The government is planning to set up a nanotechnology park in Bangalore in the financial year 2012-13 to give an impetus to the technology and will soon constitute an expert committee.…

University of Oregon scientist David C. Johnson will take the minuscule world of nanotechnology on the road to Albany for an informal “science pub” at 6:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Calapooia Brewing Co., 140 Hill St. NE In his talk, “Nanotechnology: ...…

According to a report by Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), more than 3000 students visited the exhibition. Nano Week Exhibitions are educational-promotional activities that have been held by Nano Club since 2009 in various provinces of the ...…

This is made possible by combining nanotechnology and optics. Freystadt/Oberpfalz – JvG Thoma GmbH has invested three years of research work, now the new technology has reached its market maturity. Just recently, JvG presented a special high efficiency ...…

Some conspiracy theorists are convinced that nanotechnology will destroy the world; at least one person has sent bombs to professors researching the field. But most people aren't terribly worked up about nanotechnology, even as discussions about its ...…

Ross Nanotechnology (a division of Ross Technology, out of Lancaster, Pa.) has released a new product called NeverWet, which is a new hydrophobic spray that can be applied to virtually every surface and will make it almost perfectly water proof.…

Back in the early 2000's, food nanotechnology seemed to be a very hot topic and large industrial food companies were eager to explore new opportunities offered by nanotechnology applications. T…

MANHASSET, NY—Federal funding of more than $5 million is being given to the CNSE (College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering) of the University at Albany for a host of nanotechnology-enabled education and research programs.…

While biotechnology has met with mixed public reactions, to date nanotechnology seems to invoke much less public concern. By Susanna Priest | February 3, 2012 Some forms of biotechnology have become notoriously controversial.…

Last week's State of the Union Address found President Obama bragging about how few regulations he had implemented as president and how much support ...…

Nanotechnology has been hailed as the next industrial revolution due to the novel electrical, catalytic, magnetic, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties of nanoparticles. However, the human health risks, if any, of engineered nanoparticle (ENP) ...…

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: In the last 11 years, governments around the world have invested more than US$67 billion in funding nanotechnology research.…

Nanotechnology heralds "a revolutionary time in oncology", according to leading cancer clinician Prof Mario Airoldi, director of medical oncology at the San Giovanni Battista hospital in Turin. He thinks that nanomedicine is set to make the ...…

Due to rapidly increasing power densities in electronics, managing the resulting heat has become one of the most critical issues in computer and semiconductor design (see our previous Nanowerk Spotlight: "Nanotechnology to the ...…

Food and drink products containing nanotechnology ingredients are unlikely to appear on UK supermarket shelves anytime soon, despite research into their use taking place in Asia, the US and Brazil. Reporting to last week's Food Standards Agency (FSA) ...…

Be afraid, very afraid, when litigation lawyers start to wrap their brains around nanotechnology liability issues. The Defense Research Institute's For the Defense January 2012 issue features an article by John Delany, a founding member of Delany ...…

A new company formed around Michigan State University nanotechnology promises to move speedy detection of deadly pathogens and toxins from the laboratory directly to the field. Food contamination and other biohazards present a growing public health ...…

A new company formed around Michigan State University nanotechnology promises to move speedy detection of deadly pathogens and toxins from the laboratory directly to the field. Food contamination and other biohazards present a growing public health ...…

Burgeoning use of nanotechnology by industry requires increased federal spending on research into potential risks, says a report from the National Academy of Sciences released Jan. 25. Engineered nanomaterials--materials on the order of one billionth ...…

Doctoral student Bin-Da Chan holds a microtweezer Friday in a lab in Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University. The microtweezer is capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors, ...…