• Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: EPA Antes Up on TSCA Reform

    Updated: 2009-09-30 02:10:27
    By Richard DenisonRichard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson unveiled the Obama Administration’s “Essential Principles for Reform of Chemicals Management Legislation.”  The principles’ significance lies not so much in the words they contain, but rather in what they symbolize:  A clear confirmation that this Administration understands that the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) [...]

  • EPA announces research strategy to study nanomaterials

    Updated: 2009-09-30 00:20:07
    The strategy outlines what research EPA will support over the next several years to generate information about the safe use of nanotechnology and products that contain nano-scale materials. The strategy also includes research into ways ...

  • Study Claims Occupational Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials May Be Possible

    Updated: 2009-09-29 16:17:21
    On September 23, 2009, EHP-in-Press posted an article entitled “Potential for Occupational Exposure to Engineered Carbon-Based Nanomaterials in Environmental Laboratory Studies,” which states that laboratory workers may be at increased risk of exposure to engineered nanomaterials. he goal of the study was to assess the release of carbonaceous nanomaterials into the laboratory atmosphere during handling and sonication into environmentally-relevant matrices. he authors concluded that engineered nanomaterials can become airborne when mixed in solution by sonication, especially when nanomaterials are functionalized or in water containing natural organic matter. HP-in-Press articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in Environmental Health Perspectives.

  • New nanochemistry technique encases single molecules in microdroplets

    Updated: 2009-09-27 15:18:19
    Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at NIST have employed microfluidics to make microdroplets that each contain a single molecules of interest. By combining this new microfluidic with techniques to merge multiple droplets, the research may ultimately lead to new information on the structure and function of important [...]

  • Advance material growth technology for improving solar efficiency

    Updated: 2009-09-27 15:18:19
    Collaboration between QuantaSol Ltd., manufacturer of solar cells and Centre for Advance Materials, University of Houston has recently been announced by QuantaSol recently. This new collaboration will allow QuantaSol to use the dilute nitrides and thus the manufacturer will get a reduction in quantum well layers into each junction, however will get an increase in [...]

  • Novellus Announces $20 Million Partnership with CNSE

    Updated: 2009-09-27 15:17:29
    Novellus Systems recently announced a $20 million partnership with The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at the University at Albany. "As part of the agreement, Novellus will in…

  • Drexler's Nanosystems Dissertation Available

    Updated: 2009-09-27 08:46:35
    Most of the text of Drexler's technical reference Nanosystems is now available online as a 30-MB PDF. In 1988, Eric Drexler taught a class on molecular manufacturing at Stanford (which I took). That class turned into his PhD thesis at...

  • Drexler's Nanosystems Dissertation Available

    Updated: 2009-09-27 08:46:35
    Most of the text of Drexler's technical reference Nanosystems is now available online as a 30-MB PDF. In 1988, Eric Drexler taught a class on molecular manufacturing at Stanford (which I took). That class turned into his PhD thesis at...

  • My MIT dissertation — a draft of Nanosystems — is now online

    Updated: 2009-09-27 01:28:04
    Download dissertation here. [30 MB] And for a bigger MIT freebie, see Open Courseware. My MIT doctoral dissertation, “Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing with Applications to Computation”, is a draft of Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, and MIT has now made it available as a 30 MB pdf. You can download it here. The Nanosystems project began [...]

  • Open Source Nano

    Updated: 2009-09-26 15:19:23
    Looking around at the state of commercial nano, I’d say it is just getting started. Some of us don’t really ascribe to the idea that using small particle materials is true nanotechnology, but that is the practical definition at the moment. True nanotech is building things from atoms and molecules – not from [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • PEN Holds Meeting on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation

    Updated: 2009-09-26 01:06:29
    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 Legal Regulatory Issues PEN Holds Meeting on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation PEN Holds Meeting on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation Posted on September 25, 2009 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks On September 23, 2009, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Emerging Technologies PEN hosted a meeting on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation : nbsp Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies The program is part of a collaborative research project involving experts from the London School of Economics LSE Chatham House , the Environmental Law Institute ELI and PEN . nbsp The project is funded by a grant from the European Commission to support pilot projects on Transatlantic methods for handling global challenges . rdquo The purpose of yesterday's meeting was to discuss recommendations from the research effort that are part of a report released on September 10, 2009. The meeting was also intended to generate

  • Unwise Use of Nanoparticles?

    Updated: 2009-09-25 22:51:19
    Last week, while reading about rapid prototyping, I stumbled across a page that appears to show carbon nanoparticles being sprayed into the air without any protective equipment being used (the part is held in bare hands, and a lot of...

  • Unwise Use of Nanoparticles?

    Updated: 2009-09-25 22:51:19
    Last week, while reading about rapid prototyping, I stumbled across a page that appears to show carbon nanoparticles being sprayed into the air without any protective equipment being used (the part is held in bare hands, and a lot of...

