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Nanotechnology has a somewhat infamous relationship with flash memory. It has usually taken on the role as its adversary, such as in the case of Nantero or IBM’s Millipede project, and walked away with less than encouraging results. So I was interested to see that researchers were using graphene as a platform for flash memory that appears to outperform other flash ... Read More »

Alexandru Biris, director and chief scientist of the Nanotechnology Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been awarded the university’s first Sturgis Charitable Trust Nanotechnology Chair. A $1 million endowment to UALR from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust led to the investiture of Biris, associate professor of systems engineering. As director of the UALR Nanotechnology ... Read More »

Supramolecular chemistry is a well-established discipline that, after originating as a relatively monolithic topic in chemistry and being acknowledged with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987, has significantly branched out in the last 15 years in various directions at the interface with physics, biology, and engineering as a rational solution to generate complex systems and materials with programmable properties. ... Read More »

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Technology and Innovation Desk of Scientific and Technological Department of Iran’s Presidential Office Dr. Mahmoud Reza Aqamiri announced that nanotechnology constitutes 37% of the international patenting of Iran. “Last year, 37% of the international patenting of Iran was focused on nanotechnology due to the activities of Corridor for Technology Services to Market in Iran Nanotechnology ... Read More »

One billionth of a metre is mighty small.  The nanometre, unobservable by the naked eye, is easily overlooked in a day’s business, but quietly and quickly, the importance of the nanometer is overshadowing the development, manufacture and application of products now and for the future. Nanotechnology is revolutionizing both specialized and everyday products, making them harder, stronger, more reactive, more resilient, ... Read More »

A new nanomedicine and nanotechnology laboratory has been opened on the third floor of the Centennial Engineering Center of the University of New Mexico. New nanobio-nanomedicine Lab opened at University of New Mexico The New Mexico state government had invested $2 million in the nanobio-nanomedicine laboratory. Jeff Brinker, a Professor at the University of New Mexico and Sandia fellow, led ... Read More »

Russia´s state nanotechnology corporation Rusnano will spend $300 million to develop a newly-created international biopharmaceutical company Pro Bono Bio (PBB), with British investment fund Celtic Pharma being the other party to the deal. The new company, with its headquarters both in Moscow and London, will focus on the development of innovative medicines in a such areas as hematology, endocrinology, cardiology, ... Read More »