringing a nanotechnology center to SUNYIT. The center promises to bring hundreds of jobs to the Mohawk Valley and raise SUNYIT's profile significantly.

Technology Leader - Dublin
optics.org ".string_date(11,29,2009)." Competence Centres are collaborative entities established and led by industry. Supported by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, these centres are empowered to undertake market-focussed strategic R&D for the benefit of industry. Applicants are sought for this new appointment at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, which has recently been awarded a contract to host this new Centre, with the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, CRANN in Dublin as co-host.

Picosun launches 200 mm batch production ALD system
Picosun Oy ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems launched today a 200 mm batch production version of its highly praised design of SUNALE™ ALD process tools. The new SUNALE™ P200B system comes with a large variety of configurations and is able to process up to hundreds of silicon wafers per day. P200B can also process 3D objects with stunning accuracy.

ENI takes part in EU project and reinforces its organisation
ENI AB ".string_date(11,30,2009)." European Nano Invest AB, a privately held nanotechnology investment company, has been invited to participate in EU funded project focusing on Molecular recognition at the atomic level.

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications
physorg.com ".string_date(11,30,2009)." While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists to manipulate quantum spins, which could be used as qubits for quantum information applications. Along these lines, a team of physicists from the National Research Council in Canada who were responsible for the original lateral few-electron single quantum dot have recently designed a new few-electron triple quantum dot circuit, and demonstrated that all three quantum dots can be tuned in resonance.

Nanotech is a €30-billion opportunity for Irish economy
cemag.us ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Nanotechnology, the science of ultra micro electronics and pharmaceuticals, has the potential to be a major engine of growth in the Irish economy and exports could be doubled from €15 billion today to €30 billion by 2015.

Nanotech discovery could bring about the end of animal testing
siliconrepublic.com ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Toxichip, a new nano-biotechnology solution developed at the Tyndall Institute in Cork, has the potential to replace animal testing used in toxicity screening. The discovery, unveiled by the Minister for Education and Science Batt O'Keefe today to market the beginning of Nanoweek is a sensing system that monitors the effects toxicants have on human and animal cells.

Nobelpreis geht in Serie
frankfurt-live.com ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Nanion Technologies GmbH gewinnt den STEP Award 2009 mit einer innovativen Technologie. Die Nanion Technologies GmbH wurde 2002 als Spin-off des Center for NanoScience (CeNS) der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München gegründet. Das Nanion-Team hat zwei hochwertige Analyse-Instrumente (Port-a-Patch und Patchliner) für die Elektrophysiologie entwickelt und erfolgreich im globalen Markt eingeführt. In Nanions Messinstrumenten kommen mikrostrukturierte Chips zum Einsatz, welche die normalerweise beim Patch Clamp-Verfahren (Nobelpreis 1991) verwendete Glaspipette ersetzen.

MagForce Nanotechnologies AG applies for European regulatory approval of its Nano-Cancer® therapy
MagForce Nanotechnologies AG ".string_date(11,30,2009)." MagForce Nanotechnologies AG has submitted the product file for NanoTherm® to Medcert GmbH, the medical certification and testing company which serves as Notified Body for the certification of medical products.

Centrale Lyon accueille un colloque international sur les nanotechnologies
e-tud.com ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Centrale Lyon accueille, aujourd'hui et demain, un colloque international sur les nanotechnologies. Baptisée « se connecter au NANOMONDE », cette manifestation réunit des experts et des chercheurs européens, nord-américains et asiatiques aux savoir-faire complémentaires.

Focus on fusion
indiatimes.com ".string_date(11,30,2009)." Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly and developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale. The IITs in Mumbai, Kanpur, Chennai, Guwahati and Delhi offer courses in this discipline.

Nanostart-owned MagForce Nanotechnologies AG: Application submitted for EU regulatory approval of Nano-Cancer® therapy
Nanostart ".string_date(12,01,2009)." * European regulatory approval expected by end of May 2010 * Sales and marketing launch now in planning * Renowned nanomedicine expert calls it "a real medical revolution"

NYIT Professor Discovers Next Generation Of DNA And RNA Microarrays
NYIT ".string_date(12,01,2009)." A novel invention developed by a scientist from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) could revolutionize biological and clinical research and may lead to treatments for cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and genetic and infectious diseases.

Wiley Fosters Engagement with Chinese Research Community through MaterialsViewsChina.com
Wiley ".string_date(12,01,2009)." John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), has launched the Chinese version of its Materials Views website.

Une simulation en béton
cnrs.fr ".string_date(12,01,2009)." La matière la plus fabriquée par l'homme se met enfin à nu. On savait que le ciment, une fois mélangé à l'eau et solidifié, n'était ni ordonné comme un cristal ni déstructuré comme le verre, mais organisé en « grains » de quelques nanomètres de diamètre. En revanche, la structure exacte des grains résistait aux investigations des chercheurs. Grâce à une simulation numérique inédite, une équipe internationale associant des chercheurs du Centre interdisciplinaire de nanoscience de Marseille (Cinam)1 et de l'Institut de technologie du Massachusetts (MIT) vient de lever le mystère : chaque grain est un empilement de feuillets à l'intérieur desquels les atomes sont disposés de manière désordonnée. C'est ce mélange d'ordre et de désordre qui confère sa solidité au matériau.

Abhaya Datye is Named Regents’ Professor
University of New Mexico ".string_date(12,01,2009)." The School of Engineering has named Abhaya Datye, Distinguished Professor in the Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Department, to a Regents Professorship. Datye received a National Science Foundation Excellence Award from the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division in 2008 and both the Senior Research and the Teaching Excellence Awards from the School of Engineering.

Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon
Monash University ".string_date(12,01,2009)." In a world first, a Monash University-led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells.

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition
Georgia Institute of Technology ".string_date(12,01,2009)." The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive processes of the modern warfighter.

Semefab to spend $11 million building a CMOS fab
eetimes.com ".string_date(12,01,2009)." Semefab (Scotland) Ltd. (Glenrothes, Scotland) has started building its CMOS3 wafer fab to support front-end processing of MEMS structures. Semefab, with financial support from Scottish Enterprise and the United Kingdom government's Technology Strategy Board, is spending ٤.6 million (about $11 million) to create a 0.5-micron capable CMOS facility, to support its MEMS manufacturing capability.

EnerDel Partners with Mazda, Itochu, and Other Leaders for Pioneering Smart Grid Integration Project
Ener1 ".string_date(12,01,2009)." Advanced Lithium-ion Battery Maker Will Supply Systems for First Real-World Combination of Electric Cars, Stationary Grid Storage and Renewable Energy.

Multi-purpose nanotechnology innovation parks for India
ptinews.com ".string_date(12,01,2009)." US-based Nanotechnology firm Nanobiosym is planning to set up multi-purpose nanotechnology innovation parks, the first of its kind in India. Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat have already signed MOUs with the globally recognised firm to establish the Nanobiosym Tech Park in India. "Nanobiosym is already at work forming strategic alliances and innovative public-private partnerships with governments and NGOs and the private sector to help make its flagship Gene-RADAR technology available and affordable to people in developing countries sooner rather than later," Nanobiosym Chairman and CEO Anita Goel told PTI from Boston.

Nanogate continues successful expansion strategy and develops international market opportunities
Nanogate ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Production and marketing under way for new order in area of heat exchangers - Negotiations on investment in a nanotechnology company almost complete - Further issuing of patents expected.

JEOL Canada Increases Sales Support for Scientific Instrumentation
JEOL ".string_date(12,02,2009)." JEOL, globally-recognized for its advanced Electron Microscopes, Spectrometers, and E-Beam Lithography tools, announces the appointment of a new JEOL Canada Sales Manager. Richard Humphrey of Calgary, Alberta, will represent JEOL throughout all Canadian provinces with the exception of Quebec and Eastern Ontario, which will continue to be represented by Soquelec, Ltd., a JEOL partner since 1981.

Johns Hopkins nanobio summer internship helps undergrads learn research ropes
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Summertime flies by when it is spent hard at work in a laboratory; but the 12 student researchers selected for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) still had plenty of fun. Here are highlights of their experience working, living, and playing at Johns Hopkins University this summer. INBT's NanoBio REU is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Quantum dots spot epigenetic markers for early cancer detection
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." A researcher affiliated with Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology has developed a highly sensitive test using quantum dots to detect external chemical modifications to DNA called methylations. Alterations to DNA that do not involve a change in the genetic code, yet can influence gene expression, fall into the emerging science of epigenetics.

Podcast: Nanotech method to study cell detachment could lead to improved cancer therapies
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." "…We know that processes like cell detachment are important in cancer metastasis, where cells become detached from tumors…" Peter Searson

Nano education website features INBT mission, programs
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." The website TryNano.org now features a comprehensive article on Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) and its mission, programs and outreach.

Engineering in Oncology Center will probe forces that cause cancer to spread
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded a $14.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer.

INBT researchers use LEGO to study what happens inside lab-on-a-chip devices
Johns Hopkins ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to help them visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye.

Taking the Heat: Pitt Team Conquers Hurdle to Nano Devices With First Metallic Nanoparticles Resistant to Extreme Heat
University of Pittsburgh ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Just as a gecko sheds its tail, metal-alloy particles endure 850 degrees Celsius by ditching weaker components, researchers report in Nature Materials.

Pioneering Work by Physics Professor Recognized
University of Central Florida ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics with joint appointments at UCFs NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Environmental Engineering, has received the 2009 Peter Mark Memorial Award.

Minister drops in to NSQI
bristol.ac.uk ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Ian Lucas MP, the Minister for Business and Regulatory Reform, paid a surprise visit to the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information on Thursday 26 November.

Strategic collaboration between Buhler and Micronisers Australasia Pty Ltd
Buhler ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Buhler Group has entered into a strategic collaboration in the field of nano-sized performance additives with the Australian company Micronisers Australasia Pty Ltd.

Semefab starts building CMOS3 wafer fab
ciol.com ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Semefab (Scotland) Limited, based in Glenrothes, Scotland, has begun building its CMOS3 wafer fab aimed at supporting front-end processing of MEMS structures. Semefab's CMOS3 is slated to become operational in June 2010. The company, with financial support from the Technology Strategy Board of the government of the United Kingdom as well as from Scottish Enterprise, will spend about $11 million to create a 0.5-micron-capable CMOS facility to support its MEMS making capability.

New cooperation agreement between Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, and the University of Gothenburg
mynewsdesk.com ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Professor Samuel Stupp, Director of Northwestern´s Institute for BioNanotechnology and a great visionary within biomaterials research, visits Göteborg on December 8 to sign a new cooperation agreement with Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. "The possibilities to explore, for example, novel, supramolecular, self-assembled materials in patient-centred research on osseointegration and neuroregeneration, provide thrilling prospects. Scientists and graduate students will benefit greatly by the cooperation and exchange made possible by this agreement," says Professor Peter Thomsen, Director of BIOMATCELL VINN Excellence Center of Biomaterials and Cell Therapy.

New Method Lengthens Carbon Electrodes' Lifetime by Nanotechnology
farsnews.com ".string_date(12,02,2009)." Researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues from University of Tehran, introduced a highly efficient method for the modification of carbon electrodes which enables them to detect silver ion down to picomolar concentrations.

Advanced coatings and packaging material: the new inventions winning a total amount of 600.000 euro!
Veneto Nanotech ".string_date(12,02,2009)." The two winners of Nanochallenge and Polymerchallenge 2009 were announced on Friday, 27 November 2009. After two days of presentation the international jury made a decision choosing the two winners among the eight finalist teams.

L’Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines to Deploy E-WorkBook Suite to Accelerate Analysis of Nanoparticles
IDBS ".string_date(12,03,2009)." L'Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines (IBCP) will be using E-WorkBook Suite to manage its research data and knowledge in developing nanoparticles for the treatment of viral infections. IBCP, a principal research institute based in Lyon, France, expects that E-WorkBook Suite will advance their research into creating vaccines using nanoparticles, which can emulate the actions of antigens and create a new generation of targeted therapeutics. By using all aspects of E-WorkBook, scientists at IBCP can benefit from a flexible framework to capture, analyze and manage their experimental data in an efficient and compliant way. The solution's extensive searching and reporting capabilities will accelerate their pace of research, and maximize the quality and reuse of their data.

TEL Joins SEMATECH’s Front End Processes Program at UAlbany NanoCollege
SEMATECH ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Joint effort to accelerate and extend advanced memory and logic technologies

Professur (W3) für Experimentalphysik - Nanomaterialien und Energieumwandlung
academics.de ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Zur Stärkung und Ergänzung der Nanowissenschaften an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ist an der Fakultät für Physik zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine zu besetzen. Die Professur vertritt das Fach in Forschung und Lehre in seiner ganzen Breite. Mögliche Arbeitsgebiete umfassen alle grundlegenden Fragestellungen zur effizienten Umwandlung, Speicherung, Einsparung und Nutzbarmachung von Energie mit Hilfe von Nanomaterialien. Bevorzugte Schwerpunkte sind die Entwicklung und Untersuchung neuartiger Konzepte für die Umwandlung von Lichtenergie in elektrische oder chemische Energie, für die elektrochemische Speicherung von Energie und/oder für effiziente lichtemittierende Materialien auf der Basis hybrider Nanosysteme. Neben der Herstellung und Charakterisierung von Nanomaterialien sind grundlegende Forschungsarbeiten zum Verständnis der entsprechenden mikroskopischen Prozesse von besonderem Interesse.

Czech government launches four major new research initiatives with EU support
CORDIS ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Toxicology, mechanical engineering, nanoscience and veterinary medicine are the subjects of four major new EU-funded research initiatives launched recently in the Czech Republic.

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Receives Shipping Container Order for Company's Patented Nansulate(R) Energy Saving Coatings from New Distributor in India
Industrial Nanotech ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience solutions, today announced that the Company has received an initial inventory order from Angstrom Technology Private Limited, the Company's exclusive distributor for India, whose agreement was signed and announced on November 30th. The initial order is for one sea container (1440 gallons) of mixed Nansulate(R) thermal insulation and asset protection coating products, which has a retail value of approximately $122,000.00 USD.

Oxford Instruments wins Excellence Award
Oxford Instruments ".string_date(12,03,2009)." The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ) has announced that Oxford Instruments KK has won the prestigious Corporate Excellence category at the 2009 British Business Awards.

Academia Sinica scientists honored with TAF Awards
chinapost.com.tw ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Two renowned scientists of Taiwan's leading academic institute Academia Sinica were recently awarded the 16th Taiwanese-American Foundation (TAF) Awards in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in the fields of nanotechnology and epidemiology research, the institute said Wednesday. According to an Academia Sinica press statement, Wu Maw-kuen and Chen Chien-jen together received the TAF Award in science and engineering at an award ceremony held Nov. 28 in Taipei.

Education exchange plan discussed
thenews.com.pk ".string_date(12,03,2009)." Ursula Saarbeck, director DAAD, a German educational exchange programme, and Katharina Lack, head of Cultural Section (German Embassy, Islamabad) called upon Preston University Chancellor Dr. Abdul Basit Tuesday and discussed with him the possibility of cooperation specifically in social sciences and nanotechnology. According to a press release, the Preston University chancellor briefly spoke about the university and highlighted some of its major achievements since its founding in 1984. He apprised the delegation particularly about the university's newly established institute - Preston Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (PINSAT).

New Nanoscience Labs Are Completed
University of Southern California ".string_date(12,03,2009)." After four years - a blink of an eye in research time - the USC Biomedical Nanoscience Initiative has built out the core laboratories specified in Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias' original vision.

Lasers Used to Make First Boron-Nitride Nanotube Yarn
Jefferson Lab ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to stronger body armor, according to a just-published study.