  • WITec Confocal Raman Imaging Workshop - The full Spectrum of cutting-edge applications and techniques

    Updated: 2009-09-25 00:00:00
    Workshop: 29 Sep 2009 - 30 Sep 2009, Ulm, Germany. Organized by http://www.witec.de.

  • Scientists created high temperature superconducting nanowire

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:35
    Researchers at California Institute of Technology have first time created an array of high temperature superconducting nanowires that could lead to the development of many energy efficient electronic and electrical devices. The research finding published recently in Nano Letters indicates that the high temperature superconducting nanowires can drastically change future nanotechnologies. Although researchers around the world [...]

  • Gold nanostar, new biomedical imaging tool

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:35
    Dr. Alexander Wei and Dr. Kenneth Ritchie of Purdue University have created gold nanostars that can improve biomedical imaging. Researchers found that these nanostars show twinkling effect in presence of rotating magnetic field. The study has been published in the Journal of American Chemical Society. According to the researchers, background noise is one of the factors [...]

  • Strain on nanocrystals could yield colossal results

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:34
    In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials. This unique class of materials is commanding much attention now because they can display properties such [...]

  • New nanostructure technology provides advances in eyeglass, solar energy performance

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:34
    Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit “nanostructure films” on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better. Ultimately, the technique may provide a way to make solar cells more efficiently produce energy.

  • New discovery reveals fate of nanoparticles in human cells

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:34
    Scientists have uncovered what happens to biomimetic nanoparticles when they enter human cells. They found that the important proteins that make up the outer layer of these nanoparticles are degraded by an enzyme called cathepsin L. Scientists now have to take this phenomenon into account and overcome this process to ensure the exciting field of [...]

  • How to spell B-Y-U with DNA

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:34
    DNA origami just got a new “twist” from BYU researchers who use DNA strands of customized length to spell “BYU.”The advance puts them one critical step closer to building nanoscale electronic circuits.

  • A recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

    Updated: 2009-09-24 17:01:34
    The promise of carbon nanotubes to revolutionize everything from drug delivey to energy efficiency is thwarted by the difficulties of producing the right nanotubes for each job. Case Western Reserve University scientists have found that the right mix of metal catalysts can control the atomic-level structures that give the nanotubes desired properties.

  • Moral Railroads again

    Updated: 2009-09-24 09:28:30
    Back in my Moral Railroads post I opined: Unless I am completely mistaken and deluded, there was and is nobodyassociated with the DC train system who wanted the crash to happen. It’s not a question of morality at the level of bad intentions, either of people or machines. It was, in simple terms, a case of incompetence. It [...]

  • Solar cells with nanocrystal ink reach 18 percent efficiency

    Updated: 2009-09-21 20:34:39
    Josh Hall, on his way to catch a plane, sends us this news from Technology Review’s Katherine Bourzac: A California company is using silicon ink patterned on top of silicon wafers to boost the efficiency of solar cells. The Sunnyvale, CA, firm Innovalight says that the inkjet process is a cheaper route to more-efficient solar power. Using [...]

  • Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

    Updated: 2009-09-20 08:11:56
    Gordon Bell, a long-time leader and innovator in the world of computation, has immersed himself in a life-changing experiment. Bits and pieces of news about it have been circulating for years, and his new book, just published, gives a full picture. In brief, Gordon records and indexes what he sees, hears, and more — [...]

  • High-tech adoption happening faster, driving economic growth – Ars Technica

    Updated: 2009-09-19 15:30:53
    More on the “is technological change accelerating front, from Ars Technica: High-tech adoption happening faster, driving economic growth – Ars Technica. Some economists have attempted to measure the spread of technology within various nations, and discovered it’s not just our imagination: newer tech is being adopted faster, and appears to account for some of the differences in [...]

  • California DTSC Plans to Host Nano-Industry Symposium

    Updated: 2009-09-19 02:50:17
     he California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced it will host the DTSC/California Nano-Industry Network Symposium, to be held November 16, 2009, in Sacramento, California. he Symposium, which is co-sponsored by the American Chemistry Council and Dupont, will use the DTSC’ nanotechnology data call-in as a backdrop. ccording to the preliminary agenda, the Symposium will feature two sessions. he first, entitled “Collaborative Efforts,” will discuss the key U.S. and international forums for collaboration on the health, safety, and environmental impacts of nanomaterials. he second session, “Company Engagement with Nanotechnology Safety,” will review examples of how companies can apply the evolving knowledge on nanomaterials safety to address systematically various areas of concern.   

  • Koreans Show Feasibility of Room Temperature Version of IBM Millipede Super High Density Memory

    Updated: 2009-09-18 14:56:25
    Koreans Show Feasibility of Room Temperature Version of IBM Millipede Super High Density Memory.

