UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
...searchers to capitalize on the recent explosion in nanoscience and to chart the future of nanotechnology within biotechnology. Abraxis has agreed to contribute $10 million over 10 years to fund collaborative projects at UCLAs new CNSI building. The Abraxis/CNSI Research Collaboration Lab will focus on translatio...Bright future for nano-sized light source
...l investigators behind this project, and a leading nanoscience authority who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Labs Molecular Foundry and Materials Sciences Division, and the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department. Weve also demonstrated that it is possible to trap and manipulate single nanowires with optical t...Scientists call for global push to advance research in synthetic biology
...ning the engineering applications and practices of nanoscience with molecular biology. The early twenty-first century is a time of tremendous promise and tremendous peril, includes the statement. We face daunting problems of climate change, energy, health, and water resources. Synthetic biology offers solution...UCF nanoparticle offers promise for treating glaucoma
...graduate Serge Reshetnikov spent a summer studying nanoscience on UCFs Orlando campus as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project funded by the National Science Foundation. Reshetnikov started looking into the possibilities of using nanoparticles as drug delivery tools. Subsequent researc...Lab-on-a-chip device from Berkeley Lab to speed proteomics research
...hat interface." Wang and Peidong Yang, a leading nanoscience authority with Berkeley Labs Molecular Foundry and Materials Sciences Division, and also a chemistry professor with the University of Californias Berkeley campus, co-authored a paper on this work which is being published by the American Chemical Soci...Nanotechnology key to China's future economic success
..."China is betting that their growing investment in nanoscience will help them capture a large share of what shortly will become a $3 trillion global market in nanotech manufactured goods, and that breakthroughs in nanotechnology research and commercialization will confer economic superpower status on the country...Breakthrough in nanodevice synthesis revolutionizes biological sensors
...have profound implications both for application of nanoscience technologies and for the speed and sensitivity they bring to the future of diagnostics." An interdisciplinary team of engineers in the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering has overcome hurdles in NW synthesis by using a tried-and-...Nanotechnology for Biological, Biomedical and Chemical Sensing
Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have open up myriad opportuniti...wide, who are actively involved in the research on nanoscience and nanotechnology, in particular nanobiology, nanobiomedicine, and nanochemistry relating to biosen...Kentucky first state to match federal SBIR-STTR Phase 1 and Phase 2 grants
...r scientific activities within Kentucky, including nanoscience and nanotechnology. In addition to providing a strategic plan for Kentucky's high-tech and innovation communities, the data collected from the two statewide assessments will be used to help develop an online database that will serve as a networkin...Nano competition debuts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
... and Vanderbilt University. A leading center for nanoscience research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists...eing done at the Spallation Neutron Source and the nanoscience center and the business community. Nano Nexus 2007 will allow researchers from universities across...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 4, 2006
... Government has poured more than $6.5 billion into nanoscience research. ARTICLE #6 EMBARGOED FOR 9:30 A.M. EASTERN TIME OCT. 9 "The World According to Rick: How Richard Smalley laid the foundation for nanotechnology as we know it and then tried to save the world" For Full Text Contact: Michael Bernstein AC...Gateway to Nanoscience: The convergence of disciplines
...rope; making it the first high-level conference on nanoscience being held. What are Nanosciences? Nanosciences explore what happens on the "nanometric" scale and thus in a dimension, where our understanding of rules gained on "macro" scale, has to be revised. Nanosciences, being primarily the extension of ...$18 million grant will boost ASU research into mysteries of fatal diseases
...ng, science and medicine. This firmly places ASU's nanoscience program among the nation's leaders in this emerging discipline," says Jeffrey Trent, president and scientific director of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix. New technology will be developed and integrated into the exis...ACS news service Weekly PressPac -- August 16, 2006
... editor Ivan Amato, the article describes how some nanoscience researchers liken the minuscule particles they are making -- and mixing and matching like atoms -- to the elements of a new periodic table. Of course, the traditional periodic table is far more than a listing of all the known chemical elements and ...New methods for screening nanoparticles
...ysics: Condensed Matter devoted to developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology, now available online. Nanoparticles may have different physical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties than occur in bulk samples of the same material, in part due to the increased surface area to volume ratio at the nano......hese inventions. Quantum dots, one of the smallest nanoscience research tools, range from 2 to 10 nanometers in diameter; nearly 3 million quantum dots would be needed to fit within the width of a thumb. By virtue of their distinct colors, quantum dots have quickly found their way into homes in many electronic ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2006
...etrospective viewers of the rapid emergence of the nanoscience and nanotechnologies that may change our world," Wolfe and Stone write in the introduction. "The authors are front and center in the unfolding nanotechnology revolution." [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] ENERGY -- Heat exchan...NJIT chemists cook up new strain of carbon nanotubes
... Physical Society in 1996 for his contributions to nanoscience and energetic materials. Iqbal worked at Honeywell Corporation (the former Allied Corporation), Morristown, prior to joining NJIT in 2001. While here, Iqbal has received more than $2 million in federal funding. His interests include the nanotechnolog...Sustainable agriculture: Canadian institute offers definition, recommends path
...ssembled as something else," the paper notes. "And nanoscience will take this even further, with the ability to synthesize proteins and other molecular substances. "This will have significant bearing on the application of definitions such as 'substantial equivalence' and 'novel foods.' Such capacity has huge im...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2005
...Sciences, the first of the DOE Office of Science's nanoscience centers, is now open. October 1 marked the first day of the new fiscal year and the nanoscience center's first day with operating funds. Although the first research proposals are just entering the...