http://www.nanotech-now.com/ The most recent news stories from Nanotechnology Now en-us Copyright (c) 2007 Nanotechnology Now. All rights reserved. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:20:05 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/layout/logo_rss.gif http://www.nanotech-now.com/ 250 49 The most recent news stories from Nanotechnology Now http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33782 Syrris, a leading chemistry automation product innovator, has had an exceptionally strong start to 2009. Despite the global economic downturn, Syrris has worked to successfully expand its entire produ... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33781 Comprehensive technical programs in enabling technologies for solar energy and sustainable lighting are slated for the SPIE Optics and Photonics symposium to be held 2-6 August at the San Diego, Calif... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33780 Frank Bucheger is still in his early days as the general manager of Resonant MicroSystems Inc., a defense contractor located at NanoRite in west Eau Claire. A visit to the plant reveals a lot of start... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:48 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33779 Award will fund the development of suspensions of nanoparticles in liquid crystals for applications in displays PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33778 J. Storrs Hall: Eric Drexler is apparently at the Renaissance Weekend with the intent to speak to the assembled interesting people about how "advanced nanotechnology can address the climate change pro... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:29:40 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33777 Micro- and nanotechnologies (M&NT) are widely regarded as important future technologies and already serve as a basis for many innovative products and applications today. Despite the increasing importa... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33776 Applications of the key technologies nanotechnology and microsystems technology as well as advanced materials are numerous. But finding the right supplier sometimes poses problems. IVAM Research has n... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33775 ESPRC and National Science Foundation of China fund three-year 'spintronics' study PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33774 How nanoparticle toxicity (i.e. nanotoxicology) affects the health and environment of Europeans is a concern that many researchers are currently investigating. Rising to the challenge is the NHECD ('N... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33773 The first meeting of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies, S.NET, will take place in Seattle, September 8-11, 2009. PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33772 The Seoul Metropolitan Government yesterday unveiled its master plan for "low carbon and green growth." The city plans to spend a total of 45 trillion won ($35 billion) by 2030 to make Seoul one o... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:44:57 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33771 Clemson scientist Stephen Klaine has been awarded two $400,000 EPA grants to study a subject that did not exist a decade ago. Klaine is part of the young field of nano-ecotoxicology: the investigation... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33770 Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping silicon s... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:13:16 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33769 Imagine how passionately this 0.00007 metre short musician blows his instrument toward the sky at dawn to make a sound with his tiny lungs. His full height is about the diameter of a thick human hair;... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33768 Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM) announced during the first quater 2009 a distribution agreement with Rudolph Bros's. & Co., a well respected Ohio based distributor of composites and composite-relate... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33767 What do tiny circuits, medical tests and a $500,000 prize have in common? They all fall into the domain of one of the world's foremost nanotech researchers. Last week, Northwestern University chemist... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:50:04 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33766 Michael Orsino also hoped to fuel interest in TechValley. Orsino, who sat on the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce's board of directors, said bringing awareness of Tech Valley's initiative further do... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:39:17 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33765 Composite materials, such as fiberglass and carbon fiber, are among things that are part of the most modern construct and advanced systems, ranging from intelligent clothes to stealth airplanes, and t... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:35:17 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33764 The tiny, nanoscale materials—quantum dots—Mathew Maye and his research team create in his Syracuse University chemistry laboratory could potentially make an important contribution to the nation's ong... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33763 What do the mystery of how proteins fold, the unexpected behavior of nanoparticles, and the key to making hydrogen fuel cells have in common? All can be investigated with beams of slow-moving neutrons... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33762 A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the surprising... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33761 In a cluster of rather drab buildings overlooking the Charles River, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are incubating a tiny technology that packs an enormous punch. By manip... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:16:09 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33760 For the first time, the boundary between fungi and rock has been imaged on a nanoscale -- unraveling the fundamental processes by which fungi break down rocks into soil whilst extracting essential nut... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:12:20 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33759 Robert A. Freitas Jr., author of the Nanomedicine series of books, has just published a major new theory paper on aspects of medical nanorobot control, providing an early glimpse of future discussions... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:10:55 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33758 Researchers in New Mexico are reporting the surprise discovery that common table salt - so brittle that it crushes easily between a thumb and forefinger - becomes a super plastic in the weird environs... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:07:21 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33757 Ryan Zweerink, executive vice president with U.S. Photonics will discuss how the company is using nanotechnology. U.S. Photonics incorporated in 2005, and their work with optics, lasers and nanotechno... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:02:52 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33756 Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is assisting Canadian research nationally in the mission to find a cause of and cure for brain tumours with the announcement of its annual grants-in-aid program recip... PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33755 Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Surface Design: Applications in Bioscience and Nanotechnology" to their offering. PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33754 Pete Worden, Director of the NASA Ames Research Center and an Advisor to the Space and Physical Sciences Track of Singularity University, "We have already done a lot of work on autonomous robots, whic... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:27:43 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33753 $9 Million energy partnership marks the latest collaboration between DuPont, Dept. of Energy PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33752 Scientists from the University of Nottingham have produced a new type of acoustic laser device, called Saser. It is a sonic equivalent to the laser, capable of producing an intense beam of uniform sou... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:37:31 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33750 Looking to extend its nanophotonics business into the life-sciences market, Moxtek is co-developing with Philips Research a new microarray platform that it intends to outlicense to an as-yet unidentif... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:05:17 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33746 We're starting to brush up against real robots, real nanotech, and maybe even the first real artificial intelligence. But will emerging technologies destroy humankind — or will humankind be saved by a... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:07:53 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33745 The fundamentals for the platinum market seem to favor platinum prices as investment demand is forecast to remain healthy as mine supply is expected to remain a concern, the CPM Group said Tuesday. ... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:05:33 PST http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=33744 NVE Corporation engages in the development and sale of devices that use spintronics, a nanotechnology that relies on electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store, and transmit informati... Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:01:05 PST