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July 2008

• Melamed Announces Russia's Plans for Blood Plasma Cleaning
  
  
• High-res X-ray microscope offers new insight
  
  
• Revolutionary Mouthwash Ensures Happy and Healthy Smiles
  
  
• 'Nanosculpture' Technique Creates New Potential for Heat Pumps, Energy Converters and Medical Applications
  
  
• Molecular Hula Hoop Rotates in <300 Milliseconds
  
  
• New Zealand Awards Fellowships for Discovery
  
  
• Institute Of Engineering In Medicine Launched by UC San Diego to Accelerate 21st Century Health Care
  
  
• Nanotechnology Inspires Digital Artists
  
  
• Purdue Offer Online Simulation Tools for Atomic Force Microscopy
  
  
• Invisible Nanotube Cable May Support a Human
  
  
• Consumers Accept Nanotechnology In Food And Packaging
  
  
• Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Enzyme Activity
  
  
• Palm Sized Biosensor Detects Threats Without External Power Source
  
  
• Hong Kong Scientists Make Zeolite Membrane Micro Fuel Cell
  
  
• Bangalore Pitched as Nanotechnology Hub
  
  
• Education Raises Consumer Concern
  
  
• IBM to invest $1.5 bln in nanotechnology
  
  
• Raman Spectoscopy Reveals DNA in Action
  
  
• Researchers Generate Hydrogen with Zero Carbon Footprint
  
  
• Drug-Coated Nanoparticles to Target Paediatric Brain Tumours
  
  
• Research on the Carcinogenicity of Nanoparticles and other Dusts
  
  
• Controlled Fullerite Growth to Enhance Devices
  
  
• Nanotubes Go into Mass Production
  
  
• Nano-sized Electronic Circuit Sheds Light on the Early Universe
  
  
• Stem Cells Act as Anti-Cancer Drug Couriers
  
  
• Solar Energy - A Pane in the Glass
  
  
• Report: Drug Delivery Using Nanotechnologies
  - Technologies, Markets and Competitive Environment



• Webcast: The Age of Nanotechnology
  - IET / IoN Joint Guest Lecture with Professor Jim Gimzewski, UCLA



• New Line of Lasers for Biomedicine



• Japanese Chemists Create DNA Molecule from Artificial Parts



• Coated Fullerenes Have Potential To Be New Hydrogen-Storage Material



• Electronic Nose Developed for Quick Detection of Explosives



• Natural Bio-Army Trained to Fight Cancer



• Zinc Nanoparticles Help Catch the Crooks



• New High Performance, Low Power Sensor at Nanoscale



• Quantum Dots Can Penetrate Skin Through Minor Abrasions



• Visualizing Atomic-scale Acoustic Waves in Nanostructures



• Caged-in Hydrogen Atom Could Help Storage Efficiency



• More than Meets the Eye – The LED Contact Lens



• Gold and DNA Combined Could Make Nanosensor



• Super Atom Clusters Give 3rd Dimension to Periodic Table



• Water Is Not What We Thought It Was



• Caterpillars Inspire Development of Morphing Chemical Robots



• A Quantum Leap Over the Qubit Hurdle



• Nanoweapon Deployed in the Fight against Cancer

June 2008

• Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises from Unknown Molecule



• New Efficiency Benchmark for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells



• Accidental Fungus Leads to Promising Cancer Drug



• Novel Nanomaterial Traps Hazardous Mercury Vapours



• Proteins Put On a Moving Performance



• On the Boil: New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency



• Nanotubes Could Aid Understanding of Retrovirus Transmission Between Human Cells



• Volcano ‘Pollution’ Solves Mercury Mystery



• New Process Creates 3-D Nanostructures with Magnetic Materials



• Metals Form Porous Nanostructures for Better Fuel Cells and Microchips



• Automakers ‘Convert’ with Nanotechnology as PGM Prices Soar



• Tethered Molecules Act as Light-driven Reversible Nanoswitches



• Using Nanotechnology to Inject Gene-Silencing Tools into Cells



• Wireless Health Monitor Gets Wellcome Backing



• Accidental Discovery Could Enable Development of Faster Computers



• Nano ‘Scalpel’ Targets Individual Cells



• There's Nano Gold in Them Thar Hills!



