Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity production about 20 times.

Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $2 million grant to help commercialize nanotechnology and put smaller, more energy efficient electronic devices in the hands of consumers more quickly.

Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in the most ubiquitous of phenomena, including photosynthesis, the process by which organisms convert light into chemical energy.

Nanotechnologists at University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a sensor that can detect anthrax spores. The invention is more sensitive and efficient than existing detection methods.

'Fuzzy fiber' hybrid material brings electrical and thermal conductivity to large-scale composite sheets.

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. reported today that the Company's Nansulate thermal insulation and protective coating has been successfully utilized in breweries, food processing facilities and restaurants.

How do you make a material that has the elasticity of a rubber band and the thermal insulation of a Styrofoam cup? Connect two distinct polymer chains - poly(isoprene) and poly(styrene) - end to end like a series of children's building blocks. The result is an appropriately named 'block copolymer' that boasts the properties of both materials and is commonly used in the tires of automobiles and the soles of athletic shoes.

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Arima Optoelectronics Corporation (AOC), a world-leading manufacturer of LED epitaxial wafers and chips headquartered in Taiwan, purchased multiple TurboDisc K465i Gallium Nitride (GaN) and E475 Arsenic Phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems during the recently completed second quarter.

CEMMNT, The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nanotechnologies, is set to host a brand new motorsport event on the 21st September 2010 focusing on the application of nanotechnologies in high performance motorsport and automotive engineering.

In cell culture screening assays, the nanoviricides were evaluated for cytotoxicity and for inhibition of Ebola virus infection. Several of the nanoviricides demonstrated a dose-dependent inhibition of Ebola virus infectivity with no toxicity of uninfected cells at concentrations that were effective against the virus.

Dublin City University (DCU) has been awarded EUR23.8m in Cycle V PRTLI, following an announcement earlier today by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen. All three DCU-led projects were successful in their bid for funding, with a further two, in which DCU are partners, also successful.

Researchers from Irish companies and higher education institutions won funding totalling 213 million euros for collaborative research projects in areas like ICT, health, nano-technology and energy from the largest European R+D funding programme ever, announced Minister Conor Lenihan TD.

Thomas Klar wins the forth ERC starting grant within CeNS.

Toohey, 42, succeeds George Scalise, who has led the association since 1997. SIA is the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry, America's number-one export industry over the past five years.

NovaMARS 4.0 brings a new level of accuracy and speed to advanced 3D measurements at 22nm and below.

With the aim of speeding up the process and enabling large-scale studies, engineers at MIT have developed a new technique that can analyze larvae in seconds.

In the process of re-introducing its line of x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers to the North American market, Roenalytic GmbH announces Eastern Applied Research Inc as its Exclusive Service and Support Representative.

Materials science and nanotechnology researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting some much-needed equipment that will help enhance and expedite their studies.

A team of students from ENSIMAG, an engineering school in Grenoble, France, and Virginia Tech is using bioinformatics to implement federal guidance on synthetic genomics.

A completely new method for producing an image of individual DNA molecules' genetic make-up has been developed by researchers in Sweden and Denmark.