Synthetic magnetism achieved by optical methods
Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Technique enables unprecedented insights

Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots
Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland ".string_date(12,04,2009)." JQI Researchers Create Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots News from the Public Affairs Office at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

New System for Detection of Single Atoms
Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Scientists have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less than one-millionth of a second, about 20 times faster than the best previous methods.

A little magic provides an atomic-level look at bone
University of Michigan ".string_date(12,04,2009)." A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone.

Nano scale snowman
National Physical Laboratory ".string_date(12,04,2009)." The snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair.

Zetasizer Nano critical to development of brain tumour illumination
Malvern Instruments ".string_date(12,04,2009)." The Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments (Malvern, UK) is proving to be an ideal research tool for advanced healthcare applications such as gene therapy and selective-target carrier molecules.

Organic Photovoltaics Nearing Mass Production
LOPE-C ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Bags, Backpacks, Smart Textiles, Umbrellas, Awnings, Tents, and Building Façades first to utilize OPV's. The latest developments in this field will be on display at LOPE-C in Frankfurt, Germany from May 31 - June 2, 2010.

Call for proposals in energy-efficiency with nanotechnology
FinNano ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Pre-announcement within Nordic Top-level Research Initiative: Call for proposals within the sub-programme "Energy Efficiency with Nanotechnology"

The bigger picture
irishtimes.com ".string_date(12,04,2009)." If you have been in any way engaged or interested in science in recent years, the term "nanotechnology" will be familiar. But what does nanotechnology really mean to those working in the field? How is it any more than a nifty rebranding of what many scientists and engineers were doing anyway? And can something at such a tiny scale really help address the big issues we face as a species, like the looming energy crises? "Nanotechnology and nanoscience means lots of things to lots of people," says Richard Friend, Cavendish professor of physics at the University of Cambridge and a scientific advisory board member at Crann in Trinity, where he visited last month ahead of nano-week. Friend, a successful entrepreneur who co-founded two companies off the back of his lab's research, looks beyond the rigid definition that nanotechnology operates at a dimension of 100nm or less. His is a more conceptual view of nano as an approach that engages researchers who might not otherwise rub shoulders on a common question. "For most of us involved with the management of research, we see nanoscience as a way of breaking down traditional boundaries between disciplines, where the result is something broader than what would have fitted in the traditional discplinary context," he says.

Ireland must continue to intensely compete in one of the 'hottest' research areas across the globe
irishtimes.com ".string_date(12,04,2009)." Comparative to its size, Ireland has already placed a large bet on nanoscience research. Nanoscience represents the largest single portfolio investment for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), and also a significant investment for the Higher Education Authority (HSE). This strategy has resulted in the development of the Crann Institute in Dublin, devoted entirely to nanoscience; the inclusion of nanoscience as a major component of the research mission at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork; and the creation of a national nanoscience academic consortium, Inspire, which brings together leading researchers on an all-island basis. The results of this public investment and research strategy are indeed impressive: Ireland is currently ranked sixth globally for the quality of its nanoscience research, among 35 other countries which have their own nanotechnology R&D activities. Nanotechnology has become important across the ICT, medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. In these three sectors, Ireland has well over 500 companies, employing 150,000 people. At present it is estimated that 10 per cent, about €15 billion, of our annual exports are associated with nanotechnology. A cross-sectoral industry group, the Competence Centre for Applied Nanotechnology (CCAN) is now the interconnection between industry and the academic community, and with industry defining the deliverables. The successful integration of academic research with industry requirements is absolutely critical.

BNC Heads for a Hat Trick
Bio Nano Consulting ".string_date(12,04,2009)." A triplet of awards in the offing for the specialist bio-nanotechnology product development consultancy.

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Moderate redundancy preserves signal processing at the nanoscale Study offers clues to making a dependable system out of partially unreliable components

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1563/156981/article/tech/41111

Making graphene ultraflat

Columbia team prepares first "ripple-free" samples of wonder material

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1563/156981/article/tech/41108

Graphene layers go luminescent

"Wonder material" could now be used to make optoelectronics and light-emitting devices

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1563/156981/article/tech/41057

Spins spotted in room-temperature silicon Physicists pass important milestone in spintronics

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1563/156981/article/tech/41107

Nanoparticles sink or swim in sewage

Neutron scattering could help make wastewater nanoparticle free.

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1563/156981/article/tech/40994

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Collaboration fabricates superconducting devices with high precision Team observes quantum slippage thanks to FIB-made structure

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Mask layer improves pattern height of nanoimprint moulds Fujitsu researchers are busy developing a fast and economical route to fabricating high-aspect ratio, very high density moulds

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Anti-bonding modes visible in silver nanorings Plasmon hybridization theory useful for understanding, designing and predicting optical properties of metallic nanostructures

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Extraordinary current jumps observed at 77K and 300K Au-NiO-Ni dual Schottky nanojunctions formed by oxidizing nickel nanowire arrays and adding a layer of gold paint

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Beams are Back in the Large Hadron Collider
CERN November 21st, 2009 Particle beams are once again zooming around the world's most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider—located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. On November 20 at 4:00 p.m. EST, a clockwise circulating beam was established in the LHC's 17-mile ring.

Third-Gen Thin-Film Solar Technologies: Forecasting the Future of Dye-Sensitized and Organic PV
Research and Markets November 21st, 2009 In This Report: - DSC and OPV material developers and suppliers - DSC and OPV cell developers and suppliers - Thin-film solar cell developers and suppliers - Conventional solar cell developers and suppliers - Consumer electronics and BIPV developers and suppliers

III-V thin films for PV applications
electroiq.com November 21st, 2009 The ability of the III-V materials system to maintain high efficiencies at high concentration levels using very thin films is particularly attractive in relation to reducing the volumes needed for the conversion process. The rise in global interest in alternative and renewable energy sources over the past couple of years has seen the PV market expand rapidly, with bulk silicon solar cells dominating. But emerging technologies based on thin film devices are also making rapid progress, to the extent that this sector is now one of the largest growth areas being developed to help meet anticipated future PV needs.

Solar power technology takes its next step
bbc.co.uk November 22nd, 2009 SRS Energy has created "sole power" tiles, which are coated with thin-film flexible photovoltaic cells. The roof tiles are a dark blue colour to maximise the absorption of sunlight, and will be available from spring 2010. The tiles are an example of how technology, in the form of new polymers and coatings, has the potential to increase the amount of energy that can be adapted from the sun. For years most solar cells struggled to harness just one sixth of the sun's energy. But newer materials are helping solar panels become more efficient, according to Professor Tony Day, director of the Centre for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Building, London South Bank University. "Laboratory tests are showing we can get to module efficiencies of about 22-23%, with traditional materials," he said. "The next generation of materials it looks in the laboratory to be moving towards 30%, and in some specialist applications even 40%," he added.

Cleanroom Facility Unveiled At College Of The Canyons
hometownstation.com November 22nd, 2009 Providing a state of the art facility to train students interested in pursuing careers in the sciences and learning more about nanoscience and nanotechnology, this week College of the Canyons administrators officially unveiled the college's new Emerging Technologies Instrumentation Laboratory and Cleanroom facility.

Mercury falling
theage.com.au November 22nd, 2009 Twenty-first century chimney sweeping is a colourful metaphor to describe the work of researchers at RMIT University who hope to use nanotechnology to remove mercury, one of the world's most poisonous substances, from industrial emissions. "At RMIT, we have developed a method to assemble gold nanoparticles on gold plates and other surfaces to make sensors that measure mercury levels in the exhaust fumes from refineries or power stations," Professor Bhargava says.

Nanoparticles in cosmetics hidden
theage.com.au November 23rd, 2009 The use of nanotechnology is common in some top-selling cosmetics - but don't expect to find anything about it on the label. Those are the findings of a new Friends of the Earth report that claims Australian women are being used as guinea pigs by big cosmetic companies after independent testing showed that several high-end concealer and foundation brands contained nanoparticles in some form. Describing the use of nanoparticles in cosmetics as the potential modern-day equivalent of arsenic creams popular in the Elizabethan court, Friends of the Earth's Georgia Miller called for greater transparency in the beauty sector.

Nanotech could be a sure bet for the Irish economy: Intel’s O’Hara
siliconrepublic.com November 23rd, 2009 Ireland cannot afford to take a scattergun approach to future industries, but if there is one area the country stands a great chance to win in it's nanotech and nano science, Intel Ireland general manager Jim O'Hara said. "Nanoscience could be the right bet because it is going to be the building block for everything we will do with our lives in the future," said O'Hara. "If you want to succeed in R&D you need to be in nanoscience. Speaking ahead of next week's Nano Week, which aims to highlight the importance of this emerging sector, O'Hara said Ireland should be working to ensure its students are supported to be the best-in-class in terms of science, maths, engineering and technology.

Discovery could limit nanotechnology's environmental impact
planetearth.nerc.ac.uk November 23rd, 2009 Coating silica nanoparticles in a detergent-like chemical known as a surfactant makes them clump together so they can easily be removed during primary wastewater treatment, scientists have found. Scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), ISIS Neutron Source, King's College London and Oxford University simulated the environment in a primary sewage treatment facility, in which waste is initially held for a few hours in large tanks to allow solid matter to settle out. They found that coating the nanoparticles in surfactant before introducing them into the sewage meant that the nanoparticles interacted with components of the sewage to form a solid sludge. This sludge can be separated from the wastewater and disposed of. By contrast, uncoated nanoparticles stayed dispersed in the wastewater and were likely to continue through the effluent stream.

Drive faster, save fuel: Baytubes® carbon nanotubes in marine coatings help reduce frictional resistance
Bayer MaterialScience November 23rd, 2009 Green Ocean Coatings from Advanced Marine Coatings are an environmentally friendly way to make transport by sea more cost-efficient.

Dr. Raul Pires appointed as new head of Carbon Nanotubes & Nanoproducts at Bayer MaterialScience as of September 1st, 2009
Bayer MaterialScience AG November 23rd, 2009 As of September 1st Dr. Raul Pires took over the responsibilities for the activities on Carbon Nanotubes & Nanoproducts at Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) 2009 from Martin Schmid.

Times Union: UAlbany establishes nanoscale science major
University at Albany November 23rd, 2009 The University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has formally established its new undergraduate major in nanoscale science.

UAlbany NanoCollege Hosts More than 200 Girl Scouts for ‘NanoExplorations’ Program
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering November 23rd, 2009 The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") hosted more than 200 Girl Scouts from across upstate New York on November 21, as the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York participated in "NanoExplorations, a program designed to provide a close-up look at the exciting world of nanotechnology.

Himachal University To Install Supercomputer Cluster For Multi-computing Facilities
himachal.us November 23rd, 2009 Physics department of Himachal Pradesh University has received a research grant of Rs 2.5 crore from central governments Department of Science and Technology under the ‘Fund for Improvement of Science and Technology Infrastructure in the Universities and Institutions" (FIST), Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sunil Kumar Gupta disclosed here today. The facilities would be utilized to carry out front line research in thrust areas at the forefront of scientific activities in theoretical physics and experimental material science, he said. It would also help to develop experimental expertise and specific technologies for synthesis and characterization of magnetic nano-particles and multi-ferrioic systems. In experimental and theoretical material science mainly the department is focusing on the nanotechnology related materials.

Envoy: Grounds Ready for Iran-Russia Cooperation on Technology
FARS November 23rd, 2009 Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Seyed Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi announced on Monday that the required grounds have been prepared for Iran-Russia cooperation in different technological fields.

Air Liquide’s ToRuS™ wins prestigious IC Industry Award
Air Liquide November 23rd, 2009 Air Liquide was recently honored with a 2009 EuroAsia IC Industry Award for its elegant, innovative solution for Ruthenium thin film deposition known as ToRuS™.

Single-layer superconductivity
Brookhaven Lab November 23rd, 2009 Using a precision technique for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at DOE's Brookhaven Lab have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to carry current with no energy loss.

Maksymovych delves into 'completely different' ferroelectrics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory November 23rd, 2009 Maksymovych and his colleagues at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have turned their attention to ferroelectric oxides, which are unique in that their structure is correlated in such as way as to produce spontaneous polarization that can be reversed by applying electric field.

UAlbany NanoCollege Formally Opens Pioneering Baccalaureate Program in Nanoscale Science
CNSE November 23rd, 2009 Admission applications are now being accepted for the nation's first comprehensive undergraduate degree program in Nanoscale Science

BNC Collaborator Wins Prestigious IOP Award
Bio Nano Consulting November 23rd, 2009 Bio Nano Consulting (BNC), the specialist bio-nanotechnology product development consultancy, is delighted to announce that one of their key collaborators has been specifically recognised for her scientific contributions to the field of nanomechanics. The Institute of Physics (IOP) awarded Dr. Rachel McKendry the prestigious Paterson medal and prize in recognition of her international contributions, and in particular for her work developing label-free nanomechanical cantilever sensors.

University of Arkansas Physicist Greg Salamo Named Arkansas Professor of the Year
University of Arkansas November 23rd, 2009 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has announced the national and state Professor of the Year Awards. Physicist Greg Salamo, the Joe N. Basore Professor in Nanotechnology and Innovation in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was named Arkansas Professor of the Year.

Water Droplets Direct Self-Assembly Process In Thin-Film Materials
University of Illinois November 24th, 2009 You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami.

New hydrogen-storage method discovered
Carnegie Institution November 24th, 2009 Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem.

CNT Defects = Better Energy Storage?
University of California, San Diego November 24th, 2009 UCSD Researchers Discover That Defects in Carbon Nanotubes Could Lead to Improved Charge and Energy Storage Systems

Brazil stakes claim as West Asia peacemaker
thehindu.com November 24th, 2009 Brazil has backed its claim as peacemaker in West Asia by discussing at length ways to ease tensions in the region during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brasilia. Both sides during talks decided to diversify their relationship by adding solid commercial and technological content to it. They discussed tie ups in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, agriculture, and energy, according to Brazil's Foreign Ministry.

New light on Earth’s energy crisis
universityobserver.ie November 24th, 2009 Another exciting breakthrough is an electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge, developed by US researchers. Zhang Shuguang and research collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have combined a protein complex extracted from spinach chloroplasts, with organic semiconductors, to make a solar cell that could be incorporated with solid state electronics. "Nature has been doing this for billions of years," Zhang says, "but this is the first time we've been able to harness it." With nanotechnology and the minimalist idea of ‘less is more', thinner and lighter panels are making way to a more efficient design of a solar panel. Zhang's team artificially stabilised the protein complex at the heart of their system, consisting of 14 protein subunits and hundreds of chlorophyll molecules, using synthetic peptides to bind small amounts of water to it, within a sealed unit. Photons then ‘excite' coupled pairs of electrons within chlorophyll, causing an electron to transfer to a nearby receptor molecule. Plants use this transfer to complete photosynthesis. Zhang has fostered this principle into his device, feeding electrons into organic semiconductors aligned on top of a layer of glass. Zhang encountered difficulties with the use of organic materials in system. The protein complex is kept stable for about three weeks by the peptides, and the cells convert only twelve per cent of light to electrical charge. The solution seems to point towards layering numerous cells atop each other, so that a certain amount of light can pass through. Interestingly enough, in New Zealand other researchers are on a similar wavelength. Solar cell technology developed by Massey University's Nanomaterials Research Centre will enable New Zealanders to create electricity from sunlight 90 per cent cheaper than the current silicon-based, photo-electric solar cells.

What lies beneath
smh.com.au November 24th, 2009 Consumer advocates have pointed to the undisclosed presence of nanoparticles in cosmetics to accuse the industry of exploiting Australian women, and to raise alarmist possibilities about their consequences. Those fears are quite possibly exaggerated - the technology is relatively new, scientists lack hard data, and hazard guesses at the long-term consequences. Nonetheless, consumers ought to be able to choose for themselves whether to take the (probably small) risk. That is why the presence of nanoparticles should be indicated on product labels.

