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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.

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

Nanotech Europe brings together policymakers from major world regions,
including the European Commission, Russia, China, France, Singapore,
Germany, Finland and the UK.

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.

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.

Shell visions nanorobots gathering information from the miniscule pores of hydrocarbon reservoirs. They could also be used to deliver chemicals into the reservoirs.

Iranian scientists at the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry used iron nanocatalyst instead of iron catalyst for converting syngas to hydrocarbons.

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.

Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have developed a method which obtains minute organometallic capsules ranging from micrometric to nanometric sizes.

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.

BASF teams up with a battery technology company to increase the driving distance of electric vehicles 5 to 10 times compared to existing technologies.

The Nanotech Europe 2009 conference is an international meeting place
for representatives of science and industry and investors in the broad
field of nanotechnology.

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.

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.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have developed a new technology for making ultraclean carbon nanotube devices.

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

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.

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.