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magine being able to charge your smart phone just by sending a text. That’s the promise of piezoelectric nano-films that convert movement into small electrical charges, say Australian scientists. Dr Madhu Bhaskaran and colleagues from RMIT University and the Australian National University have measured the potential of piezoelectric nano-films to provide energy for small electronic devices. Their findings are reported ... Read More »

Gold nanoparticles are becoming the … well … gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper* by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute’s Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) proposes not only a sort of gold nanoparticle “testbed” to explore how the tiny particles behave in biological systems, but also a paradigm for ... Read More »

Sounds like a dream? Well, to be honest, just how much juice do you expect the entire day’s worth of taps on your touchscreen is able to generate? Surely those alone aren’t enough to power the display even, but if it does help extend your phone’s battery life by just one more minute so that you can wrap up that ... Read More »

Russia, South Korea and Singapore signed a cooperation deal on developing nanotechnology Thursday. A memorandum of understanding signed Thursday on the sidelines of the 2011 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum broadens investment in the Asia Nanotechnology Fund, which was set up last September by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), the Singaporean Economic Development Board (EDB) and Singapore-based investment group ... Read More »

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. on Saturday announced that the Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in a fiscal year 2012 defense budget bill to commission a study on the feasibility of establishing a federal center for defense related nanotechnology research and development. If such a center is established, the College of Nanoscience and Engineering at SUNY Albany could ... Read More »

WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), member of the Armed Services Committee, secured approval for an increased focus on nanotechnology research by the Defense Department, including a study to determine the need for a center for nanotechnology. If a new center is established, it is likely to be located at the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science ... Read More »

BHUBANESWAR: Students of two-year MTech course with the city-based Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET), who had taken admission in the course in 2009, have appeared in only the 1st semester exam so far. The students alleged inordinate delay in conducting examination by the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) is going to spoil their career. “If all ... Read More »