The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics engineers and biomedical scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Essentially arrays of tiny test tubes, microplates have been used for decades to simultaneously test multiple samples for ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Nanotechnology as a Tool for Economic Recovery
After the near-total collapse of the US economy two years ago, the economy has recovered to the point at least that it has crawled its way out of recession, albeit with little being done for unemployment. Now we get a pretty regular stream of advice on how the US can improve this situation and avoid a second recession and perhaps ... Read More »
Nano antenna concentrates light
Intensity increases 1,000-fold in Rice lab’s experiment IMAGE: This artist’s rendering shows how plasmons in a pair of gold nanotips concentrate light from a laser, amplifying it by a factor of 1,000. HOUSTON – (Sept. 20, 2010) – Everybody who’s ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make ... Read More »
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences to Host 8th Student Conference on Nanotechnology
TEHRAN (INIC)- The 8th student conference on nanotechnology is scheduled to be held in the holy city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on December 1-2, 2010. Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) hand in hand with Mashhad University of Medical Sciences share responsibilities to hold the mentioned conference. Student conferences on nanotechnology are conducted by the INIC and an academic center annually. ... Read More »
Singapore and nanotechnology: A ripe R&D landscape
The Asian growth story is not new. Already commanding almost 30% of the world’s GDP in 2009, Asian growth momentum remains strong at about 4% per annum [1]. Asia has achieved this on the back of becoming the manufacturing base of the world — from textiles to electronics to automotives. As of 2009, global R&D spending is split almost evenly ... Read More »
New York State Announces Unprecedented High Technology Initiative
Infotonics Technology Center and College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering form unprecedented partnership to enable world-class nanotechnology research, development and commercialization Merger leverages and builds on the state’s R&D assets to drive new opportunities and position New York State as a global center for integrated systems Empire State Development (ESD) and the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and ... Read More »
"Intensive Course Nanomaterials", June 07 – 09, 2011
At the moment NanoConsulting plans the following courses: intensive course nanomaterials: June 9.-11., 2011 in Bad Gastein, Austria You get closer informations in the announcement, the description and the registration form. You are welcome to look at some impressions of the last course. It is also possible to ask for an individual course for your group (minimum 5 participants). We ... Read More »
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