Nanotech

UW study examines public attitudes on nanotechnology

"The message to scientists is: The public is not going to come to you. You have to take your work to the public, and make it availa...

Nanotechnology minimizes UW's beloved mascot

Last month a team of UW-Madison chemists led by <a href="http://hamers.chem.wis...

Scientists find nanotech method for examining cells

The crystals, sometimes known as quantum dots, are tiny on the order of a handful of molecules. Researchers, including University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Dan van der...

Midwest gaining stature in nanotech research

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Wisconsin colleges secure funding for nanotechnology

The colleges, with help from the grant worth $217,795, are putting the finishing touches on a nanotechnology curr...

Departure of nanotech researcher stings UW

Rob Carpick, an associate engineering physics professor and nanotechnology researcher, has won $3.4 million in grants since coming to Madison in 2000. At t...

Feds provide $1.5 million for new nanotechnology center

The grant will cover part of the cost of construction for the $5.5 million nanotechnology i...

Executives hear about promise, limits of RFID and nanotech

Wisconsin business executives gathered in Milwaukee to hear how radio frequency identification and nanotechnology can make their businesses more competitive, but while several applications are tantalizingly close, barriers remain. The technologies were outlined during a session of the Wisconsin Innovates Conference. Although presenters Alfonso Gutirrez, director of the <a href="http://ww...

Chippewa Valley receives state grant for nanotech incubator

"Through this project, we are creating an environm...

Fitchburg Technology Campus attracts nanotechnology firms

Ground-breaking will be held on Nov. 16 for the second New Venture Center building. Its anchor...

Nanotech Students Offer High End Surface Analysis

Nanoscience Technology students at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire are offering up to eight hours of nano- and micro-level surface analysis to firms or organizations with an economic interest in nanotechnology projects. Instructor Hans Mikelson says three students will comprise each of five teams with project completion by December 15, 2005. Mikelson believes that firms...

Corporate clients will dominate surge in nanotech tool demand, study projects

Corporate research and development will dominate a surge in demand for nanotech tools in the coming years, according to a study released this week by a New York consulting firm that focuses on nanotechnology. The study, by "Interest i...

UW-Madison tries new techniques for nanotech

A partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland may have uncovered a new solution for building nanoelectronics. Nanotechnology is typically difficult to work with because of the complex patterns involved and their extremely small size – sometimes down to the scale of individual molecules. Current methods to replicate...

Chippewa Valley Technical College helps pioneer nanotech program, incubator

Nanotechnology deals with particles one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter, wide, where normal physical properties of matter begin to give way to quantum mechanical behavi...

New nanotech approach could enable fast anthrax detection

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Nanotech exhibit opens at UW-Madison

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Tech Digest: Nanotechnology, GE Healthcare, NovaMed, PhysioGenix

. It opens at 4:30 p.m. on December 16 during...

UW-Madison gets $13 million to study nanotech

MADISON, Wis. A new kind of science is revolutionizing technology, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison just received more than $13 million to harness its potential during the next five years. The science, called nanotechnology, is the study of materials and processes at scales so small that they're practically invisible under the lens of almost any microscope. These materials measur...

Seagate adopts Imago's nanotech microscope

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Wisconsin places high in nanotech venture capital, average in innovation

MADISON Speaking at the conference last week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a man with a long view of the science and industry behind making really small stuff said Wisconsin is bursting with venture capital but lackluster in innov...

Small wonders: Intersection of biotech and nanotech will produce big advances

MADISON Be honest: Everything you know about nanotechnology is from that GE television ad in which the nerdy professor meets the super-model, and within the space of about 30 seconds they fall in love, get married and produce a nerdy baby wearing eyeglasses. Dont feel left out, however, if you have trouble chatting about nano over your neighbors backyard grill. The field of nanotechnolo...

Chippewa Valley Embraces Nanotechnology

Eau Claire, Wis. - Jack Uldrich, nanotechnology author, consultant and president o...

Nanotechnology - Natures Lego Blocks!

Nanotechnology refers to the development and use of devices that are one-billionth of a meter in size. Nanotechnology is growing in importance as a science, and the term now describes many types of research where the characteristic dimensions are less than 1,000 nanometers of the substances involved in the research projects. This radical technology is a catalyst in the creation of exciting and in...