The U.S. government wants to sponsor Czech researchers who would help the United States in the fight against terrorism in exchange for the deployment of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil, the Hospodarske Noviny daily reported Friday.
Researchers from several CNRS-associated laboratories in France have succeeded in synthesizing porous nanoparticles that are capable of absorbing the energy of two photons in the near infrared spectrum, and then re-emitting radiation used for medical imaging by fluorescence.
An undisclosed number of employees at NanoDynamics Inc. have been reassigned or released after the company discontinued some of its technology and product offerings.
The Russian Federal Space Agency and the Russian Nano-Technology Corporation have signed a three-year cooperation agreement, Agency Director Anatoly Perminov said.
Dr. Dan Hayes, President and CEO of NanoHorizons, Inc., a leader in the creation of nanoscale antimicrobial performance additives, will address participants at Techtextil Symposium North America 2008 in Atlanta on Thursday, April 3.
ApNano Materials, Inc. a provider of nanotechnology-based products, has announced that the pan-European FOREMOST consortium has completed the development of its first composite coating, based on ApNano Materials' nanoparticles (inorganic fullerenes).
InTimeTV has announced a new internet TV talk show for professionals: Nanotech Today. Nanotech Today, which is hosted by Dr. Ogan Gurel, is a truly global venue by which nanotechnology professionals can share ideas, trends and perspectives worldwide.
The Cluster Physics Group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand invites applications for 3 year PhD studentships.
Medical, environmental and chemical conundrums - including the mystery of how ice forms in the sky and goes on to create clouds - will be unravelled at a conference hosted by University College London to mark the opening of UCL's
The Greater Dallas Chamber presented "Five Technology Forces Driving the Future" Thursday night. The seminar was the first of three planned for 2008 as a part of the CIO Symposium Series.
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville will build a $ 20 million Nanoscale Science and Engineering Building, the University of Arkansas System board of trustees voted Friday.
Russian researchers claim to have found a way to produce and purify high yields of fullerenes for commercial use by carefully tweaking existing techniques.
While we wouldn't call it nanotech porn exactly, as Wired magazine does, we agree that for us nanotech geeks it's great fun to see nanotechnology tools up close. If you missed the MRS show in San Francisco this week, here's
Nanotechnology may enable faster and more sensitive detection of disease by using a molecular motor to spin a gold nanorod in the presence of the right DNA molecule.
An economical nanotech procedure—ball milling followed by hot pressing—recasts a commercially available material as a composite of random nanostructures that efficiently converts waste heat into electricity.
