• A better way to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    This week in nanotechnology (June 20-26, 2009). Posted: Jun 26th, 2009. Norway's companies asked to declare nanomaterials. Posted: Jun 26th, 2009. Two new construction manuals for the world's smallest lamps. Posted: Jun 26th, 2009 ...

  • Significant New Use Rules (SNUR) on nanomaterials from EPA

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    EPA Federal Register Notice of June 24, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 120). Source: Innovation Society. Subscribe to a free copy of our daily. Nanowerk Nanotechnology News Email Digest. with a compilation of all of the day's news. ...

  • Nanofluidic biopsy detects subtle changes in cancer cells

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    Dr. Felsher, who is a member of the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response based at Stanford University, added, “This technology allows us to analyze cancer-associated proteins on a very small scale. ...

  • Carbon nanotubes continue to show promise in battle against cancer

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    As a result, explained Dr. Baker, who heads one of the 12 National Cancer Institute Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships, this current research provides a one-step method for adding multiple functions to carbon nanotubes without ...

  • KLD Energy Technologies Announces New Scooter Powered by High …

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    QD Soleil Expands Leadership Team with World-Class Nanotechnology Leaders. Posted: Jun 24th, 2009. New Report Identifies the Key Opportunities for Indium in Photovoltaics. Posted: Jun 24th, 2009 ...

  • Computer-guided nanoparticle therapy destroys tumors

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    Both Dr. Bhatia and Dr. Sailor are members of the National Cancer Institute's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer. Gold nanoparticles can absorb different frequencies of light, depending on their shape. The rod-shaped particles ...

  • Expanding quantum dot utility in cancer diagnosis and treatment

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    Paras Prasad, Ph.D., principal investigator of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership based at the University of Buffalo, has been developing a variety of methods for creating novel types of QDs. ...

  • Mathematical model predicts factors driving tumor invasion

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    ... on the unique physical characteristics of that patient's disease. Source: National Cancer Institute. Subscribe to a free copy of our daily. Nanowerk Nanotechnology News Email Digest. with a compilation of all of the day's news. ...

  • Market for organic and printed electronics expected to grow rapidly

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    Call for papers for special issue on ' Nanotechnologies and the Consumer'. Posted: Jun 25th, 2009. University of Arkansas gets additional $1.5m for nanotechnology center. Posted: Jun 25th, 2009 ...

  • Harnessing nanoparticles to track cancer cell changes

    Updated: 2009-06-27 10:37:17
    ... to flow cytometry but with higher resolving power, Dr. Shachaf said. Source: National Cancer Institute. Subscribe to a free copy of our daily. Nanowerk Nanotechnology News Email Digest. with a compilation of all of the day's news. ...

  • Exploratory Engineering: Applying the predictive power of science to future technologies

    Updated: 2009-06-27 02:16:00
    While I’m on the subject of foundational concepts in the relationship between science and engineering, here’s the outline of a methodology for applying current science to assess lower bounds on the capabilities of a select subset of future technologies. (As many of you know, some of those lower bounds are startlingly high.) A subset of the [...]

  • Moore’s Law and Robotics

    Updated: 2009-06-26 09:00:36
    One thing I was at some pains during my recent visit to Willow Garage was the likely impact of Moore’s Law on the course of robotics development in the next few years. This is of great interest to a futurist because if computation is a bottleneck, it will be loosened in a well-understood way [...]

  • Environmentally beneficial nanotechnology

    Updated: 2009-06-25 18:17:01
    Today I’ve been at Parliament in London, at an event sponsored by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology to launch the second phase of the Environmental Nanoscience Initiative. This is a joint UK-USA research program led by the UK’s Natural Environment Research Agency and the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency. This is a [...]

  • Moral Railroads

    Updated: 2009-06-25 09:00:43
    Over at the Moral Machines blog, there’s a pointer to an AP story about the recent DC train crash: Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains focused Tuesday on why a computerized system failed to halt an oncoming train, and why the train failed to stop even though the emergency brake was [...]

  • Theoretical problems of semiconductor physics. International symposium in memory of Prof V.I.Perel

    Updated: 2009-06-25 00:00:00
    Conference: 30 Jun 2009 - 2 Jul 2009, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Organized by The Ioffe Institute.

