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Consumers suspicious of nanotech, irradiation and cloning (Food Navigator Europe)
New technologies such as nanotech, animal cloning and irradiation trigger feelings of “unease, uncertainty, and sometimes outright negativity” among consumers, said a new report from the UK. (read on…) Related items Rao downplays nuke bill delay; US firms dismayed (rediff.com) Silver proves its mettle for nanotech applications (Science Daily) Estimating ethanol yields from CRP croplands (PhysOrg) ESA and Thales Alenia... »
Leading Research Scientists Call for Greater Investment in Nanotechnology in the United Kingdom (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
CAMBRIDGE, UK–(Marketwire - 02/23/10) - NanoInk, Inc., a global leader in nanotechnology, and research partner TBx Consulting Ltd., announced the results of a landmark survey in which 46 leading research scientists were asked their opinions on future opportunities and challenges of nanotechnology research in the United Kingdom. Among the key conclusions and recommendations drawn... »
Surface Chemistry Experts Rely on Zetasizer Nano in Ground-Breaking Nanoparticles for Cancer … (ThomasNet)
20 January 2010: Malvern, UK: Sandra Whaley Bishnoi, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has selected the Zetasizer Nano ZS from Malvern Instruments to meet the specific particle sizing and zeta potential measurement needs of her research team. Dr Whaley Bishnoi and her team specialise in tunable nanoparticle sensors that... »
Conference to discuss future of nanotechnology enabled sensors (EurekAlert!)
( National Physical Laboratory ) The Micro and Nano Sensors Interest Group of the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN is organizing a conference and exhibition titled “Applications of Micro and Nanosensors in Security, Health and Environmental Monitoring” which will be held on the March 4, 2010, at National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK. This one-day event... »
European collaboration makes breakthrough in developing super-material graphene (EurekAlert!)
( National Physical Laboratory ) A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed... »
