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Aspen Aerogels, Inc., a leading provider of aerogel insulation, announced it has successfully raised $22.5 million in its latest convertible note financing. The funds will be used for working capital...

Moglia Advisors announces an extraordinary acquisition opportunity for an acquisition of equipment and intellectual property in the areas of nano scale brand protection, with FDA approval having been...

"Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / without breaking anything." With the hand...

In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, an important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energ...

"Antireflection Effects at Nanostructured Material Interfaces and the Suppression of Thin-Film Interference" Authors: Qiaoyin Yang, Xu A. Zhang, Abhijeet Bagal, Wei Guo and Chih-Hao Chang, North C...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a recommendation on balancing nanotechnologies benefits and risks to public health and the environment at the Assembly's 2013 spr...

A team of researchers from several universities - including UCF -has observed a rare quantum physics effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum in a magnetic field, confirming t...

Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries.

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative companies, notes today's announcement by D-Wave Systems that its new 512-qubit quantum computer, the D-Wav...

Glowing Plant uses synthetic biology and Genome Compiler's software to actually create plants that glow in the dark. This project is the first step in creating sustainable natural lighting for the pla...

cientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA "linker" strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneous arrangement of...

Researchers at National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) in Bangkok and Imperial College London (Department of Chemistry) in United Kingdom have studied the advancements of solid-state nanopores for th...

June 11, 2013 - Location:USDA Patriot Plaza Conference Center, 355 E Street, SW, Washington, DCScope:The 2013 NNI Stakeholder Workshop will obtain input outside the U.S. Government on the future directions of the NNI. The recommendations of this one-and-a-half day workshop will inform the development of the 2013 NNI Strategic Plan.Objectives:The goal of this workshop is to obtain input from stakeholders both those new to nanoscale science, engineering, and technology and those already familiar with these fields and with the NNI regarding revisions to the NNI Strategic Plan that will be proposed in advance of the workshop.Participants will be invited to suggest additions to and provide feedback on wording and emphasis areas in the NNI goals, the objectives that support these goals, and the Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives. Comments will also be solicited on the relationship between these topics and the revised Program Component Areas, which will be presented at the event.Agenda:Click herefor an agenda in downloadable .pdf format.Registration:This workshop will be free and open to the public with registration on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration opens on May 1, 2013 and will be capped at 120 people.Hotel:A limited number of hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn Capitol Hotel are available until May 17th. Reservations can be made online by followingthis linkor by phone at 888-847-1675 with booking code N8N.

Result bodes well for CMOS devices.

A class of water-loving, jelly-like materials with uses ranges ranging from the mundane, such as superabsorbent diaper liners, to the sophisticated, such as soft contact lenses, could be tapped for a...

Andrew Myers | Stanford Engineering Among its many talents, silver is an antibiotic. Titanium dioxide is known to glom on to certain heavy metals and pollutants. Other materials do the same for s...

Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expect...

Like small children, scientists are always asking the question 'why?'. One question they've yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. Res...

NANOBIOTIX (Euronext: NANO - ISIN: FR0011341205), a clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer, today announces its revenue for the first quarter...

Down in the land of New Mexico something new is cropping up. The film community has largely existed on the west and east coast, but since the recent "Breaking Bad" bill was passed, expect to see a lot...