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DRYWIRED™ Receives MILITARY-STANDARD Certifications from QUANTA LABORATORIES for Its Latest Protective Nano-Coating Technology

June 7, 2013 - 7:45am
DryWiredTM's surface modification technologies receive positive results from third party facility Quanta Laboratories after a rigorous weeklong examination of DryWired nano-coating's resistance to...
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Metamaterial Flexible Sheets Could Transform Optics: New design flattens bulky optical devices

June 7, 2013 - 7:45am
New ultrathin, planar, lightweight, and broadband polarimetric photonic devices and optics could result from recent research by a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. The advances would...
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Yes, nanoscience can enhance humans – but ethical guidelines must be agreed: People 'enhanced' into spider-climbing individuals with hugely projected breasts and Einstein-brains… Where will it stop?

June 5, 2013 - 12:10pm
ngineers are trained to try to figure out how to achieve things that humans cannot and in nanoscience and nanotechnology that challenge is no different. Many of the most exciting advances in the fi...
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Elliot Scientific boosts Cold Atom Science in the UK: Introducing laser products from Vescent Photonics

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Elliot Scientific is pleased to announce that we are now able to offer laser products from Vescent Photonics to researchers in the UK and Ireland. Vescent Photonics is a technology driven organisation...
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IDTechEx announces Printed Electronics Europe 2014 on 1-2 April

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Europe's leading printed, flexible and organic electronics show will be held on 1-2 April in Berlin, Germany. Located at The Estrel Convention Center this growing event - which increased by over 20% i...
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Researchers enlist Cameca Nanosims Microprobe to determine origins of lunar water: Microprobes's results indicate water on Earth and Moon has similar origin

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
A research team made up of scientists from Brown University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and Case Western Reserve University has determined from lunar samples brought back by the Apollo 15 a...
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PTL establishes cGMP compliance for Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis to serve the pharmaceutical industry

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
NanoSight announces that Particle Technology Labs, PTL, has established cGMP compliance for Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, and this is now available on a contract basis to the pharmaceutical ind...
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Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
A team of researchers, including members of the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering, highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two recent papers published in the...
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Los Alamos catalyst could jumpstart e-cars, green energy: The new material has the highest oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity in alkaline media of any non-precious metal catalyst developed to date

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have designed a new type of nanostructured-carbon-based catalyst that could pave the way for reliable, economical next-generation batteries and alkaline fuel...
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JPK reports on the use of the NanoTracker optical tweezers system at the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the Yan Jie single molecule biophysics research group at the Mec...
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Nano London 2014 Exhibition and Conference Sets the Stage for Nanotechnology Advances: Annual conference will bring together industry leaders and the latest technologies

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
An international conference and exhibition covering the latest developments in nanotechnology was announced today. Nano London will take place from 17th-19th June 2014 at Olympia and brings together...
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Asylum Research Hosts a New Webinar June 26: “Contact Resonance Tools for AFM Nanomechanics”

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, will host a new webinar on June 26, 2013, "Contact Resonance Tools for AFM Nanomechanics". Dr. Donna Hurley, Project Leader at the National Institute o...
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OLED Lighting developments in Japan

June 5, 2013 - 7:45am
According to analyst company IDTechEx, OLED and LED lighting are expected to compete directly in many instances in order to gain market share in the next decade. As discussed in the newly launched re...
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New method of mass-producing high-quality DNA molecules

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
A new method of manufacturing short, single-stranded DNA molecules can solve many of the problems associated with current production methods. The new method, which is described in the scientific perio...
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz obtains new Collaborative Research Center on "Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy"

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has established a new Collaborative Research Center on "Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy" (CRC 1066) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (...
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Building 3D fractals on a nano scale

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
It starts with one 3D structure with eight planes, an octahedron. This repeats itself to smaller octahedra: 625 after just four steps. At every corner of a new octahedron, a successive octahedron is f...
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Innovative New Nanotechnology Stops Bed Bugs in Their Tracks - Literally: Stony Brook University researchers develop non-chemical bed bug solution

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology...
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Patent for Coaxial Nanofibre Production: Scientists from Contipro have patented new jet for effective coaxial nanofibers production

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Although nanofibres are thousands of times finer than a human hair, with current technology scientists can produce fibres of this size where the inside is made with a different material from the outer...
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Even with Defects, Graphene is Strongest Material in the World: New Study Reveals Strength of CVD Graphene

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
In a new study, published in Science May 31, 2013, Columbia Engineering researchers demonstrate that graphene, even if stitched together from many small crystalline grains, is almost as strong as grap...
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US Court of Appeals characterizes Wyatt Technology Corporation Lanham Act claims as “groundless, unreasonable, vexatious or pursued in bad faith”

June 3, 2013 - 7:45am
Malvern Instruments Inc. has scored a decisive win in the final round of a long-running court battle waged by Wyatt Technology Corporation regarding the sale of Malvern's Zetasizer Nano range in the...
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