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  In a Federal Register notice on Sept. 22, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) announced plans for a new exposure assessment and epidemiological study of U.S. workers that are exposed to carbon nanotubes and nanofibers. The agencies are taking public comment on the study through November.   ... Read More »

Materials Research Society | Published: 29 January 2013 TEM image of 10-nm diameter Si nanoparticles. Image credit: Swihart Research Group. Click image to enlarge. Generating electricity in the field to power a laptop or night vision goggles could someday be just as simple as adding water to a cartridge containing silicon nanoparticles and a base. Researchers at the University at ... Read More »

Materials Research Society | Published: 31 January 2013 As a prestreched elastomer film relaxes, a graphene sheet attached to it crumples, as seen under a scanning electron microscope. Image credit: Xuanhe Zhao. Click image to enlarge. Graphene has electrical and mechanical properties that are promising for electronics and energy storage applications. However, the atomically thick material has a penchant to stick together and crumple ... Read More »

  Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry at the University of Salerno. The successful candidate will join the Modeling Lab for Nanostructure and Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry and Biology at University of Salerno https://www.molnac.unisa.it/ The candidate will be expected to contribute towards the development models aimed to understand the process of CO2 storage ... Read More »

  NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Nanotechnology Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p0326269/Global-Nanotechnology-Industry.html #utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Nanotechnology The global outlook series on Nanotechnology provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers a bird’s eye view of this new, promising, and ... Read More »

Electrical engineer develops new nanoscale tools to aid discoveries in the life sciences A digital microarray from the lab of Ken Shepard, a professor of electrical engineering, can measure individual DNA molecules, which are shown in this image. The new technology dramatically improves and simplifies genetic analysis. (Phys.org)—Ken Shepard, a professor of electrical engineering, believes there is nowhere else in ... Read More »

Jan. 30, 2013 — Enzymes, workhorse molecules of life that underpin almost every biological process, may have a new role as “intelligent” micro- and nanomotors with applications in medicine, engineering and other fields. That’s the topic of a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showing that single molecules of common enzymes can generate enough force to cause ... Read More »