Here is a recipe for anxiety: take China’s poorly enforced chemical-safety regulations, add its tainted record on product safety and stir in the uncertain risks of a booming nanotechnology industry.

China has been urged to carry out extensive safety studies and tighten regulation of its thriving nanotechnology industry to reassure countries importing nano-goods that there are no health risks associated with exposure to such materials.

The Brazilian National Nanotechnology Laboratory and the National Centre for Research in Nanotechnology Engineering of China are due Wednesday to sign a cooperation programme to share the benefits of future patents, officials said in Brasilia.

Market research solutions provider, Research and Markets has included a new report titled "The Chinese R&D Landscape - Micro-structural and Nano-technology" to its report offering. There has been a significant increase in research and development initiatives in the field of micro-structural and nanotechnology in China in the last 10 years.

The University of Queensland, in association with the UQ Confucius Institute, today hosted a forum on Queensland-China partnerships in research and innovation.

AUSTRALIA is well placed to be a significant player in China's scientific boom because of the quality of its universities, its location in the Asia Pacific and strong personal connections made over the past 30 years, says one of its most senior scientists.

A former scientist at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing research to share with China.

The materials scientist from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) is working with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

31 August - 3 September 2012: Xiamen, China

Challenges in Nanoscience will be the third event in the International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) series in 2012.

The conference will bring together exceptional researchers - all leading names in their field - for an outstanding plenary programme, complemented by contributed talks, together with extensive poster sessions that will provide many networking opportunities.

The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS9 and looks forward to welcoming you to China.

China will further industrialize the use of a new material developed with the help of nanotechnology to ensure the safety of its power grids, according to a Wednesday statement from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNT).