http://www.generef.com/ Nanotechnology News | GeneRef en-us Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:35:01 PST kcowing@spaceref.com (Keith Cowing) mkboucher@spaceref.com (Marc Boucher) Copyright 2009, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://www.generef.com/images/generef.sm.jpg http://www.generef.com/ 100 25 GeneRef - Science News, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology, A Global Resource http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75906 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75906 The nucleus of one form of carbon is much larger and more stable than expected. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75803 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75803 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous paceset Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:19:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75802 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75802 Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are among the 69 scientists that will receive five-year research grants as part of the US Department of Energy's new Early Career Research Program. Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:19:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75790 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75790 Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world a million times smaller than a single grain of s Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:19:17 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75729 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75729 Athene Donald has won the Science and Technology award issued by the women's lifestyle publication, Glamour. In awarding the honor to Professor Donald, Glamour magazine praised her as a "great role model" and stated that "Athene has forged a real path fo Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75722 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75722 A new research network to advance Canada's standing in the development of solar photovoltaics will be based at McMaster University. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada is providing $5 million in funding to establish the NSERC Wed, 3 Feb 2010 06:19:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75706 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75706 An international team of researchers has identified a new theoretical approach that may one day make the synthesis of hydrogen fuel storage materials less complicated and improve the thermodynamics and reversibility of the system. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75692 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75692 Pin-sharp projections, light that's whiter than white, varnishes that make sounds if the temperature changes: at nano tech 2010 in Tokyo, Fraunhofer researchers present nanotechnology that is a veritable feast for the senses. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:19:16 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75683 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75683 SNM's Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Summit wrapped up today in Albuquerque, N.M., with in-depth discussion -- and a high sense of energy looking ahead. Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75637 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75637 The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry has chosen Jean-Philippe Frimat as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2009. Frimat is the lead author of a paper in ABC on plasma stenciling methods for cell patterning. The award, accompanied Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:19:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75567 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75567   Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:21:20 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75546 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75546 Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering chemical makeup -- function in less than three dimensions and at the level of just a few atoms. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:19:20 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75507 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75507 UC Riverside's Jeanie Lau, an associate professor of physics, received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. President Barack Obama gre Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:19:03 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75395 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75395 Judy S. Riffle, professor of chemistry and director of Virginia Tech's Macromolecular Science and Engineering program, was one of only three chemists worldwide to be named a Fellow in the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering division of the Americ Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75377 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75377 Video Results Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:21:09 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75376 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75376 X-rays can do a lot of useful things but who knew they could cause crystals to form? Northwestern University researchers have discovered that X-rays can trigger the formation of a new type of crystal: charged cylindrical filaments ordered like a bundle of Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:19:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75344 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75344 Video Results Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:21:02 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75331 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75331 Video Results Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:21:11 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75317 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75317 A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, in Germany, led by the Spanish physicist Rubén Fernández-Busnadiego, has managed to obtain 3-D images of the vesicles and filaments involved in communication between neurons. The method Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:19:15 PDT http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75287 http://generef.com/newsstory.rss.html?pid=75287 To make thin films for semiconductors in electronic devices, layers of atoms must be grown in neat, crystalline sheets. But while some materials grow smooth crystals, others tend to develop bumps and defects -- a serious problem for thin-film manufacturin Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:19:02 PDT