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Carbon nanotechnology – stronger than Kevlar, light as a tee-shirt, and cheap all over (Nanowerk News) Forty years ago, Dupont Company revolutionized protective gear when they introduced Kevlar, a fiber made of super-strong, rigid polymer molecules belonging to a small class called aramids. Since then, improvements to strong textile fibers have been incremental. That’s because most flexible polymers are inherently ... Read More »

Source: Egypt Independent (28 Jan 2013) Author(s): Rana Khaled The first specialized university in Egypt for nanotechnology and biotechnology has been established by a group of professors from Beni Suef University. The professors hope the new department, called the Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, will improve the quality of scientific research while also finding solutions to environmental and ... Read More »

Once upon a time, the future of technology was imagined in the minds of science fiction writers. Today it’s created in high-tech hubs around the globe called HP Labs, where researchers are doing their most progressive work. For 45 years, engineers at HP labs have delivered innovative technologies that impact our world. Take HP Labs in Palo Alto, for example, ... Read More »

  A researcher in Transparent Semiconductors Nanotechnology (m/f) (LUX) Research and Development of innovative fabrication of conductive transparent semiconducting nanolayers using vapour phase deposition processing. Description The researches to be conducted concern the elaboration of delafossite Cu-based transparent oxide, its physical, electrical, chemical and optical characterization and the modification of its optical-electrical properties using point-defects engineering and characterization . This ... Read More »

  PhD position on antimony-based III-V heterostructures for tunnel FET tranistors : Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Recently a new quantum mechanical device called Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) has gained more and more interest as the classical CMOS FET technology faces some physical limits into the nanoscale. Different materials have been proposed to realize this kind of devices, in particular Silicon ... Read More »

  Job Title Research Associate in Molecular Spintronics Department/Division/Faculty Department of Chemistry/Faculty of Natural Sciences Advert   Salary: £32,100 – £40,720 per annum (Maximum salary on appointment: £32,930)   Fixed-term appointment for 12 months in the first instance   A post of Research Associate in Molecular Spintronics is currently available within the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College, London.  The ... Read More »

  Job title Department/division Job ref Closing date Post-doctoral research associate Department of Physics R6/CCP/067/13-JM 21-Feb-2013 Summary The Experimental Biophysics and Nanotechnology Group at the Physics Department, King’s College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/physics/research/EBN/index.aspx) is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral research associate with specialist expertise in electron-beam lithography fabrication of nanostructures. Details The prospective candidate must have a PhD in physics and experience ... Read More »