Utah’s Micro(nano)-Bio news:
nanoUtah’07 Conference – Oct 26, 2007 at Salt Lake City, UT
Registration at
(Registration Costs: $50 per participants; $15 per student
$250 Exhibition booth)
Keynote Speakers: Pearl Chin, Foresight Nanotechnology Institute
Piotr Grodzinski, National Institute of Health
(Details at )
Nano Funding:
Multidisciplinary Fellowships in Cancer Nanotechnology Research (F32 and F33)
(RFA-CA-08-003)
National Cancer Institute
Application Receipt Date(s): December 20, 2007
Global News:
India Releases Incentive Program Guidelines to Attract ...
Govt to introduce nano technology courses in all universities – India
Europe is world's largest investor in nanotech
European nanotechnology project to capture CO2 from powerplants ...
Manufacturing enterprise - French nanotechnology boosted by US and ...
US News:
ASU steps up to craft laws in nano world
Nanotechnology crop circles appear in Southern California!
The next national nanotechnology program
Nano-Products:
Nano plays video
Nanotechnology tool sent to Mars
Nanofactory Products A to Z
Nanosphere Announces First FDA Cleared Genetic Test for Warfarin ...
Research News:
Piezo actuators and nano-positioning devices help unlock the ...
Nanotechnology based magnetic separation could revolutionize ...
Nanotechnology diamond ice coatings could improve knee prostheses ...
Business:
GE Looks at Nano to Power Next-Gen Solar In Historic R&D Labs of ...
Investment will include nanotechnology and biotechnology sectors
Keithley Instruments Enters Nanotechnology Measurement Partnership ...
Siemens and Xintek Form Joint Venture to Develop Nanotechnology...
Articles & Reports:
Heritage Foundation: Conservative on nanotechnology too
Nanotechnology Can Make Green Buildings Even Greener, Report Finds
Nanotechnology and National Security: Small Changes, Big Impact
Seeing the Nano Future
Education & Outreach:
MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids
SOURCE: Week 38: nanotechweb.org News
1. Business briefs
A round-up of this week's industry news featuring Corning, Nanosphere, Siemens Medical Solutions and more.
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2. Model offers route to better solar cells
Scientists have used a new model to design an optical nanocomposite made of copper, silver and gold for use in solar cell applications. Such nanocomposites, which could easily be coated onto existing solar cells made from silicon, could be optimally tuned to the solar spectrum for the first time, so enhancing the light-absorbing efficiency of these devices.
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3. Graphene logic gate makes its debut
Graphene-based circuits could become major building blocks for tomorrow's nanoscale circuits and may even provide an alternative to silicon-based electronic-based devices, which are fast approaching their limits in size and shape. Scientists in China and Canada have now taken an important step forward with the development of a new Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon quantum dot device. The device is the first programmable graphene structure for random access memory (RAM) or logic gate arrays for use in future nanoscale computing.
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4. Plasmonics forges ahead
Physicists in Ireland and Germany have developed a new tunable nanoscale structure based on nanowires embedded in a flexible polymer substrate. The breakthrough device will allow researchers to advance from classically restricted systems into the new quantum realm of tunable surface plasmon polaritons, important for a variety of applications in photonics.
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5. Experiment finds graphene's missing pi
Researchers in the US claim to have solved the "mystery of the missing pi", which has confounded physicists studying graphene since the material was discovered in 2004. The pi in question is related to a discrepancy between the conductance of graphene as measured in the lab and the value predicted by theory. The team measured the conductance along tiny pieces of graphene as a function of both an applied voltage and the ratio between the length and width of the sheets. The results suggest that the theory is correct – but only for very small sheets with specific shapes.
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6. Ultrasound nano-contrast lights up cancer
Nanoparticles are attracting considerable interest as disease-specific imaging contrast agents. Although most research work in this area has focused on magnetic resonance imaging, the case for developing a nanoparticle-based ultrasound contrast agent is growing. Researchers from OhioStateUniversity in the US have now progressed this proposition a step further by showing that such an agent can improve the in vitro "echogenicity" of cancer cells.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL COVER GALLERY
NANOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL HIGHLIGHTS
1. Measuring true nano-distance
Tuning forks with attached tips have been modelled as coupled oscillators.
2. An n-n junction two-color nanowire LED Developments for nanowire-on-substrate devices, especially for light-emitting applications.
SOURCE: NanoNews-Now Digest #149 Ready
New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne September 17th, 2007Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.
Penn engineers design computer memory in nanoscale form that retrieves data 1,000 times faster
University of Pennsylvania September 17th, 2007Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives, all using less power and space than current memory technologies.
Bone-Growing Nanomaterial Could Improve Orthopaedic Implants
BrownUniversity September 17th, 2007Bone-forming cells grow faster and produce more calcium on anodized titanium covered in carbon nanotubes compared with plain anodized titanium and the non-anodized version currently used in orthopaedic implants, new BrownUniversity research shows. The work, published in Nanotechnology, uncovers a new material that can be used to make more successful implants. The research also shows tantalizing promise for an all-new device: a "smart" implant that can sense and report on bone growth.
EU project develops nano-ethics education through summer schools
cordis.europa.eu September 20th, 2007A new EU-funded project is organising summer schools on the ethics of nanotechnologies and converging technologies for the summer of 2008. The results will be used to develop new tools for e-learning. 'We would like to build on the work the European Commission is currently undertaking on developing a Code of Conduct for nanotechnology research in Europe,' Dr. Ineke Malsch, the coordinator of the project, told CORDIS News. Taking the EU's forthcoming code of conduct for nanotechnology research as its basis, the ETHICSCHOOL project intends to disseminate the code through two summer schools, and to publish draft codes of conduct developed during these workshops.
Imaging quantum entanglement
UniversityCollegeLondon September 21st, 2007An international team including scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) today publishes findings in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS) demonstrating the dramatic effects of quantum mechanics in a simple magnet. The importance of the work lies in establishing how a conventional tool of material science - neutron beams produced at particle accelerators and nuclear reactors - can be used to produce images of the ghostly entangled states of the quantum world.