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Nanotechnology: Small wonders
The US National Nanotechnology Initiative has spent billions of dollars on submicroscopic science in its first 10 years. Corie Lok finds out where the money went and what the initiative plans to do next.
09/01/2010 - 10:20 AM
Washington Metro Region Nanotechnology Partnership Forum at NIST
Co-sponsored nanotechnology forum will take place September 13, 2010 on NIST's Gaithersburg, MD campus. In addition to meeting researchers from diverse firms looking for potential partners in nanotechnology, attendees can learn about unique resources available in Washington metro region and go to various presentations and poster sessions on topics such as biomedical nanotechnology applications ...
09/02/2010 - 08:56 AM
Nanotechnology's Shift from R&D to Commercialization Urged
Through the concurrence of a number of events, I am now wondering if we are not seeing a minor shift developing in the way that nanotechnology development is being approached that may in fact lead to a more fundamental one.
09/01/2010 - 05:07 AM
Nanotechnology Yields Breakthrough In Cancer Research
Researchers clear hurdle on path toward gene-therapy treatment for diseaseOne of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of light, are invisible to standard optical microscopes and difficult to capture in their native form with other imaging techniques. A ...
09/01/2010 - 10:11 PM
Nanotechnology Helping to Save Energy – Hong Kong at IFA 2010
FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hong Kong is one of the world’s most important marketplaces for electronics. At IFA, from September 3rd to 8th, 55 companies from the metropolis will attend the trade fair to present their latest developments (2009: 50). Thirty-five of them (2009: 24) will be exhibiting at the country pavilion of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) (Hall 26c ...
09/02/2010 - 03:14 AM
Nano-Art Prize Winners Announced
When nanotechnology meets art the results can be surprising and intriguing, as shown in a competition to find the best images from nanotechnology research in New Zealand that is currently being exhibited at Our City O-Tautahi in Christchurch.
09/02/2010 - 09:56 PM
Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research
( University of California - Los Angeles ) A multidisciplinary group of researchers at UCLA have produced a 3.6 angstrom resolution structure of the human adenovirus. Their findings were published in the journal Science, and featured in both a perspective and This Week in Science. Pharmacologist Lily Wu and her group are working with adenovirus as a vector for gene therapy, but needed better ...
09/01/2010 - 08:54 AM
Reducing Nanotechnology to "Vaporware"
I have to confess to getting more than a small chuckle from a recent blog entry from Scott Lachlan, who reduces the entire enterprise of nanotechnology to 25 years of charlatanry.
08/30/2010 - 08:21 AM
Entrepreneur Profile: SabryCorp makes inroads into nanotechnology
30 August 2010 CAIRO: The Egyptian nanotechnology market is high risk, but is only matched by its business opportunities, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, chairman of SabryCorp, told Daily News Egypt in an interview.
08/31/2010 - 01:59 AM
This Rock-Slicing, Nanotechnology-Packing Super Steel Was Forgotten 250 Years Ago [Swords]
# swords If you were on a battlefield say, 700 years ago, Damascus steel mattered. The super-strong blades were fabled in their age, said to have sliced through the swords of foes and solid rock. Then we forgot how to make it. More »
09/01/2010 - 05:12 PM
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