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National Space Society Adds to its Leadership Team

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 1:50pm
The National Space Society announces the selection of four new additions to its leadership team: Dr. Stanley G. Rosen to the newly created position of Vice Chairman of the Society's Board of Director...
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New material approach should increase solar cell efficiency

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
"When designing next generation solar energy conversion systems, we must first develop ways to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum," explained Lane Martin, whose research group has done just t...
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American Chemical Society podcast: From ancient Egypt — new technologies

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes how a bright blue pigment used 5,000 years ago is giving moder...
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Asylum Research Hosts a New Webinar May 22: “Getting Started with AFM in Biology –It's Easier Than You Think ”

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, will host a new webinar on May 22 - "Getting Started with AFM in Biology - It's Easier Than You Think". Asylum Applications Scientist Dr. Iréne Re...
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Secret of the Crystal's Corners: New Nanowire Structure Has Potential to Increase Semiconductor Applications: University of Cincinnati research describes discovery of a new structure that is a fundamental game changer in the physics of semiconductor nanow

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
There's big news in the world of tiny things. New research led by University of Cincinnati physics professors Howard Jackson and Leigh Smith could contribute to better ways of harnessing solar ener...
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Kiplinger Letter forecasts outlook for biotech and nanotechnology, and the economic implications for the U.S.

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
Amazing new computer chips are in the works, with American chip makers, universities and the federal government teaming up in an effort to develop the next generation of semiconductors.
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Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed: Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and École Polytechnique confirm that Auger recombination theory is responsible for LED droop phenomenon

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France, have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that ca...
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New research findings open door to zinc-oxide-based UV lasers, LED devices

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
"Shallow acceptor complexes in p-type ZnO" Authors: J.G. Reynolds, C. L. Reynolds, Jr., J.F. Muth, J.E. Rowe and D.E. Aspnes, North Carolina State University; A. Mohanta and H.O. Everitt, U.S. Army...
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Scientists provide 'new spin' on emerging quantum technologies

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the qua...
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Harris & Harris Group Notes Bridgelux and Toshiba Collaboration

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative companies, notes today's announcement by Bridgelux, Inc., and Toshiba Corporation that they have entered i...
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Zinc Oxide, Hydroxide Nanoparticles Utilized in Detecting Drugs

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 7:45am
Researchers at Payam-e-Noor University of Tehran in collaboration with experts from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences found a simple synthesis method for zinc oxide (and hydroxide) and their appli...
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Our new nanotech blog: Small World

Nanotech-Now - April 24, 2013 - 2:42am
Small World is a blog about new developments in nanotechnology funded by Nanopinion, a European Commission project. All the posts are commissioned by the Guardian, which has complete editorial control...
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IVAM Microtechnology Network: Executive board was re-elected

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
The General Meeting of IVAM e.V has renewed its confidence in the five-member board. Dr. Frank Bartels from Bartels Mikrotechnik GmbH has been re-elected as president and Dr. Thomas Kritzler has been...
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A noninvasive avenue for Parkinson's disease gene therapy

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have developed a gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease (PD) in it tracks, preventing disease progression and reversing its sy...
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Ultrafast technique unlocks design principles of quantum biology

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy...
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Freedom of assembly

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
In a new study performed at the Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers have for the first time seen the self-assembly of nanop...
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Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Used in Producing DNA Biosensors

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers from Alzahra University produced an electrochemical DNA biosensor by studying interactions between antimicrobial drug and double stranded DNA on the surface of glassy carbon electr...
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Special deal on photon-to-electron conversion: Two for one! New technique developed at MIT could enable a major boost in solar-cell efficiency

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser...
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Harris & Harris Group to Webcast 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
The management of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., (NASDAQ: TINY), will webcast its Annual Meeting of Shareholders live, to be held in New York City on Thursday, May 2, 2013. The webcast will include the...
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SBU-Led Study Reveals Nanoparticles Found in Everyday Items Can Inhibit Fat Storage: Increase in gold nanoparticles can accelerate aging and wrinkling, slow wound healing, cause onset of diabetes

Nanotech-Now - April 22, 2013 - 7:45am
New research reveals that pure gold nanoparticles found in everyday items such as personal care products, as well as drug delivery, MRI contrast agents and solar cells can inhibit adipose (fat) storag...
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