• Microscopic "Clutch" Puts Flagellum in Neutral



• Cadaveric Bone Implants: Cheap Alternatives in Bone Regeneration Therapy



• Soy-Based Hydrogel Ready for Biomedical Exploration



• Immune Responses Jolted into Action by Nanohorns



• A Breakthrough in the Glass Barrier



• Genetically Engineered Cells Make their own Nanomagnets



• Disease Detection - Best Bar None



• Computers Chill Out with a Nano Fridge



• Reinventing Water with Nanotechnology



• Nano Grand Design Wraps up Climate Change



• Nanotechnology Research is 10 Millionth Record on Inspec Database



• Honda Unveils First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car



• Quantum Rods Probe Blood-Brain Barrier



• Researchers Develop Ultra Low-cost Plastic Memory



• Nanoparticles Trigger Built-In Cell-Death Signal to Overcome Drug Resistance



• Windbag Researchers Develop Novel Renewable Energy Storage



• Effective Hydrogen Storage Moves a Step Closer



• Tumour Nanoparticles Trigger Pancreatic Cancer Cell Death



• Nanoparticles Aid Bone Density



• Investigators Inhibit Corneal Inflammation Using Nanoparticles



• Nanoscientists Create Golden Fleece... of Many Colours



• Nanoparticles Help Restore Pigments of Old Masterpiece



• Smart Implants to Provide Biofeedback



• Nanoparticles ‘Mussel in’ on Aquatic Wildlife



• ‘Nanoglassblowing’ Expands Study of Individual Molecules



• Electron Windmills: A Novel Design for Nanomotors



• Students ‘Space Out’ with Nano Dust Detector



• A Nano Leap for the Thai Cosmetic Industry



• TU Delft Unveils New Sustainable Race Car



• Stripes instead of Layers: Miniaturizing magnetic sensors by means of ion technology



• Europe Takes the Pole Position in Flexible Display Market



• Industrial Dye Holds the Key to Advancing Spintronics



• Nano Pavlova in Microrobotic Ballet



• Nanotechnology Used to Regenerate Cartilage Naturally



• Nanotech Waterbox for African Desert



• Artificial Limb Feels the Power of Thought



• Nano Innovations to Clean Up Catastrophic Oil Spills



• Cell Imaging Technology Propelled by Science Synergy



• Moving Molecules Within Molecules



• UQ Researchers Develop Novel Renewable Energy Materials



• Research Measures Movement of Nanomaterials in Simple Model Food Chain

May 2008

• Quantum Laser Emits New Light
  
  
• How Buckyballs Hurt Cells
  
  
• Brown Chemists Develop Tiniest Cancer-Detecting Nanoparticles
  
  
• Light-driven Molecular Brakes for Nanomachines
  
  
• Weizmann Institute Scientists Create New Nanotube Structures
  
  
• Inaugural Lecture Describes Polymers that Replicate Nerves, Noses, Muscles & Tongues
  
  
• European Parliament Gives Green Light to Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative
  
  
• DNA-repair Mechanism Witnessed in Real-time
  
  
• Insect Repellent Clothing to Save Lives
  
  
• Wearable Dialysis Machines Developed Using Kidney Cells
  
  
• 'Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity of mice show asbestos-like pathogenicity in a pilot study' Response from the Institute of Nanotechnology
  
  
• Counting Immune Cells on a 'Protein Printboard'
  
  
• NASA Nano-Biosensor Helps Detect Biohazards
  
  
• New Artificial Virus Delivers Therapeutic Agents Straight to Cells
  
  
• Fluorescent Nanostring Barcodes Transform Diagnostics
  
  
• HIV Drug Goes for Gold
  
  
• Artificial Leaves Promise a Brighter Future
  
  
• US Army and UAlbany NanoCollege Sign Research Partnership Agreement
  
  
• Brazilian Beetle Lights the Way for Optical Computers of the Future
  
  
• Protecting Nanotech Workers from Health Risks
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes and Deadly Doubts: Researchers clarify
  
  
• Ulster Scientists Develop DNA Biosensor Technology
  
  
• Carbon-coated Nanomagnets Show Potential as Cancer-killing Agents
  
  
• T-Ray Demo Promises Support for Range of Applications
  
  
• Solar Farming Breakthrough Means Cheaper Power
  
  
• Reverse Nanotechnology Uses Red Blood Cells to Calibrate Tools
  
  
• India Turns to Nanotechnology to Boost Growth of Agriculture
  
  
• Solar Cell Efficiency Hits a Record High
  
  
• Fabrication Technique Could Yield Low-cost, Scalable Nanowire Photonic and Electronic Circuits
  
