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Smart concrete detects traffic flow Nov 12, 2009

Multi-walled carbon nanotube admixture turns concrete road surface into a vehicle sensor

Technology update

Nano-micelles repair spinal cord tissue

New technique might provide an alternative to other, more risky procedures

Nanotube LEDs make progress

IBM team controls light emission from CNTs more precisely than ever before

Holes block light in very thin films

Finding points towards new kinds of polarization filters and other components for photonic circuits

Nanowire sheet has flexible LED applications covered

Bendable visible and ultraviolet light-emitting devices prototyped using cotton-like zinc oxide product

Graphene FETs get up to speed

Organic polymer buffer layer allows carrier mobilities to remain high

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Review: preparing magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications

A guide to the quickest and most reliable ways of making magnetic nanoparticles for medical imaging, drug delivery and therapeutic use grouped by size and including multicomponent systems

Video: Spintronics made easy

David Awschalom, Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, explains how electron spin could be harnessed to create very dense computer memories and even quantum computers

White papers

Direct visualization, sizing and counting of virus and phage particles in liquids.

A white paper from Bob Carr, Founder & CTO, NanoSight Limited, Salisbury, UK and Duncan Griffiths*, NanoSight USA, Costa Mesa, California, USA.

Q-View White Light Interferometer/SPM. One instrument, Two technologies

An application note from LOT-Oriel Ltd on behalf of Ambios

Courses and events

Online Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology

26 Oct 200911 Jul 2010, Online/Oxford, United Kingdom.

Online Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology, University of Oxford

26 Oct 200911 Jul 2010, Online/Oxford, United Kingdom.

Nanotec 2009

2426 Nov 2009, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

MRS Fall Meeting

30 Nov4 Dec 2009, Boston, United States.