ASX Announcement
Starpharma Holdings Limited November 24th, 2009 The Board of Starpharma Holdings Limited (Starpharma or Company) advises that the Company has today settled the placement of 30,000,000 ordinary shares at a share price of A$0.52 (Shares) in the Company, to institutional, sophisticated and professional investors, as announced on 18 November 2009.

nanoICT School on Nanophotonics and Modelling Issues for ICT Celebrated in San Sebastian, Spain
CORDIS November 24th, 2009 In order for the field of emerging nanoelectronics to continue growing exponentially worldwide and therefore lead to new commercial applications and to change the micro and nanoelectronics paradigm, it is necessary to educate new researchers who can work across traditional disciplines.

Six Indian cos, CII ink deals to enhance cooperation
ptinews.com November 24th, 2009 Six Indian companies including Tata Communications and Infosys Technologies have signed separate agreements in Washington with US-based companies to enhance cooperation, coinciding with the state visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Industry chamber CII, has also inked a pact with Santech Communication to serve the needs of industry for nanotechnology-based products.

Selling chip makers on optical computing
MIT November 24th, 2009 By designing chips that can be built using existing fabrication processes, MIT researchers show that computing with light isn't so far fetched.

Germany opposed 'nano' label for cosmetics
euractiv.com November 24th, 2009 Efforts by EU governments to force cosmetics manufacturers to inform consumers when products contain nanomaterials were resisted by Germany, it has emerged. Last week (20 November), EU member states adopted new rules on the marketing and safety of cosmetics by grouping the existing 55 directives into a single regulation. One of the key elements of the new streamlined laws is a clause requiring companies to print the word 'nano' in brackets after any ingredient which is smaller than 100 nanometres in size. "All ingredients present in the form of nanomaterials shall be clearly indicated in the list of ingredients," according to the new legislation. However, Germany took the view that highlighting the fact that a product contains nanomaterials could be viewed by consumers as a warning.

MaterialsViews Interviews Professor Limin Qi
materialsviews.com November 24th, 2009 Prof. Limin Qi received his Ph.D degree in Physical Chemistry from Peking University in 1998. He then went to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany to perform his postdoctoral work on biomimetic mineralization. In 2000, he joined the College of Chemistry at Peking University, where he is now a full professor. His current research focuses on the controlled synthesis and hierarchical assembly of inorganic micro- and nanostructures by colloidal chemical methods as well as bio-inspired approaches.

Smart bio-sensor to rule out pricks for diabetics
topnews.in November 24th, 2009 Diabetics may not need to prick themselves anymore to monitor their sugar levels. The Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-B) has developed an implantable glucose bio-sensor using nanotechnology. Once injected, the bio-sensor would help monitor blood sugar levels for up to six months using an external hand-held device.

Polybatics closer to commercialising ‘magic bullet’
stuff.co.nz November 24th, 2009 Polybatics, a biotech start-up, is edging closer to commercializing a process for delivering custom payloads into living cells, potentially giving medical specialists a nanotechnology weapon to target disease. The Palmerston North-based company, perched in a business park alongside Massey University, designs and manufactures natural bionanoparticles. These 'biobeads,' as they are known, can carry a range of proteins including antibodies, enzymes and antigens into living tissue. Massey University Professor of Microbiology Bernd Rehm developed the technology which uses a natural polymer granule produced by bacteria under stress. Polybatics was set up to commercialise the research, gaining a $1 million grant this year and with plans to seek a further tranche in 2010.

Cleantech firm Vive Nano wins Ontario funding
nationalpost.com November 24th, 2009 Vive Nano, one of Corporate Knight's Next 10 companies mentioned in Monday's Financial Post article on emerging clean technology businesses, has been awarded almost $3.8-million in investment from the Ontario government. The Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation announced Monday it would provide funding for the Toronto-based nanotechnology company using its Innovation Demonstration Fund to help the company build a pilot plant, refine its processes and come to full production levels. Vive Nano expects to create 19 new high-skill jobs over the next two years, including positions for chemists, technicians, engineers, project managers and a controller.

NFM/Welding Engineers finds niche in nanomaterials
plasticsnews.com November 24th, 2009 Extruder maker NFM/Welding Engineers Inc. has invested $1 million to upgrade its laboratory, as officials promote the company's experience in nanotechnology -- playing off NFM's strengths in compounding extruders and resin manufacturing systems. In recent months, NFM has sold three compounding lines for making nanomaterials, according to Butch Noll, national sales manager. One machine, a TEM 26 SS, will be shipped in December to a technology incubator in Monterrey, Mexico. The incubator was created by the Center for Engineering and Industrial Development (Centro para la Integración y Desarrollo del Invidente), or Cidesi.

Berkeley Researchers Take the Lead Out of Piezoelectrics
Berkeley Lab November 25th, 2009 By applying just the right compression to thin films of bismuth ferrite, Berkeley Lab researchers have produced a lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials.

Patenting Synthetic Biology: A Transatlantic Perspective
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars November 25th, 2009

CealTec Signs International Strategic Marketing Alliance
CealTec November 25th, 2009 CealTec Signs International Strategic Marketing Alliance with Korean High Technology Company

An invitation to a unique series of three free online workshops: ‘Nanotechnology for Water Purification’
ICPC Nanonet November 25th, 2009 12.45pm - 15.15pm, Wednesday 2nd, Tuesday 8th and Tuesday 15th December 2009

Remain at the forefront of Nanomedicine (without leaving the home or office)
UC San Diego School of Medicine November 25th, 2009 ACCME accredited Webinar Series produced by UC San Diego NanoTumor Center Sessions from Nov 20, 2009 - Feb 3, 2010

Scientists watch as peptides control crystal growth with ‘switches, throttles and brakes’
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory November 25th, 2009 By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding how biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research may lead to a new treatment for kidney stones using biomolecules.

Second Meeting of SAARC Ministers of Science & Technology held in Colombo
isria.com November 25th, 2009 The Meeting also considered the matters connected to funding modalities to undertake science & technology programmes and projects under the implementation of the SAARC Action Plan on Science & Technology, Programme of Cooperation, SAARC Industrial Research and Development Initiatives, "Science Caravan", the format/framework of the SAARC Science and Technology web portal, Sri Lanka Nanoscience Institute to serve as a SAARC Institute for Nano Technology, a SAARC mechanism on intellectual property rights etc.

Napier opens research center for potential risks of nanomaterials
journal-online.co.uk November 25th, 2009 Edinburgh Napier University has launched the Centre for Nano Safety, a new centre for research into the potential harmful effects of nanomaterials. Researchers hope they can discover whether or not a variety of nanoparticles can enter human cells or other organisms and cause harm due to their microscopic scale. Professor Anne Glover, chief scientific advisor for Scotland, said: "Given the widespread use of nanomaterials in variety of everyday products, it is essential for us to fully understand them and their potential impacts.

SUNYIT to offer biology degree
uticaod.com November 25th, 2009 In what is being heralded as another step toward a nanotechnology partnership, SUNYIT Tuesday announced it would add a biology program beginning in 2011. "This will fit in very nicely with growing science and technology at SUNYIT," college President Bjong Wolf Yeigh said. "It's a nice and necessary building block for SUNYIT." The school will begin offering specialized programs of study in bioinformatics — combining biology and information — biotechnology — including nanoscience applications — and life science for pre-med students and to support the school's current nursing program.

Nano: the sexy new science with lots of unanswered questions
The Australia Institute November 25th, 2009 Greater transparency and public engagement about the potential opportunities and risks presented by nanotechnology is required, according to a new report by The Australia Institute.

RUSNANO and AmBAR Announce the Business Plan Competition of Nanotech Projects
RUSNANO November 25th, 2009 Origination of the project may come from any country or person all over the world, but its implementation or some part of implementation has to be completed in Russia. In 2009 the nominees for the contest are pre-selected by AmBAR among the participants of the Fifth Annual High Tech Investment Conference SVOD 2009.

Successful German mission for UK Nanotechnology companies
emtworldwide.com November 25th, 2009 The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), a UK knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced details of the significant commercial activity that resulted from an outward mission to Germany in March 2008.

XGEN Consortium Strengthens Chinese Trade Links with Advanced Technology Seminars
XGEN consortium November 26th, 2009 The XGEN Consortium has undertaken a two week-long trade visit to China to further develop collaborative links through a series of seminars and round table discussions aimed at expanding commercial opportunities between Wales and the Municipal Government of Chongqing.

Paper-thin batteries made from algae
msnbc.msn.com November 26th, 2009 "We have long hoped to find some sort of constructive use for the material from algae blooms and have now been shown this to be possible," said researcher Maria Strømme, a nanotechnologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. "This creates new possibilities for large-scale production of environmentally friendly, cost-effective, lightweight energy storage systems." The new batteries consisted of extremely thin layers of conducting polymer just 40 to 50 nanometers or billionths of a meter wide coating algae cellulose fibers only 20 to 30 nanometers wide that were collected into paper sheets. "They're very easy to make," Strømme said.

Nanoparticle oral drug delivery systems show promise for biotech firm
independent.co.uk November 26th, 2009 Drug company NOD Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s application to the US Patent and Trademark office for a patent for a nanoparticle drug carrying method has been allowed, the company says. Nanoparticle drug delivery systems are one of the most promising strategies for treating many diseases, medical experts say.

How small science will have a big impact on Ireland’s economic future
siliconrepublic.com November 26th, 2009 From miracle drugs to super-tiny computers, Ireland could win its share of a $3-trillion industry. According to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland has more than 500 companies - multinational and indigenous - employing circa 130,000 people in ICT, medical devices and biopharmaceuticals. These firms use nanotechnology for continued product innovation and competitiveness. Of the €150 billion in goods and services exported by Ireland in 2008, it is estimated that 10pc or €15 billion were enabled by nanoscience and related nanotechnologies. By 2015, these nanotech exports could reach €30 billion in value. Globally, nanotechnology enables nearly $250 billion worth of products and this is on track to exceed $3 trillion in 2015. Next week, all the stakeholders in nanoscience in Ireland will hold Nanoweek to wake the country up to the opportunities.

Nanotechnology to Save Antiques from Demolition
farsnews.com November 26th, 2009 Iranian researchers at P.I.M (Jazika) Co. came up with a new product which helps to preserve historical relics and monuments against deteriorating weather conditions applying nanotechnology.

Nano-towers fire off single photons
University of Würzburg November 26th, 2009 Würzburg physicists are global leaders in the creation of sophisticated nanostructures. The fruits of their research could make tap-proof data transmission a possibility in the future.

Multi-million-euro commitment to nanomedicine
CORDIS November 26th, 2009 The EU ERA-NET initiative EuroNanoMed will support eight transnational research projects with EUR 17 million based on the result of its first call for proposals, which was launched in May 2009 to promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research into nanomedicine - the application of nanotechnology to health.

Peppercorn nano-tech trade mission secures £500,000 trade
electronicsweekly.com November 26th, 2009 The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) has pulled over half a million pounds into the UK following a trade mission to Germany. "The total costs to the NanoKTN were estimated to be £6.2k, which was converted into £510k of income to participants and represents an 82 times return on Technology Strategy Board funds invested," claimed NanoKTN director Alec Reader. "This income was split between £245k of sales won and £275k of research funding."

Heidelberg Instruments to support micro and nano research at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility
Heidelberg Instruments November 26th, 2009 Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of an advanced DWL 2000 maskless laser lithography system to the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, located in Ithaca, New York.

Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
UCLA November 26th, 2009 Chemists and physicists have succeeded in getting custom-shaped microparticles to interact and self-assemble in a controlled way in a liquid crystal. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, appears in the Nov. 20 edition of the journal Science.

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
Purdue University November 27th, 2009 A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles.

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irishtimes.com November 27th, 2009 At the "nano" level - where particles have at least one dimension of less than 100 nanometres - materials can often behave differently than their bulk counterparts, opening up new opportunities for improving medicine, electronics and a swathe of consumer products. But it also presents a need to monitor safety closely. With such a disruptive technology, it's hardly surprising that ethical questions arise, and they are engagingly discussed in a new book, Nanoethics - Big Ethical Issues with Small Technology by Dr Dónal O'Mathúna. "We have literally a small technology in our hands and we have a lot of human decisions about where we are going to take this. Where we need to focus our attention now is in these areas - and they are not unique to nanotechnology; they are getting back at those value systems that are driving all our social development," says O'Mathúna, a senior lecturer in ethics, decision-making and evidence at Dublin City University. "There's a huge amount of funding and investment and academic and industrial interest in the area, yet very low attention and general awareness on the public's level of what is happening here."

Des affections pulmonaires chez des souris
lemonde.fr November 27th, 2009 Les nanotubes de carbone sont, de toutes les nanoparticules, celles qui ont fait l'objet du plus grand nombre de publications scientifiques. Même si les données toxicologiques restent très parcellaires, elles invitent à la prudence. Certaines études ont été menées in vitro. Elles mettent en évidence "le caractère insoluble des nanotubes de carbone" et leur capacité "à pénétrer à l'intérieur des cellules et provoquer une cytotoxicité", c'est-à-dire à altérer ces cellules, résume l'Institut national de recherche et de sécurité (INRS). D'autres expériences ont été réalisées in vivo, sur des souris ou des rats auxquels ont été administrées de fortes doses de nanotubes. Conclusion : "Plusieurs études démontrent clairement la biopersistance de ces nano-objets et leur capacité à engendrer une inflammation pulmonaire ainsi qu'une fibrose." Ces premiers résultats, souligne l'INRS, "suggèrent que les nanotubes de carbone seraient potentiellement toxiques pour l'homme".

Spintronics could mean big energy savings
CORDIS November 27th, 2009 A research team has made a breakthrough in nanotechnology by discovering how to transfer magnetic information directly into a semiconductor. The new technique works by the generation and polarisation of spin control in a silicon-based device that works at room temperature - the first time this has been achieved. The results of the study are published in the journal Nature.

Cromoz Launches Drug Delivery System
Cromoz November 27th, 2009 North Carolina Based Cromoz Inc. Launches Carbon Nanotechnology for Target Drug Delivery System in Cancer Treatment in Hyderabad, India

Molecular nano-factories research receives ERC Grant of 2 million Euros
Eindhoven University of Technology November 27th, 2009 The European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union has awarded prof. dr. Bert Meijer of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands an Advanced Grant of two million Euros. The prestigious grant of the European Union is only awarded to the best European researchers.

Nanotechnology has 'big potential' for packaging, says PIRA consultant
packagingnews.co.uk November 27th, 2009 PIRA consultant Dr Graham Moore has highlighted the "big potential" for nanotechnology in packaging as long as issues surrounding consumer safety are fully addressed. Moore made the comments during an online conference organised yesterday (26 November) by the NanoKTN in conjunction with Leatherhead Food Research, titled Development and Enhancement of Packaging through Nanotechnology.

New nano rule for EU cosmetics
rsc.org November 27th, 2009 A new European regulation will require cosmetics manufacturers to list any nanoparticles contained in products marketed within the European Union. The nanoparticle decree is part of a new 397-page cosmetics regulation approved on 20 November by the Council of the European Union, which includes ministers from all EU nations and is the EU's main decision-making body.