  
• Nanoengines Boosted using Rocket Fuel and CNTs
  
  
• High-speed Spin Sorts Nanotubes by Length
  
  
• Alternative to Silicon Chip Invented
  
  
• Bend it Like a Nanobot
  
  
• Cheap Nano Power Set to Electrify Rural Homes
  
  
• Enzyme Coat Kills Germs, Digests Stains
  
  
• Plant Self-regulation System Synthesized at Nanoscale
  
  
• Nano Blood-stopper Starts Clinical Trials
  
  
• Biochips Give Early Warnings of Pre-symptomatic Cancer
  
  
• Nanomaterials Feel the Pressure
  
  
• Sweet Success for Creator of Artificial Golgi Apparatus
  
  
• Global Warming: French Scientists Capture CO2
  
  
• Contact through Silver Particles in Ink
  
  
• Institute of Nanotechnology Announces New Chair
  
  
• Nanotec Researches Bi-component Fibres for Thai Industry
  
  
• Cell-Based Sensors Sniff Out Danger Like Bloodhounds
  
  
• Melting Defects Could Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Chips
  
  
• Smart Nanoworms Designed to Destroy Tumours
  
  
• Chilli Sauce Piquancy Measured with Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• Ayurvedic Medicine May Realise Nano Dream
  
  
• Ocean Brought Ashore for Biomimetic Research
  
  
• Graphene-based Gadgets May Be Just Years Away
  
  
• Memories That Don't Forget: The Missing Circuit Element
  
  
• Nanotrees Offer New Twist on Nanowires
  

April 2008

• Too Much Technology May Be Harming the Good Bacteria
  
  
• Low-cost, Explosive Sparkle for Nanodiamonds
  
  
• Molecule of Life Mimicked for New Nano Building Block
  
  
• OLEDs Protected by Nano-engineered Barrier Film
  
  
• 'Risk Management for NanoBusinesses'
  
  
• Dishwashers Get a Load of Keyboards
  
  
• Nanoparticles Help Gauze Stop Gushing Wounds
  
  
• Buckyballs Give Flash a Boost
  
  
• Iran Invents Extremely Sticky Nanoglue
  
  
• Nanotechnology: Towards Reducing Animal Testing
  
  
• Gel-like Material Hints at Oral Insulin Pill for Diabetics
  
  
• Scientists Seek to Defeat Brain Cancer by Chipping away its Foundation from Various Angles
  
  
• A Silver Lining in the Fight Against Microbes
  
  
• Europe Spends Nearly Twice as Much as U.S. on Nanotech Risk Research
  
  
• Plastics to Disappear within Four Months of being Discarded
  
  
• Fissure Heal Thyself!
  
  
• Nanotechnology Paves Way for Super iPods
  
  
• Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously
  
  
• Saliva Can Help Diagnose Heart Attack, Study Shows
  
  
• Carbon nanotubes not toxic for mice
  
  
• Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world
  
  
• ‘Nanodrop’ Test Tubes Created with a Flip of a Switch
  
  
• New method of measuring insulin promises improvements in diabetes treatment
  
  
• Spaghetti and nanotechnology self-assembly
  
  
• Researchers mimic bacteria to produce magnetic nanoparticles
  
  
• Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells
  
  
• New purification method could reduce the cost of cleaning water
  
  
• Nanoshuttle on the Right Track
  
  
• Spin Doctors Work to Improve Memory
  
  
• Food Safety Ideas Could Prove Fruitful
  
  
• Electromagnetic Waves Blocked by Nano Fabric
  
  
• Understanding Liquid Wetting to Benefit Nanotechnology Developments
  
  
• Next Generation Disk Aims at Petabyte Storage
  
  
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells Open up the Airways
  
  
• Scientists Warn of Toxic Socks
  
  
• Mud Wrestling with MRSA
  
  
• Armed to the Teeth with Nano Implant Coating
  
  
• Nano Gel Brings Hope for Spinal Cord Injury
  
  
• Nano-sized Technology has Super-sized Effect on Tumors
  
  
• Nano Battery Makes History
  
  
• Smart Cellulose Could Mean Flying Magic Paper
  
  
• Graphene Gazing Gives Glimpse of Foundations of Universe
  
  
• Engineers Make First Nanowire 'Active Matrix'
  
