Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
It's not your father's contact lens, not by a long shot. Researchers at the University of Washington are developing a contact lens that can monitor the wearer's glucose levels, cholesterol, temperature and other health indicators, reports www.dailypress.com.
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
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The microtechnology, nanotechnology and advanced materials industries in Germany are seeing some light at the end of the economic tunnel, according to a survey conducted by the IVAM Microtechnology Network. More than ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Researchers at Rice University unveiled a new method for dissolving half-millimeter-long carbon nanotubes in solution, a breakthrough that could pave the way to the development of highly conductive quantum nanowire. Nanotubes have the frustrating habit of bundling, making them less useful than when they're separated in a solution. Rice scientists led by ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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From the Wire: By dipping ordinary paper or fabric in a special ink infused with nanoparticles, Stanford engineer Yi Cui has found a ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The automotive industry squeaked past the medical technology sector as the primary target market for German micro and nanotechnology companies in 2009, according to a report published today by the IVAM Microtechnology Network. Slightly more than half of the German companies surveyed by IVAM supplied the automobile industry, compared with ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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From the Wire: Nanoscience has the potential to enhance a range of ...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Here’s a great opportunity to combine business with pleasure. Swap the grim November weather and concrete sky engulfing much of Europe for almost guaranteed sunshine while catching up on developments in nanotechnology-based healthcare. The Third Annual Global Symposium on NanoBioTechnology comes to the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) on the campus of the University of ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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From the Wire: Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined ...
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
From the Wire: Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional silicon-based transistors.
Carbon nanotubes, which were discovered in the early 1990s, could make possible more powerful, compact and energy-efficient computers, as ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
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Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and Harvard University have reported a series of experiments in which they folded DNA, origami-like, into ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
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Nanoparticles are being developed to perform an array of medical uses -- imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
The new technique being developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham will utilise ultrasound technology to look inside cells. The components of the new technology would be many thousand times smaller than current systems.
The work by the Ultrasonics Group in the Division of Electrical Systems and Optics is considered ...
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