  • EPA Announces SAP Meeting Concerning Nanosilver

    Updated: 2009-09-18 01:33:16
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a September 16, 2009, Federal Register notice that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) will meet November 3-6, 2009, “to consider and review a set of scientific issues related to the assessment of hazard and exposure associated with nanosilver and other nanometal pesticide products.” ominations of candidates to serve as ad hoc SAP members for this meeting are due September 30, 2009. he meeting will be open to the public. PA asks that written comments be submitted by October 20, 2009, to allow for distribution to the SAP, and that requests for oral comments be made by October 27, 2009.  PA also states that written comments and requests to make oral comments may be submitted until the date of the meeting, however.

  • David Orban Interviews Itamar Arel on Artificial General Intelligence for Singularity Summit 2009

    Updated: 2009-09-17 01:44:23
    See the video on YouTube. Arel claims that AGI could be possible within 10 years if there were enough focus and funding on the problem. He also claims that the basic breakthroughs for AGI have already been made.

  • nano tech 2010 International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference

    Updated: 2009-09-17 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 17 Feb 2010 - 19 Feb 2010, Tokyo, Japan. Organized by nano tech executive committee c/o ICS Convention Design.

  • Lynn L. Bergeson Chairs Panel at Conference on "Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies"

    Updated: 2009-09-16 23:25:45
    . : 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 Legal Regulatory Issues Lynn L . Bergeson Chairs Panel at Conference on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation : Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies Lynn L . Bergeson Chairs Panel at Conference on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation : Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies Posted on September 16, 2009 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks The London School of Economics LSE Chatham House , the Environmental Law Institute ELI and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies PEN at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars held a conference on September 10-11, 2009, on Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation : nbsp Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies , rdquo in London . nbsp LSE , Chatham House , ELI , and PEN are participating in an international collaborative project , Regulating Nanotechnologies in the EU and . U.S which is funded by a grant from the European Commission . nbsp Their research findings on issues of

  • Five essential things to know about evolution – Ars Technica

    Updated: 2009-09-16 15:31:40
    Five essential things to know about evolution – Ars Technica. John Timmer dispels some common misconceptions. An understanding of evolution is key to understanding technological change — we individual humans are the mutations and crossover, but the dynamics of the overall process is similar.

  • Nanosafe 2010

    Updated: 2009-09-16 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 15 Nov 2010 - 19 Nov 2010, Grenoble, France. Organized by CEA.

  • Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2010

    Updated: 2009-09-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 14 Jan 2010 - 15 Jan 2010, Brussels, Belgium. Organized by Photonics21.

  • Cambridge CNT Symposium 2009

    Updated: 2009-09-16 00:00:00
    Conference: 13 Nov 2009, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Organized by Cambridge CNT Society.

  • Robots: Our Future or Our End?

    Updated: 2009-09-15 16:17:07
    I (and others) get interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio (podcast) about machine ethics… Robots: Our Future or Our End? | In the Loop | Minnesota Public Radio . Not deep but fun…

  • Organic, Nano, Pharma

    Updated: 2009-09-14 01:00:49
    Challenging natural products succumb to radical synthetic prowess, the Alchemist hears this week, while US researchers find a way to construct macroscopic crystals from tiny DNA triangles. The growing problem of obesity drug abuse in the UK is highlighted in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Bayer Cropscience is going underground with storage for safety [...]Organic, Nano, Pharma is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog

  • News, nucleic acid edition

    Updated: 2009-09-11 18:57:41
    I’ve been working on deadline and expect to be writing here more regularly soon. Here are a few recent nanotechnology news items of note, all involving nucleic acids: From Ned Seeman’s lab has come the first engineered, high-quality set of 3D DNA crystals, with X-ray diffraction data to prove it: “From molecular to macroscopic via [...]

  • Science Fiction – When is it Real?

    Updated: 2009-09-06 19:08:28
    I love Sci-fi, but as I get older I know what I like and most commercial fiction doesn’t cut it. I suspect I was more flexible in my younger years, but again, maybe the authors were just a bit better. I love William Gibson, Greg Bear and Walter Jon Williams. But I usually [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • EPA Announces Interagency Nanotechnology Implications Grantees Workshop

    Updated: 2009-09-05 00:47:38
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the Interagency Nanotechnology Implications Grantees Workshop, which will feature presentations on recent research by EPA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Department of Energy (DOE) grant researchers.  ccording to EPA, the November 9-10, 2009, meeting “will encourage collaboration and cooperation among nanotechnology grantees sponsored by EPA, NSF, NIEHS, NIOSH and DOE and between other federal grantees and federal nanotechnology researchers.” he meeting is open to members of academia, government, nongovernmental organizations, industry, and the general public. wo agendas are available: 1) other nanomaterials; and (2) metals and carbon-based nanomaterials.

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