  
• Cancer Killing Machine Developed by Nanotechnology Researchers
  
  
• Nanosized Needles Can Be Used for Data Storage
  
  
• A Unique View of Disease
  
  
• Nano Research Could Lead to Cataract Treatment Breakthrough
  
  

March 2008

• Scientists Create New Flexible Circuit Boards
  
  
• Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Increase Effectiveness of Injected Drugs
  
  
• Two-photon Nanoparticles for the Improved Detection of Tumour Cells
  
  
• Has Silicon Had its Chips?
  
  
• Face Transplant Team Launch Nano Healing Gel
  
  
• Nanomedicine Prototype Restores Hair Follicles
  
  
• Atomic Force Pencil Writes Nanochannels
  
  
• Ivy Reveals its Gripping Secret
  
  
• Nano Analysis of Apple Hairs could Improve Food Storage
  
  
• Tuning in to Nanotube Radios
  
  
• A New Spin on Quantum Computing
  
  
• Using Nanotechnology and Nanoparticles to Improve Hearing
  
  
• "Nanominerals" Influence Earth Systems from Ocean to Atmosphere to Biosphere
  
  
• Flat-panel Displays Show Promise
  
  
• A Spitting Distance from Replacing Many Blood Tests
  
  
• Nanocloth Bags Help Students Go Green
  
  
• Nanowire LEDs Soon to Shed a New Light
  
  
• The Artificial Muscle that Heals itself and Charges an iPod
  
  
• Findings Could Improve Fuel Cell Efficiency
  
  
• Zooming in on Nanoparticles' Defects
  
  
• New Skin out of Old Shells
  
  
• Nanotubes Show Their Strengths in Polymer Fibres
  
  
• Nanomaterials Production Boosted by High-powered, Short Pulse Lasers
  
  
• Jet Engines Cool off on Fake Ice
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes Help Mend Bones
  
  
• The Million Dollar Professor
  
  
• Atoms Shape Up with Precision Sculpting
  
  
• Textiles of Tomorrow in the UK this Week
  
  
• Nano Sensors to Guide Bat-Inspired Robot Spy Plane
  
  
• How to Immobilise a Drop of Water
  
  
• Nanotechnology Improves Paper without Coating
  
  
• Molecular Computer could be 'Nanobot Brain'
  
  
• Making Solar Cheaper
  
  
• Skewered Pumpkins to Control Drug Transport
  
  
• Thinner, Stronger and More Flexible Research
  
  
• Diesel Exhaust Stresses Brain
  
  
• Colour Change Trick of Hercules Beetle Inspires Design of Intelligent Materials
  
  
• Plant Power Converts CO2 to Energy
  
  
• Hair-like Nanowires at Root of Solar's Future
  
  
• Nanorobots: Oil technology getting small in a big way
  
  
• Needle-free Vaccines
  
  
• Recycled eggs make ordered nanostructures
  
  
• Eco-friendly Power Paint: Colourful idea sparks renewable electricity
  
  
• Researchers Control Growth Rate of Replacement Blood Vessels and Tissues
  
  
• Adaptable Polymer Inspired by Sea Cucumbers
  
  
• Nanotechnology to Target and Destroy Parasites
  
  
• Danish Scientists Find Nanoparticles Affect Pollutant Toxicity
  
  
• Beauty or the Beast? EU Scientists issue safety warning on cosmetic nanomaterials
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes Solve Problem of Hydrogen Storage
  
  
• Inkjet Prints Transparent Carbon Nanotube Film
  
  
• Atomic 'Chickenwire' Suppresses Unruly Electrons
  
  
• Quantum Computers Set to Render Current Security Encryption Obsolete
  
  
• A Big Step in Examination of Small Structures
  
  
• Anti-Cancer Smart Bomb Ready for Human Use
  
  
• Renewable Energy: a small solution for a big electricity problem
  
  
• Squeezed Electrons Shed Light on Silicon
  
  
• Feeding Vitamins to Bacteria Generates Electricity
  
  
• Nature Offers up Anti-reflective Nanostructure
  
  
• Smaller is Stronger
  
  
• The Atomic Etch-a-Sketch
  
  
• Physicists Roll out Nanotube Paper
  
  
• Meteorites Contain Graphite "Whiskers"
  
