Nano News & Events

Invisible tool enables new quantum experiments

Nanotech-Now - February 13, 2013 - 7:45am
Experiments on the quantum wave nature have enabled researchers to precisely measure tiny forces and displacements as well as to shed light onto the unexplored zone between the microscopic realm of qu...
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Tungstenite triangles emit light

Nanotechweb - February 13, 2013 - 3:36am
Glowing 2D material could find applications in optoelectronics.
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Iran Inaugurates 2 Nanotechnology Laboratories for Students in Isfahan, Fars Provinces

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Iran's Ministry of Education and Training in cooperation with Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council constructed and inaugurated two Nanotechnology Laboratories for Students in Isfahan and Fars provin...
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New strategy prevents rheumatoid arthritis in mice: Infusions of regulatory T cells turn off autoimmune attack on joints

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated a new strategy for treating autoimmune disease that successfully blocked the development of rheumatoid arthritis in a mouse model. They say it...
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NREL and Partners Demonstrate Quantum Dots that Assemble Themselves: Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can self-assemble at optimal locations in nanowires...
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3D Printing on the Micrometer Scale: KIT Spin-off “Nanoscribe“ Presents High-speed 3D Printer

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
At the Photonics West, the leading international fair for photonics taking place in San Francisco (USA) this week, Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), presents the...
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Boston College researchers' unique nanostructure produces novel 'plasmonic halos': Nanoscopic microcavities offer newfound control in light filtering

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Using the geometric and material properties of a unique nanostructure, Boston College researchers have uncovered a novel photonic effect where surface plasmons interact with light to form "plasmonic h...
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ImagineNano 2013 – Call for Abstracts - 7 International Nano Conferences

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
The call for abstracts is still open for ImagineNano International Conferences, to be held from the 23rd to the 26th of April 2013 (Bilbao, Spain).
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Iran to Hold Int'l Nano Safety Congress in 2014

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Tehran is due to host 'Iran Nano Safety Congress' from February 19 to 20, 2014, in a bid to study all aspects of safety of nanomaterials related to human health to environmental and occupational healt...
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Harris & Harris Group Notes Solazyme and Mitsui Multi-Year Agreement

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative nanotechnology companies, notes that Solazyme, Inc., and Mitsui & Co. have entered into a $20 million mult...
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Independent Financial Audit Gives Clean Financial Health Bill to Fuller Road Management Corporation: Audit by KPMG LLP Public Services Group follows an audit by NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli that determined FRMC is safeguarding public funds

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Following on the heels of a recent audit by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli that concluded that the Fuller Road Management Corporation (FRMC) "…officers, directors and committee members...
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SUNY NanoCollege and Children's Museum of Science and Technology Announce Agreement for CMOST to Become Part of CNSE: Under CNSE’s leadership, museum will be transformed into a flagship science center to educate in the emerging 21st century science and e

Nanotech-Now - February 11, 2013 - 7:45am
Further building the educational pipeline in accordance with Governor Andrew Cuomo's innovation-driven model for economic growth, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and the C...
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Tiny capsule effectively kills cancer cells: Scientists create nanoscale vehicle to battle cancer without harming healthy cells

Nanotech-Now - February 9, 2013 - 7:45am
A tiny capsule invented at a UCLA lab could go a long way toward improving cancer treatment. Devising a method for more precise and less invasive treatment of cancer tumors, a team led by researche...
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X-ray microscopy technique makes fluctuations inside of materials visible: Microscopic X-ray view

Nanotech-Now - February 9, 2013 - 7:45am
X-ray microscopy requires radiation of extremely high quality. In order to obtain sharp images instrument and sample must stay absolutely immobile even at the nanometer scale during the recording. Res...
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CNT arrays make record-breaking transistors

Nanotechweb - February 8, 2013 - 3:01am
"Langmuir-Schaefer" method assembles nanotube arrays with high surface coverage.
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Diamond downsizes classical MRI and NMR

Nanotechweb - February 8, 2013 - 2:00am
Molecular samples detected and imaged at room temperature.
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Nano-antenna Arrays May Yield Ultra-Efficient Solar Devices

Nanotech-Now - February 7, 2013 - 1:36pm
Technological development is all about finding engineering solutions to scientific theories, and this is especially true in the field of nanotechnology. The work of Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in...
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Widely used nanoparticles enter soybean plants from farm soil

Nanotech-Now - February 7, 2013 - 7:45am
Two of the most widely used nanoparticles (NPs) accumulate in soybeans — second only to corn as a key food crop in the United States — in ways previously shown to have the potential to adversely affec...
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Arrowhead to Report Fiscal 2013 First Quarter Financial Results: Conference Call Scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Nanotech-Now - February 7, 2013 - 7:45am
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 31, 2012, on...
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ISMI Partners with Araca to Develop Manufacturing Process Solutions for Advanced Planarization Applications

Nanotech-Now - February 7, 2013 - 7:45am
SEMATECH announced today that Araca Inc., a leading provider of products and services for chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) research and development, and the International SEMATECH Manufacturing...
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