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	Gold Nanoparticles Deliver Platinum Warheads to Tumors Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. [ read more ] Magnetism Turns Drug Release On and Off Many medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, and chronic pain, require medications that cannot be taken orally but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. [ read more ] Nanoparticles Detect and Purge Metastases in Lymph Nodes Colonoscopy represents one of the great weapons against cancer. [ read more ] Two-in-One Punch Knocks Out Drug-Resistant Cancer Cells Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. [ read more ] Nanostructured Integrated Circuit Detects Type and Severity of Cancer A team of investigators from the University of Toronto has used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment. [ read more ]

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Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy
Duke University October 31st, 2009 Going smaller could bring better results, especially when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs. Duke University bioengineers have developed a simple and inexpensive method for loading cancer drug payloads into nano-scale delivery vehicles and demonstrated in animal models that this new nanoformulation can eliminate tumors after a single treatment. After delivering the drug to the tumor, the delivery vehicle breaks down into harmless byproducts, markedly decreasing the toxicity for the recipient.

INDONESIA: $29 million nanotech initiative
universityworldnews.com November 2nd, 2009 Indonesia will spend US$29 million to foster communication between industry and universities in order to encourage the use of nanotechnology and improve the nation's industrial competitiveness. The initiative was announced by the Ministry of National Education which will provide $26.5 million with the remaining funding ($1.59 million) coming from the Ministry of Industry.

NC State Research to Determine Where Nanomaterials Go in the Body
North Carolina State University November 2nd, 2009 Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what happens if these nanomaterials get into your body - where do they go? NC State researchers are working to answer that question under a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Nanomaterial – Chancen und Gefahren
bonnaparte.de November 2nd, 2009 Die Nanotechnologie gewinnt bei der Entwicklung und Anwendung neuer Produkte zunehmend an Bedeutung. Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre rückt die Technologie immer stärker in das öffentliche und mediale Interesse, doch mit den wachsenden Versprechungen treten verstärkt auch technikkritische Stimmen an die Öffentlichkeit. So hat die Industrie zwar den Marktwert und die Vorteile der Nanotechnologie erkannt, die Risiken sind dagegen weitgehend unbekannt.

Those nano bones...are made for walking!
sciencealert.com.au November 2nd, 2009 And that's just what they're going to do! As we get older our joints wear out and every year 50,000 Australians end up with metal hip or knee implants but now thanks to scientists we will be able to have replacements that look and behave like real bone. At Murdoch University in Perth, scientists have created a material that closely mimics the structure and composition of real bone which they are calling "nano-bone" which has the potential to revolutionise joint replacement surgery making artificial titanium implants a thing of the past.

Topical Erectile Dysfunction Therapy Shows Promise
Albert Einstein College of Medicine November 2nd, 2009 An innovative drug-delivery system — nanoparticles encapsulating nitric oxide or prescription drugs — shows promise for topical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), according to a new study by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Hybrid composite for root canal treatment
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft November 2nd, 2009 A dentist carrying out root canal treatment will need to use a variety of compounds. These do not always bond together properly and sometimes expensive follow-up treatment has to be performed. But a new class of material meets the requirements and solves the problem.

Beckers Industrial Coatings and MatOx begin research collaboration
MatOx Ltd November 2nd, 2009 Beckers Industrial Coatings Holdings AB and MatOx Oy announced today that they have entered into a three-year research and development collaboration. Under the terms of this agreement MatOx will use computational approaches to design new and unique coatings products with controllable functionality, which Beckers will have the option to bring to market.

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing
Rice University November 2nd, 2009 Rice pioneers method for processing carbon nanotubes in bulk fluids

CERAM Stresses Importance of Ceramic Surgical Implant Testing to Ensure Long Term Performance
CERAM November 2nd, 2009 CERAM offers a full suite of testing for Yttria-Stabilised Zirconia (YSZ), destined for surgical implants, as defined in ISO 13356 standards; publishes free white paper

Ireland’s competitiveness in ICT enhanced as Tánaiste opens new €48.7 million research building at Tyndall National Institute, Cork
sfi.ie November 2nd, 2009 Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan T.D, today (Monday 2nd November 2009) officially opened the Government funded Tyndall National Institute's new state-of-the-art research building, representing a remarkable addition to Ireland's capabilities in nanoscale semiconductor research. The Tánaiste also announced that Tyndall will host the Enterprise Ireland-funded Competence Centre for Applied Nanotechnology, an industry-led research initiative involving some of the world's leading companies such as multinationals Intel, Seagate, Medtronic and Analog Devices and Irish companies Aerogen, Audit Diagnostics, Creganna and Proxy Biomedical which is also supported by IDA Ireland. The Competence Centre for Applied Nanotechnology was established by the companies coming together to define their common research interests, which will have a strategic impact on their business area in the coming years. The Centre will be hosted in Tyndall National Institute's new state-of-the-art research building which accommodates, under one roof, research into advanced materials, device fabrication, packaging and integration and their translation into practical, industrially-relevant systems.

An exquisite container
Washington University in St. Louis November 2nd, 2009 A gold nanocage covered with a polymer is a smart drug delivery system

Nanostructures on Optical Fiber Produce "Hidden" Photovoltaic Cells
Georgia Institute of Technology November 2nd, 2009 Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs. Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated with dye-sensitized solar cell materials, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of three-dimensional photovoltaic system. The approach could allow PV systems to be hidden from view and located away from traditional locations such as rooftops.

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing: Rice pioneers method for processing carbon nanotubes in bulk fluids
Rice University November 3rd, 2009 Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale manufacturing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers, a breakthrough that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution and nanoelectronics. The method builds upon tried-and-true processes the chemical industry has used for decades to produce polymer fibers. Findings from Rice's methodical, nine-year program are detailed in this week's Nature Nanotechnology.

Obducat takes part in EU project SMASH
Obducat November 3rd, 2009 OBDUCAT, leading manufacturer of lithography solutions based on nanoimprint lithography and electron beam lithography, has been invited to participate in the EU funded SMASH project. The project's purpose is to establish new materials and process technologies to be used in production of low-cost, power-efficient, white LED-light sources for the general lighting market.

BMVIT showcases the Austian Nano Initiative: "NANO: Science. Industry. Impact. 09" at Tech Gate Vienna November 9, 2009
The Austian Nano Initiative November 3rd, 2009 Research into the most minuscule of things can have an enormous impact, as will become evident at "NANO: Science. Industry. Impact. 09". The event is set to take place at Tech Gate Vienna Monday, November 9, 2009, providing a framework for the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) to present the past successes of the NANO Initiative a program to promote research and development in nanotechnology in Austria. Five years after the initiative's 2004 launch, in excess of 480 scientific publications have been written and more than 30 patents and inventions registered. Moreover, novel products for cleaning surfaces and new, high-end, nano-coated tools, among many other innovations, are already on the market. The BMVIT has invested 50 million euros in top-class research and application-oriented development since 2004. By 2010 the investment will total 68 million euros.

FEI Sells Phenom™ Product Line
FEI Company November 3rd, 2009 FEI Company (NASDAQ: FEIC) announced that Phenom-World, a majority-owned subsidiary of NTS Group B.V. (NTS) of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has acquired FEI's Phenom™ product line. NTS has been FEI's manufacturing partner and was closely involved with the development of the innovative desktop scanning electron microscope before it was introduced in 2007. NTS will continue to manufacture the product, and Phenom-World will assume responsibility for marketing, sales and distribution of the product worldwide, as well as service and warranty repairs for the installed base.

Nanoscale Analog CMOS Design and Shortening Physical Design Time to Market
Tanner EDA November 4th, 2009 REMINDER: Lanny L. Lewyn, Tanner EDA Technical Advisor, Presents on Nanoscale Analog CMOS Design and Shortening Physical Design Time to Market at IEEE NORCHIP Event November 15 & 16, 2009, Trondheim, Norway

Stealthy Nanoparticles Attack Cancer Cells
Technology Review November 4th, 2009 In a small manufacturing space on a Cambridge, MA, street dotted with biotech companies, Greg Troiano tinkers with a series of gleaming metal vats interweaved with plastic tubes. The vats are designed to violently shake a mix of chemicals into precise nanostructures, and Troiano's task, as head of process development at start-up BIND Biosciences,is to make kilograms of the stuff--a novel drug-infused nanoparticle. The company hopes the new drug-delivery system will diminish the side effects of chemotherapy while increasing its effectiveness in killing cancer.

Transparent electronics technology recognized nationally
Oregon State University November 4th, 2009 The licensing and use of transparent transistors that were developed at Oregon State University and Hewlett Packard have been recognized nationally with a "Deals of Distinction" award from the Licensing Executives Society.

Nanoscience Center sponsors workshop on future of batteries
Indiana University November 4th, 2009 The Indiana University Nanoscience Center is sponsoring a workshop on advanced battery technologies from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, in the IU Bloomington Chemistry Department. The workshop is an outgrowth of a major two-day Energy Conference held at IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in August.

Big name comes calling at Uni site
cambridge-news.co.uk November 4th, 2009 NOKIA has signed up to take space in the new Hauser Forum due to open on Cambridge's University's West Site this month. Ian Leslie, pro-vice-chancellor for research at Cambridge, said: "The new occupier's close interaction with many departments in the university is further cemented by its occupancy of the Broers Building. Our initial collaboration in nanoscience is now broadening to other technologies and into systems. We are very pleased that, even during challenging economic times, industry sees the value of longterm research and in collaboration with leading universities".

Comment les coraux adaptent-ils les lois de la cristallographie?
insu.cnrs.fr November 4th, 2009 Le squelette du corail rouge, qui prend des formes arborescentes variées, est constitué de briques élémentaires qui ne sont rien d'autres que des microcristaux de calcite magnésienne. Comment ces animaux gèrent-ils les lois de la cristallographie pour élaborer des formes aussi complexes ? Cette question qui relève du domaine de la biominéralisation connaît depuis quelques années un intérêt croissant du fait de nouveaux outils d'investigation, et du développement des recherches sur les matériaux biomimétiques et les nanoparticules. L'étude par microscopie électronique à balayage (MEB), diffraction d'électrons retrodiffusés (EBSD) et microscopie électronique à transmission (MET) du squelette du corail rouge de Méditerranée menée par une équipe du Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CNRS, Universités d'aix marseille) associée à des chercheurs de l'Insitut de Ciencies del mar (Barcelone) et du California Institute of Technology (EU) permet de comprendre l'agencement des cristaux de calcite qui aboutit aux formes libres du corail. De nouveaux concepts de structures cristallines sont discutés dans cet article à paraître dans l'American Mineralogist.

Nanostart to feature successful completion of MagForce clinical trials at investor presentation in New York City
Nanostart November 4th, 2009 * Exclusive event for 80 specially invited guests * Highlight: Clinical efficacy of Nano-Cancer®-therapy now proven * Growing investor interest in Nanostart and its protfolio companies

Doctoral Research Opportunities - Waco, TX
environmentalresearchweb.org November 4th, 2009 Profs. Boris Lau and Bryan Brooks are jointly recruiting outstanding PhD students to work on projects studying surface dynamics and ecological exposure and consequences of emerging contaminants (trace organics and nanoparticles). This is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested to become experts in the emerging field that requires the crossover of aquatic ecology, toxicology and environmental nanoscience.

Acht veni-subsidies voor natuurkunde
nieuwsbank.nl November 4th, 2009 NWO heeft acht jonge, recent gepromoveerde natuurkundigen een Veni-subsidie toegekend. Zij kunnen met de subsidie, maximaal 250.000 euro per onderzoeker, gedurende drie jaar ideeën ontwikkelen en onderzoek doen. In totaal heeft NWO dit jaar onder 143 onderzoekers 36 miljoen euro verdeeld. De helft van de acht gelukkigen zijn bekenden van FOM, omdat zij op FOM-onderzoek gepromoveerd zijn of als onderzoeker in dienst zijn geweest. Ook onder de gehonoreerde voorstellen bij andere NWO-gebieden zijn (oud-)FOM-onderzoekers. Coupling light, electrons, and nano-mechanical motion FOM-onderzoeker dr. G.A. (Gary) Steele (m) 13-02-1976, Toronto (Canada) TUD - Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Koolstof nanobuisjes vormen een relatief nieuwe verschijningsvorm van koolstof. Ze hebben opmerkelijke elektronische, optische en mechanische eigenschappen. De onderzoekers zullen een nieuwe, schone vorm van nanobuis-technologie gebruiken waarin licht, elektronen en mechanische beweging gecombineerd worden in een enkel apparaatje op nanometerschaal. Dit heeft mogelijke toepassing in kwantumcomputers en nanotechnologie.

Winners And Wastelands: The Wall's Economic Legacy
nytimes.com November 4th, 2009 Businessman Ulrich Weitz leans forward and produces a graph showing a 10-fold increase in his company's turnover in the last 15 years. One of the biggest challenges Weitz has faced in building up his business is recruiting the highly skilled workers he needs to work in areas like nanotechnology -- a process that allows the production of high-grade materials.

Eco-friendly LED lights – new future of India
littleabout.com November 4th, 2009 The majority of people in India are not aware of LED lights although these devices are taking the world by storm increasingly. These LED lights being based on nanotechnology are eco-friendly and set to revolutionalize the lighting pattern in the country in coming years. What may be the end result? Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) will become a thing of past before long. Why don't we focus more on LED lights? It may help us to amass more knowledge. As indicated by scores of studies, LEDs, which are also solid state, not only make use of nano phosphors (small sized glowing materials) but also have far better scattering and illuminating capacity in contrast to CFLs that count on mercury, a harmful metal culpable for polluting the environment and is difficult to recycle. It is worthwhile to mention that the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi has already started funding a project on solid state lights based on nanotechnology in the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Science, University of Allahabad.

EU setting the future in motion
European Commission November 4th, 2009 Electric vehicles are the future and researchers are working on developing such cars to fuel technology and protect the environment. Rising to meet this challenge head on is the E3Car ('Energy efficient electrical car') project, funded in part by the EU and ENIAC (the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council). Its objective is the development of nanoelectronics technologies, specifically for electrical and hybrid vehicles. E3Car will boost the efficiency of electrical cars using advanced semiconductor components. The results will help Europe gain a solid foothold on such technologies.

Forum Mikroskopietrends'09 - Makro-Mikro-Nano
idw-online.de November 4th, 2009 Superresolution oder Hochauflösung sind die aktuellen und spannenden Schlagworte in der Mikroskopie. Neue Techniken erlauben heute der Fluoreszenzmikroskopie mit sichtbarem Licht in Bereiche der Nanometerskala vorzudringen, die bisher allein von Elektronen- oder Kraftmikroskopen erreicht werden konnten. Da die Betrachtung lebender Zellen in räumlicher Tiefe weiterhin der Lichtmikroskopie vorbehalten bleibt, bietet das erhöhte Auflösungsvermögen neue Einblicke in bisher nicht sichtbare Dimensionen. Zum Ende des Jahres 2009 werden am 17. Dezember in Wetzlar die neusten Trends der Mikroskopie zur Betrachtung der unterschiedlichen Größenskalen vorgestellt.

Iran Nano 2009 Exhibit Inaugurated in Tehran
farsnews.com November 4th, 2009 The second international exhibition on nanotechnology titled 'Iran Nano 2009' was officially kicked off in Tehran on Wednesday with Director of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) Saeed Sarkar and two deputies of Iranian industries and mines minister in attendance.

Rice wins NIH funding for oral-cancer test
Rice University November 5th, 2009 Grand Opportunity grant funds rapid saliva test using lab-on-a-chip

Starpharma signs agrochemicals deal
Starpharma Holdings Limited November 5th, 2009 Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRY) today announced the signing of a research and collaboration agreement between its wholly owned US subsidiary, DNT Inc, and a prominent, US-based agricultural chemicals company. The confidentiality provisions of the agreement prevent disclosure of the name of the collaborating company at this time.

'Universal' equation describes how materials behave at nanoscale
physicsworld.com November 5th, 2009 Understanding how materials behave at tiny length scales is crucial for developing future nanotechnologies and continues to be a great challenge for both theoretical and experimental physicists alike. Now, a physicist at the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, has borrowed from 19th century physics to come up with a new "universal" equation that predicts how size affects the key physical properties of nanometre-sized structures, which behave very differently from their macroscopic counterparts. The surface-to-volume ratio of a structure increases dramatically as it is made smaller and therefore surface effects can be very important for tiny devices. "My equation links size effects not only to this surface-to-volume ratio but also to the intrinsic nature of the nanoparticles involved - that is, whether they are fermions or bosons," Grégory Guisbiers told physicsworld.com.

