Nanotech Europe 2009 summarised by NanoGlobe. Nanotech Europe 2009 attracted many participants including researchers, policymakers, industrialists, and investors to get together discussing a common topic: Nanotechnology in the areas ranging from technical, safety to investment issues. Read more...

Nanotech Europe speeds commercialisation of nanotechnology. Spinverse and an extensive partner consortium have assembled Europe’s largest annual nanotechnology event, Nanotech Europe, to drive the commercial development of nanotechnology. Read more...

Policymakers of the world gather in Berlin soon to discuss nanotechnology. Nanotech Europe brings together policymakers from major world regions, including the European Commission, Russia, China, France, Singapore, Germany, Finland and the UK. Read more...

Top Speakers at Europe’s Largest Annual Nanotechnology Conference: Nanotech Europe 2009. Nanotech Europe offers a broad, interdisciplinary overview of nanotechnology, and the opportunity to meet and discuss with the field’s top scientists and leading international companies in the nanotechnology community. Read more...

Troublesome green algae serve as nanocoating substrate in record-setting battery. Uppsala University researchers, some of who also speak at Nanotech Europe 2009, discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of green algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries. Read more...

Nanotechnology shows potential for oil and gas operations. Shell visions nanorobots gathering information from the miniscule pores of hydrocarbon reservoirs. They could also be used to deliver chemicals into the reservoirs. Read more...

Iron Nanocatalyst Increases Fischer-Tropsch Process's Efficiency. Iranian scientists at the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry used iron nanocatalyst instead of iron catalyst for converting syngas to hydrocarbons. Read more...

Laser-controlled corrosion protection with 'smart' nanomaterials. Max Planck researchers have developed laser-activated nanocontainers filled with corrosion inhibitors. With this new nanomaterial, the healing ability of anticorrosion agents is remotely activated by light. Read more...

New Method To Encapsulate Substances In Nanospheres. Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have developed a method which obtains minute organometallic capsules ranging from micrometric to nanometric sizes. Read more...

1.2nm molecular gear with controllable rotation. Scientists from IMRE, led by Prof. Christian Joachim, have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled. Read more...

Advances in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. BASF teams up with a battery technology company to increase the driving distance of electric vehicles 5 to 10 times compared to existing technologies. Read more...

Message from Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister of Education and Research. The Nanotech Europe 2009 conference is an international meeting place for representatives of science and industry and investors in the broad field of nanotechnology. Read more...

A Lockbox Built from DNA. Professor Jørgen Kjems and his team have assembled a nano-sized box with lock and key using "DNA origami". Its programmable lid distinguishes it from other nano drug delivery capsules. Read more...

Pushing Plastic Solar Cells. Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heeger (who gave a presentation about next generation solar cells in NTNE2005) and his team have achieved "record-breaking efficiencies" in plastic solar cells. Read more...

Carbon nanotubes clean up their act. Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed a new technology for making ultraclean carbon nanotube devices. Read more...

Breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits. The first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s. Read more...

Seagate demonstrates a way to extend magnetic storage. Technology Review writes about "heat-assisted magnetic recording". Researchers at Seagate have demonstrated the feasibility of a new technology that could extend the capacity of magnetic data recording for many years more. Read more...

Racetrack Memory Among Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2009. IBM fellow Stuart Parkin presented his team's nanowire-based Racetrack Memory at Nanotech Northern Europe 2008. Now Technology Review lists Racetrack Memory among the 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009. Read more...

Europe’s Largest Annual Nanotechnology Event Comes to Berlin in 2009. (Berlin, January 9th, 2009) - Europe's largest annual nanotechnology conference and exhibition, Nanotech Northern Europe moves to Berlin, Germany’s capital city at the heart of Europe becoming Nanotech Europe. In its fifth year, Nanotech Europe will be held on 28 -30 September 2009. Read more...

High-level conference on nanotechnology in Copenhagen brought together leaders of the world. (Copenhagen, September 23rd, 2008) - Leading researchers and companies gathered in Copenhagen on September 23rd-25th for Europe’s largest annual nanotechnology conference and exhibition to hear about latest research findings, to convey visions for the market impact of nanotechnology and to demonstrate commercial products and tools at the exhibition. The conference covered a range of topics, including energy, health, electronics, food, construction, water, investment and safety. Read more...

HP Labs Proves Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits. HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. “Memristor” discovery could lead to far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that don’t forget, never need to be booted up Read more...

