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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>The Nanogirl
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>February 3, 2005</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>President's advisers to consider export controls on
nanotech. A panel that advises President Bush on export issues will explore
whether nanotechnology needs regulating. The committee, which will be assembled
early this year, is expected to review other nations' nanotechnology
capabilities, their competitiveness and nanotechnology's impact on national
security. Lawyers who specialize in export law recommend nanotechnology
companies follow developments to ensure they comply if regulations eventually
are put in place. The scope could range from restrictions on international trade
to rules on staffing foreign nationals. (Smalltimes 2/3/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8727">http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8727</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St. Louis, MO, January 17, 2005 - Elsevier, the
world-leading scientific and medical publisher, announces plans to launch the
world's first peer-reviewed journal devoted to nanomedicine - the emerging
science of using molecular machines to treat human disease. Nanomedicine:
Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, the official publication of the American
Academy of Nanomedicine, will be published quarterly, with the first issue to
appear in March 2005. (Elsevier)<BR><A
href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/703416/description">http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/703416/description</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Friction at the nano-scale. Nanomachines will
depend on our knowledge of friction, heat transfer and energy dissipation at the
atomic level for their very survival. In the scramble to revolutionize the world
with nanotechnology we must not ignore friction. Nano-scale devices based on
moving molecular components have the potential to radically alter technologies
such as energy storage, drug delivery, computing, communications and chemical
manufacture. But getting these devices from the laboratory to the marketplace is
far from guaranteed. (Physicsweb Feb. 05)<BR><A
href="http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/2/9">http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/2/9</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nano's road to the future. 5-year-old National
Nanotechnology Initiative keeps U.S. efforts on course...for now. In January
2000, much of the public got its first taste of nanotechnology from President
Clinton...By internal and external accounts, the initiative has been successful,
albeit a work in progress. It is at or ahead of some goals. For instance, recent
lab advances suggest that the ability to not only detect but also treat certain
types of cancer in their first year of occurrence is well before the original
20-year timeframe. Globally, the NNI has inspired or at least encouraged 40
similar programs. Most importantly, it has fostered true collaboration among the
22 participating government agencies, something historically turf-conscious
career civil servants say is a major achievement. But challenges loom.
Washington has entered a time of budgetary belt-tightening, just as the
government’s nano leaders say more money is needed to move basic research into
application development. Experts say those efforts require a stronger link
between government and industry,...(Smalltimes Jan. 05)<BR><A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8710">http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8710</A><BR>More
about the NNI at Smalltimes here: <A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8711">http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8711</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotechnology and the FDA. The US Food and Drug
Administration regulates a wide range of products, including foods, cosmetics,
drugs, devices, and veterinary products, some of which may utilize
nanotechnology or contain nanomaterials. The FDA defines "nanotechnology" as
research and technology or development of products regulated by FDA that involve
all of the following...<BR><A
href="http://www.fda.gov/nanotechnology/">http://www.fda.gov/nanotechnology/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scientists Find Evidence Of Electrical Charging Of
Nanocatalysts. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Technical
University Munch have discovered evidence of a phenomenon that may lead to
drastically lowering the cost of manufacturing of materials from plastics to
fertilizers. Studying nano-sized clusters of gold on a magnesium oxide surface,
scientists found direct evidence for electrical charging of a nano-sized
catalyst. This is an important factor in increasing the rate of chemical
reactions. The research will appear in the 21 January, 2005, issue of the
journal Science, published by the AAAS, the science society, the world's largest
general scientific organization. (Sciencedaily 2/2/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123221728.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123221728.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Filling A Fullerene. Japanese group uses organic
synthesis to make milligrams of H2-filled C60. Using organic synthesis as a
scalpel and stitches, Japanese researchers have performed "molecular surgery" on
a buckyball. A group at Kyoto University creates an opening in the molecule,
inserts H2 into the cavity, and then, in just four steps, closes up the C60
framework to construct the endohedral fullerene <A
href="mailto:H2@C60">H2@C60</A> [Science, 307, 238 (2005)]. (C&E 1/17/05) <A
href="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i03/8303notw6.html">http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i03/8303notw6.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Lieber Appointed Coeditor Of Nano Letters,"
Chemical & Engineering News, 31 January 2005. (PDF) <BR><A
href="http://cmliris.harvard.edu/news/2005/HMag_JanFeb05_50-59.pdf">http://cmliris.harvard.edu/news/2005/HMag_JanFeb05_50-59.pdf</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Materials potpourri. Meeting spotlights latest
advances in sensors, biomaterials, nanostructures, and art conservation.
