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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2><STRONG>The Nanogirl
News</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>July 2, 2005</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Nanogirl News</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Foresight Nanotech Institute Launches
Nanotechnology Roadmap. Foresight Nanotech Institute, the leading nanotechnology
think tank and public interest organization, and Battelle, a leading global
research and development organization, have launched a Technology Roadmap for
Productive Nanosystems through an initial grant of $250,000 from The Waitt
Family Foundation. The group is assembling a world-class steering committee to
guide this groundbreaking project, and has garnered the support of several
important industry organizations as roadmap partners. Productive Nanosystems are
molecular-scale systems that make other useful materials and devices that are
nanostructured. The Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems will provide a
common framework for understanding the pathways for developing such systems, the
challenges that must be overcome in their development and the applications that
they can address. (Foresight 6/21/05) <A
href="http://www.foresight.org/cms/press_center/128">http://www.foresight.org/cms/press_center/128</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Organizers of the second annual International and
North Coast Nanotechnology Business Idea Competitions today announced they are
accepting submissions for the 2005 event, which will award winners $150,000 in
prize money at the conclusion of NANO Week in October. The competition seeks to
encourage the development of business ideas that will commercialize
nanotechnology research being done around the world. The International and North
Coast Nanotechnology Business Idea Competitions is the culminating event of NANO
Week, October 17-21, which this year will focus attention on the next generation
of nanotechnology-based products and applications from the aerospace, automotive
and consumer products industries. (6/16/05) <A
href="http://www.tiime.case.edu/nano/index.html">http://www.tiime.case.edu/nano/index.html</A><BR>Also
see: <A
href="http://www.nano-network.org./">http://www.nano-network.org./</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nano-levers point to futuristic gadgets. Billions
of tiny mechanical levers could be used to store songs on future MP3 players and
pictures on digital cameras. As bizarre as the idea might sound, researchers at
a Dutch company have already demonstrated that miniscule mechanical switches can
be used to store data using less power than existing technologies and with
greater reliability.<BR>Nanomech memory, developed by Cavendish Kinetics in the
Netherlands, stores data using thousands of electro-mechanical switches that are
toggled up or down to represent either a one or zero as a binary bit. Each
switch is a few microns long and less than a micron wide - roughly a hundred
times smaller than the width of a human hair. (NewScientist 6/24/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7577&feedId=online-news_rss20">http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7577&feedId=online-news_rss20</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Research offers clues about C60 behavior in natural
environments. In some of the first research to probe how buckyballs will
interact with natural ecosystems, Rice University's Center for Biological and
Environmental Nanotechnology finds that the molecules spontaneously clump
together upon contact with water, forming nanoparticles that are both soluble
and toxic to bacteria. The research challenges conventional wisdom: since
buckyballs are notoriously insoluble by themselves, most scientists had assumed
they would remain insoluble in nature. The findings also raise questions about
how the buckyball aggregates – dubbed nano-C60 – will interact with other
particles and living things in natural ecosystems. The findings appear in the
June 1 issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology. (PhysOrg
6/22/05) <A
href="http://www.physorg.com/news4684.html">http://www.physorg.com/news4684.html</A><BR> <BR>New
Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components. A team of chemists
at Penn State has developed a new type of ultrathin film, which has unusual
properties that could improve the fabrication of increasingly smaller and more
intricate electronic and sensing devices. The material, a single layer made from
spherical cages of carbon atoms, could enable more precise patterning of such
devices with a wider range of molecular components than now is possible with
conventional self-assembled monolayers. The research is published in the current
issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The molecules that make
up the material have larger spaces and weaker connections between them than do
components of conventional self-assembled monolayers. "The bonding and
structural characteristics of this monolayer give us the opportunity to replace
its molecules with different molecules very easily, which opens up lots of
possibilities for both directed patterning and self-assembled patterning," says
Paul S. Weiss, professor of chemistry and physics. (Penn State 6/22/05) <A
href="http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Weiss6-2005.htm">http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Weiss6-2005.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Solar to Fuel: Catalyzing the Science. In the past
150 years, burgeoning industrialization has increased carbon in the atmosphere
by 40 percent and driven a continuing rise in global temperatures. The trend
won't stop soon. Among the consequences: rising sea levels, increased air
pollution, and more hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Meanwhile, the age of