Nanotechnologies : s’informer, s’exprimer… et après ? (1/2)
internetactu.net November 5th, 2009 A peine lancé, le débat public sur les nanotechnologies, intitulé Je m'informe, je m'exprime, censé éclairer l'Etat sur "l'organisation du contrôle et du suivi des nanomatériaux, la caractérisation de l'exposition et l'évaluation de la toxicité sur l'homme et les écosystèmes, l'information et la protection du travailleur et du consommateur, les modalités de soutien à la recherche et aux innovations dans ce domaine", fait déjà polémique. Le collectif Pièces et Mains d'Oeuvre, connu pour ses enquêtes, analyses, ses actions d'éclat et son refus critiques des nanotechnologies, refuse ainsi de participer à ce qu'il qualifie de campagne nationale d'acceptabilité des nanotechnologies destinée à "vaincre la méfiance de citoyens- consommateurs échaudés par trop de scandales techno-industriels : amiante, vache folle, OGM" (voir aussi Aujourd'hui le nanomonde, site qu'ils consacrent à cette opération).

Nov 10 & 17: Green Tech Series Focuses on Nanotechnology and the Environment (Greensboro)
carolinanewswire.com November 5th, 2009 The Greensboro Partnership is hosting a Green Tech speaker series on consecutive Tuesdays in November in partnership with the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering and the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center at UNCG. The series is designed to focus attention on the growing field of environmental nanotechnology. Shortened to Green Tech, this research area integrates nanotechnology into the pursuit of "green" or sustainable practices and represents significant research and commercial potential.

BASF to realign fuel cell business
BASF November 5th, 2009 * BASF to focus competencies at BASF Fuel Cell Inc. in Somerset, New Jersey, USA * BASF Fuel Cell GmbH site in Frankfurt, Germany to be closed * 43 positions in Frankfurt to be eliminated

Chinese National Institutes sign collaboration agreement with G24
G24 Innovations November 5th, 2009 Just three weeks after G24 Innovations (G24i) successfully launched the world's first commercial application of Dye-Sensitive Solar Cells (DSSC), the global pioneer of DSSC announced that it has signed a formal agreement with three of China's most prestigious institutes to accelerate industrial development of the technology. Continuing its expansion, G24i has signed an agreement with the China National Academy of Nanotechnology & Engineering (CNANE) in Tianjin, together with the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) which is part of the China Academy of Sciences, and the Nanotechnology Industrialization Base of China (NIBC).

Japan Turns to Ulster Scientist for Nanotech Research
University of Ulster November 5th, 2009 A University of Ulster academic has won a prestigious research fellowship to work alongside world class scientists in Japan.

The Origins of Israel's Tech Miracle
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com November 5th, 2009 JG: Can the hi-tech industry solve the problem of the economic disenfranchisement of Arab citizens of Israel? Did you find much integration of Arabs into this high-tech industry? If not, is there a way to bring them in? DS: There's not a lot of it happening. JG: Because a lot of these human capital networks are built in the army? DS: We found a few really interesting stories of Israeli-Arab doctors and researchers who are working with Israeli. Where it's happening, it's pretty amazing. There was one amazing story in nanotechnology happening at Hebrew University that I wanted to write about, it was a great start-up between an Israeli-Arab and an Israeli-Jew, but for security reasons for the Israeli-Arab, we couldn't write about it. We talked about changing his name, but people would have been able to piece his identity together.

Materials—Ferroelectric fury
Oak Ridge National Laboratory November 5th, 2009 By discovering a technique to guide the ferroelectric switching process in bismuth ferrite, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Nina Balke has moved one step closer to developing more rugged memory and logic devices.

Nanoscience—Using neural networks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory November 5th, 2009 A new approach to crunching massive volumes of data uses neural networks, an architecture of multiple elements that is figuratively taught to pool imbedded information into results, like an artificial brain.

ELI gears up for laser beam infrastructure launch
CORDIS November 5th, 2009 Can an intense laser rip photons into electron-positron pairs? Seeking to shed light on this burning question is the ELI ('Extreme light infrastructure') project, which received EUR 6 million in funding under the 'Infrastructures' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project partners have set their sights on making ELI the first infrastructure to approach this limit - over six orders of magnitude higher than today's laser intensity.

Top British Nanofirms win Business Innovation Awards
mhwmagazine.co.uk November 5th, 2009 Three top British nanotechnology firms whose innovations make solar cells more efficient, help in the fight against heart disease, and improve the production of fine chemical compounds won Business Innovation Awards today at the UK NanoForum & Emerging Technologies Conference 2009. The Business Innovation Award winners are: Materials & Devices: Promethean Particles from Nottingham won the award for the development and manufacture of dispersed high specification inorganic nanoparticles, with applications in green energy storage, such as more efficient solar cells, and healthcare. Accepting the award, Sandy Gordon commented: "This is great recognition of our achievements. We already have customers overseas, but this award will increase our profile." Life Sciences and Healthcare: University College London (UCL) Centre and Regenerative Medicine won for its surgical implant using nanocomposites and stem cell technology, which will make a highly positive impact on a new generation of heart valve substitutes and coronary artery bypass grafts. Professor Alexander Seifalian said: "I'm extremely pleased at this recognition for University College London and our team. I hope this will help push our medical implant forward by commercialisation." Energy and Environment: AM Technology, from Runcorn in Cheshire, has developed a new flow reactor for the continuous manufacture of chemical compounds for the pharmaceutical industry, which looks set to drastically improve manufacturing yields for the UK. AM Technology's Robert Ashe commented: "We are extremely grateful to UKTI and NanoKTN. As a small company, this recognition can only help to raise our profile."

Austrian Federal Ministry For Transport, Innovation And Technology (BMVIT) Showcases The Austrian Nano Initiative
BMVIT November 6th, 2009 "NANO: Wissenschaft. Wirtschaft. Wirkung. 09" on 9 November at Tech Gate Vienna

Albany NanoTech complex to host open house
timesunion.com November 6th, 2009 The University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering will hold a "community day" open house on Saturday at the Albany NanoTech complex at 253 Fuller Road. The free event, part of the school's "Nanovember" celebration, will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors will be given guided tours of the clean room facilities at the college, home to cutting-edge computer chip research and development. University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering - cnse.albany.edu/

U-M scientists win $6.8 million in federal stimulus-fund grants for stem cell research
University of Michigan November 6th, 2009 University of Michigan researchers have been awarded 13 federal stimulus-fund grants to date, totaling $6.8 million, for research projects involving both adult and embryonic stem cells. • Liang Xu, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Medical School, was awarded $614,396 to explore a nanoparticle-based system for targeted delivery of miRNA-based therapeutics to human pancreatic cancer stem cells. MicroRNAs, or miRNAS, are single-stranded RNA molecules that regulate gene expression in a cell. Xu's work could lead to novel, self-assembled miRNA-nanovectors that can deliver the known tumor suppressor miR-34 to pancreatic cancer stem cells, inhibiting their self-renewal and tumor initiation.

Nanoparticle DNA damage study: what you should know
newscientist.com November 6th, 2009 Nanoparticles can damage the DNA of cells some distance away, even when the cells seem safe behind an impassable barrier of tissue, new research has found. But what does this curious finding, revealed yesterday by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, mean about the safety of nanoparticles and medical treatments based on them? New Scientist puts the news in context. Did the experiment represent something that could happen in my body? The experimental set-up was entirely artificial, and nothing like it occurs naturally in humans or animals. Nor are the nanoparticles in question used in any current treatments, experimental or otherwise.

"Advanced Researcher Grant" für Prof. Luisa De Cola
idw-online.de November 6th, 2009 Prof. Luisa De Cola vom Physikalischen Institut der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster erhält eine besonders prestigeträchtige Auszeichnung des Europäischen Forschungsrats (ERC): den hoch angesehenen "Advanced Researcher Grant" 2009. Dieser Preis wird an erfahrene, exzellente Wissenschaftler vergeben, die in ihrem Forschungsfeld etabliert sind. Prof. De Cola erhält nun fast zwei Millionen Euro für fünf Jahre, um ein Forschungsprojekt zur Anwendung poröser Nanomaterialien zu realisieren.

Nanotechnologies : s’informer, s’exprimer… et après ? (2/2)
internetactu.net November 6th, 2009 A l'occasion du débat public sur les nanotechnologies, intitulé Je m'informe, je m'exprime, et les polémiques associées (voir la première partie de cet article), il nous a semblé intéressant de s'intéresser à la portée de telles consultations publiques dans d'autres pays - en l'occurrence, le Royaume-Uni. Le Responsible Nano Forum a en effet proposé à 28 experts anglo-saxons de faire le point (.pdf) sur la question, cinq ans après la publication d'un important rapport consacré aux opportunités et incertitudes de la nanoscience et des nanotechnologies. La quasi-totalité témoignent de ce que la plupart des questions posées à l'époque restent encore en suspens, que tout reste encore à faire, et que rien n'est règlé.

Nobuhiko Kobayashi named co-director of Advanced Studies Laboratory
UC Santa Cruz November 6th, 2009 Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed co-director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory (ASL), a collaborative research facility jointly administered by UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.

7 questions sur les Nanotechnologies
place-publique.fr November 6th, 2009 4. Sous prétexte de risque nanotechnologique, doit-on arrêter les recherches ? S'opposer au fait qu'une connaissance nouvelle puisse produire des applications est illusoire. Bloquer ce processus serait forcément autoritaire mais de toute manière transitoire ou de perte de temps. La science et la technologie ont toujours susciter la volonté chez certains d'arrêter le progrès, par exemple quand les transports sont devenus plus rapides. Ou quand internet a affranchi les distances. La connaissance ne se bloque pas sauf dans les régimes dictatoriaux ou intégristes. La question est plutôt : comment maîtriser l'insertion des technologies dont le propre est de produire aussi bien des dommages que des bienfaits.

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Fashion brings together nanotechnology and charity
russiatoday.com October 17th, 2009 Speaking of quality, it's hard not to mention Ludmila Norsoyan, whose name has become synonymous with first-class jersey clothing. "It's our know-how," Norsoyan explains. Her latest collection entitled "Jeanne d'Arc", which Norsoyan will present at Russian Fashion Week on October 17, has been created with the help of nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology and Gold - From the World Gold Council
World Gold Council October 19th, 2009 What characteristics make gold an ideal material for such wide-ranging applications? The nobility of gold and its resistance to surface oxidation (which would hinder the operation of nano-scale technologies and devices based on other metals) is one important material characteristic. The optical properties of gold at the nanoscale are also exciting, (gold nanoparticles have a colour varying from red to purple depending on particle size, a property that can be successfully exploited in a range of applications).

Argonne scientists find new set of multiferroic materials: Breakthrough resulted from collaborative research with universities
The Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory October 19th, 2009 The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created a material with potential impact on next generation electronics.

Researcher Honored for Experimental Work in Nanotechnology
Air Force Office of Scientific Research October 19th, 2009 Air Force-funded researcher, Dr. Óscar Custance from the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan has been chosen for the 2009 Feynman Prize for Experimental Work in Nanotechnology for his research in atomic-scale precision.

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough
Idaho National Laboratory October 19th, 2009 Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily because photovoltaic cells remain expensive and relatively inefficient. But solar may not be such a marginal power source for long. Chemists at Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University have invented a way to manufacture highly precise, uniform nanoparticles to order. The technology, Precision Nanoparticles, has the potential to vastly improve the solar cell and further spur the growing nanotech revolution.

Nanosystems institute at UCLA, Photron to collaborate on specialized instrumentation
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA October 19th, 2009 The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a collaboration with Photron USA Inc., a manufacturer of high-speed imaging systems and image analysis software, to develop specialized instrumentation for the CNSI's core laboratory facilities.

Wanted: Ballarat Locals...No Science Knowledge Required
The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) October 19th, 2009 Amongst much fanfare, last week, Australia's first national science hub, The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), was launched. Today, The RiAus proudly unveils its first-ever regional programme, The Free Range Science project, in Ballarat at the George Hotel on Wednesday, 21st October through support by the Victorian government. The RiAus Free Range Science project will be bringing science and scientists out of the lab and into the towns of regional Victoria. Designed specifically for adults without a science background, Free Range Science puts locals directly in touch with the people who research, design, create and use the sciences and technologies which power our lives. The first-ever event, "Nanotechnology- The Future is Small," is free to the public and explores the science of really small things. Perhaps the simplest definition is that it involves engineering at the scale of billionths of a metre - a million times smaller than the head of a pin!

Carbon nanotubes may cheaply harvest sunlight
University of Wisconsin-Madison October 20th, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying how to create inexpensive, efficient solar cells from carbon nanotubes, which are sheets of carbon rolled into seamless cylinders 1-nanometer in diameter. Many researchers are studying how to use nanotubes for mechanical and electronics applications, but Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Michael Arnold is one of the first to apply them to solar energy.

Smallest Nanoantennas for High-speed Data Networks: Most Rapid Information Transmission –Also Applied in Microbiology, Photovoltaics, and Sensor Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) October 20th, 2009 More than 120 years after the discovery of the electromagnetic character of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz, wireless data transmission dominates information technology. Higher and higher radio frequencies are applied to transmit more data within shorter periods of time. Some years ago, scientists found that light waves might also be used for radio transmission. So far, however, manufacture of the small antennas has required an enormous expenditure. KIT scientists have now succeeded for the first time in specifically and reproducibly manufacturing smallest optical nanoantennas from gold.

New technique for making thin electronics supported by stimulus funds
Cornell University October 20th, 2009 The National Science Foundation's Materials World Network program is supporting Cornell scientists who have invented a reliable way of processing organic devices with a patent-pending process called orthogonal lithography. The grant of $900,000 is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and lasts through 2013.

Iranian, French Nano-Scientists Cooperate to Save Polluted Waters
farsnews.com October 20th, 2009 An Iranian researcher from University of Tabriz, in collaboration with colleagues from Nancy Université of France, applied nanocatalysts to degrade aqueous pollutants. Organic dyestuffs are considered as major sources of environmental pollutants. Therefore, removal of these materials from waste waters, through a practical and efficient method, seems essential. Among the alternatives proposed for removing these water contaminants like textile dyes, organic compounds, agricultural pesticide wastes, etc. during recent years, are the advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) especially suitable for lower pollutants' concentrations.

Chemical engineering professor awarded two grants to investigate directed self-assembly
University of Delaware October 20th, 2009 Eric Furst, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received two grants totaling $727,000 for his work on directed self-assembly of soft materials.

Penn Team Uses Self-Assembly to Make Tiny Particles With Patches of Charge
University of Pennsylvania October 20th, 2009 Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules that may one day serve as drug-delivery vehicles to combat disease and perhaps be used in small batteries that store and release charge.

NIST Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking
NIST October 20th, 2009 Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland and their collaborators have found that properly tuned radio-frequency waves can influence how much the atoms attract or repel one another, opening up new ways to control their interactions.