Although most Bostonians returning to work after the Thanksgiving holiday
weren't aware of it, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino proclaimed Monday, Nov. 29,
2004--the first day of the Materials Research Society's annual fall meeting--to
be the first-ever Materials Science Day in Boston. As Menino noted in a
proclamation marking the occasion, MRS "has met in Boston every fall for 27
years and draws more than 5,000 international attendees and exhibitors." This
year's MRS conferees braved the cold weather to absorb more than 2,500 talks and
nearly 1,700 poster presentations. With five full days of symposia to occupy
them, many attendees saw little need to desert the warmth of the Hynes
Convention Center and its adjoining hotel and shopping mall complex, unless it
was to attend the "Strange Matter" exhibit (C&EN, Jan. 12, 2004, page 40)
held in conjunction with the meeting at the Boston Museum of Science. (C&E
news 2/3/05) <A
href="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/top/83/8301materials.html">http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/top/83/8301materials.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. Announces Availability
of Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) announced
today that it has expanded its pilot plant capability to provide double-wall
carbon nanotubes to the market. Double-wall carbon nanotubes behave similarly to
single-wall carbon nanotubes but have unique property characteristics for some
applications. The technology to produce double-wall carbon nanotubes is part of
the intellectual property developed by Dr. Richard Smalley and licensed
exclusively to CNI by Rice University in 2001. "Even though single-wall carbon
nanotubes have become somewhat of a gold standard product, the properties of
double-wall carbon nanotubes can make them very interesting for certain
applications," said Rick Smalley, chairman of CNI and University Professor at
Rice University. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Business Wire 2/1/05)<BR><A
href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050201005081&newsLang=en">http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050201005081&newsLang=en</A>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Edventure Museum exhibit explores nano-technology.
A new exhibit at Edventure Children's Museum is letting kids explore a world too
small to see. "It's a Nano World" teaches kids about a nanometer, which is one
billionth of a meter, smaller than one strand of hair. With the exhibit,
children are able to measure themselves in nanometers, see things up close and
personal, sort cells and play inside a drop of blood. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(WIStv 2/1/05) <A
href="http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2888593&nav=0RaPVs1t">http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2888593&nav=0RaPVs1t</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paint Based on Quantum Dots has Potential to Assist
Antiterrorism and Cancer Detection. Night vision technology could become
extremely precise thanks to an inexpensive water-based material capable of
boosting particles of light in the infrared spectrum, say University of Toronto
researchers. The material has the potential to enhance infrared images tenfold
by coating lenses with a film a 10th of a millimetre thick and powering the
material with a laser. (Azonano 2/1/05) <A
href="http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=491">http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=491</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotech takes aim at transistors. US scientists
have made nano-scale devices they claim could one day replace current transistor
technology. The tiny devices, "crossbar latches", are made up of a combination
of crossed-over platinum wires with steric acid molecules set at their
junctions. The Hewlett Packard researchers said they could potentially do a
better job than present transistors, dramatically improving the performance of
computers. The HP team reports its findings in the Journal of Applied Physics.
