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Russian nanotechnology leader, Rosnano, has signed up in St Petersburg to participate in the creation of an Asian nanotechnology fund. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which will see a St Petersburg subsidiary of the fund, which will be created in South Korea. St Petersburg governor Valentina Matvienko says this will ... Read More »

The founders of Convergen Life Sciences Inc., including a political contributor to Gov. Rick Perry, had invested only $1,000 of their own money into the company when they asked for $4.5 million from a Texas technology fund, a newspaper reports. Under the Texas Public Information Act, the Austin American-Statesman obtained documents pertaining to the company’s application on Wednesday. Founded in ... Read More »

Moscow Weighing Anti-Terror Toilets The Moscow Times City Hall is considering public toilet cabins that are self-maintaining, solar-powered and terrorist-proof to replace the not-so-ubiquitous blue cabins that now line public venues, news reports said. The toilet cabin, presented at the Clean City expo in Moscow this week, is made of fibrous concrete that can withstand a bomb blast, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported Monday. Its appearance can be modeled ... Read More »

The FDA proposes the first set of regulations for nanotechnology and asks for feedback from the scientific community. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance yesterday (June 14th) for the regulation of nanotechnology, a field that has exploded since the government began to explicitly support nanotechnology research through the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000. The aim ... Read More »

Scientist Utilizing Nanotechnology to Improve the Food Safety and Nutrition Released: 6/15/2011 11:00 AM EDT Source: Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Newswise — NEW ORLEANS – Food scientists are hoping to utilize nanotechnology to improve food nutrition, quality, safety and taste, according to panelists Tuesday at the Institute of Food Technologists’ 2011 Annual Meeting & Food Expo. Nanotechnology is the ... Read More »

The small science of nanotechnology — which deals with objects so tiny that thousands would fit inside the period at the end of this sentence — is having a big impact in the construction industry, according to the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the American Chemical Society’s weekly newsmagazine. Indeed, some experts believe ... Read More »

New research at the University of Leicester is using nanotechnology to create energy efficient materials. With the increasing worldwide demand for energy there is a pressure to use the finite energy resources wisely whilst reducing one of the major areas of energy consumption, transportation, which accounts for more than 20% of the world’s total primary energy and produces much of ... Read More »