The truth about yams
jamaica-gleaner.com October 21st, 2009 It has taken 30 years of hard work for Professor Helen Asemota to get to this stage. However, that work is yet over. Yams and potatoes are foods many people don't think much of in Jamaica. They are always available and their use outside of being a replacement for our staple rice diet has not been thought of much. Professor Asemota has thought of it. Hailing from Nigeria, the professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the department of medical sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI) has made the journey across the middle passage and is daily achieving feats that benefit Jamaica in untold ways. Those benefits have earned Professor Asemota the 2009 Gleaner Honour Award in the category science and technology. Over those 30 years, and more, Professor Asemota has not only worked with a number of universities, but has been integral on a global level, of developing and executing new and improved research in her field. While her work in biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology is renowned, has recently she added the fairly new and certainly very exciting area of nanotechnology to her extensive résumé. Prof Asemota earned her professorial status at UWI but has found the time to also give service to Shaw University in North Carolina where she is head of the Nanobiology Division of the Shaw Nanotechnology Initiative - the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Centre. So respected is the woman that though she is only with Shaw University part-time, she is also the chairman of the Shaw Institutional Research Board.

Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures
Harvard University October 21st, 2009 New 'stereocenters' introduce triangular joints into otherwise linear nanomaterials

Russia's Medvedev blasts Putin-era state giants
news.my.msn.com October 21st, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday said the state should lessen its economic role, warning state corporations set up by his predecessor Vladimir Putin could ultimately cease to exist. "I believe that we at some point have let the creation of state corporations out of control," Medvedev told a meeting of leading tycoons at the Kremlin. "This does not mean that they should be shut down," he said, suggesting instead that they should be transformed into joint-stock companies. Joint-stock companies in Russia are divided between open joint-stock companies whose shares may be publicly traded and closed joint-stock companies whose shares are distributed among a limited number of shareholders. Under ex-president Vladimir Putin, now the prime minister, the government created a series of state champions to spur growth in sectors such as car making, civil aviation, nanotechnology, the nuclear industry and arms building.

Waterloo holds annual science open house, gem and mineral show this weekend
exchangemagazine.com October 21st, 2009 An annual science open house at the University of Waterloo will introduce children and their parents to a variety of scientific experiments this weekend, including some involving quantum computing and nanotechnology. This year's open house will also feature new activities from the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the department of biology.

Oregon governor courting business in Europe
forbes.com October 21st, 2009 Kulongoski will travel to Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands, where he plans to meet with executives of Daimler AG, Vestas Wind Systems and FEI Co. The three companies employ about 1,500 people in Oregon. Kulongoski and other state officials are hoping those companies will double the number of Oregonians they employ in the next few years.

Resolution Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Carl Zeiss October 21st, 2009 Carl Zeiss Introduces Barrier-Breaking Superresolution Microscope Systems

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irishdev.com October 21st, 2009 Announcing the first Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) awards at the Royal College of Physicians yesterday, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation: (Including) Dr. Paul Eastham (Trinity College Dublin) €474,506.50 Title: Strong interactions and collective effects in semiconductor optoelectronics Synopsis: Quantum dots are a kind of artificial atoms whose properties, e.g. the light they emit, can be manipulated in a very controlled manner. Quantum dots are nano-sized, man-made objects with a wide range of applications in optoelectronics, photonics and quantum computers. Dr Eastham and his team aim to investigate how quantum dots would interact with each other in laser or quantum computing devices. Dr. Nikolay Petkov (Tyndall National Insititute) €530,734.30 Title: Tuning surface and dopant properties of silicon and germanium Nanowires for high performance nanowire based field-effect transistors Synopsis: Over the years increased computer speed and capacity has been realized through a reduction of the size of the semiconductor components that make up the functional parts of the computers. The sizes are now nearing the nanometer regime where the components will have dimensions of no more than a few tens or hundreds of atoms. Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on an atomic scale, will in the next decade allow faster and more efficient computers. Dr Petkov and his team will contribute to the transition to nanotechnology computers by investigating nanowires made from silicon and germanium for use as transistors. Dr. Ray Duffy (Tyndall National Institute) €562,546.80 Title: N-type doping in germanium for sub-20nm technology CMOS devices Synopsis: One of the key factors in the coming of the modern Information Age has been the rapid increase of computational power. This has been led by the semiconductor device manufacturing industry which is constantly improving the speed and power of computer chips. This is done by manufacturing the components as small as possible. The state of the art in semiconductor device manufacturing is a process that creates features that are 45 nanometres wide. This proposal studies the use of germanium instead of silicon as one possible way to allow for sub 20 nanometre technologies. Dr. Michael Nolan (Tyndall National Institute) €472,244.40 Title: Engineering Metal Oxide Interfaces For Renewable Energy Photocatalysis Synopsis: Artificial photosynthesis is the process where light energy is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen can then be used as a clean, renewable, easy to store, environmentally friendly fuel. Currently however the efficiency of the reaction is not high enough for the process to be viable. New materials could sufficiently improve the efficiency and speed of the reaction. The proposal will study metal oxides that have particular structures when measured on the nanometer scale. These metal oxides could be suitable new materials for the artificial photosynthesis process.

Two Indians win prestigious research grant for their project in New Zealand
punjabnewsline.com October 21st, 2009 Two India-born academics have won a prestigious research grant in New Zealand to help design public policy on the use of new and emerging technologies such as transgenics, cloning, and nanotechnology. Dr Priya Kurian and Dr Debashish Munshi of the University of Waikato in Hamilton were recently awarded a $560,000 Marsden research grant by the Royal Society of New Zealand for their path-breaking project on "sustainable citizenship".

Materials Science Prize Announced
Armourers and Brasiers Company October 21st, 2009 £25,000 venture Prize to be awarded to help commercialize early stage research

NC State Develops Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
North Carolina State University October 21st, 2009 North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.

Argonne dedicates new microscopy facility at Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory October 21st, 2009 Research may lead to energy efficient engines, advanced medical therapy

New Berkeley Lab Report Shows That the Installed Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S. Fell in 2008
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory October 21st, 2009 Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S., showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008. Within the last year of this period, costs fell by more than 4 percent.

Swiss Authentication USA Announces Exclusive Deal
Swiss Authentication October 22nd, 2009 Swiss Authentication USA announced today that it has become the exclusive agent to sell Swiss Authentication AG's Lanthanoid based anti-counterfeiting solutions in the United States.

Ion Drive: Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Lifetimes for Commercial, Government and Military Satellites
Georgia Institute of Technology October 22nd, 2009 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems that are used to control the positions of satellites and planetary probes.

2009 Tokyo: Mazda Debuts Efficient SKY Gasoline and Diesel Engines
motortrend.com October 22nd, 2009 The SKY-G works in conjunction with a new single nano-catalyst (currently used in the new Mazda3) that reduces the amount of precious metals needed for exhaust gas purification. Mazda estimates that the new nano-catalyst technology has dropped precious metal content by 70% in the 2010 Mazda3 versus the previous-generation car, reducing production costs and unit weight.

Germany warns over dangers of nanotechnology
dw-world.de October 22nd, 2009 German authorities have warned of the risks posed by nanotechnology when used in food, clothing, cosmetics and other products. The promising potential of the technology comes with a risk for health and environment. Professor Dieter Stuermer from the Bonn-based Institute for Science and Ethics says people should be especially aware of the danger that nano particles can damage lungs and cause inflammation. In particular, he criticizes nanotechnology companies for not taking enough account of the possible negative side-effects of their products. Urban Wiesing from Tuebingen University: "I strongly believe that many of the risks associated with nanotechnology have at least in part been encountered in other technologies as well," he told Deutsche Welle. "That's why I'm confident that regulations can be found to ensure that these risks can be minimized in the interests of the users of nano products."

Indonesian Government to Invest $26.5m in Nanotechnology
thejakartaglobe.com October 22nd, 2009 The government appears to be taking notice of the huge potential of nanotechnology to improve industrial competitiveness. The Ministry of National Education will provide Rp 250 billion ($26.5 million) to fund nanotech research and development through 2010. The Ministry of Industry will provide another Rp 15 billion. "We will fund 60 studies on nanotech, as this is a sector that is taking off in the developed world," said Deddy Mulyadi, head of the research and development division at the Industry Ministry.

Nanoscience brings artworks back to life
rsc.org October 22nd, 2009 Italian chemists have developed a new polymer-based cleaning system to remove old residues from the surface of valuable works of art. The gentle gel has already been used to brighten up 15th century wall paintings and gilded frames darkened by aged varnish or polymeric coatings.

Obama Advisor Aneesh Chopra - New U.S. Tech Czar - on Innovative Solutions to Global Crises
Center for Nanotechnology in Society October 22nd, 2009 Chopra will address conference on using technology to solve environmental, energy, water, food security, and health problems in developing nations

New Material Could Efficiently Power Tiny Generators
University of Wisconsin-Madison October 22nd, 2009 To power a very small device like a pacemaker or a transistor, you need an even smaller generator. The components that operate the generator are smaller yet, and the efficiency of those foundational components is critical to the performance of the overall device.

Terepac, IMEC Partner for Low-cost Flexible Electronics
electroiq.com October 22nd, 2009 Terepac Corporation and research center IMEC will collaborate on novel packaging technologies for flexible electronics. The initial driver for this shared research is a next-generation wireless ECG system, developed in the Human++ Program at Holst Centre, Eindhoven. For many applications, like on-the-body devices, thin and flexible form factors greatly improve the comfort of wearable electronics. To allow large-scale manufacturing and market penetration, low-cost/high-value solutions are targeted in R&D programs. Traditional electronics packaging and assembly with rigid printed circuit boards (PCBs) and pick-and-place machines are unable to cope with these demands, the research partners assert.

Is Nanotechnology Dangerous?
spiegel.de October 22nd, 2009 Christoph Seidler: A background paper by Germany's Federal Environment Agency earlier this week triggered fearful headlines in some of the country's biggest newspapers. But the agency is distancing itself from the coverage, saying it had presented nothing new in the report -- and that it also sees opportunities in nano. Breathless headlines about nanotechnology have ruffled feathers at Germany's Federal Environment Agency (UBA) this week. "Nanotechnology can make you sick," and "First official warning in Germany" about the dangers of nanotechnology, the headlines read. "The German Environment Agency warns against nanotechnology." The maelstrom began earlier this week, when UBA specialists posted a 28-page paper about nanotechnology on their Web site -- a move that prompted a very vocal response. But officials at the agency feel they have been misunderstood. They claim the posting is neither a warning nor a new study -- it's just a background paper. "We haven't done any of our own research," UBA scientist Wolfgang Dubbert told SPIEGEL ONLINE. Dubbert is one of the authors of the paper, an updated version of a document published in 2006.

£1m research boost for ‘intelligent’ nano self-assembly
Nottingham University October 22nd, 2009 What if material structures could ‘build themselves' by self-assembling their molecules — guided by ‘artificial intelligence'? It sounds like science fiction, but making this possible is now the serious research aim for computer scientists, physicists, chemists and nanotechnology experts, all working in collaboration at The University of Nottingham.

Nanowire biocompatibility in the brain: So far so good
Swedish Research Council October 22nd, 2009 The biological safety of nanotechnology, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic; researchers at Lund University have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments involving the injection of so-called 'nanowires'

Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time: New microscopic technique reveals previously unseen molecules in color
National Science Foundation October 23rd, 2009 A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows researchers to identify previously unseen molecules in living organisms and offers broad applications in biomedical imaging and research.

Researchers Testing Nanotech for Hazardous Waste Cleanups
nytimes.com October 23rd, 2009 Scientists and environmental regulators are hoping that some extremely tiny materials might make a huge difference in hazardous waste cleanups. Researchers are exploring whether nanoscale materials -- so named because they are as small as 1/100,000 the width of a human hair -- can be cleanup assets. They have two reasons for optimism: Nanomaterials' size lets them penetrate otherwise impossible-to-reach groundwater or soil, and their engineered coatings allow them to stay suspended in groundwater, a major asset in cleanups. If they work, nanomaterials could slash cleanup prices by avoiding the extraordinary costs and risks of hauling materials away for burning or burial. "There is significant potential to target a number of very complicated sites that to date we have been unable to remediate adequately," said Denis O'Carroll, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Western Ontario.

Rensselaer To Lead Multimillion-Dollar Research Center for Social and Cognitive Networks
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute October 23rd, 2009 With $16.75 million in funding from the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will launch a new interdisciplinary research center devoted to the study of social and cognitive networks.

Berkeley Researchers Find New Route to Nano Self-Assembly
Berkeley Lab October 23rd, 2009 If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.

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Neopharma announces expansion into biotechnology and nanotechnology-based research and development
Neopharma October 5th, 2009 Neopharma, the Abu Dhabi-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer, announced a large scale expansion programme to enter into biotechnology and nanotechnology-based research and manufacturing capabilities.

Graphite mimics iron’s magnetism
Eindhoven University of Technology October 5th, 2009 Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results are promising for new applications in nanotechnology, such as biosensors and detectors. The findings were published online in Nature Physics.

'nano science - manipulating the world around us': Milo Shaffer speaks to Glass about Nanoscience and the future of planes, trains and bulletproof clothing
glassmagazine.co.uk October 5th, 2009 Milo Shaffer completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1998. Following a period working as a materials technology consultant focusing on technology exploitation and innovation, he enjoyed a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took up his current position at Imperial College London in 2003 as Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry. From the ancient Egyptians to the mid 20th century civilizations great achievements were big: pyramids, stadia, cathedrals. Only comparatively recently has engineering got to grips with the small: quantum physics, computer chips. The natural world remains way ahead of us at incorporating complex design at every size scale. Atom to molecule to membrane to cell and up, up, up. The complexity is mind-boggling. To even start approaching multi-level design, science needs to provide new bricks at intermediate scales; this is where nanoscience steps in. Dr. Milo Shaffer is working to bridge this gap in our ability to manipulate the world around us. His work focuses on the carbon nanotube. Nanotubes are pipes with walls as thin as atoms and diameters as small as a millionth of a millimeter that have recently been used to create transparent speakers of nanometer thickness and the world's toughest fibers. They act as a versatile building block, realizing sci-fi technologies and making good, existing materials, vastly stronger.

Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Possibilities: National Science Foundation Grant Aids Quest for Low-Cost, Flexible Solution
UT Dallas October 5th, 2009 A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile devices. And a new $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation should help him come closer to realizing that vision.

Silver nanoparticles give polymer solar cells a boost
Ohio State University October 5th, 2009 Small bits of metal may play a new role in solar power. Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun's energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells.

Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine
University of Wisconsin-Madison October 5th, 2009 Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.

IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer to Help Drive Down Cost of Personalized Genetic Analysis: IBM scientists advance genome sequencing project
IBM Corporation October 5th, 2009 In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained within their genetic code.

Harris & Harris Group Announces Proposed Follow-On Public Offering
Harris & Harris October 5th, 2009 Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY), announced today the proposed follow-on public offering of shares of its common stock. The offering price of the shares will be determined by market conditions at the time of pricing in consultation with the underwriter of the offering. The offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement, which was filed with and has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Needham & Company, LLC is acting as sole book running manager in the offering.

Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers
MIT October 6th, 2009 Electron microscopes are the most powerful type of microscope, capable of distinguishing even individual atoms. However, these microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons destroy the samples. Now, MIT assistant professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his student, William Putnam, propose a new scheme that can overcome this limitation by using a quantum mechanical measurement technique that allows electrons to sense objects remotely. Damage would be avoided because the electrons would never actually hit the imaged objects.

Harris & Harris Group Announces Pricing of Follow-On Public Offering
Harris & Harris October 6th, 2009 Harris & Harris Group, Inc., announced today that it has priced a follow-on public offering of 4,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $4.75 per share. We expect net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us, of approximately $18,648,750 ($21,495,188 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full by the underwriter). We have also granted to Needham & Company, LLC, the sole book running manager in connection with the offering, a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase an additional 637,500 shares of our common stock. We intend to use the net proceeds of the offering to make new venture capital investments in nanotechnology and microsystems as well as follow-on investments in our existing portfolio companies, and for operating expenses. The closing is expected to take place on or about October 9, 2009, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev took part in the Second Nanotechnology International Forum
isria.com October 6th, 2009 In his speech at the Forum, President Medvedev insisted that everything should be done to make nanotechnology one of the strongest sectors of the Russian economy. Mr Medvedev said that Russia had all the intellectual, organisational and financial resources necessary to become a leader in this field. The President noted that Russia has the world's largest government investment programme in the field of nanotechnology. By 2015 it will have allocated 318 billion rubles (more than 10.5 billion dollars) to the programme, and sales for Russia's nanotechnology industry are expected to reach 900 billion rubles. To meet this challenge the country needs to take advantage of all the resources of Russian science and make the necessary changes in legislative, tax and customs regulations. Russia needs a system of state orders for the long-term procurement of innovative products as well as an up to date system of national standards.

Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners
The Foresight Institute October 6th, 2009 The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.

TSMC and IMEC join forces to bring novel technology solutions to emerging markets
IMEC October 6th, 2009 IMEC and TSMC today announce that they have forged an Innovation Incubation Alliance to create a platform enabling the development of innovative product solutions using emerging More-than-Moore technology options. Integrating extra functionalities with foundry CMOS enables customers to compete in emerging markets. By combining IMEC's expertise in design & technology R&D with TSMC's excellence in high-volume manufacturing, customers will benefit from an early access to new More-than-Moore technologies and rapid transition to volume manufacturing for their next generation electronic products.

Breakthrough in lab-on-chip for fast cancer detection and therapy
IMEC October 6th, 2009 IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, the Instit�t f�r Mikrotechnik Mainz (IMM), one of the leading European research centers in microfluidics, and their partners within the European Sixth Framework Project MASCOT achieve a major milestone in the development of a lab-on-chip for the detection and therapy evaluation of breast cancer. This is the first time that a lab-on-chip system including many complex sample preparation steps and multiplexed detection was conceived and is being implemented. All modules for sample preprocessing and detection are ready for further miniaturization and integration in a single lab-on-chip platform. The system will be clinically validated in a breast cancer therapy study in Oslo.

High-sensitivity bone marrow aspiration technology enhances leukemia cell detection
American Association for Cancer Research October 6th, 2009 Scientists have created a viable technology to improve the detection of leukemia cells in bone marrow. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) enhanced the ability to rapidly quantify the amount of nanoparticle bound tumor cells in a sample at least 10 fold, and increased sensitivity of minimal residual disease measurements. Results of this proof-of-concept study are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

UC Merced Professor Receives $1.3 Million National Science Foundation Grant
UC Merced October 6th, 2009 David Kelley and colleagues will attempt to improve luminescent solar concentrators, used to channel solar energy

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking
Virginia Tech October 6th, 2009 Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems.

Tronics Wins 2009 Foundry of the Year Award From EuroAsia semiconductor Magazine
Tronics October 7th, 2009 Tronics Honored for Continued Success and Expansion of Its Value-add Custom MEMS Manufacturing Business

Nanogate receives additional application patent for innovative optics technology – partnership launched for new LED application
Nanogate AG October 7th, 2009 LED technology comprehensively protected by additional European patent - further LED applications from this new partnership are expected to be ready for production by the end of 2010.

Leti Achieves Groundbreaking Discovery in Using Copper-based Catalysts to Synthesize Silicon Nanowire
CEA-Leti October 7th, 2009 Project Demonstrates that Silicon Nanowire Synthesis can be CMOS-Compatible

Atomic Wire with Protective Sheath
Angewandte Chemie October 7th, 2009 Stable metal nanowires one atom wide inside carbon nanotubes

Building a better qubit
American Physical Society October 7th, 2009 Combining 6 photons together results in highly robust qubits

To peer inside a living cell
MIT October 7th, 2009 Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.

IMEC’s spray-coating technique holds promise for cheap fully solution-processed organic solar cells
IMEC October 7th, 2009 IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top. The resulting cell shows power conversion efficiencies above 3%, a performance comparable to organic solar cells produced by spin coating of the organic layer and vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal. This is an important step towards producing organic solar cells with cheap and large-area processes.

IMEC and BP Solar demonstrate high-efficiency low-cost silicon solar cell
IMEC October 7th, 2009 IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar's newly developed Mono2 TM silicon. By combining IMEC's advanced processing techniques with BP Solar's high-quality low-cost substrates, the companies demonstrated that Mono2 TM has a good potential to become a new base material for low-cost highly-efficient solar cells.

Death by Light
Angewandte Chemie October 7th, 2009 Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Study: Cleantech Fuels Orange County's Economy, Helps Environment
University of Central Florida October 7th, 2009 A new study released today outlines Orange County's future as the nation's next "cleantech hub" with green jobs that will fuel the region's economy.

Reform Tsar Struggles to Take Russia Into Nanoworld
abcnews.go.com October 7th, 2009 Russian economic reform architect Anatoly Chubais hopes to marshal oligarch investment into establishing Russia as a world leader in high-tech nanoscience, helping wean his country off dependency on raw material sales. Chubais has a reputation for getting seemingly impossible things done. Skeptics, however, say Russian science is hindered by bureaucracy and by a lack of small companies capable of translating scientific ideas quickly into commercial production. As economist, Chubais presided over the selloff of Soviet state property that produced the country's super-wealthy oligarchs and as a politician helped revive Boris Yeltsin's popularity to win a second term as president in 1996. More recently, he dismantled and privatized power generation. Chubais sees the economic crisis as a "unique chance" for Russia to break away from its dependency on oil and gas, with its fluctuating revenues, into the new world of nanoscience.

Nanotechnology opens new medical doors
newsrecord.org October 7th, 2009 Biomedical engineering researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed an artificial pore capable of transmitting nanoscale materials through a membrane. This new information might lead to a method for discerning what individual bases make up traversing DNA strands. Translating the DNA will aid scientists to examine the cause of inherited diseases, such as breast cancer. Professor Peixuan Guo, PhD, of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and director of the NIH Nanomedicine Development Center is a co-author of the research paper, "Translocation of double-stranded DNA through membrane-adapted phi29 motor protein nanopores." The periodical Nature Nanotechnology published the piece.

Now, you can adore atoms at nanoscale
indiatimes.com October 7th, 2009 Students in the city will soon have the chance to view matter at the nanoscale with Science City, on the planetarium campus, to acquire table-top atomic force microscopes (AFM) for its centres across the country, starting with Chennai. Ordinary optical microscopes can magnify only about 1000 times, while electronic microscopes can magnify up to one million times. Speaking at the inauguration of an awareness workshop on nanotechnology at the Periyar Science and Technology Centre here on Monday, Science City chairman M Anandakrishnan said the acquisition would propel students' interest in the field of nanoscience.

Defense Appropriations Bill Includes Over $60 Million for Military & Technology
salem-news.com October 7th, 2009 "Along with providing millions to fund job-creating advances in nanotechnology and clean energy technologies, this bill will help Oregon National Guard members succeed at home once their service abroad is over," said Senator Ron Wyden. Funding for the following projects include: ONAMI Nanoelectronics, Nanometrology and Nanobiotechnology Initiative - Portland State University - $4,800,000 - Multnomah County Funds will help advance research into biomedicine, measurement/imaging and electronics. ONAMI Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing - University of Oregon - $4,400,000 - Lane County Funds will be used to develop safer and greener nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing methods. ONAMI Miniaturized Tactical Energy Systems Development - Oregon State University - $3,000,000 - Benton County. Funds will be used to develop miniaturized energy systems such as soldier power systems and advanced cooling units. ARL-ONAMI Center for Nanoarchitectures for Enhanced Performance - University of Oregon - $1,000,000 - Lane County. Funds will be used to continue to build early stage technology for Army sensing, communications, portable energy storage and generation and thermal management requirements.

Maiden edition of Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI)
Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc. (FONAI) October 8th, 2009 The maiden edition of Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI) will be coming out very soon, be on the look out for this on the Journal website: www.fonai.org/Journal.html

Tender: comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in NMP research activities between EU and third countries
European Commission October 8th, 2009 The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a call for tender for a comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in nanotechnology, materials, processes (NMP) research activities between the EU and third countries.

NanoKTN Invites Industry to Help Shape UK Government Strategy for Nanotechnology: NanoKTN seeks market input to ensure major sector growth over next 10 years
Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) October 8th, 2009 The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, is inviting UK nanotechnology companies to help shape UK Government Strategy for Nanotechnology. The NanoKTN, the Materials KTN, the Chemistry Innovation KTN and the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN is jointly providing the secretariat for a working group adopting a mini Innovation & Growth Team approach to assist in the collection and coordination of input to the public consultation launched by the Government on 17 July 2009 and the closing date is 31st October 2009. We are inviting UK companies to tell us what you are currently doing in nanotechnology and what your requirements are, to ensure major growth within this market over the next ten years.

Microwave fridges and nano diving boards
National Physical Laboratory October 8th, 2009 NPL scientists are paving the way for highly accurate measurement at the nano-scale and beyond, by being the first team in the world to develop a tiny microwave-powered room-temperature fridge.

Quantum mechanics on the cheap
National Physical Laboratory October 8th, 2009 NPL, together with IBM and the University of Edinburgh, have developed a new technique that dramatically improves the accuracy and efficiency of computer models of materials. By applying aspects of quantum mechanics in new ways, highly accurate simulations of materials may be achieved quicker and more efficiently than is currently possible with standard methods.

Investigating nanopillars: Silicon brittle? Not this kind!
Empa October 8th, 2009 Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very different properties, as Empa researchers have shown by creating minute silicon pillars. If the diameters of the columns are made small enough, then under load they do not simply break off, as large pieces of silicon would, but they yield to the pressure and undergo plastic deformation, as a metal would. This discovery opens the way for completely new design techniques from a materials point of view for mechanical microsystems and in the watch industry.

Leti, Caltech Workshop to Present Nanosystem Roadmaps To Potential Industrial Partners
CEA-Leti October 8th, 2009 Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will present their joint nanosystem roadmaps at a Nov. 10 workshop at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif.

UAlbany NanoCollege and School of Business Develop World’s First MBA Program with Elective Track in Nanotechnology
UAlbany NanoCollege October 8th, 2009 Expansion of unique partnership also includes new doctoral-level Nano+MBA program

Clemson bioengineer uses nanoparticles to target drugs
Clemson University October 8th, 2009 Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects.

$159M supports 181 Canada Research Chairs across the country
labcanada.com October 8th, 2009 The federal government last week announced $159.1 million in funding for 181 Canada Research Chairs newly awarded or renewed in 45 Canadian universities. The funding includes $7.4 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for research infrastructure awarded to 46 chairholders named in the announcement. Including: - Botton, Gianluigi A. Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 1, Advancement. $1,400,000 - Chen, Pu. Canada Research Chair in Nanobiomaterials. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Fanchini, Giovanni. Canada Research Chair in Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nano-optoelectronics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Li, Hongbin. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Nanoscience and Protein Engineering. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Nadeau, Jay Louise. Canada Research Chair in Nanocellular Neuroscience. Health. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Sinton, David A. Canada Research Chair in Integrated Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Skorobogatiy, Maksim. Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanophotonics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Ye, Winnie. Canada Research Chair in Nanoscale IC Design for Reliable Optoelectronics and Sensors. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Yeow, John T.W. Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanodevices. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000

Tiny technology may yield major finds -- and possible perils
miamiherald.com October 8th, 2009 In Miami, two newly arrived molecular pathologists are working on a test to detect cancer in the blood, and they say the test could be in use in three or four years. Drs. Richard Cote and Ram Datar, recently recruited from the University of Southern California, will run a Biomedical Nanoscience Institute being set up at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, giving South Florida a central role in the future of medical nanotechnology. The two are using the science to build devices that will perform dozens of "instant biopsy" tests on a pin-prick of blood and capture tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream. They don't hide their excitement. "The integration of nanotechnology and medicine has the potential to revolutionize our approach to human disease," said Cote, who will direct the institute and become chair of UM's department of pathology. In medicine, nanotech devices are in clinical trials that would carry medicine directly inside cancer cells, sparing the patient from chemotherapy's nausea and hair loss.

Race for New Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale
UT Dallas October 8th, 2009 Highly Engineered Materials May Solve One of Science's Toughest Problems

Aluminum-water rocket propellant studied
upi.com October 8th, 2009 U.S. scientists say they are developing a new type of 'green' rocket propellant that consists of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder. The aluminum-ice, or so-called Alice, propellant is described as being more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars or other water-bearing bodies.

Nanometric butterfly wings created
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology October 8th, 2009 A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Aut�noma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano scale. The resulting biomaterial could be used to make optically active structures, such as optical diffusers for solar panels.

Signing of Investment Agreement to Launch 90 Nanometre Microchip Production Project
JSC SITRONICS October 9th, 2009 JSC SITRONICS (SITRONICS or the "Group") (LSE:SITR), a leading provider of telecommunications, information technology and microelectronic solutions in Russia and the CIS, with a growing presence in other EEMEA emerging markets, announced that it today signed the investment agreement to launch full-scale 90 nanometre microchip production in cooperation with the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies ("RUSNANO"), Sistema and "NIIME and Mikron", which is part of the SITRONICS Microelectronics business division. The signing ceremony took place during a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the "NIIME and Mikron" facility in Zelenograd, Russia.

Medvedev Embraces Nanotechnology
times.spb.ru October 9th, 2009 Nanotechnology will rival oil as a global powerhouse industry, so Russia's economy needs to embrace it now to avoid a repeat of the "well-known scenario" in which growing oil prices keep it from modernizing, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. Medvedev spoke at the opening of the International Nanotechnology Forum, where one senior official said the burden to create new innovations should fall on small and midsized businesses. Rusnano chief Anatoly Chubais, meanwhile, gave Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov a guided tour of an exhibition of new Russian nanotechnology, including a photodiode lamp that appeared to temporarily blind Ivanov. "The economic crisis is a great impetus for an economic renewal," Medvedev said in his speech at the Krasnaya Presnya Expocenter. "But the main challenge," he said, "is to avoid the well-known scenario where oil prices are on the rise and the economy is improving and, again, just like in previous years, no one needs nanotechnology because we can relax and make ends meet without innovations. We therefore must make nanotechnology one of the main sectors of the economy."

Ray outlines new vision for OSU's future
gazettetimes.com October 9th, 2009 Oregon State University President Ed Ray said OSU also must increase its collaborative in-state research programs, pointing to the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) and Oregon Built Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) as examples. "We also must significantly increase our direct partnerships with industry," Ray said. "Right now, only 2 percent of our annual research funding results from industry partnerships. We must increase this to 4-8 percent of our total even as we more than double our annual research portfolio by 2025."

Wurth Solar eyeing 14-15% conversion rates for CIGS thin-film modules
digitimes.com October 9th, 2009 Germany-based Wurth Solar, a producer of CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, expects to increase energy conversion rates for such products from 11-12% currently to 14-15% two years later, according to CEO Bernhard Dimmler for Wurth Elektronik Research under the company.

EU advised to consider mandatory nano reporting
chemicalwatch.com October 9th, 2009 A background paper for DG Environment on options for an EU reporting scheme for nanomaterials has suggested that the European Commission develop a mandatory scheme but that, at the same time, it should also move ahead with a voluntary scheme because of the length of time it would take to bring in a mandatory scheme.

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Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips
MIT September 12th, 2009 A new technique for growing carbon nanotubes should be easier to integrate with existing semiconductor manufacturing processes

Solar cell made from single carbon nanotube
rdmag.com September 12th, 2009 Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops. The researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. Reported online Sept. 11 in the journal Science, the researchers—led by Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, and Jiwoong Park, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology—describe how their device converts light to electricity in an extremely efficient process that multiplies the amount of electrical current that flows. This process could prove important for next-generation high efficiency solar cells, the researchers say. "We are not only looking at a new material, but we actually put it into an application—a true solar cell device," said first author Nathan Gabor, a graduate student in McEuen's lab.

