The speakers' presentations from the OECD 'Conference on Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology: Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth' are now available online on the OECD site.

The European Commission has opened a public consultation in order to receive input from all people and organisations involved or interested in nanosciences and nanotechnologies research in Europe, and notably research, policy makers, industry, media and civil society organisations.

An electron microscope with glasses that correct the spherical aberration of the lens in order to achieve even higher resolution is currently being assembled at the Electron Microscopy Centre (EMEZ) at ETH Zurich.

Beneq announces the first continuous mode Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) research tool commercially available, the TFS 200R.

Abraxis Health, a fully-integrated personalized healthcare division of Abraxis BioScience, Inc., today announced the dedication of its new manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.

Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced that they are extending their development and production partnership to a 65nanometer embedded flash process technology targeting next generation automotive, chip card and security applications.

Samsung Electronics announced that its new Semiconductor Research and Development Center has started advanced logic process development, an important part of Samsung's drive in the foundry business.

The Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology at Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand organizing the the 3rd Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2009 Health, Energy, Environment on December 21-22, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Wissenschaftler am Center for Imaging Science and Technology (CIMST) der ETH Zuerich haben eine neue Methode entwickelt, die es erstmals ermoeglicht, in Echtzeit kleinste Bewegungen von Viren zu verfolgen.

Interessierte Buerger habe jetzt die Gelegenheit bis zum 19. November zum Entwurf des Oesterreichischen Aktionsplans Nanotechnologie Stellung zu nehmen.

For years now, nanotechnology researchers have been promising us carbon nanotubes as the basis for numerous breakthrough applications such as multifunctional high-strength fibres, coatings and transparent conducting films. Not to mention as a cure for cancer and a solution to the energy crisis. However, while the thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are unique, materials engineers have been struggling to assemble CNTs into macroscopic structures that retain enough of the properties of the constituent nanotubes. CNTs are notoriously difficult to work with and, because researchers haven't found efficient ways yet to assemble them, the resulting materials demonstrate only a small fraction of the possible single-object properties of CNTs. So we are still waiting for those breakthrough applications. However, new research reported this week has now established an industrially relevant process for assembling carbon nanotubes that allows them to efficiently be made into fibers, coatings and films - the basic forms of material that can be used in engineering applications.

Can an intense laser rip photons into electron-positron pairs? Seeking to shed light on this burning question is the ELI ('Extreme light infrastructure') project, which received EUR 6 million in funding under the 'Infrastructures' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme.

Cambrios Technologies Corporation, an electronic materials company commercializing ClearOhm coating material for producing transparent conductive films, announced today that the company has received investments totaling $14.5 million in a first closing of its Series D Financing Round.