A new report published by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a comprehensive evaluation of the knowledge base regarding the dermal absorption of nanomaterials. The report is the final output of the project “Dermal absorption o

Particles that deliver vaccines directly to mucosal surfaces could defend against many infectious diseases such as HIV, the herpes simplex or the human papilloma virus. Read more

Watch what happens when you bend and break the world’s thinnest glass. This glass, discovered by Cornell researchers and their international team of collaborators, was recently featured in the Guinness Book of World Records and is made of the same co

UK's Durham Graphene Science announced plans to go public, and raise up to £10 million (about $16 million) on the UK's AIM stock exchange. The company is also changing its name to Applied Graphene Materials (AGM). They will use the fund to increase p

Haydale updates on their graphene inks and GNPs, expects products based on graphene inks by early 2014


http://www.graphene-info.com/haydale-updates-their-graphene-inks-and-gnps

Rice lab’s mix of nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer  A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda. The Rice

Graphene emerges as a versatile new surface to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential for applications in sensors for understanding biological processes, disease detection and drug screening. Writing in Nature

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (UIUC). The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for one full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty position; all rank

The goals of the NDnano Associate Director (AD) will be to grow and strengthen nanotechnology-related research, and outreach at Notre Dame. The AD will ensure the success of NDnano by directing, managing, and organizing the full range of activities t

Recently we have some PhD/ Post Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate positions at Materials Science Research Lab (MSRL) at SV College of Post Graduate Studies and Research, Aligarh, India. The research project for the PhD/ Postdoctor is focused on the

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof (SALSA)

Call for Applications: 15 doctoral fellowships in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Natural Sciences Education

SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof a

Fatigue Behavior of a Nanocomposite under a Fighter Aircraft Spectrum Load Sequence

Authors: C.M. Manjunatha, Ramesh Bojja, N. Jagannathan

Abstract: Two different E-glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite laminates having quasi isotropic

The 10^th International Innovation Forum and Exhibition entitled Precise Measurements – Basis of Quality and Security devoted to the World Metrology Day will be held at the All-Russian Exhibition Center (AREC) in Moscow on May 20-22, 2014.

The Feder

By folding a paper-based Li-ion battery in a Miura-ori pattern (similar to how some maps are folded), scientists have shown that the battery exhibits a 14x increase in areal energy density and capacity due to its smaller footprint. Paper-based batter

Dr. Marc Gluba and Professor Dr. Norbert Nickel of the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics have shown that graphene retains its impressive set of properties when it is coated with a thin silicon film. These findings have paved the way for entirel

Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they’ll find carbyne nanorods or nanoropes have a host of remarkable and useful properties, as described in a new paper by Rice

A postdoctoral position is available for a joint project led by Dr. Jinjun Shi and Dr. Omid Farokhzad at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. This project aims to address the drug resistance challenge in cancer chemotherapy. The appli

Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions in the Timp Lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. We are seeking qualified individuals to support research projects in single cell and single molecule epigenet

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in gas liquid interfacial reaction dynamics

School of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Institute of Chemical Sciences

Grade 7, Salary Scale £29,541 - £36,298

Applications are invited for a research associate positi