cheap oil and gas has come to an end. In the short term humans urgently need to
use energy more efficiently, and we need to stop putting carbon straight into
the air. More important for the long term, we need to find or create ways to use
energy that don't release any carbon at all. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Berkeley Lab 5/13/05) <A
href="http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/May/01-solar-to-fuel.html">http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/May/01-solar-to-fuel.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>New Chem-bio Sensors Offer Simultaneous Monitoring.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Vienna University of
Technology have developed a modular system that combines chemical and biological
sensing tools capable of providing simultaneous, nano-level resolution
information on cell topography and biological activity. The tools integrate
micro and nanoscale electrodes into the tips of an atomic force microscope
(AFM). A veritable Swiss army knife of sensors, the patented technique is
currently being tested to combine other sensing methods to give scientists a
more holistic view of cellular activities. The research is published in Vol 44,
2005 of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. (ScienceDaily 6/30/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050630063042.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050630063042.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nano World: Wiring up single molecules. A new
method to carve infinitesimal gaps into nanowires soon could help scientists
connect electronics to single molecules. This in turn could lead to computers
based on molecular transistors with vastly greater computing power than
conventional machines. Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago who are
developing the technique already have created notches only 2.5 nanometers wide
-- or 2.5 billionths of a meter, the breadth of a DNA molecule -- in gold
nanowires, into which a variety of compounds, such as genes, could be
plugged. "I believe we'll hit 1 nanometer within the year," senior
researcher Chad Mirkin told UPI's Nano World. (WorldPeaceHerald 6/30/05)
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050630-032056-1446r">http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050630-032056-1446r</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Past tense) Industry meets academia to discuss
nanofoods. Nanotechnology researchers and food industry representatives are
meeting in the Netherlands next week to discuss how to the technology may apply
to processing operations, reports Ahmed ElAmin. Along with the technical talk a
major item on the agenda will be how to prepare the public for its actual
introduction into what they eat. Food processors and researchers are studying
ways of making nanomachines on a microscopic scale that can help companies
ensure the safety and quality of their products. More controversially they are
also working on ways to make everyday foods carry medicines and supplements by
creating tiny edible capsules, or nanoparticles, that release their contents on
demand at targeted spots in the body. (Foodproductiondaily.com 6/17/05) <A
href="http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?id=60733">http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?id=60733</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A Sharper Focus for Soft x-rays. Zone Plate Lenses
Capable of Better than 15-Nanometer Resolution. Progress in nanoscience and
nanotechnology depends not only on examining the surfaces of things but on
seeing deep inside biological organisms and material structures to identify what
they're made of — and what electronic, magnetic, optical, and chemical processes
may be in play. For measuring internal variations in shape, organization,
magnetism, polarization, or chemical make-up over distances of a few nanometers
(billionths of a meter), x-ray microscopy not only complements electron
microscopy but also offers important advantages. (BerkeleyLab 6/29/05) <A
href="http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ALS-soft-x-rays.html">http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ALS-soft-x-rays.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Motorola calls on Congress for increased funding of
nanotechnology. Jim O’Connor, vice president of Technological Commercialization
at Motorola, Inc., testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives
Science Subcommittee on Research to share Motorola’s thoughts on where the
United States stands competitively and innovatively when it comes to nanoscience
and nanotechnologies. (nanotechwire 7/2/05) <A
href="http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2091">http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=2091</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotube bike enters Tour de France. This year’s
Tour de France will see cyclists from the Phonak Team use a bike with a frame
containing carbon nanotubes. Swiss manufacturer BMC claims that the frame of its
"Pro Machine" weighs less than 1 kg and has excellent stiffness and strength. To
create the frame, BMC used a composite technology developed by US sports
equipment specialist Easton. The company's "enhanced resin system" embeds carbon
fibre in a resin matrix that's reinforced with carbon nanotubes. Easton says
that this improves strength and toughness in the spaces between the carbon
fibres. (nanotechweb 7/1/05)<BR><A
href="http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/7/1/1">http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/7/1/1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nanotech As Disease Detector. Startup Nanosphere
may have a technology that can sniff out telltale markers early enough to
advance treatment. The challenge: translating potential to real-life results.
