Technology Update
The United States Council on Competitiveness, along with the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development, last week participated in a week’s worth of startup development efforts and cultural exchanges at Arizona State University, to focus on building bilateral partnerships between the two countries that foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
This article spotlights a United States-based company, NanoViricides, Inc., which is betting on the promise of nanotechnology in its quest to develop a biodegradable setup based on polymers that it hopes will be the Venus Flytrap of antiviral drugs.
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Princeton University and Washington State University, all in the United States, have combined metal oxide nanoparticles and graphene to develop a more durable catalytic material for fuel cells that is both hardier and more chemically active.
An international team of scientists, led by Oxford University and Trinity College Dublin, has invented a new way of splitting layered materials into sheets of material just one atom thick, potentially leading to revolutionary new electronic and energy storage technologies.
New research at Vanderbilt University, United States, may lead to windshields that shed water so effectively that wipers will become obsolete, or ship hulls so slippery that they glide through water more efficiently than ordinary hulls.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States, have designed new nanoparticles, comprised primarily of bismuth, which are able to find dangerous blood clots before they cause heart attacks.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have, for the first time, demonstrated a method for producing nanoparticle clusters that will allow them to study the effects of nanoparticles on cells.
ArcelorMital, the world’s largest steel maker, is using nanotechnology to make a new kind of steel that will allow automakers to match the weight of aluminum cars.
Young Costa Ricans are increasingly involved in the science of nanotechnology, according to José Vega, Director of the CENAT (Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología) – National Centre of High Technology Nanotechnology Laboratory – and one of Costa Rica’s experts on the subjects.
The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics (ILPB) at the University at Buffalo, United States, last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Universities Commission (NUC) of Abuja, Nigeria, calling for the development of an international joint research center for nanomedicine at Nigerian universities.
The 4th Annual Nanotechnology Safety for Success Dialogue will take place March 29-30, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trials in humans that use “Cornell Dots” – brightly glowing nanoparticles – to light up cancer cells and aid in diagnosing and treating cancer.
A multidisciplinary team of engineers at Stanford University, United States, have announced a new type of thin solar cell that uses plasmonics – an emerging branch of science and technology that studies the interaction of light and metal – to more effectively trap light within thin solar cells, an advance that could offer a new […]
The country of Jordan and IBM are in discussions to establish a nanotechnology center, with both sides saying a strategic agreement will soon be signed. The center will focus on providing innovative solutions in the field of water and energy.
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES), Switzerland, have published a study showing that smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite, an abundant mineral that is often used in steel alloys or as an additive in lubricants.
Magnetic nanoparticles composed of iron oxide and coated with silicon dioxide could be the next big thing in medical diagnostics, according to the scientists in Vietnam who created them.
The Zimbabwe Ministry of Science and Technology has adopted a National Nanotechnology program, in partnership with the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences and Zimbabwe Research Council, to help guide local industry to take advantage of this emerging technology.
The Hohenstein Institute, an internationally recognized textile research and service center, announced this month that it had completed a field study of the effect of antibacterial clothing containing nanosilver on skin flora and microclimate.
This opinion piece, by Richard Denison, senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), argues that despite a new political climate where the idea of any regulation is shied away from, a little regulation would have done – and still could do – nanotechnology a world of good.
Touchscreens, while seemingly miraculous, are, in real life, just a wafer-thin electrode under the glass surface of a display made of indium-tin-oxide (ITO).
A new joint effort between the United States and the United Kingdom will work to develop risk-management tools that government officials will be able to use to effectively regulate nanomaterials.