  • FDA Spokesperson Says Regulatory Authority Is Sufficient to Address Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2009-06-24 23:10:29
    According to a June 8, 2009, article, Dr. Annette McCarthy of the Food and Drug Administration’ (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition stated on June 6, 2009, at the Institute of Food Technologists’annual meeting that the “regulatory authority is sufficient to address nanotechnology but there are further questions.” cCarthy recommended that petitions to the FDA seeking acceptance of a nanotech food additive or coloring should address its “impact on identity and toxicity.” ccording to McCarthy, the idea of a Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) standard is not out of the question. lthough a company “would have a hard time today” proving that a nanotechnology is generally recognized as safe, McCarthy thinks that “two years down the line, it could be a slam dunk; it could be very simple.

  • Willow Garage Robotics

    Updated: 2009-06-24 08:27:57
    After hearing an excellent talk by Willow Garage president Steven Cousins at PARC last Thursday, I wangled a visit to the company Monday and talked to a few more people. Willow Garage is a research robotics company in Silicon Valley which has a unique mission for a start-up. They are oriented to making [...]

  • Siggi Becker: BlueMatter - http://p9.hostingprod.com/@modha.org/blog/2009/06/bluematter.html (via http://ff.im/4lvU0)

    Updated: 2009-06-24 08:09:27

  • Siggi Becker: The AI Report - Forbes.com - http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/22/singularity-robots-computers-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09_land.html (via http://ff.im/4mG94)

    Updated: 2009-06-24 08:09:12

  • Regulation of millitechnology

    Updated: 2009-06-23 08:06:32
    Suppose there were a class of technologies called millitech: science and engineering that could be measured in millimeters, from say about a tenth of a millimeter to 100 millimeters — in any dimension. That includes hairs, paper, pebbles, marbles, anything you can hold in the palm of your hand, anything less than 4 inches [...]

  • CFN Summer School on Nano-Electronics

    Updated: 2009-06-23 00:00:00
    School: 4 Sep 2009 - 7 Sep 2009, Bad Herrenalb, Germany. Organized by DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures.

  • CFN Summer School on Nano-Biology

    Updated: 2009-06-23 00:00:00
    School: 8 Sep 2009 - 11 Sep 2009, Bad Herrenalb, Germany. Organized by DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures.

  • Attitudes to nanotech regulation

    Updated: 2009-06-22 17:19:22
    An article this past weekend on Nanowerk reports on a study about attitudes toward regulation of nanotechnology among nanoscientists and the general public: As reported in the online version of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research today (June 19), Scheufele and Corley found that the public tends to focus on the benefits — rather than potential environmental [...]

  • The Antiparallel Structures of Science and Engineering

    Updated: 2009-06-22 09:43:51
    The heart of the problem(Full image below) Science and engineering are inseparable fields, linked by a shared language of mass and energy, molecules and thermodynamics, physical systems and physical law. This shared language makes communication deceptively easy — easy, because scientists and engineers can see every detail in the same way; deceptive, because they see these [...]

  • EPA announcement on ChAMP

    Updated: 2009-06-19 18:58:10
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. It probably goes without saying that EDF welcomes EPA's decision to suspend the development and posting of risk-based prioritizations under its Chemical Assessment and Mangement Program (ChAMP).  EDF has been arguing (see our earlier posts) that ChAMP's "rush to risk" has taken EPA badly off-track.  But we have also identified [...]

  • Myths through mythquotation

    Updated: 2009-06-18 21:44:56
    Not really a separate world When Slashdot runs the slightly misleading headline, “Real Nanotechnology Getting Closer, Says Drexler” (with a link to the technology roadmap — lots of downloads!), the Tech Talk blog at IEEE Spectrum quite naturally reports this as “Eric Drexler has just been quoted as saying ‘Real nanotechnology is getting closer’”… and thus [...]

  • Nanodot upgrade

    Updated: 2009-06-17 19:36:02
    As you can see, we’re in the process of upgrading nanodot (and the main website will follow). Please bear with us while we work the kinks out.

  • More signs of mainstream interest in nanomachinery

    Updated: 2009-06-16 19:07:35
    This Physorg story gives the details, hat tip to Sander Olsen… Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim, have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled. This [...]

  • Using ChAMP to Advance Alternative Testing Technologies

    Updated: 2009-06-16 15:52:17
    Cal Baier-Anderson, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist and Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Many of the screening-level hazard data being collected and analyzed under ChAMP that pertain to human health are derived from traditional laboratory animal studies.  The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently offered a "new paradigm for toxicity testing" in its 2008 [...]

