Entries from April 2010 ↓

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Novaled Demonstrates Reliable OLEDs on Metal Substrates

Novaled, a leading company in OLEDs for display and lighting applications, demonstrated its know how and expertise on efficient and long lifetime OLEDs on metal at the Light and Building Frankfurt.

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Prized workshop for molecular footballs

Wolfgang Kraetschmer has been awarded the European Inventor Award 2010 in the category of 'lifetime achievement' for the development of the synthesis of fullerenes like C60

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Fluorescent microspheres conjugated to cell surface molecules can detect early inflammation at the molecular level

Forget what you know about how diseases are diagnosed. New research details a noninvasive ground-breaking tool that detects signs of disease at early molecular stages before symptoms can be seen using traditional methods.

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New Brochure: Medical Design Solutions with Piezo Motors and Hexapod Robots

Piezo and Motion Control Specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a brochure on advanced motion control solutions for medical design.

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Nanopediatric research focuses on nanomedicine for children

'Children are not small adults' - pediatricians say that's what makes their specialty different from the practice of medicine in adults. For similar reasons, researchers exploring the medical uses of nanotechnology believe that the use of molecular-level nanomedicine techniques in children will also require its own specialty.

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Imec Successfully Concludes 2009 Thanks to Strengthened Global Open Innovation

At today's General Assembly, the imec Board announced the results of 2009. Despite the severe economical downturn, 2009 was a satisfying year for imec.

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An odd couple – photoluminescent liquid crystals based on metal clusters

Combine liquid crystals (mesogens) and metal clusters and you get clustomesogens - a new class of compounds, the first examples of which have now been produced.

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DNA construction kit for nanoengines

Scientists have succeeded for the first time in making, out of DNA double stands, an interlocked molecule (rotaxane) with freely moveable components. This opens up exciting possibilities for nanorobotics and synthetic biology.

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Molecular probe tracks changes in a protein

Scientists have succeeded in introducing a molecular probe into a protein and tracking the changes caused by it in detail using spectroscopy.

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Nanomedicine: Reality now and soon – ESF-UB conference in biomedicine

The application of nanotechnology will have a major influence in many fields of medicine. Novel nano-based materials appear in drug delivery systems, diagnostics, imaging, biosensing, and medical materials and devices.