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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nanomaterials”

• ARPA E Waste Heat Projects

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  2 of the 37 first round ARPA E projects were categorized as waste heat capture and one of the vehicle technologies was GMs lightweight car exhaust heat recovery Lightweight Thermal Energy Recovery (LighTER) System General Motors R&D; received a $2.7 million federal award Monday that will help build a ...
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• Nanostructured Integrated Circuit Detects Type and Severity of Cancer (PhysOrg)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  (PhysOrg.com) — A team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient’s cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment. Their work, reported in two ...
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• Nanoporous contact lens technology. Photochromic contact lens. Singapore. IBN. NUH. “… Flagship project, coupled with an S$5 million funding, to help set up IBN iCare and NUH Eye Centre @ Biopolis.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 133
  In Singapore, Boon Swan Foo, the Executive Chairman of Exploit Technologies has informed: “The bringing together of clinicians with scientists and commercial people to this juncture is due to the unrelenting effort of the key players, including Dr. Muhammad Tani, Professor Jackie Ying and Associate Professor Paul ...
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• Where do nanomaterials go in the body? (PhysOrg)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what happens if these nanomaterials get into your body - where do they go? NC State researchers are ...
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• Marketing of Antimicrobial Paints

  
  Nano Bugle — Authority: 117
  Image obtained from Nanotek web site A spin-off from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral called Nanotek has announced the release of an antimicrobial paint. This product will be sold under the brand Klima and in alliance with the paint manufacturer Vilba . The company Nanotek specializes in the cleanup of ...
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• New CEO Joins Y-Carbon, Inc. (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Y-Carbon, Inc., a nanomaterials company founded in 2004 and headquartered in King of Prussia, PA announced today that James Horan has joined the company as its CEO. (read the story…) Related items NanoViricides Platform Enables Rapid Development Of Robust Nanomedicines Against Influenza And HIV (Medical News ...
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• Upcoming Meetings

  
  Nanotechnology Law Report — Authority: 118
  The Office of Science and Technology published two notices in todays Federal Register that should be of interest to the Nanotechnology community. The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office will be holding a public meeting on 11/16/2009 from 7PM-8:30PM at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge in Arlington. The ...
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• Silicon Nano Ink for Solar Cells

  
  Nano Bugle — Authority: 117
  Images obtained from Innovalight web site Californian startup Innovalight uses silicon ink printed on silicon wafers to increase the efficiency of solar cells. According to the company, the injection technique is cheaper and gets a higher degree of efficiency. Silicon inks developed by Innovalight can be printed ...
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• Advance In ‘Nano-Agriculture:’ Tiny Stuff Has Huge Effect On Plant Growth

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture. Their study, scheduled for the October issue of ACS Nano , found that tomato ...
  2 weeks ago

• Precision Nanoparticles Technology to Revolutionize Solar Cells

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 137
  The chemists from the Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho State University may have found the gold mine of solar energy efficiency. They invented the manufacturing of a highly precise and uniform nanopaticle that improves solar cells and further spurs the growing nanotech revolution.
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• Nanostructured Nickel Magnesium Oxide Will Enable One Terabyte Computer Chip and 80 mpg Cars

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today’s computer memory systems. (H/T Brett Coalson) the engineers made ...
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• Nanoscale Butterfly Wings

  
  Nano Bugle — Authority: 117
  Image obtained from 1x.com Scientists from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Pennsylvania State University have developed a technique that allows butterfly wings replicas at the nanoscale. From materials such as germanium, selenium, antimony and a solution of chitin in an aqueous solution of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Creating anti-icing surfaces

  
  From Edison's Desk — Authority: 116
  My name is Joseph Vinciquerra and I’m a project leader in the Mechanical Integration & Operability Laboratory at GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York. For the past several years, we have been working with nanotechnology to understand and exploit superhydrophobic materials in an attempt to make ...
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• Nanotech regulation ‘can’t wait’ (Scoop.co.nz)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 152
  Nanotechnology is a rapidly advancing field, with hundreds of products containing nanomaterials already on the shelves and largely unknown health and environmental effects. (more here…) Related items Nanotechnology Aided by the ‘Write’ Tools (Medical Device Link) Design Green (Interior Design) ...
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• Biosensor Nanoparticle

  
  Nano Bugle — Authority: 117
  Image obtained from www2.esmas.com The Astrobiology Center has filed a patent for a process for the synthesis of a nanoparticle composed of three layers that can be used as sensitive to magnetic fields biosensors. This nanoparticle consists of a magnetic core, an intermediate layer to ensure adhesion and an ...
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• Antimicrobial Surfaces

  
  Nano Bugle — Authority: 117
  Image obtained from www.coches-americanos.net Nanogate and Sarastro have established a cooperation agreement for development of biologically active functional surfaces. According to the Leibniz Institut für Neue Materialien spin-off, Nanogate, the first compendium of devices should be on the market in ...
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