Sentences with phrase «on nanotechnology projects»
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COR, a major developer in Syracuse involved in several upstate nanotechnology and development projects receiving state funds, told The Post-Standard on Saturday that it had not paid any money to Mr. Percoco.
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Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.
They are now used in 259 products on the market today, according to the Project for Emerging Nanotechnologies.
«The silver that went into wastewaters when millions of people had their photographs developed taught us that small additions of silver to the environment make a big difference,» said Dr. Samuel Luoma, a former U.S. Geological Survey senior researcher who was lead author of a report by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.
Consumers can learn more about which products contain nanoparticles by visiting the Web site for The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.)
The number of products — including sunscreens, paints, vitamins, food additives, electronics, vehicles and appliances — that use nanomaterials has increased almost 380 percent since 2006, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a Washington, D.C. - based non-profit group that tracks nanotechnology.
There are still many questions that need to be answered about toxicity of silver nanoparticles, said Kuiken at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies.
Those are things we know we need answers to and don't have answers to,» says physicist Andrew Maynard, chief science advisor to the Wilson Center's project on emerging nanotechnologies.
«It shows we haven't been out on a limb for the last few years,» says Andrew Maynard, chief scientist at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars» Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Washington, D.C. Maynard has long criticized coordination of EHS research under NNI, and he was also a member of the NRC panel that wrote today's report.
A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.
The Wilson Center's Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies manages a similar inventory (http://www.nanotechproject.org/cpi/) tracking the use of nanoscale materials in consumer products.
This is a very early announcement of an upcoming Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies webcast on April 28, 2010.
«There is no doubt that nanotechnology has the potential to make the world a better place,» said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Scientist Andrew Maynard.
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series «Nanotechnology: The Power of Small» on Wednesday evening, April 2.
Dr. Todd Kuiken is a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
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.
She has over 90 academic publications and has held several leadership and advisory positions, including Chair of the Gordon Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Secretary and Council Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the European Commission Expert Group for Science in Society and the EU's «SYNTH - ETHICS» project, the FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee, and the UN WHO - FAO Expert Group for Agrifood Nanotechnology.
Dr. Kuiken also managed the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, also at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where he focused on public policy and the environmental health and safety aspects of nanotechnology.
Her projects focus on related issues such as surveillance, invisible labor, machine - human feedback loops, nanotechnology.
Research takes priority, too, with faculty working on more than 450 projects — including wildlife disease prevention, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering — around the world.
«There is often a misconception that nanoscale production will necessarily be green and clean,» says David Rejeski, director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), which helped support the production of this special issue.
The report is based on discussions among 27 international nanotechnology and LCA experts from a two - day workshop held in October 2006, and is being simultaneously released by the European Commission (EC) and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, an initiative of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Pew Charitable Trusts.
«Every technology ever developed... has had some sort of adverse consequences, and sometimes they've been serious, sometimes not... It's unprecedented and would defy common sense if there weren't some problem somewhere,» said J. Clarence Davies, a senior adviser to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), who takes a more pessimistic approach to nanotechnology's potential.
One of the projects, for example, is on Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions, another is on «Gun Risk» Perceptions.
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