NNI News Update
May 13, 2008
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Below are current nanotechnology news reports that are updated several times weekly.
Designer Isotopes Push the Frontier of Science -- National Science Foundation
Federal government taps NC State experts to explain nanotech risks -- EurekAlert
It's difficult to spot retail nanotechnology -- San Francisco Chronicle
Teaching technology for life -- BurlingtonFreePress.com
Tiny tubes, rocket fuel soup up motors -- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
NanoRisk: What Can You Do About It? -- Environmental Protection Magazine (TX)
IBN's new lab-on-a-chip achieves speed with nanotech -- Small Times
All-in-one gene detection on a chip -- Chemistry World
Towards a European Observatory on Nanotechnologies -- NEWSFOOD.com
Committee Passes Legislation to Reauthorize NNI -- Media Newswire
Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials -- Nanowerk
Core-shell nanoparticles reveal how nanotechnology can improve -- Foresight
Nano-biointeractions need more study -- Chemical and Engineering
Nanowires for Displays,Copper nanowires could be used in ultra-thin field-emission displays that are brighter and sharper than flat-panel displays -- MIT Technology Review
New Thinking on Flame Retardants -- Food Consumer
Small Wonders -- MSNBC
New Nanoscale Cancer Buster Wiggles Its Way to Tumors -- DailyTech
Taking the NanoPulse: Hot Nanotechnology. Cool Energy Solutions -- IndustryWeek
Nanotubes as a supermaterial -- The Inquirer
Nanotechnology Centre to research multifunctional fibres -- Fibre2fashion.com
Electrochemistry takes the heat -- Chemistry World
Week of May 05, 2008
Pols: Put nanotech research on fast track -- EETimes
Small Wonders -- U.S. News and World Report
Nanoscience is big deal -- Providence Journal
More nourishing food that stays fresh longer -- Nation Multimedia
Nanotubes form sensitive sensors -- New Electronics
Researchers see a tiny new world -- Clarksville Leaf Chronicle (TN)
Tiny treatments -- Fort Worth Business Press (TX)
Nanoengineered Barrier Invented To Protect Plastic Electronics -- Semiconductor Online
Nanowiring using boron clusters -- Nanotechweb
"Pine tree" nanowires do the Eshelby twist -- Nanotechweb
Miniature devices make the cut -- Chemical Science
Nanomechanical Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers -- Physorg
H.P. Reports Big Advance in Memory Chip Design -- NY Times
Science of Small -- USDA
Electronics: The fourth element -- Nature Magazine
The road to nanophotonics -- Nature Magazine
Nanotechnology studied in heat transfer -- United Press International
A New Polymer Product from Soy Oil, Not Petroleum -- Agricultural Research
A Silver Coating in the Fight Against Microbes -- Scientific American
Environmental Fate Of Nanoparticles Depends On Properties Of Water ... -- Science Daily
Too Much Good Nanotechnology May Be Bad for the Environment... -- AZoNano.com
Feds seek help applying nanotech to defense -- Arizona Republic
U of Wisconsin researchers create the first 'nanotrees' -- Small Times
Silicon Nanotubes Store Hydrogen More Efficiently Than Carbon Nanotubes -- Controlled Environment Magazine
Researchers supercharge nanomotors with rocket fuel -- TG Daily
Researchers measure nanotube 'stickiness' -- EETimes.com
Found: the missing circuit element -- Nature Magazine
International Council on Nanotechnology reports research needs -- Small Times