A startup is planning human trials for a nanostructured material that quickly stops bleeding. By Kevin Bullis
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/20755/?nlid=1077

SOURCE: NanoNews-Now Digest

Finding the right soliton for future networks
ITC Results May 13th, 2008 European researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks.

UC San Diego Researchers Target Tumors with Tiny 'Nanoworms'
UC San Diego May 14th, 2008 Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized "nanoworms" that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body's immune defense system and—like tiny anti-cancer missiles—home in on tumors.

Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute May 14th, 2008 Paul Morrow, who will graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 17, has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother's cassette player. The talented young physicist has developed two innovations that could vastly improve magnetic data storage and sense extremely low level magnetic fields in everything from ink on counterfeit currency to tissue in the human brain and heart.

Efficiency record for solar cell broken
Eindhoven University of Technology May 14th, 2008 PhD Bram Hoex (29) and his TU/e colleagues have managed to increase the efficiency of an important type of solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent. They will present this world record on Wednesday 14 May, at a large conference on solar energy in San Diego (USA).

"Liquid Metal" at the Center of IBM Innovation to Significantly Reduce Cost of Concentrator Photovoltaic Cells

SOURCE: NANOTECHWEB.ORG NEWSWIRE

Nano-imager will analyze samples from Mars New technique to probe nanoscale structures

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34209

Nano-encapsulation gives UV protection

UV-resistant polymeric formulation suits controlled release of topical applications

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34049

IBM researchers see quantized conductance in graphene Real-world graphene nanodevices move a step closer

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34178

Electrical sintering joins up nanoparticles Rapid process is ideal for temperature-sensitive substrates

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/33932

Magnetic refrigeration moves on

Nanocomposites produced from metallic glasses show promise as refrigerant materials

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/34155

Crossbar nanostructures from self-assembly A self-assembly route to crossbar structures is discovered.

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/34218

Nanoribbon biomolecule detection

High sensitivity nanoribbons, able to detect a few protein molecules, have been developed.

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/34217

Sonochemical coating of silver nanoparticles on textile fabrics and their antibacterial activity The sonochemical deposition of nanoparticles in reported.

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/34175

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