Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program will award $10 million in research funds for its “Nanomanufacturing for Energy Efficiency 2008″ initiative. The selected projects will receive funds over a three year period. Awards will range from approximately $150,000 to $2,000,000.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Last week I noted that the University of California was the third leading patent holder for U.S. nanotech patents. I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at some of the data regarding the University of California's nanotech activity.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trouble is brewing and the carbon wars have begun. It's "sheets" versus "tubes", 2-D vs 3-D, graphene versus nanotubes. Man your battlestations, toss in your bets, and start your research!
Because of some recent news regarding graphene, in this post I will attempt to highlight some of the patentability ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The National Science Board (NSB), made up of several scientists, researchers and educators (all of whom also happen to have fancy PhDs) and serve as the governing board of the National Science Foudnation (NSF) recently presented "Science and Engineering Indicators 2008" to the President and Congress. This report summarizes information ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park have discovered that materials such as silica that are quite brittle in bulk form behave as ductile as gold at the nanoscale. Their results may affect the design of future nanomachines.
NIST scientists Pradeep Namboodiri ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Project for Emerging Nanotechnologies (“PEN”) recently published a research brief that it terms a “legal” analysis purporting to examine whether provisions related to the Toxic Release Inventory (“TRI”) contained in the Emergency Planning and Community-Right-to-Know Act (“EPCRA”) apply to nanomaterials.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Google Trends reports that in the past 30 days people searched Google for "nanotechnology" in the following locales and languages:
Regions 1. India 2. Australia 3. United States 4. United Kingdom 5. ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Nanotechnology has certainly expanded the realm of scientific possibility, but immortality? A growing number of nano-enthusiasts have prophesied the imminent end of death. I am not among them. These kind of wild-eyed claims have cursed the commercial prospects of promising technologies. Skeptics have marshaled false promises like these to ...
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