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Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: July 23, 2008Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot. Top Nano News of the WeekAtomically precise nanotechnology leading to new catalystsNanoclusters of various sizes and chemical compositions are of great interest as catalysts because of the high surface areas that they present to encourage chemical reactions to occur. The emerging ability to control the sizes of these clusters to atomic precision affords new opportunities for designing novel catalysts… In this issue:
Foresight Event – Vision Weekend Another way to manipulate individual DNA moleculesIn an elegant demonstration that microfabricated structures can be used to manipulate long molecules, scientists in Japan have used a combination of optical tweezers and microfabricated structures to pick up a single DNA molecule and move it around… Open source nanotechnology for clean waterFrom the conference report Setting an Agenda for the Social Studies of Nanotechnology (PDF)… Nanotechnology provides key capability for artificial photosynthesisThe chemical reactions of photosynthesis require more energy than can be imparted by visible light to single electrons. Chinese scientists have developed a nanotech solution to harvest energy from multiple electrons—something alternative approaches to artificial photosynthesis have not yet managed to do… Nanotechnology may be able to deliver drugs across the blood-brain barrierExperiments in which quantum rods conjugated to the protein transferrin crossed a laboratory model of the blood-brain barrier point to a nanotech method for ferrying various diagnostic and therapeutic molecules across the blood brain barrier… Sorting carbon nanotubes for different nanotechnology applicationsAn international team of scientists has shown that semiconductor nanotubes can be attracted to and aligned on surfaces chemically modified with amino groups, while surfaces with phenyl groups attract metallic nanotubes… —Nanodot posts by James Lewis and Christine Peterson Foresight Event – Save the Date!November 15-16, 2008 Advancing Beneficial NanotechnologyDo you believe that nanotechnology will give society the ability to tackle the hard challenges facing humanity? What's your priority for nanotechnology: cancer treatments and longevity therapies, sustainable energy, clean water, a restored environment, space development, or "zero waste" manufacturing? Or perhaps there are potential nanotech scenarios you would like to prevent. If you would like to help influence the direction of this powerful technology, please consider becoming a member of Foresight Nanotech Institute. With your support, Foresight will continue to educate the general public on beneficial nanotechnology and what it will mean to our society. To join: Foresight PartnersForesight note: One free conference ticket is available to a Foresight Senior Associate only for the following conference. Please contact Alicia Isaac either at foresight@foresight.org or by phone 650.289.0860. Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 Nanotech Northern Europe brings together the field's top scientists and leading international companies in order to advance the beneficial use of nanotechnology. The 2008 event concentrates around three application areas:
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Nanotech EventsNational Nano Engineering Conference 2008 The National Nano Engineering Conference 2008 (NNEC) is the premier event focused on current and future developments in engineering innovations at the nanoscale, as well as the commercialization of nanotechnology. Presentations on new technologies and their commercial applications in the following disciplines:
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