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