ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Legendary CalTech physicist Richard Feynman closed his seminal 1959 talk on the potential of nanotechnology by offering a prize to the first person who developed an electric motor in a 1/64th -inch cube.

But nature already had nanotechnology nailed. To utter those words and to gesticulate as he spoke, Feynman was relying on biological motors throughout his body that were 20,000 times smaller than the device he imagined and far more efficient than anything our species has ever built.

Rather than re-invent the nano-motor, scientists and engineers at the University of Michigan are looking at these self-assembled, ultra-efficient, incredibly small, natural motors that exist all around us and within us...read the wave

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NanoTsunami readers know that a large number of applications and markets could be served by products based on the various micro nano technologies (MNT). However, the variety of MNT manufacturing technologies also poses a threat to the commercial breakthrough of MNT. With so many technologies available, most of them not yet standardised, and non-availability of standard equipment for several of them, how can MNT become commercially successful?

A team at the University of Innsbruck, Austria has been successful in conducting electrons in metals along predetermined channels. This behaviour, observed for the first time in metals, provides important insights into the interactions of electrons - and on how the phenomenon of the current flow without any resistance loss, termed super-conductivity, can occur. Thereby this project aided by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) combines fundamental research, at its best, with potential applications in the future...read the wave

Following Mr. Robinson’s Advice: The Story of Nanosys

Venture capitalists have demonstrated a keen interest in nanotechnology. Some investors even predict that the field could represent the next great technological wave. Yet, few start-up companies have attracted substantial venture financing. One exception to this general trend is Nanosys, which has been able to raise $55 million in private equity since its inception. In this article, CEO Larry Bock explains why investors have been willing to bet on Nanosys. He discusses Nanosys’ technology, scientific talent, intellectual property, management, and business strategy

In its tireless efforts to create smaller and more powerful structures for integrated circuits, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) has achieved a further breakthrough in its Munich laboratories: researchers here have constructed the world's smallest nanotube transistor, with a channel length of only 18 nm - the most advanced transistors currently in production are almost four times this size. To build their nanotransistor, the researchers grew carbon nanotubes, each one measuring only 0.7 to 1.1 nm in diameter, in a controlled process. A single human hair is around 100,000 times thicker by comparison...read the wave

Sending your favorite suit to the dry cleaners could one day become an infrequent practice. Researchers at Clemson University are developing a highly water-repellant coating made of silver nanoparticles that they say can be used to produce suits and other clothing items that offer superior resistance to dirt as well as water and require much less cleaning than conventional fabrics.

The patented coating — a polymer film (polyglycidyl methacrylate) mixed with...read the wave

CSIRO needs to be more open about multimillion dollar developments like nanotechnology, and do a better job at including the public in setting its research agenda, a new report has found.

The report is of a CSIRO-hosted workshop in Bendigo, regional Victoria, designed to elicit public views on the emerging science of nanotechnology, the science and technology of manipulating matter at the atomic scale.

As a result of the discussions, the CSIRO project team that organised the workshop drew up a check-list of community issues. The team said this could be part of CSIRO's response to community needs on technology...read the wave

Help is on the horizon for sports enthusiasts who perform badly. American scientists say their game can be fixed with nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology allows molecules to be manipulated into hitherto unimaginably strong and light shapes — and can create materials that cut friction and inhibit the growth of smell-producing bacteria...read the wave

Four managers of nanotechnology companies will discuss possible joint projects with Israeli companies and research institutes.

A delegation of industrialists and scientists from Saarland, Germany will visit Israel next week to discuss possible joint projects with Israeli companies and research institutes.

Saarland Business Development Authority chairman Thomas Schuck will head the delegation, accompanied by four managers of nanotechnology companies that develop and manufacture a range of products...read the wave

mPhase Technologies Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement with Lucent Technologies to develop nanotechnology-based power cell technology. Bell Labs, the R&D arm of Lucent Technologies, and the New Jersey Nanotech Consortium at Bell Labs, have developed prototypes of this technology, which may lead to superior battery shelf life and rapid activation times. In addition to meeting the demand for high-power, long-life battery capacity for electronic devices, other potential uses for the new “Smart Battery” may include emergency and reserve power applications.

Bell Labs scientists and engineers recently made a significant breakthrough in...read the wave

The drug development process from the discovery of an optimised lead then on to market is typically a seven to ten year process. It is well known to be an expensive process with a high risk of failure as recent high profile cases have shown. But even after extensive clinical trials new drugs can prove to be ineffective or at worst dangerous to humans. With this in mind, Bioengineers at the University of Oxford have developed a simple yet sophisticated solution to the problem of toxicity testing for new drugs. The new system named Tissueflex is a...read the wave

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NanoTsunami readers know that a large number of applications and markets could be served by products based on the various micro nano technologies (MNT). However, the variety of MNT manufacturing technologies also poses a threat to the commercial breakthrough of MNT. With so many technologies available, most of them not yet standardised, and non-availability of standard equipment for several of them, how can MNT become commercially successful?