  
• Mad Cow Disease Agent could be Detected Earlier by New Nano-Sensor
  
  
• Biomagnetics Developed for Use in New Breast Cancer Tests
  
  
• Breakthrough with World's First New Carbon Nanotube Composite
  
  
• Magnets that could Burn Cancer Developed in Scots Laboratory
  
  
• Magnetic Atoms of Gold, Silver and Copper Could be Used for Medical Diagnostics
  
  

February 2008

 

• Mobile Quantum Mass Spectrometer to Collect Critical Environmental Data
  
  
• New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites
  
  
• Diatom Research Reveals Possible Climate Solutions
  
  
• Israeli Researchers Help Reveal Electronic Structure of DNA
  
  
• Bionic Implants Raise Ethical Questions
  
  
• Nanotechnology to Revolutionise the Textile Industry
  
  
• Tiny Spheres with Different Faces Can be Used as Shuttles, Self Propelled Sensors and Targeted Drug Delivery Devices
  
  
• Clues to How Plants Form New Cell Walls Could Aid Biofuels
  
  
• Saudi Arabia Partners with IBM to Lead the Region in Nano Research
  
  
• Major Nano-biology Research Project Starts at Chinese Academy of Sciences
  
  
• Take a Dive into Anti-Cancer Waters
  
  
• CEMMNT Receives Grant from EMDA to Stimulate Innovation in the East Midlands
  
  
• Nano-Scale Scaffolds Made of Silica and Loaded with Nitric Oxide Deliver Knock-Out Blow to Bacteria
  
  
• Nanoemulsion Vaccines may Boost Immune Response against Smallpox and HIV
  
  
• X-rays Zoom in on Nanoscale Materials and Bio Specimens
  
  
• Mannequins Undergo a Nano Makeover
  
  
• Test Driving Wiperless Windscreens
  
  
• Energy Saving Coatings Made Fireproof
  
  
• Increased Life-Span for Solar Cells
  
  
• Self-Assembling Nanotechnology Creates Vacuum Insulation
  
  
• Intelligent Food for Healthy Chickens
  
  
• Stretchy and Light: A Nanocomposite of Aluminum Oxide and a Polymer is as Tough as Metal
  
  
• Breakthrough in Measurement of Nano Movement
  

• Nokia and the University of Cambridge Launch the Morph
  
  
• Study Finds Diesel Soot Particles Highly Toxic
  
  
• Micro Implant Provides Daily Drug Delivery
  
  
• New Research Into Nano Treatment For Water
  
  
• Energetic nanoparticles swing sunlight into electricity
  
  
• An Analogue Solution for Quantum Computing?
  
  
• Brain cancer: Nanotechnology offers early diagnosis and therapy
  
  
• Sugar sensor goes nano
  
  
• The end is in sight for laddered tights
  
  
• Nanotechnology solutions to diagnose early infections
  
  
• Scientists hit the records with the blackest black
  
  
• Taiwan to allot 374m for nano R & D
  
  
• Nanoparticles to strengthen fluids
  
  
• Nanomaterials to repair stone monuments
  
  
• Gecko-inspired bandage created by MIT
  
  
• Nano fibres could power small electronic devices
  
  
• UK Scientists funded to deliver brain drugs
  
  
• Molecular 'Nose' to Sniff Out New Medicines
  
  
• Bacteria and Nanofilters — The Future of Clean Water Technology
  
  
• 'European Commission Adopts Code for Responsible Research in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
  
  
• Researchers Hear the Sound of Quantum Drums
  
  
• Proteins Get Attached to Nanotubes
  
  
• 'T-ray' Breakthrough Signals Next Generation of Security Sensors
  
  
• Zinc Oxide Nanolasers Stand Out
  
  
• New Way Of Storing Gas Created Using Nanotechnology
  
  
• Nanoresonator Gets Entangled
  
  
• Nanotechnology Could Fix Achilles' Heel

January 2008

• EU Project On Intelligent Materials To Regenerate Bone Tissue
  
  
• Microscope Sees With Nanoscale Resolution
  
  
• Nano-Radios Move On
  
  
• IET and IoN Announce Joint Activity
  
  
• Nanocarriers Could Help Drug Overdose Victims
  
  
• Institute of Nanotechnology Response To Soil Association Claim
  

• New Technology Sharpens X-ray Vision
  
  
• T-cell 'Nanotubes' May Explain How HIV Virus Conquers Human Immune System
  
  
• World's Most Powerful Microscope Arrives at Berkeley Lab
  
  
• Tiny and Tinier: EU projects Minimize Size of Semiconductor Chips
  
  
• Make Nanoparticles While the Sun Shines
  
  
• Plumbing Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• Smart Foam
  
  
• Nanoparticles to Fight Pesticide Residues
  
  
• Plumbing Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• A Mobile Nano-Device to Record Heartbeats
  