  • Science and Engineering: A Layer-Cake of Inquiry and Design

    Updated: 2009-06-16 09:43:47
    Science-intensive engineering Engineering-intensive science (launch to Saturn included) Inquiry is the essence of science, design is the essence of engineering, and in their pure forms, these activities are utterly different. Scientific inquiry draws observations from the world to reshape the mind; engineering design projects ideas from the mind to reshape the world. One is an eye, [...]

  • Siggi Becker: Nanotechnology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems - http://e-drexler.com/d/07/00/1204TechnologyRoadmap.html (via http://ff.im/42838)

    Updated: 2009-06-16 08:40:55

  • 9th UK Annual LOT and J.A. Woollam Ellipsometry Seminar

    Updated: 2009-06-16 00:00:00
    Workshop: 20 Oct 2009, Chessington, Surrey, United Kingdom. Organized by LOT Oriel Ltd.

  • A cautionary note, concluded

    Updated: 2009-06-15 15:29:17
    Last week I posted a story of strange behavior in the simulation of molecular machines. One commenter asked if this was due to something unusual in the starting configuration of the atoms. This was the first thing we investigated, and didn’t seem to be the case. There was a small amount to strain [...]

  • Use of nanoparticle for improving laser performance

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
     ”Scattering light through tailor made nanoparticle can significantly improve the laser performance” is the outcome of latest research carried out by researchers at Madrid. Researchers at Instituto de Ciencia y Technologia de Polimeros, Madrid and at the Instituto de Quimica – Fisica, Rocasolano found that the laser get scattered in such a way so that it [...]

  • Tunable semiconductors possible with hot new material called graphene

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Transistors and LEDs are like radios that send and receive only one frequency. A new material called graphene is like a broadband receiver/transmitter, able to emit light across a wide range of infrared frequencies and with a tunable bandgap unheard of in today’s semiconductors. UC Berkeley physicists have now demonstrated these properties in bilayer grapene [...]

  • Second Annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit will hold during 22-23 June 2009

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Renowned people from across the world will again meet on the occasion of 2nd annual nano renewable energy summit during 22-23 June 2009. The NanoBusiness Alliance and the Colarado Nanotechnology Alliance are organizing the second summit and has recently announced the program. The venue of the conference is University of Denver and top energy experts [...]

  • Scientists advance safety of nanotechnology

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growing concerns over the safety of nanotechnology.

  • Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don’t disintegrate at the slightest touch.

  • New 45nm chip for smart phones

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Qualcomm Incorporated, one of the major leaders in wireless technologies, is developing a new process technology that uses 45nm chip. The company presently use Snapdragon platform for a number of smartbook and smartphone models. With the introduction of these next-generation 45nm chip, users will get the benefit of faster processing and longer battery life. The new [...]

  • Materials scientist finds plumber’s wonderland on graphene

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University have demonstrated the formation of interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrate in a simple assembly process that involves heating few-layer graphene sheets to sublimation using electric current that may eventually lead to a new paradigm for building integrated carbon-based devices.

  • Mapping of polycrystalline nanoscale structure

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has successfully attempted mapping of polycrystalline nanoscale structure. Katayun Barmak and Thomas Nuhfer have become the first material scientists across the world that successfully map polycrystalline structure. Barmak, a renowned professor of material science and engineering at the University has led to achieve the novel mapping process. Barmak and her colleagues [...]

  • Innovative silicon membrane developed for NanoBattery

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    MPhase Technology Inc. is one of the company, which is engaged in development, manufacturing and commercialization of the new nano battery technology. A new patented technology based on electrowetting is very much useful in storing and managing energy and power especially for Smart NanoBattery. The company has recently released a new superhydrophobic silicon separator that [...]

  • Applied Material Inc. produces large photovoltaic cell

    Updated: 2009-06-14 11:35:46
    Applied Material Inc. is one of the largest nanomanufacturer and is engaged in the fabrication of various equipments, photovoltaic cells and semiconductor chips. The company uses the most advance nanomanufacturing technology to fabricate the world’s finest and innovative products. It has already produced many electrical and electronics appliances including solar panels. A 1.4 square meter solar [...]