A new way of treating tooth decay which means the end of both the injection and the dentist's drill is being introduced into this country.The method, popular in Australia and Japan, uses a special disinfectant, activated by laser, to kill instead of drill out the bacteria.

The tooth can then rebuild itself aided by a porous sealant and a tooth mousse, which is used at home and promotes tooth growth.

The revolutionary "no pain" dentistry is being pioneered by Myles Dakin, a private dentist with practices in Hertfordshire and London...read the wave

Following Mr. Robinson’s Advice: The Story of Nanosys

Venture capitalists have demonstrated a keen interest in nanotechnology. Some investors even predict that the field could represent the next great technological wave. Yet, few start-up companies have attracted substantial venture financing. One exception to this general trend is Nanosys, which has been able to raise $55 million in private equity since its inception. In this article, CEO Larry Bock explains why investors have been willing to bet on Nanosys. He discusses Nanosys’ technology, scientific talent, intellectual property, management, and business strategy

Tehran, Nov 19, IRNA -- Chancellor of Kashan University said the first nanotechnology research center was established in Kashan University this academic year (started September 22).
Hassan Daqiq added as per the approval of Development Council for Higher Education of Science, Research and Technology Ministry the first nanotechnology research center, divided into 3 research groups including carbonic structures, thin layers and nanoparticles, was established in Kashan...read the wave

A new way of treating tooth decay which means the end of both the injection and the dentist's drill is being introduced into this country.The method, popular in Australia and Japan, uses a special disinfectant, activated by laser, to kill instead of drill out the bacteria.

The tooth can then rebuild itself aided by a porous sealant and a tooth mousse, which is used at home and promotes tooth growth.

The revolutionary "no pain" dentistry is being pioneered by Myles Dakin, a private dentist with practices in Hertfordshire and London...read the wave

Today’s nanotechnology is developing at several levels: materials, devices and systems. The nanomaterials level is the most advanced at present, both in scientific knowledge and in commercial applications. A decade ago, nanoparticles were studied because of their size-dependent physical and chemical properties. Now they have entered a commercial exploration period.

Although nanomedicine has no official definition yet, most experts describe it as using nanometer-sized particles -- which are thousands of times thinner than a human hair -- to detect and treat diseases at the molecular level...read the wave

Newswise — An Elizabethtown College professor has developed an embedded sensor that functions in cement much like a thermometer in the Thanksgiving turkey.

“The thermometer indicates if the turkey is done by measuring its internal temperature,” said Nathaniel Hager III, an adjunct faculty member in Elizabethtown’s physics and engineering department. “The embedded sensor does the same thing in concrete by monitoring how quickly water involved in the curing process is chemically combining with portland cement.”...read the wave

NEW YORK -- New approaches to building microchips are needed to keep computer power steadily advancing as it has for the past 30 years, and that means chip features must shrink to the order of nanometers -- or billionths of a meter.

There are 10 methods competing for market share in this multibillion-dollar industry sector.

"Scientists have used every trick in the book to wring every last bit of performance out of...read the wave

The socio-political impact of Nanotechnology on molecular targeting and site specific drug delivery is set to become a trillion-dollar industry with the pharmaceutical sector’s economic and technological leadership key to the growth of the technology.

In addition, lab chips and microfluidics were singled out as the next nanotechnology breakthrough format in drug discovery. Liquid handling and microfluidics has made a breakthrough in...read the wave

Corvallis - Biochemists at Oregon State University have “re-discovered” and characterized an important type of chemical bond – the “halogen bond” - that once formed the basis for a Nobel Prize, but has been largely ignored for decades and never explored for its potential value in medical or pharmaceutical research.

These basic findings are outlined in the current edition of...read the wave

EUGENE, Ore.--Chemists at the University of Oregon have hit upon a way to build a molecular "claw" that grabs onto arsenic and sequesters it.

The discovery is published in the Nov. 5 issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a premier journal in the field of chemistry.

Since the article was written, the UO team has developed additional ways of capturing arsenic so that it cannot bond with other substances in a laboratory setting, according to Darren Johnson, an assistant professor of chemistry specializing in supramolecular and materials chemistry. Johnson, who joined the UO faculty in 2003, is also affiliated with the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechologies Institute (ONAMI)...read the wave

AlphaGalileo -- Inspired by cell biology, European researchers have created the world’s first shape-shifting robot made of many modules, which could lead to new applications in fields ranging from medicine and space exploration to education and entertainment.

