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News from Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net)

Posted by TINC on February 5, 2011 at 11:41am

→ Valentine's Day (and the new seasonal activities calendar)

Valentine's Day is February 14th. Haven't made plans yet? May we suggest Sweet Self-Assembly, a program focused on using self-assembly techniques to create edible macrocapsules. So this Val

ASME Microfluidics 2011 Forum (Abstract Due: February 28)

Posted by TINC on February 5, 2011 at 11:40am

Dear Colleagues of the Micro/Nanofluidics Community,

I am writing to announce and encourage your submissions to the Microfluidics 2011 Forum at the ASME IMECE in Denver, Colorado. The deadline for abstract submission is February 28, 2011. Additiona

Ben Gurion University Nanotech Professor Receives Krill Prize for Renewable Energy Nano Applications

Posted by TINC on February 5, 2011 at 11:39am

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, February 4, 2011 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher Dr. Taleb Mokari, a member of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has been awarded a prestigious Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific R

CANCER

Posted by ROSHAN CHANDRA on February 4, 2011 at 11:40am

August Bier, a German surgeon, declared in the earlier part of the twentieth century that all that the experts knew about cancer could be put down on a visiting card: we know nothing. Charaka, the Indian Ayurvedic legend, predating Christ by half a m

IS STEM CELL TREATMENT EFFECTIVE?

Posted by ROSHAN CHANDRA on February 4, 2011 at 11:39am

Stem cells are the most exciting part of medical claptrap these days. When confronted with any serious or incurable disease, we try to fool the gullible public by saying that the problem cab be fixed with stem cell transplant (SCT). The rich fall eas

Nanotech jobs

Posted by TINC on February 4, 2011 at 7:43am

Applications Support Scientist - Nanocoating\/Surface Science

Company: Vector Recruitment

Location: Abingdon, England

http://www.simplyhired.co.uk/job-id/i3mw2dr4rx/applications-support-jobs/

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Chemistry Technician- Nanotechnology\/Surface Sc

TIME for NANO - Film competition

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 9:52pm

The Time for Nano Project aims at engaging the general public, with a special attention to young people, on benefits and risks related to nanoscale research, engineering and technology, through specific informal education products. Watch the winners

Nanopaprika 2.0 - Share your nanotechnology news, product, event, job-offer FREE with 4200 people from 70 coutries

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 8:20pm

Nanopaprika.eu - The International NanoScience Community started a new project from February 2011. You can cost free share your nanotechnology news, information about your nanoproducts, nanoevents, jobs with more than 4200 researchers students from 7

Sputtering of soft magnetic materials

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 8:17pm

I would like to introduce our new approach for Sputtering of soft magnetic materials, to form Nanoparticals of magnetic materials covered by Ferrite model TFSP 840. The system is a loadlock sputtering system which includes UV pre cleaning as well as

Magyar nanohírek (in Hungarian)

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 4:29pm

Az EuroNanoForum konferenciát 2011. május 30. - június 1. között Budapesten rendezik meg Magyarország EU elnökségi programjának részeként.
Előadással és posztterrel 2011. február 7-ig (hosszabbított időpont!) lehet jelentkezni a
http://www.euronano

ICQNM 2011

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 7:48am

The Fifth International Conference on Quantum-, Nano- and Micro-technologies (ICQNM 2011) continues a series of events covering particularly promising theories and technologies. The conference covers fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing,

PhD Positions in Computational Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Posted by TINC on February 3, 2011 at 7:41am

Applications are invited for PhD studies focused on theoretical and
computational design and modeling of novel (hybrid) nanoscale systems,
operated by chemical, physical and biological principles. The
candidates will learn how to use ab-initio electr

Complimentary Access to the 2011 ACS Nano Sample Issue

Posted by TINC on February 2, 2011 at 8:58pm

ACS Publications invites you to explore the 2011 sample issue (Issue 1, Volume 5) of ACS Nano available online free until the end of the year.

ACS Nano has a 2009 ISI Impact Factor of 7.493, a 37% increase from 2008, and still rising! It is ranked in

NANO OSTRAVA 2011

Posted by TINC on February 2, 2011 at 8:48pm

NANO OSTRAVA 2011 , 27-29 April, 2011 in Ostrava, Czech Republic

The second international bi–annual 'Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Meeting' in Ostrava is a platform to facilitate open discussions between scientists, students and representatives

Graphene can be made to repel water effectively - with great potential

Posted by TINC on February 2, 2011 at 8:30pm

Researchers from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) have developed a way to create a film of Graphene Oxide so it either causes water to bead up and 'run off' or alternatively be spread out in a thin layer. As graphene sheets are transparen

1 week to send in your paper to Euronanoforum2011 !!! don't miss this event

Posted by Andrea Elisabeth Reinhardt on February 1, 2011 at 10:28am

Find details at www.euronanoforum2011.eu/calls

TECNAN at Nanotech Japan 2011 - We hope to see you all at our stand

Posted by Tecnan-Nanomat on January 31, 2011 at 5:14pm

TECNAN produces and commercialises on large-scale simple, mixed and doped nano-oxides as well as other high performance nanoproducts for multisectoral applications, establishing TECNAN as one of the most competitive suppliers of these new materials w

ART OF SCIENCE @ CALTECH

Posted by LaVerne L Poussaint on January 28, 2011 at 4:30pm

Competition Images: © California Institute of Technology. All Right Reserved. Expressed permissions obtained. Video Montage: © LaVerne Poussaint. All Rights Reserved.

A few of my favs:

Volume Rendering of Human Embryo [Carnegie Stage 14 : Gestationa

Call for proposals for funding for an Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme

Posted by Lesley Tobin on January 28, 2011 at 3:05pm

The EACEA ( Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) of the European Commission is currently implementing a call for proposals for an intra-Africa, Caribbean, Pacific academic mobility scheme:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/intra_acp_mobility/f

Prestigious European level scholarship in materials for Energy storage and conversion

Posted by GEBREKIDAN GEBRESILASSIE ESHETU on January 28, 2011 at 2:08pm

Dear all, please apply to our programme in materials for energy storage and conversion for master programme. Please also advice to apply to it. It is an Erasmus Mundus ( Europen level programme) which is given in 8 universities including in USA, Chin