There's tremendous hype about the promise of nanotechnology in medicine. Now,
the companies pioneering the field have to prove the promise can become a
reality. Among the players making the rounds at the Biotechnology Industry
Organization convention in Philadelphia is William Moffitt, president and chief
executive officer of Nanosphere, a startup looking to use nanotechnology to
revolutionize the medical-testing industry. "Nanotech is going to create the
next major advance in diagnostics," Moffitt says. (Businessweek 6/21/05)<BR><A
href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc20050621_8895_tc048.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2005/tc20050621_8895_tc048.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Microsoft woos world's scientists. Microsoft's
British research arm is looking into what kind of software scientists will
require in the future. The company has brought together 40 leading scientists to
a meeting in Venice to discuss their needs... The challenges facing scientists
have been outlined by the man behind the initiative, Stephen Emmott of Microsoft
Research. "By 2020, science will, I claim, be in the process of a profound
transformation as a consequence of the emergence of 'new kinds' of science'," he
wrote in a paper entitled Towards 2020 Science. "For example, advances in areas
such as computational systems biology could re-shape the health and
pharmaceutical sectors as a result of a fundamentally greater understanding of
biological processes, and therefore of disease. "Advances in artificial
chemistry and nanoscience could create entirely new technology. (BBC 7/1/05) <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4638583.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4638583.stm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lehigh University's new mission: space, the final
frontier. In high-tech team-up, school will get a hand in James Webb scope.
Lehigh University researchers will work with NASA on what some scientists hail
as the most important astronomy project of the decade — the successor to the
Hubble Space Telescope... Under an agreement announced Tuesday, Lehigh will give
researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration free access
to the school's nanotechnology and electron microscopy facilities. In return,
Lehigh professors get to work on developing technologies for future Mars rovers
and spacecraft, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope — Hubble's successor
and the most expensive space science mission under development at NASA. ''It
looks like nanotechnology will play a big role in space exploration, and we get
to be a part of that,'' said Martin Harmer, director of Lehigh's Center for
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. (OrlandoSentinel 6/30/05) <BR><A
href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/all-a1_5nasajun30,0,5840960.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-space">http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/all-a1_5nasajun30,0,5840960.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-space</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>China to create nanotechnology standards. China
this week created a body that will draw up standards for nanotechnology, an
emerging field of research that seeks to create materials and devices on the
scale of atoms and molecules. Bai Chunli, vice president of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and China's National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology will
head the National Nanotechnology Standardisation Committee. "The country which
completes the standardisation work first might greatly influence the future
international standards in nanotechnology," said Bai in an interview with the
Xinhua news agency. (SciDev 6/21/05) <BR><A
href="http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=5&item=News&itemid=2179&language=1">http://www.scidev.net/gateways/index.cfm?fuseaction=readitem&rgwid=5&item=News&itemid=2179&language=1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brookhaven Scientists Create a New Nanostructure.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory
have devised a method to create a new, intriguing nanostructure: ultra-thin,
ribbon-like "nanobelts" bound to nanotubes. Their research achieves several
"firsts" in the field of nanoscience, the study of materials on the scale of a
billionth of a meter. Additionally, the new structure, described in the June 4,
2005, online version of Nano Letters, is likely to have unique electrical and
mechanical properties, and may be useful in many developing
nanotechnologies. (Physorg 6/26/05) <A
href="http://www.physorg.com/news4797.html">http://www.physorg.com/news4797.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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