On display at IST 2004 in The Hague and being showcased on 17 November in Tokyo, the HYDRA project’s robots have broken new ground in robotics and artificial intelligence through a simple but highly effective design that allows the devices to configure themselves into almost any shape and perform a variety of functions...read the wave

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Columbia, MO – November 16, 2004 Although they are one millionth the size of a human hair and are so small they cannot be seen with the naked eye, nanoparticles may become one of the most significant new products in the biomedical field thanks to University of Missouri-Columbia researchers who have developed a procedure to make them that is 240 times faster than previous methods.

Today, nanoparticles are used in applications as varied as making laundry detergent to medicines. However, for them to be beneficial in...read the wave

Tiny nanocables, 1,000 times smaller than a human hair, could become key parts of toxin detectors, miniaturized solar cells and powerful computer chips.

The technique for making the nanocables was invented by UC Davis chemical engineers led by Pieter Stroeve, professor of chemical engineering and materials science. They manufacture the cables in the nano-sized pores of a template membrane. The insides of the pores are coated with gold...read the wave

ARGONNE, Ill. (Nov. 12, 2004) — The country's best microscopists are teaming up to build the highest resolution microscope in the world, and researchers in Argonne's Materials Science Division (MSD) are playing a lead role.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences is funding this $100 million microscopy project, called the Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope (TEAM). One of the goals is to achieve a resolution of 0.5 Ångstrom resolution – about one-million times smaller than the diameter of a human hair — by the end of the decade. Another objective is to acquire three-dimensional images at atomic resolution. Today's best microscopes can only image a two-dimensional projection of columns of atoms..read the wave

The EPO has initiated a process of continuous preparation for emerging technologies in order to be able to continue to deliver the best service possible. Emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, can have a strong impact on the daily work of the EPO.

The number of nanotechnology patents filings is still less than 2 % of all patents filings, but since 2000 the number of published nanotechnology patents has increased by more than 60 %.
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Neue mobile Energiespeicher und effektivere Methoden der Energieerzeugung wollen fünf Max-Planck-Institute in einem gemeinsamen Forschungsverbund "Nanochemische Konzepte einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung (ENERCHEM)" entwickeln. Das gemeinsam von den Max-Planck-Instituten für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung (Potsdam), Festkörperforschung (Stuttgart), Polymerforschung (Mainz), Kohlenforschung (Mülheim) und dem Fritz-Haber-Institut (Berlin) gegründete Projekt wird von Prof. Markus Antonietti, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und ..read the wave

MUNICH, Allemagne — Déterminé à rejeter l’idée que Freescale Semiconductor Inc., bientôt indépendant, est en passe de devenir un IDM de deuxième niveau, la direction de la société a affirmé, lors de l’ouverture du salon Electronica, qu’elle était susceptible de prendre la tête du déploiement du procédé de fabrication 90 nm.
La direction a déclaré que, non seulement, la société était leader sur le secteur du 90 nm...read the wave

TRENTON, N.J. - Although nanotechnology is about manipulating substances at the molecular level, it is starting to bring big profits to many makers of consumer products.

Already, "nanoscience" has produced stain- and wrinkle-resistant clothing, self-cleaning windows, glare-reducing and fog-resistant coatings for eyeglasses and windshields, dramatically increased computer memory, better sports equipment, improved cosmetics and sunscreens, and lighter and stronger auto components...read the wave

Boston, 15 November -- Scientists are the first ones to admit that it is not easy to copy nature.

Consider this: Every year, nearly one million bone replacement procedures are performed in the United States – a number that is expected to rise with an aging population. Though the procedures will, in most cases, restore mobility and relieve pain, the average lifespan for metal implants is about 10 years, primarily because metal is not easily incorporated into the body.

To develop a good bone imitation with the same physical, mechanical, and biological properties as real bones is the goal of...read the wave

A nanotechnology device that can gauge the levels of carbon dioxide in a puff of air could help medical workers to check patients' breathing at the scene of an accident.

Changing levels of carbon dioxide in the breath show that a patient is running into respiratory trouble and may need...read the wave

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---Apogee Technology, Inc. (AMEX: ATA), have announced that its MEMS Division, an emerging designer and developer of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems ("MEMS") silicon devices, had entered into a cooperative agreement with The Research Foundation of State University of New York at Stony Brook and The Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (Sensor CAT) to jointly develop technologies that will enable a new generation of ultra-sensitive micro-sized sensors. The research will focus on combining nano-composite materials and silicon-based microfabrication processes to produce sensors for the industrial, automotive, medical, military and homeland security markets...read the wave

University scientists hope their research project will put their program on the map.

Fordism, step aside. Manufacturing is about to go nano. A group of scientists at the University of New Hampshire and two other universities recently received a $12.4 million grant to develop nanomanufacturing, or assembly lines scaled down to nanoelements and their one-billionth-of-a-meter size.

With the five-year National Science Foundation grant, the scientists hope to produce a series of tools that can assemble nanoelements into precise patterns and then transfer those patterns onto another surface, like stamps would...read the wave