The factory in Vladimir will produce membranes and membrane separating modules for industrial and domestic water purification systems.

The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) will host post-conference delegation tours for registered COMS (Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems conference) international attendees on September 1, 2011. These tours will showcase some of North Carolina's finest technology-related talent, companies, institutions and programs.

Australians are increasingly positive about nanotechnology, in particular its potential to improve our lives, according to a new study.

Scientists entangle ions using microwaves.

Previously, synthetic molecular machines have been used to perform mechanical tasks collectively, such as move liquid droplets uphill against the force of gravity, rotate microscale objects using liquid crystals doped with synthetic motor-molecules, and bend cantilevers. However, all these tasks are achieved by the collective action of billions and billions of molecular machines. Observing the mechanical behavior of an individual molecule is much more difficult. Synthetic molecular machines are often ten times smaller in each dimension than motor proteins and previously no one has managed to use single molecule techniques to look at how the components move in synthetic molecular machines. By using very sensitive atomic force microscopy experiments, researchers now were able to address the movement of the ring in individual rotaxane molecules.

A new imaging method called spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) can measure cell mass using two beams of light.

Magnolia Solar Corporation announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Magnolia Solar, Inc., has demonstrated high-voltage InGaAs quantum well waveguide solar cells, a unique structure capable of improving the performance of photovoltaic modules.

Die Broschuere "Nanotechnologie in der Natur - Bionik im Betrieb" zeigt aktuelle Produktentwicklungen und Forschungsrichtungen der Bionik im Bereich Materialtechnologie und Nanotechnologie. Sie erscheint zur Auftaktveranstaltung der Veranstaltungsreihe "Bionik im Betrieb" am 30. August 2011.

NANOTEC and Flinders University in Australia signed a research collaboration agreement to focus on target drug delivery, bacterial detection, organic conjugated material and testing services.

New medicines containing nanoparticles are proven to have clear curative value, but complications can sometimes arise. Researchers at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo have shown how nanoparticles can interfere with the transport of vital substances in cells.

Professor Mark Akeson (University of California, Santa Cruz) and his collaborators got awarded a $3.6 million, three year grant by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

Researchers in Japan have developed a manufacturing technology for single-crystal thin films of organic semiconductors at arbitrary positions on the surface of sheets using a novel inkjet printing technique. The technology allows improving performance of thin-film transistors (TFTs), indispensable building blocks for large-area electronics products such as flat displays.

An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room temperature. Previously this was only at all possible at extremely low and unpractical temperatures.

Two patent analysis reports released this year ranked Angstron Materials and Nanotek Instruments' co-founders Dr. Bor Jang and Dr. Aruna Zhamu among the top five in the world for their development of intellectual property publications for graphene.

For the first time, bulk electronic structures have been opened to comparable scrutiny through a new variation of this standard called HARPES - Hard x-ray Angle-Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy - whose development was led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University have created a new, super-dense version of aluminium that could lead to efficient production of new super-hard nanomaterials at a relatively low cost.

An urgent challenge currently faced by researchers and the public alike is the ability to identify the next generation of sustainable, cost-effective, and energy efficient materials for our everyday use. While searching for new materials for electrical energy storage, a team of Drexel University materials scientists has discovered a new family of two-dimensional compounds proposed to have unique properties that may lead to groundbreaking advances in energy storage technology.

Public school science teachers will explore the nanotechnology field at the University of Houston under a NSF grant designed to build interest in science and engineering.

In microfluidic devices, small separated droplets flow in a stream of carrier liquid. Occasionally, selected droplets have to be merged to carry out a chemical reaction. This can be greatly facilitated with the use of electric field, through a process of electrocoalescence that has been used industrially in large scale applications. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have found the laws governing the process and how to maximise the efficiency of merging.

With the curtain about to rise on a much-anticipated new era of "nanoagriculture" - using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses - scientists are describing huge gaps in knowledge about the effects of nanoparticles on corn, tomatoes, rice and other food crops. That's the topic of the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series.