First transistor developed using nanotechnology. Transistors are an indispensable building block in electric appliances, where they amplify weak electric currents. Now researchers have developed a new type of transistor that is 50 times more energy efficient than today's models. It is also the first to be developed using nanotechnology. The new transistor is described in the latest issue of Electron Device Letters. Read more...

IBM Attempts to Reinvent Memory. A new nanowire-based memory device being developed by researchers at IBM could combine the best qualities of the various types of memory used today, driving down costs and improving performance. Read more...

Novel carbon nanomaterial combines benefits of fullerenes and nanotubes . Carbon comes in many different forms, from the graphite found in pencils to the world's most expensive diamonds. While diamonds might be very popular among ladies, the two most celebrated carbon materials among nanotechnology scientists are fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Read more...

Building the world’s smallest transistors with graphene. Reporting their peer-reviewed findings in the latest issue of the journal Science, Dr Kostya Novoselov and Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 speaker Professor Andre Geim at The University of Manchester show that graphene can be carved into tiny electronic circuits with individual transistors having a size not much larger than that of a molecule. Read more...

Nanotech Northern Europe hosts world’s first truly global panel on public-sector nanotech funding. Key figures from around the world will gather to discuss the prospects and priorities for public funding of nanotechnology at Nanotech Northern Europe 2008. The global nanotechnology debate will be co-moderated by BusinessWeek technology correspondent Jennifer L. Schenker and Pekka Koponen, CEO of Spinverse. Read more...

€13M investment for solar cell start-up.

G24 Innovations, a manufacturer of solar modules, has received an investment of $20M (€13M) from Morgan Stanley Principal Investments.

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454 Life Sciences and Baylor College of Medicine obtain complete human genome using massively parallel DNA sequencing.. 454 Life Sciences and Baylor College of Medicine have published the complete DNA sequence and analysis of an individual human diploid genome, in a study reported in Nature. Co-author Dr Michael Egholm of 454 Life Sciences will be speaking at Nanotech Northern Europe 2008. Read more...

Nanotechnologies for water purification. Forbes profiles some companies that are dealing with the urgent issue of water purification in the developing world. The article quotes Mark Shannon, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who strikes an optimistic note - “As dire as the growing problems are with a lack of enough clean water in the world, I have a great deal of hope that many of these problems can be solved by increasing research into the science and technology of water purification.” Read more...

New Electrostatic-based DNA Microarray Technique Could Revolutionize Medical Diagnostics. The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of nations with state-of-the-art clinics. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has invented a technique in which DNA or RNA assays — the key to genetic profiling and disease detection — can be read and evaluated without the need of elaborate chemical labeling or sophisticated instrumentation. Based on electrostatic repulsion — in which objects with the same electrical charge repel one another — the technique is relatively simple and inexpensive to implement, and can be carried out in a matter of minutes. Read more...

ScienceDaily article describes promise and pitfalls of graphene. Researchers at EPFL and Radboud University of Nijmegen tested the potential of graphene as a material for 'spintronic' devices; specifically investigating whether electron spins align along the edges of graphene layers. Read more...

Technology Review covers Mauro Ferrari's work on nanoparticle delivery. Technology Review reports that Ferrari's group have developed a drug delivery method which involves created silicon disks with pores that can then carry a nanoparticle payload. Read more...

Webcast of Frans Kamper's presentation available. Frans Kampers of Waningen University, who will speak in the Nanofood session of Nanotech Northern Europe 2008, was recently invited to give the 2008 Albert Franks Memorial Lecture. Read more...

Nokia and University of Cambridge unveil 'Morph' concept phone. Nokia, a Nanotech Northern Europe event partner, has unveiled the 'Morph' concept phone. The concept has been jointly developed by Nokia and the University of Cambridge. Read more...

Detailed Information for Exhibitors Announced. Details of Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 Exhibition have been released. The information includes the floor plan of the exhition, the exhibitor fees, stand equipment orders, co-exhibiting possibilities, and the details of booking a stand. Read more...

Stanley Williams received the Glenn T. Seaborg Medal. This year's Glenn T. Seaborg Medal was awarded to Dr. Stanley Williams by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for pioneering work in nanotechnology. Read more...

First confirmed speakers announced. NTNE will feature top-level speakers covering the most interesting aspects of nanotechnology and nanoscience. Read more...