• OECD and Germany Will Hold Workshop on Safe Management of Nanowaste

    Updated: 2012-03-30 20:31:49
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home International OECD and Germany Will Hold Workshop on Safe Management of Nanowaste OECD and Germany Will Hold Workshop on Safe Management of Nanowaste Posted on March 30, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On May 9-11, 2012 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD and Germany's Federal Ministry of Environment , Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety BMU will hold a workshop entitled Safe Management of Nanowaste . rdquo According to the draft agenda

  • Less is More: Innovations in Forensic Science Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-03-30 00:00:00
    Conference: 10 Nov 2012, United Kingdom. Organized by The Forensic Science Society.

  • EC Requests Scientific Opinion on Health Effects of Nanomaterials Used in Medical Devices

    Updated: 2012-03-29 19:26:35
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home International EC Requests Scientific Opinion on Health Effects of Nanomaterials Used in Medical Devices EC Requests Scientific Opinion on Health Effects of Nanomaterials Used in Medical Devices Posted on March 29, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On March 27, 2012, the European Commission EC posted a request to the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks SCENIHR for a scientific opinion on the health effects of nanomaterials used in medical

  • Dr. Robert Pohanka Appointed as Director of the NNCO

    Updated: 2012-03-28 17:30:28
    . Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal Dr . Robert Pohanka Appointed as Director of the NNCO Dr . Robert Pohanka Appointed as Director of the NNCO Posted on March 28, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On March 20, 2012, the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office NNCO announced the appointment of Dr . Robert Pohanka as the Director of the NNCO . nbsp The NNCO provides technical and administrative support to the Nanoscale Science , Engineering , and Technology NSET Subcommittee , serves as a

  • ECHA gives a CoRAP: REACH substance evaluation kicks off with list of target chemicals

    Updated: 2012-03-26 17:19:59
    Allison Tracy is a Chemicals Policy Fellow. Posts to this blog concerning REACH – the European Union’s regulation for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals – have dealt mainly with the “R” and “A”.  A few weeks ago, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) took a first big step to capitalize on the “E” [...]

  • Faster, less expensive medical diagnostics through nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-03-23 21:32:52
    New protein repellent coating enhances the speed of carbon nanotube-based biosensors, pointing the way to faster, cheaper medical diagnostics.

  • Nanotechnology Conference

    Updated: 2012-03-23 00:00:00
    Conference: 31 Oct 2012 - 3 Nov 2012, Mexico. Organized by Zing Conferences.

  • CFN Summer School on Nano-Photonics 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-19 00:00:00
    School: 10 Sep 2012 - 13 Sep 2012, Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest, Germany. Organized by DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN).

  • CFN Summer School on Nano-Energy 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-19 00:00:00
    School: 14 Sep 2012 - 17 Sep 2012, Bad Herrenalb, Black Forest, Germany. Organized by DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN).

  • Carbon Nanotubes Help Renewable Energy Industry by Improving Wind Turbine Durability

    Updated: 2012-03-16 21:35:35
    Composites made with small amounts of multi-walled carbon nanotubes improve wind turbine blades by reducing mass while retaining strength.

  • Schmidhuber discusses the Singularity at TEDxLausanne

    Updated: 2012-03-16 20:55:24
    Jürgen Schmidhuber, whose work is cited as some of the most cutting-edge in all of AI in “Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import,” recently discussed the Singularity at TEDxLausanne:

  • Exposing our ignorance: EPA study reveals barren exposure data landscape

    Updated: 2012-03-16 18:00:17
    Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist. This past November, EPA scientists published a sobering paper, “The exposure data landscape for manufactured chemicals,” in the journal Science of the Total Environment.  The paper reveals how little systematic information we have about human and environmental exposures to the thousands of chemicals in use today.  The aim [...]

  • Photonics Technology Roadshow

    Updated: 2012-03-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 26 Apr 2012, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Organized by Xmark Media Ltd.

  • Computational analysis of scattered images brings atomic resolution to electron microscopy

    Updated: 2012-03-14 23:37:18
    A new method called electron ptychography uses computational methods to form an image from scattered electron waves that have passed through the sample, bringing atomic resolution to electron microscopy.

  • Lessons for us all in the passing of a giant: Nobelist Sherwood Rowland

    Updated: 2012-03-13 13:51:24
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Today's New York Times logs a passing this past weekend that should be noted by any of us who consider ourselves to be a friend of science and the environment:  Dr. Sherwood Rowland, a modest but persistent chemist who, together with his colleague, Mario Molina, discovered that a class [...]

  • Australia Announces New Guidance on the Safe Handling and Use of Carbon Nanotubes

    Updated: 2012-03-12 22:13:13
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home International Australia Announces New Guidance on the Safe Handling and Use of Carbon Nanotubes Australia Announces New Guidance on the Safe Handling and Use of Carbon Nanotubes Posted on March 12, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On March 5, 2012, Safe Work Australia announced the release of an information sheet on the safe handling and use of carbon nanotubes in the workplace and a document entitled Safe Handling and Use of Carbon Nanotubes The information sheet

  • Wisconsin Bill Would Create Nanotechnology Information Hub and Nanotechnology Council

    Updated: 2012-03-08 23:10:58
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home State Wisconsin Bill Would Create Nanotechnology Information Hub and Nanotechnology Council Wisconsin Bill Would Create Nanotechnology Information Hub and Nanotechnology Council Posted on March 8, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link S.B . 533 which was prepared for the Joint Legislative Council's Special Committee on Nanotechnology was introduced in the Wisconsin Senate on February 29, 2012, by the Joint Legislative Council . The bill directs the University of Wisconsin

  • DNA nanotechnology-based nanorobot delivers cell suicide message to cancer cells

    Updated: 2012-03-08 22:57:18
    Functioning DNA nanorobots to deliver specific molecular signals to cells were designed by combining DNA origami, DNA aptamers, and DNA logic gates.

  • Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT2012)

    Updated: 2012-03-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 10 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012, Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Organized by Phantoms Foundation.

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