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Kappa Search Inc., a Chicago employment agency specializing in the recruitment and placement of engineers, sales professionals, manufacturing and supply chain, is currently recruiting for a Coating Scientist/Engineer for a top client. Our client’s business is focused on catalysts for the automotive, fine chemical, and refinery industries as well as high-strength supercomposites, initially targeting the armor industry. The candidate selected ... Read More »

The SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse has secured research funding to undertake research in developing novel alternative desalination processes and is seeking a Research Associate to work on this project. The Research Associate will conduct research in the area of nano-structured carbon materials as electrodes in the capacitive deionisation process under the supervision of the project Leader. ... Read More »

One PhD studentship is available at Imperial College London for the theoretical investigation of quantum effects in surface plasmon polaritons / metamaterials. This theoretical investigation is supervised by Professor Myungshik Kim and Professor Stefan Maier. The studentship includes European/UK student fees and full stipend with London weighting during the PhD period. The studentship is available now until it is filled. ... Read More »

The Lycurgus Cup represents one of the outstanding achievements of the ancient glass industry. This late Roman cut glass vessel is extraordinary in several respects, firstly in the method of fabrication and the exceptional workmanship involved and secondly in terms of the unusual optical effects displayed by the glass. The Lycurgus Cup – A Roman Nanotechnology The Lycurgus Cup is ... Read More »

Sometime before 600 BC, Mayan artists painted one of the few frescoes–still in existence–that displays the domestic life of normal people in this ancient civilization (other Mayan frescoes display the lives of deities and rulers). The frescoes were found in a pyramid at the Calakmul archaeology site in Mexico. Calakmul is one of the biggest Mayan sites around, but it ... Read More »

Nanotechnology for water treatment will be the subject of the first nano4water cluster workshop which will take place on 27 October 2010 in Aachen, Germany, the day before the 13th Aachen Membrane Colloquium opens its two-day event. The nano4water cluster is a coalition of research projects, funded by the European Commission following a joint call on nanotechnologies for water treatment ... Read More »

“Destination Nano” is New England’s premier Nanomanufacturing Conference, hosted by the UMass Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center. Leaders from industry, government, and UMass Lowell will showcase current topics in sensors, nanomaterials, EHS, nanomedicine, and energy.  Come find out what the latest programs are! Speakers include: Dr. Alkym Akyurtlu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Peter Antoinette, Co-Founder, President and ... Read More »