Wednesday , 19 June 2013

Category Archives: Nano News

The beautiful world of nanotechnology

The beautiful world of nanotechnology By Ali Ikram Reporter Nanotechnology is the future of not just science but also business – that’ll be the message of an international conference to be held in Auckland next week. But it just might also be the future of art. You see, small is beautiful. Take for instance the Gus Fisher Gallery in Auckland’s ... Read More »

WEF Member Receives 2012 Clarke Prize for Nanotechnology Research

  From left, James Irvine Swinden and Toni Smith present Pedro Alvarez with the Clarke Prize medallion on behalf of the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation (Newport Beach, Calif.),which helped establish the prize. Photo courtesy of the National Water Research Institute (Fountain Valley, Calif.). Pedro J.J. Alvarez, George R. Brown Professor of Engineering at Rice University (Houston) ... Read More »

Nanoporous Carbon Materials Raise Chances of Surviving Sepsis

Woman is 57 But Looks 27 British Mum publishes simple facelift trick that angered doctors… ConsumerHealthLifestyle.co.uk CREDIT: Dr. V. Presser, INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials, and Uwe Bellhäuser View full size image This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. With an overall mortality rate of 40-60 percent, severe sepsis and ... Read More »

Safety of Nanotechnology Focus of New EMA,

  Safety of Nanotechnology Focus of New EMA, MHLW Joint Reflection Paper By Alexander Gaffney, RF News EditorThe European medicines Agency (EMA) has released a new draft reflection paper on the development of nanomedicines made with block copolymer micelles (BCMs), aiming to provide basic information for the development of a common type of investigational nanomedicine. The paper is unusual in ... Read More »

Nanodermatology Society declares 2013 the Year of Topical Delivery

(Nanowerk News) For over a century, each year has been marked by extraordinary progress in both medicine and biotechnology. Just one hundred years ago, Nicholay Anichkov made the earliest link between cholesterol and atherosclerosis, and Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr presented their models–physical and quantum–of the atom. 2013 will not only keep up pace, but will mark an extraordinary period ... Read More »

Purdue lands $14.5M to expand nanotechnology portal

Purdue University announced Tuesday that some of its researchers won a five-year, $14.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand the school’s online gateway for instruction, research and simulations in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB.org portal already attracts nearly 250,000 users each year, and it provides instructional segments used by 760 classes at 185 universities around the world. The new ... Read More »

Nanotechnology centre to open at UoB

A new nanotechnology centre at Bahrain University will soon be up and running, the facilities of which will be used to research new ways to treat cancer. The centre, which is the second of its kind in the region, will be headed by director Dr Mohammed Budeena, our sister newspaper, the Gulf Daily News reported. “Nanotechnology means the study of ... Read More »