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. Announces Recent Orders from India
Industrial Nanotech September 12th, 2009 Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience solutions, today announced that the company has received an order of a pallet of product from a client of Independent Sales Representative, P.R. Ramanathan.

Nanolithography, New Method Experienced by Iranian Scientists
farsnews.com September 13th, 2009 Iranian researchers at the Research Institute of the Petroleum Industry (RIPI) managed to carry out lithography process by means of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) to directly synthesize nanoparticles along with proposing a procedure for putting this method into practice. The practical experience of this research (force measurement at nanonewton scale) provides the possibility of measuring friction and adhesion forces by means of the mentioned device and may find many applications in lubricant science, medicine, dentistry, and other related sciences.

British Science Festival: Knowledge For All
islamonline.net September 13th, 2009 The British Science Festival is an annual event bringing together some of the best of what Britain has to offer, this year the festival was hosted by the University of Surrey and took place during the time from 5 to 10 September. Due to space limitations, a number of events were held at nearby universities, such as a workshop on "Painting with Nanotechnology".

UWSP picked for research center
wausaudailyherald.com September 13th, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has been chosen as one of seven UW campuses that will house new research centers designed to create relationships with small companies to stimulate business and develop new technologies. UWSP chemistry professor Michael Zach has been one of the national leaders in nanotechnology research and has a position at Argonne as well. Some of his recent work has focused on a technique that would allow almost anyone to create nanowires using simple, bench-top technology instead of million-dollar laboratories. That process would allow small startups to compete economically with giant corporations, and could expand the uses of nanowires.

Foreign universities to open amid controversy
universityworldnews.com September 13th, 2009 While supporting the creation of a Japanese university in Egypt, Ismail expressed reservations about the Chinese university. "The Japanese university will focus on teaching curricula badly needed in Egypt such as nanotechnology and other branches of high technology. Meanwhile, the chinese university will have no added value for Egyptians."

Bio-Nano Power Breakthrough Proves Theory
Central Michigan University – Research Corporation September 14th, 2009 CMU-RC Tenant Files Patent Opening Doors for Harnessing Power from Bio-Fuels

Nanotechnology shows potential for oil and gas operations (OE 2009)
offshore-mag.com September 14th, 2009 There are many possibilities for nanoparticle technology applications in oil and gas operations, but the realities lag the possibilities, Sergio Kapusta said at Offshore Europe 2009 today. Kapusta, chief scientist and manager of Energy Innovation and Technology for Shell Global Solutions International, identified a number of operations that could benefit from nanotechnology in time. One of those areas is in reservoir management. At present, industry can acquire limited information from short distances outside the wellbore in hydrocarbon reservoirs. Drawing from medical applications, Kapusta said it could become possible to send nano "robots" into a reservoir and interrogate those robots to gather information about the horizon and also to deliver chemicals into the reservoir.

Power station ash for new cut price fillers
europeanplasticsnews.com September 14th, 2009 A new reprocessing technology that extracts high performance fillers from the waste ash produced by coal-fired power stations could slash the cost of manufacturing performance polymer compounds, according to process developer RockTron. The UK-based company - set up with £35m (€39.8m) of backing from a group of private and commercial investors, with a significant stake held by UK-based power station operator Scottish and Southern Energy - is running its first commercial scale reprocessing unit alongside the Fiddlers Ferry power station at Widnes in the north-west of England. This first installation has the capacity to handle 200 tonnes an hour of pulverised fuel ash (PFA) waste, from which it extracts a range of products including cenospheres (alumino-silicate hollow glass spheres), solid alumino-silicate microspheres, carbon and magnetite.

Nano material could boost new microchips
isa.org September 14th, 2009 "The new material we are predicting—graphone—makes graphene magnetic simply by controlling the amount of hydrogen coverage—basically, how much hydrogen is put on grapheme," said Puru Jena, Ph.D., distinguished professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Physics. "It avoids previous difficulties associated with the synthesis of magnetic grapheme." "One of the important impacts of this research is that semi-hydrogenation provides us a very unique way to tailor magnetism. The resulting ferromagnetic graphone sheet will have unprecedented possibilities for the applications of graphene-based materials," said Qiang Sun, Ph.D., research associate professor with the VCU team.

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands
physorg.com September 14th, 2009 With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could have a variety of applications, from DNA-based nanomotors to biosensing and drug delivery. Taking the research a step forward, researchers have recently constructed a nanometer-sized tetrahedron from a single strand of DNA, using a method that could have advantages for assembling similar structures on a large scale.

Woods, nanoparticles and global ‘sat nav’ take the honours at Lord Stafford Awards final
24dash.com September 14th, 2009 The latter, which spun out of the University of Nottingham, has beaten off competition from US and Japanese scientists to create a new reactor that controls nanoparticles in water and is in the process of increasing sales to £1.5m and boosting its workforce to ten highly skilled staff. Located at BioCity in Nottingham, the company has launched a reactor that allows the highly controlled production of nanoparticles in water for the first time ever and is now expanding at pace through feasibility studies and new contracts. Judges were particularly impressed at the firm's ability to take complex technology and transform it into a commercial opportunity capable of creating jobs and also developing new revenue streams for the University.

Under Observation - Restless Atoms Cause Materials to Age
Austrian Science Fund September 14th, 2009 Atoms have the habit of jumping through solids - a practice that physicists have recently been able to follow for the first time using a brand new method. This scientific advance was made possible thanks to the utilisation of cutting-edge X-ray sources, known as electron synchrotrons. The detailed findings of the project, backed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, were recently published in the prestigious journal NATURE MATERIALS. The work unlocks new potential for the study of material ageing processes at the atomic level.

When Nano May Not Be Nano
Duke University September 14th, 2009 The same properties of nanoparticles that make them so appealing to manufacturers may also have negative effects on the environment and human health. However, little is known which particles may be harmful. Part of the problem is determining exactly what a nanoparticle is.

Opto-Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Toxic Gases
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign September 14th, 2009 Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp that can sniff out poisonous gases or deadly toxins simply by changing colors.

Hybrid nano material targets antibiotic resistant bacteria
rsc.org September 14th, 2009 German researchers have developed a hybrid, light activated nanomaterial that can target, label and kill harmful antibiotic resistant bacteria such as Escherichia coli. The zeolite-based material may one day play a major role in both diagnosing and treating infectious diseases and possibly cancer, suggests the team. So-called 'photodynamic therapy' is a well-established technique in which a light source is used to trigger the action of a light-sensitive drug, and is already used to treat cancer and macular degeneration. However, scientists have been eager to develop cheaper therapeutic approaches with more functions. One such approach would be to develop a single nanomaterial that can carry out three important therapeutic jobs in one; that is, selectively target pathogens, label them (for diagnostic purposes) and then kill them.

Fast transistors for the digital world
ETH Zurich September 14th, 2009 Our society is insatiable as far as the transfer of data is concerned. Consequently, increasingly faster and cheaper transistors are being developed. In row in recent months, researchers from ETH Zurich have now broken the world record for the switching speed of nitride-based transistors that use silicon as a substrate several times.

Deakin researchers make the extra small, extra strong
Deakin University September 14th, 2009 Being able to swing through the air like Spiderman on strands of ‘spider silk' may be one step—or swing—closer with researchers at Deakin University discovering a way to strengthen plastic nanofibres, ultra-fine fibres much thinner than a human hair, with one of the world's strongest materials, carbon.

Looking deeply into polymer solar cells
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven September 15th, 2009 Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of a polymer solar cell and the effect on its performance.

R&D spending jumped 10% last year
koreaherald.co.kr September 15th, 2009 By type of technologies, 33.8 percent of the total was invested in information technology while the investments in nanotechnology, biotechnology and environment technology accounted for 12.3 percent, 7.6 percent and 8.5 percent, respectively.

Emerging Tech Centers on UW campuses can leverage R&D value
wistechnology.com September 15th, 2009 Roll forward to 2009 and the "Research to Jobs" task force, formed early this year, has recommended launching seven centers and building upon current centers at two more campuses: * UW-River Falls: Tissue and cellular engineering, launched in early 2009. * UW-Platteville: Nanotechnology applications, such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, for use in electronics, aerospace, computer and energy fields. This center was launched in late 2008. * UW-Oshkosh: Super capacity energy storage for next-generation electric cars and other energy intensive applications. * UW-Stevens Point: Nanowire and nanostructure manufacturing for applications in solar energy, hydrogen sensors and nanoinstruments. * UW-Whitewater: Interactive media and distance learning. * UW-La Crosse: Pharmaceuticals based on medicinal plants and fungi. * UW-Green Bay: Value-added products from waste, such as paper waste. * UW-Stout: Plastics and composite materials, in collaboration with UW-Stevens Point. * UW-Parkside: Biomedical sciences.

NC7000 Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes in BIG BAG
Nanocyl September 15th, 2009 NC 7000 Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes from Nanocyl Now in Large Packaging New Packaging Helps Customers Reduce Shipping Costs by 70%, and Safely Optimize the Compounding Process - 1st Setptember 09

Baytubes® carbon nanotubes to be used in innovative safety technology to prevent explosions in fuel tanks
Bayer MaterialScience September 15th, 2009 Bayer MaterialScience signs supply and cooperation contract with Hirtenberger PROSAFE Safety Technology

Japan's Kaneka Ties With Belgium Lab to Improve Solar Cells
tradingmarkets.com September 15th, 2009 Japanese company Kaneka Corp. (TSE:4118) announced Monday a team-up with world-leading Belgian nanotechnology research center IMEC in the development of solar cells. Kaneka aims to raise its products' efficiency at converting sunlight into electric power to the 20 per cent level, the highest in the world, under a three-year agreement with IMEC taking effect this month.

Chipworks Adds Reports to Its Vast Technical Library
Chipworks September 15th, 2009 Reports focus on semiconductor devices and products for the automotive, computing, mobile phone, and digital camera markets.

Grant to broaden student expertise in sustainable materials
Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) September 15th, 2009 A new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) on the development of materials to advance sustainable living. The students will work on projects ranging from the development of renewable alternatives to petroleum-based feedstocks used in consumer polymers, to the design of inexpensive, nanostructured materials for solar cells.

Nanotechnology treatment for burns reduces infection, inflammation
University of Michigan September 15th, 2009 Oil-and-water-based nanoemulsion could be more effective than commonly used lotions

JA Solar Developing Next Generation Solar Products using Silicon Ink Technology from Innovalight
JA Solar Holdings September 16th, 2009 JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO - News), a leading manufacturer of high-performance solar products, today announced that it is working to commercialize a new generation of high-performance solar products using silicon ink technology from Innovalight, Inc.

Putting a strain on nanowire could yield colossal results
Berkeley Lab: September 16th, 2009 In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials.

The First World Conference of Endoscopy Physicians
reuters.com September 16th, 2009 Professor Zhang Yangde, representing the organization committee, sincerely calls for Chinese or English papers in areas of various specialties of clinical progress in endoscopic diagnosis and treatment, fundamental research in the area of endoscopic development, new techniques and applications in endoscopy, endoscope sterilization, endoscopy equipment research and manufacture, and the application of nanoscience in endoscopic diagnosis and treatment.

Research and Markets: The Nanoscience and Technology of Renewable Biomaterials
Research and Markets September 16th, 2009 Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "The Nanoscience and Technology of Renewable Biomaterials" to their offering.

International Forum on Carbon Nanoscience
University of Cambridge September 16th, 2009 November 13th 2009, St. John's College, University of Cambridge

Chile boosts funding for science and technology
scidev.net September 16th, 2009 Chile has launched five new science and technology centres as part of the country's attempt to boost investment in research and development. The 'centres of excellence' — formed around the work of five research groups — were launched earlier this month (2 September) with funding from the country's National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). They join eight other centres launched last year as part of the same US$101 million funding programme. The new centres involve the country's Centre for Optics and Photonics (CEFOP), the Science and Technology Centre of Valparaiso, the Centre for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Advanced Mining Technology Center, and the Institute for Complex Engineering Systems.

New nanostructure technology provides advances in eyeglass, solar energy performance
Oregon State University September 16th, 2009 Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit "nanostructure films" on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better.

New Chip Fabrication Technology on the Verge of Volume Production
Carl Zeiss September 16th, 2009 Delivery of first optical system from Carl Zeiss joins list of positive news about EUV Lithography

Friction Differences Offer New Means for Manipulating Nanotubes
Georgia Tech September 17th, 2009 Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental issues remain to be resolved—among them, how to position and manipulate the tiny tubes.

New 'adjuvant' could hold future of vaccine development
Oregon State University September 17th, 2009 Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new "adjuvant" that could allow the creation of important new vaccines, possibly become a universal vaccine carrier and help medical experts tackle many diseases more effectively.

Premier nano innovations on display in October
chinapost.com.tw September 17th, 2009 The Taiwan Nano 2009 exhibition, showcasing Taiwan's prowess in nanotechnology, will take place Oct. 7 to 9 at the Taipei World Trade Center. According to organizers, over 150 companies and agencies will set up more than 240 booths to present premier nano innovations and R&D technologies.

UD receives NSF grant for nanotechnology education
University of Delaware September 17th, 2009 An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Delaware has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering Program.

Using magnetism to turn drugs on and off
Children’s Hospital Boston September 18th, 2009 Many medical conditions, such as chronic pain, cancer and diabetes, require medications that cannot be taken orally, but must be dosed intermittently, on an as-needed basis, over a long period of time. A few delivery techniques have been developed, using an implanted heat source, an implanted electronic chip or other stimuli as an "on-off" switch to release the drugs into the body. But thus far, none of these methods can reliably do all that's needed: repeatedly turn dosing on and off, deliver consistent doses and adjust doses according to the patient's need.

Colored Solar Panels Don’t Need Direct Sunlight
inhabitat.com September 18th, 2009 With normal solar cells, you need direct sunlight for them to generate power, and if the panels are at all shaded the efficiency drops significantly. A new type of solar cell, being developed in Jerusalem, is making huge waves because it can generate power from diffuse light using a specialized colored panel. They look a bit like colored plexi-glass but are actually panes made with fluorescent dyes and nanoparticle metals, and could possibly eclipse traditional solar panels in terms of price.

Major Solar Breakthroughs in Germany Ahead of PVSEC
Germany Trade and Invest September 18th, 2009 Germany's photovoltaic industry is marked by yet another milestone ahead of this year's European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference & Exhibition (EU PVSEC), taking place from September 21 - 25 in Hamburg. Last week California-based Nanosolar opened its fully-automated thin film panel factory in Luckenwalde near Berlin. This new factory sets several new benchmarks for the industry.

IBM Announces Industry's Densest, Fastest On-Chip Dynamic Memory in 32-Nanometer, Silicon-on-Insulator Technology: Enables improved speed, power savings and reliability for business, mobile, consumer and game applications
IBM Corporation September 18th, 2009 IBM (NYSE:IBM) has successfully developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry's smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that can offer improved speed, power savings and reliability for products ranging from servers to consumer electronics.

SOURCE: NANOTECHWEB.ORG NEWSWIRE

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

Polymer battery breaks new records

Highest charge capacity and charging rates for cellulose battery coated with nano-polypyrrole layer

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1489/156981/article/tech/40409

Heat nanopatterns organic semiconductors Hot AFM probe can pattern sub-30 nm structures

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1489/156981/article/tech/40396

Graphene buckles under stress

US-China team now investigating how ridges and wrinkles affect electron mobility

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1489/156981/article/tech/40377

An artistic take on trace analysis

Silver nanoparticles amplify Raman scattering to shed new light on ancient art objects

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1489/156981/article/tech/40395

Nanotubes set to shine for solar energy

Multiple carrier generation could boost efficiency

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/m/1489/156981/article/tech/40358

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