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The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) is pleased to announce that one of its members, NanoSight, has recently secured its 250th sale and has reached profitability for the first time since the company was established in 2005. NanoSight has developed a technique to view nanoparticles down to the size of several millionths of a millimetre opening up possibilities such as ... Read More »

3D Nanostructure for Cathodes in Batteries Could Mean Cell Phones that Charge in Seconds No sooner do I discuss University of Illinois researchers who have created 3D antennas for mobile phones using nanotechnology than another group of researchers at the University of Illinois (this time at Urbana-Champaign) have developed 3D material for batteries that combines the qualities of supercapacitors with those ... Read More »

The Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston and the University of St. Thomas will present “Science as an Adventure: A Conversation with Dr. Mauro Ferrari” on Tuesday, April 5. Ferrari, president and CEO, and Ernest Cockrell Jr., Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, will talk about the development of ideas, the sacrifice of hard work, the willingness to take risks ... Read More »

BACTERIA-busting boffins at the University of Lincoln have helped create a new “nanotechnology” which should keep diners safe from food poisoning. Experts from the National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach have been working with Nottingham Trent University to design the anti-microbial spray coating for kitchen surfaces. And now they say they are almost ready to show how it banishes ... Read More »

If there’s one thing we hate more than a battery depleted sign, it’s our battery actually sinking into the depths of unknown and refusing to switch back on. It is usually combined with silent rage, abdominal shaking and swearing and then the thought of throwing it at the nearest person’s head. It usually happens in the most convenient of times ... Read More »

Call him Windsor’s Molecule Man. Recent arrival Jeremy Rawson is a molecule manipulator helping put Windsor on the nanotechnology map. The acclaimed chemistry professor moved in September to the University of Windsor from the University of Cambridge -where he worked molecular magic for 14 years, including leading a team developing non-metal magnets. University of Windsor professor Jeremy Rawson is photographed ... Read More »

NEW YORK, March 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY) noted that Solazyme, Inc. filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, March 11, 2011, to sell shares of common stock in an initial public offering. Harris & Harris Group is an investor in privately held Solazyme, Inc. Harris & Harris Group ... Read More »