(BBC 2/1/05) <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4226305.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4226305.stm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Controlling guests in nanocapsules. "A detailed
understanding of the interplay and relative orientations of the constituent
guest molecules has, until now, been restricted to a few instances of limited
complexity," note chemistry professor Jerry L. Atwood and coworkers at the
University of Missouri, Columbia, in a recent paper [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,
43,5263 (2004)]. The paper describes two important advances relating to
nanocapsules with interior volumes in the 1,200?1,500-?3 range, according to
Atwood. "First, we show that it is possible to order the guests on the interior
of our large free-standing capsules," he says. "Second, and most remarkably, we
show that these large capsules communicate with each other, at least in the
solid state and probably in solution, by the formation of intercapsule hydrogen
bonds. This communication in turn leads to a completely different ordering of
the guests within the capsules." (C&Enews 2/3/05)<BR><A
href="http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/top/83/8301capsules.html">http://pubs.acs.org/cen/nanofocus/top/83/8301capsules.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Test could detect Alzheimer’s earlier. A highly
sensitive new test could lead to a different way to diagnose people with
Alzheimer’s disease, possibly helping find the illness in its early stages when
there might be time for treatment...Test measures proteins in spinal
fluid<BR>Many companies have experimental therapies, he said, “But those
therapeutics aren’t very good if you can’t definitively diagnose and follow a
disease,” explained Mirkin, a lead researcher — along with William L. Klein — on
a team that developed the new test, which can detect small amounts of proteins
in spinal fluid. The team’s findings are reported in Tuesday’s issue of
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (MSNBC 2/1/05) <A
href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890966">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890966</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotubes Crank Out Hydrogen. Pure hydrogen fuel is
non-polluting. Current methods of extracting hydrogen, however, use energy
derived from sources that pollute. Finding ways to use the sun's energy to split
water to extract hydrogen would make for a truly clean energy source. Several
research efforts are using materials engineered at the molecular scale to tap
the sun as an energy source to extract hydrogen from water. Researchers from
Pennsylvania State University have constructed a material made from titanium
dioxide nanotubes that is 97 percent efficient at harvesting the ultraviolet
portion of the sun's light and 6.8 percent efficient at extracting hydrogen from
water. (Fuel Cell Today 1/27/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,5504,00.html">http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,5504,00.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotechnology Detects Human DNA Mutations.
Researchers at Nanosphere, Inc. have reported unprecedented benefits in the
company's technology for the medical analysis of human DNA. Nanosphere's
nanoparticle-based technology allows for rapid, highly-sensitive and specific
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping, which is the direct detection
of a particular gene and the extent to which it is normal or mutated. (Azonano
1/26/05) <A
href="http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=481">http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=481</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NanoClarity, The New Nanotechnology E-Newsletter,
Enrolls Over 1,000 Subscribers in 6 Months. Alan Shalleck, President of
NanoClarity LLC of Jersey City, NJ, today announced the initial success of his
new Newsletter and Commentary, NanoClarity, with the general and investing
public, reaching a first milestone of over 1,000 subscribers. Distributed over
the Internet at <A href="http://www.nanoclarity.com">www.nanoclarity.com</A>,
NanoClarity clarifies, in understandable language, nanotechnology’s current
state, meaning and worth. Mr. Shalleck said, " I was so horrified by the
"emperor's new clothes" dot.com bubble of the late 90s, that I committed my
wisdom and acumen to protecting potential nanotech investors from similar
pitfalls in the even bigger boom coming in nanotechnology. My commitment is
NanoClarity." (eMediaWire 2/3/05) <A
href="http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/2/emw204169.htm">http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/2/emw204169.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anadis and Starpharma to Work Together on
Respiratory Protection & Biodefense Applications. Anadis Ltd (ASX:ANX) and
Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, USOTC:SPHRY) announced today that they
have established a partnership to investigate applications of their combined
technologies to respiratory protection and biodefense. This research involves
the use of polyclonal antibodies, harvested from bovine colostrum and combined
with Starpharma’s nano-scale dendrimer molecules to provide immediate short term
respiratory protection from airborne biological agents such as Anthrax and
Plague. (PharmaLive 2/1/05) <A
href="http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=208834&categoryid=21">http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=208834&categoryid=21</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>'04 Nano funding report: less money but record
number of rounds. The amount of money invested by venture capitalists in U.S.
companies commercializing nanotechnology fell a precipitous 35 percent last
year. However, the number of companies receiving funding increased 32 percent,
to the highest level Small Times has tracked in data going back to 1995.
(Smalltimes 2/2/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8744">http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=8744</A></FONT></DIV>
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