Sentences with phrase «from nanotechnology»

But, as is so clear in considering the interface of science and society on a host of tough issues — from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to global warming — the views of the average person, let alone an elderly folkie, do matter.

Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President's Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.

This essay series includes contributions from nanotechnology thinkers offering their understanding as to why everyone should care about the potential and power of nanotechnology.

Perhaps the big advance will spring from physicists» quest for a theory of everything; from studies of «emergent» phenomena with many moving parts, such as ecologies and economies; from advances in computers and mathematics; from nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other applied sciences; or from investigations of how brains make minds.

The threat this time is from nanotechnology and the «emergent behaviors» by which large groups of tiny mindless entities shape themselves into a single purposeful, highly intelligent organism.

Speaking from the nanotechnology hub in East Syracuse, Cuomo said currently, the competition to get businesses to relocate to other states is fierce.

It's quite a blog that manages to cover a wide spectrum of topics from nanotechnology and nanoethics to artificial intelligence and the Singularity project.

It's quite a blog that manages to cover a wide spectrum of topics from nanotechnology and nanoethics to....

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«It's not a fast process,» says Michael Patterson, CEO of Graphene Frontiers in Philadelphia, an advanced materials and nanotechnology company that has won 10 grants from local, state and federal agencies totaling nearly $ 1.3 million.

The patent application, which goes on for more than 4,000 words and 10 pages, explains that the device would have a display and a user interface, and could receive power from a variety of methods including «solar panel technology, capacitive technology, nanotechnology, or electro - mechanical technology.»

Teresa Gonzalo, an alumna who graduated from Spain's Venture Lab and the IE Business School, has gone on to create Ambiox Biotech, which works on nanotechnology for AIDS prevention.

Its economic development unit, Empire State Development, has established a long - term, multibillion - dollar game plan to attract nanotechnology manufacturers to make not only solar panels but also semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products from very small materials (there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).

Speakers will be drawn from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, including industrial and product design, architecture, urban planning, landscaping, graphic design, branding, fashion, software and nanotechnology.

Lazaridis, who stepped down as RIM's co-chief executive officer 14 months ago, is putting his time and fortune into quantum computing and nanotechnology — sometimes referred to as the «science of the small» — which uses atomic - sized technology in fields ranging from medicine to cryptography.

Professor Paul Berryman considers the most significant food trends for 2014 — from salt, sugar and fat reformulation technology to the rise of genomics, nanotechnology and nutraceuticals.

While we are a major player in nanotechnology and UAS industry development and our airport has seen recent job growth, Oneida County was completely absent from the Governor's economic development plans in 2017, and that lack of acknowledgement is an egregious slight to this community.»

The initiative borrows from the model used to develop a nanotechnology sector in Albany.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - State Sen. John DeFrancisco is upset that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is excluding state lawmakers from multi-million dollar economic development decisions, like the new nanotechnology hub in DeWitt.

The institute has received praise — and billions of dollars in state funding — from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who has referred to Mr. Kaloyeros as a visionary in the field of nanotechnology, engineering at the molecular level, which the governor has heralded as an economic engine in the state.

«You locate the smartest people from a university and build a state - of - the - art infrastructure and bring in the top corporations in a specific field, in our case, nanotechnology,» said Kaloyeros.

Hillary Clinton listed nearly a dozen reasons why she was happy to be in Binghamton, New York, Monday afternoon, from the chance to talk nanotechnology to the gorgeous fall foliage.

«Whether it has to do with nanotechnology or other projects, the more of us working together and speaking as once voice, the greater chances we're going to be able to bring attention to this area from Albany,» Brindisi said.

With an early zeal for nanotechnology, a taste for head - turning cars, a sardonic tongue and a talent for luring major corporations with government financing, Dr. Kaloyeros, 60, is widely credited with transforming Albany from a drowsy government town into an unlikely center for high - tech research.

In our coverage of the debate, we noted that the nanotechnology hub, still perhaps reeling from the ouster of its longtime president last fall, had received a nine - figure, state - funded bailout earlier this year.

«The SUNY system brought nanotechnology to Albany, and they brought companies from all across the globe, and they made Albany the nano capital.»

Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, Chief Executive Officer and Officer in Charge of SUNY CNSE / SUNYIT, said, «Governor Cuomo's vision to establish a nanotechnology ecosystem stretching from Albany to Buffalo takes another step forward today, as the Marcy site is formally ready for development.