  
• Smaller is Stronger - Now Scientists Know Why
  
  
• Giant Wasp Could Inspire Nanodevices
  
  
• 'Golden Bullet' Shows Promise for Killing Common Parasite
  

December 2007

• Sticky Questions Tackled in Gecko Research
  
  
• Wire Power
  
  
• A New Nanogenerator
  
  
• From Children's Bladders To The iPhone
  
  
• New Property Found in Ancient Mineral Lodestone
  
  
• Toshiba, IBM Team on Chips
  
  
• Higher-Density Data Storage
  
  
• From Children's Bladders To The iPhone
  
  
• Scientists Discover Gold Nanoparticles Stabilise Organic Memory
  
  
• Nanotechnology the new frontier for IT power India
  
  
• Researchers discover largest high-field magnetoresistance
  
  
• Gold plated exhausts
  
  
• Polish Nano-Detectors will help in Space Research
  
  
• "Golden bullet" shows promise for killing common parasite
  
  
• Structural snapshot shows monster protein
  
  
• Remotely Controlled Drugs
  
  
• Acoustic phonons reach the nanoscale
  
  
• Nanotube electrodes could provide avian flu test
  
  
• Finland and China teaming in nanotechnology
  
  
• Mass-Producing 3-D Particles
  
  
• Nanopositioning breaks new record
  
  
• Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumours, destroying liver cancer
  
  
• String of fullerene pearls
  
  
• Researchers Discover Cancer Cells "Feel" Much Softer Than Normal Cells
  
  

November 2007

• Researchers develop better membranes for water treatment and drug delivery
  
  
• Molecular traffic spied in nanoscale tube network
  
  
• Nanotubes caught on camera
  
  
• A flare for gene silencing
  
  
• ‘High Q’ Nanowires May be Practical Oscillators
  
  
• Cardiff University engineers give industry a moth’s eye view
  
  
• Organic Transistors: Researchers Produce High Performance Field-Effect Transistors with Thin Films of Carbon 60
  
  
• 1 Million Swiss Francs Awarded to Nanoscience Research at Balzan Prize Ceremony
  
  
• On nanotechnology, experts see more risks than public
  
  
• Standardizing nanotechnologies, the heavyweight small science
  
  
• Potocnik outlines actions for nanotechnology research in Europe
  
  
• 3-D photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications
  
  
• ENTA Chief Executive named as a finalist for the Advocate of the Year award by Small Times
  
  
• Thermoelectric materials are one key to energy savings
  
  
• 'Wiring up' enzymes for producing hydrogen in fuel cells
  
  
• New technique captures chemical reactions in a single living cell for the first time
  
  
• Nanotube fibres toughen up
  
  
• Researchers develop optical technique for controlling electron spins in quantum dot ensembles
  
  
• New method for the production of defined microparticles with 3-D nanopatterns
  
  
• UK Nanotech Firms develop global vision
  
  
• Pioneering research seeks to harness force of nature
  
  
• Bacteria organise to survive hostile zones
  
  
• EU and Russia strengthen research ties
  
  
• Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
  
  
• Fusing nanotechnology with cell biology to battle the ‘superbug’
  
  
• Breakthrough toward industrial-scale production of nanodevices
  
  
• Novel Nanostructure Response Opens Possibilities for Electrical Devices
  
  
• Synchrotron radiation illuminates how babies' protective bubble bursts
  
  
• Sony to Pull Out of R&D for Making 32-Nano Chips
  
  
• Joining up nanocircuits
  
  
• Nanotechnology's Environmental Impact Can Be Solved by Soybeans and Water
  
  
• Revolution ahead in data storage, say IT experts
  
  
• National mission to make India global nanotechnology hub
  
  
• Delft University of Technology rotates electron spin with electric field
  
  
• Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumours, destroying liver cancer
  