  • The Physical Basis of Atomically Precise Manufacturing

    Updated: 2009-06-12 22:27:15
    The section below, adapted from a longer work, discusses the physical basis for understanding atomically precise fabrication systems: first, a very general class of systems, and second, the specific characteristics of high-throughput systems of a kind several technology levels above where we are today. (In my previous post, “A Telescope Aimed at the Future” I [...]

  • SPIE Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring 2010

    Updated: 2009-06-12 00:00:00
    Conference: 7 Mar 2010 - 11 Mar 2010, San Diego, CA, United States. Organized by SPIE.

  • International Nanotechnology Symposium

    Updated: 2009-06-11 00:00:00
    Conference/Exhibition: 28 Jul 2009, la Jolla, CA, United States. Organized by nanoTecNexus.

  • A Telescope Aimed at the Future

    Updated: 2009-06-10 06:58:42
    + Often a good approximation Our time in history is unique in that physical knowledge and computational methods enable partial understanding of technology levels above our own — and in some areas, far above. Because we understand the universal physical laws that govern matter and energy, we understand the physical laws that will govern the material structures [...]

  • Siggi Becker: Blogging Against the Singularity - http://antisingularity.wordpress.com/ (via http://ff.im/3MH0W)

    Updated: 2009-06-09 23:20:01

  • Bionic health: next generation implants, prosthetics and devices

    Updated: 2009-06-09 00:00:00
    Conference/Exhibition: 1 Oct 2009, London, United Kingdom. Organized by The Institution of Engineering and Technology.

  • Talk at 09 ISMICS

    Updated: 2009-06-06 07:58:31
    I was up in San Francisco this morning for the annual meeting of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). These are the innovative surgeons who’ve been developing instruments and procedures that greatly reduce the collateral damage of surgical interventions, accomplishing what must to be done with less damage to skin, muscle, fascia, [...]

  • UK Will Develop Strategy for Nanotechnologies

    Updated: 2009-06-04 21:09:01
    On June 2, 2009, the United Kingdom (UK) released its response to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) Report entitled Novel Materials in the Environment: he Case of Nanotechnology. he RCEP looked at the properties of nanomaterials and the potential pathways by which they could enter and present potential hazards to the environment and people. he UK states that it shares RCEP’ “understanding that there is no evidence of actual harm resulting from the use of nanotechnologies, but accepts that this is a possibility and that there is a need to develop our understanding further.” he UK intends to develop a “UK Strategy for nanotechnologies,” which “will build on previous and existing activities and review the UK’ priorities and strategic direction.” he UK intends to begin in Summer 2009 an “evidence gathering exercise” with stakeholders to inform development of the Strategy.

  • The Paradox of Choice

    Updated: 2009-06-04 07:24:03
    Why More is Less In standard theories of rationality, it is practically axiomatic that having more choices is always better. It should come as no surprise that this isn’t true of real human beings: Too much choice can make us miserable. In The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Barry Schwartz unfolds a broad picture of [...]

  • EU Examining How REACH Applies to Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2009-06-03 17:17:40
    Nanotechnology Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotechnology Law Blog Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home International EU Examining How REACH Applies to Nanomaterials EU Examining How REACH Applies to Nanomaterials Posted on June 3, 2009 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks On May 28, 2009, during the Helsinki Chemicals Forum organized by the European Commission EC and European Chemicals Agency ECHA governmental spokespersons said that the way the Registration , Evaluation , Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals REACH program applies to nanoscale substances is being reconsidered . nbsp ECHA Executive Director Geert Dancet stated that specific regulation of nanomaterials could be considered when the EC reviews REACH , which it is required to do by June 1, 2012 According to Dancet , the review could cover both the scope and implementation of REACH . nbsp Dancet stated that nanomaterials will be covered in a more systematic way following the review . nbsp European Union EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas stated that further work

  • Outsourcing in Clinical Trials East Coast

    Updated: 2009-06-02 00:00:00
    Conference/Exhibition: 30 Sep 2009 - 1 Oct 2009, Boston, MA, United States.

  • ChAMP's double standard

    Updated: 2009-06-01 22:12:11
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. This new post serves as a response to Charlie Auer's most recent comment responding to our critique of ChAMP.  (To see the whole exchange, start here, then go here, here and here.)  So far, this exchange has focused mainly on our disagreement over whether or not EPA is somehow [...]

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