The Mohawk Valley is on its way to becoming the state's second major hub for nanotechnology, and will play a major role in Governor Cuomo's vision to establish a Nano Canal Corridor that stretches from Albany to Buffalo.»

The state, borrowing from the model it used to develop a nanotechnology sector in Albany, intends to use the hubs to attract medical, energy and technology companies.

He works with K - 12 teachers to create broadly dispersed education materials in the fields of nanotechnology and energy conservation, from hands - on engineering competitions to nanotechnology - inspired art displays.

Nanotechnologies are expected to provide dramatic advances in fields ranging from building materials to medical imaging.

By using nanotechnology and chemistry to restructure perhaps the most important molecule ever discovered by scientists, we go from a structure that can not cross the natural barriers within the skin to one that freely traverses them.»

The study, «Bright visible light emission from graphene,» is published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Nanotechnology's website on June 15.

With funding from the Alberta Cancer Board, the National Science and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Alberta Innovation and Science Research Investment Program, the University of Alberta (UA) in Edmonton has become a major center of nanotechnology research and has fostered the spin - off and growth of a host of companies.

In an article published Jan 26 in Nature Chemistry, nanotechnology experts from Stanford Engineering and from Denmark's Aarhus University explain how to liberate hydrogen from water on an industrial scale by using electrolysis.

In December 2015, Qirui Fan graduated from Winter's lab with a doctorate in chemical engineering and a love of nanotechnology.

Their suggestions include using a nanotechnology called «resistive memory» to keep electronics humming and using carbon nanotube shielding — originally made by NASA to shield spacecraft from radiation — for protection.

Thanks to the application of nanotechnology, the team developed a sponge with outstanding mercury adsorption properties where mercury contaminations can be removed from tap, lake and industrial wastewater to below detectable limits in less than 5 seconds (or around 5 minutes for industrial wastewater).

His projects range from exploratory research to support and expansion of existing products, but scientists and engineers with nanotechnology knowledge could find themselves in any part of the firm, including product development and manufacturing.

Given that nanotechnology experts come from a plethora of fields, their job opportunities are just as varied and rich.

In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Department of Physics and the Department of Electronics Engineering at the UAB, and from the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University (USA), studied the heating of small current lines placed on top of a silicon substrate, simulating the behavior of current transistors.

Professor Angelos Michaelides, from the Thomas Young Centre and London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL, lead researcher of the study, explained: «Atoms and molecules usually move across materials by hopping from one point on their surface to the next.

Sometimes, dozens of scientists in data - rich disciplines ranging from neuroscience and medicine to green tech, theoretical physics, materials science and nanotechnology gather on this bridge.

Starting in 2001, she added a sideline on military applications, helping found the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT, focusing on technology that protects soldiers from harm and heals their wounds.

A crucial first step in deciding how to regulate nanomaterials and products of nanotechnology is to define how nanomaterials differ from their larger - scale counterparts, says physicist E. Clayton Teague, director of the U.S. government's National Nanotechnology Coordinanotechnology is to define how nanomaterials differ from their larger - scale counterparts, says physicist E. Clayton Teague, director of the U.S. government's National Nanotechnology CoordiNanotechnology Coordination Office.

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported the discovery of a nanotechnology - based solution that could address both issues — achieving 15 percent tertiary oil recovery at low cost, without the large volume of chemicals used in most commercial fluids.

A second big idea, a $ 187 million nanotechnology initiative, got a tongue - lashing from skeptics at the June 2004 meeting of NCI's Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA).

Gevorg Grigoryan, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, and researchers from other institutions have built the first artificial transporter protein that carries individual atoms across membranes, opening the possibility of engineering a new class of smart molecules with applications in fields as wide ranging as nanotechnology and medicine.

Researchers have touted nanotechnology — an array of techniques that allow the manipulation of matter at the atomic scale — as the next big thing, producing everything from better materials to tiny robots.

A team led by Latha Venkataraman, professor of applied physics and chemistry at Columbia Engineering and Xavier Roy, assistant professor of chemistry (Arts & Sciences), published a study today in Nature Nanotechnology that is the first to reproducibly demonstrate current blockade — the ability to switch a device from the insulating to the conducting state where charge is added and removed one electron at a time — using atomically precise molecular clusters at room temperature.

Developing a reliable method to synthesize and manufacture 2 - D nanosheets from other materials has been a goal of materials researchers and the nanotechnology industry for years.