  
• New magnet design could shed light on nanoscience research
  
  
• Researchers Create First Fully Functional Nanotube Radio
  
  

October 2007

• Evolution in the Nanoworld
  
  
• Using Nanotech to Make Bullets Bounce
  
  
• Terabyte Storage for Cell Phones
  
  
• Video shows buckyballs form by 'shrink wrapping'
  
  
• Eyes and Wings of Insects inspire Anti-Reflective and Water Repellant Coatings and Solar Cells
  
  
• Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna
  
  
• Copper nanoparticles harm zebrafish
  
  
• Supercomputers that fit in your palm
  
  
• A New Nanogenerator
  
  
• Building tomorrow's nanofactory
  
  
• Convergence of Electronics, Materials, Chemicals and Textiles Industries Fostering New Advances in Smart Fabrics
  
  
• Enhancement of Polymer luminescence by excitation-energy transfer from Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• Nanoparticle reveals sulphur's Midas touch
  
  
• Engineering expert's 'nanospikes' add new dimension to research
  
  
• Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music
  
  
• Light-harvesting nanowire could drive tiny devices
  
  
• Medical nanoimaging pinpoints cause of cataracts
  
  
• Researchers measure carbon nanotube interaction
  
  
• 3D nanoprinter makes oxide sculptures
  
  
• Scientists create method to measure the performance of carbon nanotubes
  
  
• Nanoparticle glows on reaching target cells
  
  
• European nano pioneers win physics Nobel
  
  
• Russian government orders probing proposals for use of nanotechnology
  
  
• New Finding Opens Path for Designing Novel Complex Oxide Nanomaterials
  
  
• Foresight nanotechnology prizes go to Leigh, Stoddart, Freitas, Ou
  
  
• Weaving Batteries into Clothes
  
  
• EUR 900 million for German molecular imaging research
  
  
• Unveiling the structure of microcrystals with synchrotron radiation
  
  
• Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics
  
  
• Researchers shed light on light-emitting nanodevice
  
  
• Novel 3-D Cell Culture Model Shows Selective tumour Uptake of Nanoparticles
  
  
• What is nanomedicine? New one-day course
  
  
• Developing a modular, nanoparticle drug delivery system
  
  
• Transparent Plastics as Strong as Steel
  
  
• Nanowire coating repels water
  
  
• EU project delves into nanotechnologies to solve age-old problem for marine vessels
  
  
• Funding problems too big for Cambridge nanotech firm
  
  
• Nanotube forests grown on silicon chips for future computers, electronics
  
  
• Nanotechnology Surges Into Health And Fitness Products
  
  
• Quantum spin Hall effect uncovered in mercury telluride
  
  
• Display Technology Promises Cheaper Solar Power
  
  
• Nanoethics Group to Speak in Yale University’s Lecture Series
  
  

September 2007

• Scientists spot 'neurodegenerative' iron at the European synchrotron
  
  
• Using nanotubes to detect and repair cracks in aircraft wings, other structures
  
  
• Polymer coating for nanoparticle safety
  
  
• On the White Path
  
  
• Researchers set new record for brightness of quantum dots
  
  
• Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals
  
  
• Growth of plasmonic gold nanostructures by electron beam induced deposition
  
  
• Nanotechnology optimizes catalyst systems
  
  
• How Will Nanotech Fare in Europe?
  
  
• Nanotechnology membrane catches CO2
  
  
• Swirled to the Left or Right? Nanofibres Align in Stirred Liquid
  
  
• Bio-nanotechnology will help India's food security
  
  
• Bone-Growing Nanomaterial Could Improve Orthopaedic Implants
  
  
• New technology to reduce large-scale emissions
  
  
• Printing Nano Building Blocks - A new printing method could lead to precise nanofabrication
  
  
• New nanoparticle vaccine is more effective but less expensive
  
  
• Scientists reveal DNA-enzyme interaction with first ever real time footage
  
  
• New look for nanothermometers
  
  
• Vistec relocates in exchange for $30m in economic incentives
  
  
• EC approves €119m funding for NanoSmart and Homes programmes
  
  
• EC is world's largest public investor in nanotechnology
  
  
• Ethicschool innovates nano-ethics education
  
  
• Nanoscale printing with new IBM fabrication technique
  
  
• One Day Course: 'What is Nanomedicine?'
  
  

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