Utah’s Micro/Nano Newsletter (March 2008 issue – 1st issue):

Due date for your response and input – Feb 10’ 2008.

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Funding Sources:

Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies

Full Proposal Window: March 1, 2008
Program Guidelines: PD 08-1179

The Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies program provides support to develop and test the environmental effects of new technologies. 

Fundamental and basic research is sought to establish and understand outcomes as a result of the implementation of new technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology.  The program also supports research on the development and refinement of sensors and sensor ...
More at
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501030&govDel=USNSF_39

Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Departmental Multi-user Instrumentation (CRIF:MU)

 

Global News:

BSI British Standards publishes new nano guidance for UK industry

EU nanotechnology R&D in the field of health and environmental ...

 

US Statewide News:

Aerospace: Report Highlights Ohio's Nanotechnology Strengths and ...

Governor Rell announces funding for nanotechnology partnerships ...

EPA Launches Major Nanotechnology Monitoring Project; Top ...

Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization Bulletin ... Penn State

$4 million nanotech grant from Beebe brings opportunities to area - UA

Defense department funds study of carbon nanotube-based drug

 

Journal and Book:

 

Nano-Products:

HVAC Air Purification Company Introduces Nanotechnology Air Duct ...

Nanometrics Introduces NanoCD Suite [NANO]

Omnetics Presents Single and Dual Row Nano Connectors for Military ...

 

Research News:

Synthesis of nano-crystalline (Ni/NiO)–YSZ by microwave-assisted ...

Nanotechnology: Entirely New Way Of Storing Gas Created

Nanotechnology: Early work on nanomotors

Nanotechnology Fabrication Takes Massive Leap

Nanotechnology could fix Achilles' heel

Researcher pioneers nano scaffold to rebuild nerve damage

Nano-scale DNA research tool created

Nanotechnology creates new possibilities to plastics

Preparation and characterization of nano-scale ZnO as a buffer ...

 

Business:

EoPlex CEO Will Speak on Filling the Gap Between Nano and 'Just ...

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. to Exhibit at Nano Tech 2008

Nanotechnology in Water reach 1.6 billion US Dollar in 2007 and ...

Rice Alliance receives stock gift from Arrowhead

Altairnano Signs $2.5 Million US Navy Contract for Development of ...

Nanotechnology experts comment on Roadmap for atomically precise ...

New kind of transistor radios show capability of nanotube technology

nCoat Cuts Operating Costs by Consolidating Arizona Production Plants

GE Demonstrates Scalable Low Cost, Nano-Based Solar Cell

 

Articles & Reports:

Product Sheet: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Formulation

Can Nanotechnology Economically Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions?

Nanotechnology - towards reducing animal testing

What will be nanotechnology's greatest impact?

Nanotechnologies for Consumer Products Provides Analysis of Impact ...

Shaking hands with a virus - getting all touchy-feely with ...

dermaCM Completes Study on Nanotechnology Taste-Masking for Use in ...

 

Nano-Risks:

Nanotechnology risks assessed by the World Economic Forum

 

Awards:

Nano award to DTU researcher

Rice Alliance receives stock gift from Arrowhead

 

 

Education & Outreach:

Nanotech gets big teaching boost

EoPlex CEO Will Speak on Filling the Gap Between Nano and 'Just ...

Agilent Technologies Atomic Force Microscopes Support Growing ...

 

SOURCE: NanoNews-Now Digest #168

New kind of transistor radios shows capability of nanotube technology
University of Illinois January 28th, 2008 Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world's first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.

EPA Seeks Data About Nanoscale Materials
EPA January 28th, 2008 What are the human health and environmental risks and benefits of nanoscale chemical products? That's what EPA wants to find out with its just-announced Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program (NMSP). Engineered nanoscale materials range in size from 1-100 nanometers (nm), and may have very different properties than the same materials at a larger scale.

'One-pot' process can make more-efficient materials for fuel cells and solar cells
Cornell University January 28th, 2008 Cornell researchers have developed a "one-pot" process to create porous films of crystalline metal oxides that could lead to more-efficient fuel cells and solar cells.

With a jolt, 'nanonails' go from repellant to wettable
University of Wisconsin-Madison January 30th, 2008 Sculpting a surface composed of tightly packed nanostructures that resemble tiny nails, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and their colleagues from Bell Laboratories have created a material that can repel almost any liquid.

DNA Technique Yields 3-D Crystalline Organization of Nanoparticles
Brookhaven National Laboratory January 30th, 2008 First step toward three-dimensional catalytic, magnetic, and/or optical nanomaterials

SOURCE: NANOTECHWEB.ORG NEWSWIRE (WEEK 5)

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE

 

DNA helps self-assemble nanoparticles

Bottom up process guides gold nanoparticles into well-ordered arrays

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/32707

 

Laser method shapes SPM probes in situ

Flattened tips are in demand as a platform for a new generation of nanoprobes

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/32606

 

Nanoresonator gets entangled

Device could be used in quantum information processing and to detect extremely weak forces

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/32619

 

Nanowires line up for wafer-scale process Simple contact printing technique overcomes bottleneck in nanoelectronics

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/32505

 

Nano-radios move on

Sheet format allows routine fabrication of large numbers of nanotube radios and circuits

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/32617

 

Investigation of the nanostructured rutile and anatase plates for improving photosplitting of water Increased quantum effeciency is reported via the synthesis of controlled anatse nano crystals.

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/32649

 

SOURCE: MIT Technology Review [newsletter@my.trnewsletter.com]

Programming Advanced Materials

Researchers create three-dimensional structures using DNA-directed assembly. By Peter Fairley
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20137/?nlid=847

Graphene Transistors

Predicted electronic properties that have made researchers excited about a new material have now been demonstrated experimentally. By Kevin Bullis
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20119/?nlid=847

Nano-Prospecting

Energy companies pour millions into nanotechnology for oil and gas recovery. By Duncan Graham-Rowe
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20114/?nlid=847

 

 

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