Technology Update

The “African Network for Solar Energy” (ANSOLE) is a newly created organization, started in November 2010, which aims to foster research activities in the field of solar energy among African scientists working in Africa.

University researchers and the EADS Innovation Works, part of the EADS Group,

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, United States, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), are working to create solar cells that are light, flexible, efficient, and, perhaps most importantly, affordable.

Research experts and climate policy advocates in the United States say that the massive budget cuts proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives would hit clean energy and smart grid research programs at a crucial transition point for the U.S. electric power sector.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) has launched the first European repository of nanomaterials

Funding for the United States National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) would increase by slightly more than US$200 million under President Obama’s fiscal year 2012 budget request.

Germany plans to expand its funding for nanotechnology research under its new Action Plan 2015.

This article presents an overview of the current nanomedicine landscape in Argentina. Dr. Eder Romero, of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, and Dr. Alejandro Sosnik, of the Universidad Nacional de Buenas Aires,

China this week announced plans to tighten controls over rare earth producers and restrict output in a five-year development strategy, promising to “reasonably set annual quotas for production and export”, but giving no further details.

This blog, by Dexter Johnson, says that when it comes to nanotechnology and energy, it’s the mundane that is interesting.

The Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU), in partnership with the law firm of Polsinelli Shughart PC, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU and the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law, all in the United States, will present a […]

A joint workshop between the United States and the European Union will be held from March 10-11, 2011 in Washington, DC, in an effort to promote more effective collaboration between the two entities.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a report, “OECD Nanosafety Work: The First Five Years”,

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Northeastern University, both in the United States, have developed tiny “microworms” that could be implanted under the skin to monitor biomedical indicators, such as levels of sodium or glucose in the blood.

This new publication, “Agricultural, Food, and Water Nanotechnologies for the Poor: Opportunities, Constraints, and Role of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIASR)”, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), says that there are a number of potential opportunities associated with agricultural, food and water nanotechnology for the poor, but in order […]

A new book, “Nanotechnology Law and Policy Cases and Materials”, will be released later this month by Carolina Academic Press.

Close to three percent of the world’s population struggles with diabetes. Skin wounds that result from poor blood circulation arising from diabetes often do not heal, causing pain, infection, and, at times, can lead to amputation of limbs.

The White House last week issued a strategy document, “Strategy for American Innovation”, that sums up its approach to “winning the future.”

A new report, “Nanotechnology Market Forecast to 2013”, by RNCOS, a company specializing in industry intelligence, predicts that Russia’s nano-enabled product market will reach 2.5 percent of the global nanotechnology market by the end of 2013.

The United States Naval Research Laboratory is likely to play a role in America’s energy future, and nanotechnology is likely to be a big part of it.

This article discusses how the United States-based company HP Labs seeks technology from around the world to help it achieve the technologies of the future.