This entry was posted in medicine, nanotechnology and tagged African Centre for Clinical Trials, Barnards Ogutu, Gatonye Gathura, Gitonga Marete, International Council on Nanotechnology, Kenya, Kenya: ...

Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, just announced that the company will invest $6B to $8B for new and upgraded manufacturing facilities to produce 22 nanometre (nm) computer chips. From ...

Michael Berger at Nanowerk has written a Spotlight essay on the explosivity of nanoparticles. From the March 20, 2012 essay, Recent studies have found that nanomaterials – in this case dusts and ...

Each year the folks at Open Lab create an anthology of the best science writing on blogs. Here’s a little background about the project from the ‘What is Open Laboratory’ page, The Open Laboratory is ...

This entry was posted in biomimcry, coatings, nanotechnology and tagged airplane wings, American Instittue of Physics (AIP), anti-icing, anti-reflective effects, de-icing, eyeglasses, ice-phobic, ...

Here are the details about this book launch event, Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies: Book Launch Please join us for the launch of Evan Michelson’s new book, Assessing the ...

This morning, I was excited to receive a news release about Dr. Hongbin Li’s recent work which has been published in Nature magazine. A Canada Research Chair in Molecular Nanoscience and Protein ...

I like to keep up with the nanocellulose scene so I’m featuring this item even though it’s a bit late and a bit thin. From the March 29, 2012 news item on Nanowerk, CelluForce, the world leader in the ...

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has a couple of ‘oversight’ events coming up. The first is on Tuesday, April 28,2009 at 9 am PST and features discussion of a report ‘ Oversight of Next ...

Strictly speaking this story of tricking cellulose into growing on the surface rather than the interior of a cell is not a nanotechnology topic but I imagine that the folks who research nanocellulose ...

This is pretty remarkable. Usually when researchers talk about invisibility cloaks, they’ve managed to cloak something that is measured at the nanoscale. Here they’ve (Fractal Antenna Systems Inc.) ...

Professor Ted Sargent, electrical and computer engineering professor at the University of Toronto, heads an engineering research team which recently published a paper about solar cells and colloidal ...