The metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver, and platinum – but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic. In the journal Nature, Rutgers physicists recently reported studies on tin that add knowledge to a concept known as magic numbers while perhaps helping scientists to explain how heavy elements are made in exploding stars. Credit: Oak Ridge Associated ... Read More »
Daily Archives: August 9, 2010
Nanotechnology Enables Precise Cancer Targeting
Nanotechnology Enables Precise Cancer Targeting Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D. Second-generation nanotherapeutics to treat cancer have drawn attention and funding as companies move to improve the efficacy of these treatments and expand their applications. Generally in the size range of 1–100 nm, these drugs have emerged as novel antitumor agents because they have the potential to deliver high concentrations of drugs ... Read More »
Response to EU Parliament MEP call for bans on Nanomaterials
MEPs have called for nanosilver and long multiwalled carbon nanotubes to be banned in electrical and electronic products. Members of the EU Environment Committee made the call as they voted on amendments to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) has voted on the adoption of suggested amendments ... Read More »
Singapore: Launch of ICON
Industrial Consortium on Nanoimprinting (ICON) would be Singapore’s first Nanotechnology focused consortia as part of the effort to build up our advanced manufacturing capabilities. A multi-agency effort with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board, IE Singapore and Spring Singapore, ICON will push companies to adopt versatile, industry-ready nanoimprinting technology that allows new chemical and additive-free products for the market. ... Read More »
Irish Government announces €37m research boost
THE GOVERNMENT has announced an additional €37 million in funding for university research centres, which it said will facilitate the creation of jobs in Ireland’s so-called “smart economy”. The €37 million investment, which will be spread over six years, takes the funding of the Government’s competence centres programme to €90 million over that period. To date, the competence centres programme ... Read More »
Nanotech To Conquer Space
The combination of space and nanotechnology, for decades, is becoming more popular and relevant in technological laboratories and research centers in the United States. One of the most prestigious research centers in the U.S. space is NASA’s Goddard Space Center. The Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA, in fact, one of the laboratories where they study the science of space, ... Read More »
15,000 beams of light
One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. A Northwestern University research team has done just that — drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL). Details of the new method, which could do for nanofabrication what the desktop printer has done for printing and information transfer, ... Read More »
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