http://ec.europa.eu//nanotechnology/index_en.html en Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:43 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss For more RSS news feeds click the link above. Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:43 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=rss http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_05_09_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29933 Nanotechnology is opening the way to a new industrial revolution. From 'individualised' medical treatments tailored for each patient to new, environmentally-friendly energy storage and generation systems, nanotechnology is bringing significant advances. Exciting new futures await those businesses able to get ahead in the race to turn this wealth of promise into commercial success. But in a field which requires a high degree of coordinated effort involving many different stakeholder groups, including researchers, policymakers and commercial players across a wide variety of industrial sectors, it has perhaps been inevitable that fragmentation, disconnectedness and duplication have stood in the way.]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-05-09:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_05_09_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29933 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_04_30_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29853 Electrochromic glass – which instantly glazes or shades at the flick of an electrical switch – has proved popular in a range of applications where the control of light and heat is important. But the physical nature of the glass and the costs involved limit the opportunities open to this technology. An EU-funded project has applied these 'smart glass' principles to a flexible film which opens up a whole new world of green, low-cost and commercially viable possibilities.]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-04-30:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_04_30_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29853 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_04_23_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29753 Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents. These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen. But the technology developed by a European research project helps fight back against the so-called superbugs, by using a revolutionary nanotechnology to treat bed linen and other textiles.]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-04-23:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_04_23_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29753 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_03_20_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29433 Measuring between 1 and 100 billionth of a metre, nanomaterials may be tiny and invisible to the eye but what they lack in size, they make up for in impact. Engineered nanomaterials are already widely used in technologies and consumer products ranging from toothpaste to paints. ]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-03-20:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_03_20_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29433 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-sawhot-s3-ingenious&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=29414 The goal of enhanced integration between the European Union and the Russian Federation was significantly advanced by a series of three linked EU-Russian research projects. ]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-03-18:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-sawhot-s3-ingenious&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=29414 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_03_04_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29316 European researchers are waging war on cancer, a major medical and societal challenge today. Thanks to progress in nanotechnology and strong leadership by Trinity College Dublin, teams from diverse scientific fields are developing sensitive portable devices to diagnose cancer much earlier and to better monitor treatment when and where it is needed. ]]> Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-03-04:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_13_03_04_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=29316 http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=4DB528B0-F940-7321-368A79D82EECB20A Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-01-18:/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=4DB528B0-F940-7321-368A79D82EECB20A http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-compnanoald&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28993 Sun-fired pollution-eating nano-fibres, novel night-vision devices, super waterproofing materials... these are just some of the applications that award-winning Hungarian scientist Dr Imre Miklós Szilágyi came up with in his EU-supported nano-science project exploring new materials and techniques at the molecular level. ]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-01-16:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-compnanoald&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28993 http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=1EE98770-EE61-27EC-121AAB6A7E7193A4 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2013-01-09:/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=1EE98770-EE61-27EC-121AAB6A7E7193A4 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-edrox&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28764 Redox reactions involve the transfer of electrons between the living cell and the inanimate world. Monitoring these reactions is both scientifically and commercially important. It would lead to detecting trace amounts of pollutants and catching diseases at an early stage. This would in turn have a positive impact on both the environment and indeed our health. ]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-12-19:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-edrox&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28764 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-polysurf&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28765 Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on a molecular scale, brings together different sciences. It is not just about the physics of atomic arrangements, but also about the chemistry of each element involved. The mix becomes yet more complex when living organisms interact with the tiny structures. But by embracing this complexity - bringing together chemists, physicists, biologists and engineers - a research project has provided new insights into nanotechnology. ]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-12-18:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-polysurf&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28765 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-adam&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28755 Electrons, the particles that zip around the nucleus of an atom, are unimaginably small and unimaginably fast. Take a photo of one, and you could unlock some of the secrets of the universe. Go one better, and manipulate one with the briefest flash of light, and you can potentially revolutionise electronics and information technology. ]]> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-12-13:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=ss-adam&calledby=infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=28755 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_11_28_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=28393 A smile can say more than a thousand words, the saying goes. Orthodontics can help improve the appearance and position of people's teeth and jawbones, for better functioning teeth and more attractive smiles. In recent years, dental correction orthodontics have used braces made from clear plastic polymer to good effect, but now they are hoping to improve on this with help from nanotechnology. A Spanish university has patented a breakthrough new process, producing smiles all round.]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-11-28:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_11_28_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=28393 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_11_12_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=28033 Scientists at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech (UPC) in Spain have succeeded in eliminating infectious bacteria from medical textiles by using an enzymatic pre-treatment combined with simultaneous deposition of nanoparticles and biopolymers under ultrasonic irradiation. This was an outcome of the SONO ('A pilot line of antibacterial and antifungal medical textiles based on a sonochemical process') project, which is funded under the 'Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies' (NMP) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 8.3 million. SONO is targeting the improvement of antimicrobial properties on medical textiles through the use of the state-of-the-art technique.]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-11-12:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_11_12_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=28033 http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/index_en.cfm Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-10-01:/industrial_technologies/index_en.cfm http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_08_08_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=26353 Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed a novel nanodevice that could revolutionise the way electrical current is defined today. Presented in the journal Nature Communications, the study demonstrates how using specially designed gale drive waveforms can increase the accuracy of a semiconductor quantum-dot pump.]]> Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-08-08:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_08_08_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=26353 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_06_05_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=25073 Vampires and werewolves can step aside because a real life mummy has just taken the spotlight. Scientists recently discovered the oldest blood known to modern science inside a mummy. Ötzi is a 5 000-year-old glacier mummy, discovered accidently by a pair of tourists in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. While scientists got a rare glimpse into the life of Ötzi around the time he was alive, many years Before the Common Era, researchers failed to identify any traces of blood... until now.]]> Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-06-05:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_06_05_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=25073 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_05_30_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24973 Researchers in Germany have once again made a major breakthrough in bionanotechnology, this time in the area of solid-state nanopore sensors, enhancing their capabilities by fitting them with cover plates made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This major advance was made in part thanks to the DNA ORIGAMI DEVICES ('Single-molecule studies of protein-protein-DNA interactions, enabled by DNA origami') project, which has clinched a European Research Council grant worth EUR 1.5 million under the FP7.]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-05-30:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_05_30_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24973 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_05_24_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24913 Europe has long been the source for many technological innovations but many challenges need to be overcome so as to bridge the gap from research to industry, and from there to market. The growth industry of nanotechnology is no different. In particular, the development of new applications based on nanoimprinting techniques is evolving at a rapid pace. This is where the NAPANIL ('Nanopatterning, production and applications based on nanoimprinting lithography') project comes in. The recent NAPANIL Industrial Day addressed these issues and found solutions.]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-05-24:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_05_24_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24913 http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_02_29_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24073 Researchers have often reported on how spider silks are rich in strong mechanical properties, regardless of the species. However, the mechanical properties of stalks of silk taken from the egg sac of the cave spider meta menardi have never before been analysed. Enter a team of researchers from Italy and the United States that put the European Society of Arachnology's 'European spider of the year 2012' in the spotlight. The study was recently published in the journal PLoS ONE.]]> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-02-29:/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_12_02_29_en.html&item=Infocentre&artid=24073 http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/materials-blog_en.html Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-02-21:/industrial_technologies/materials-blog_en.html http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=8A665B8B-DDDC-3532-C2A27E8EFED79143 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT tag:ch,2012-02-17:/index.cfm?pg=events&eventcode=8A665B8B-DDDC-3532-C2A27E8EFED79143 http://ec.europa.eu/nanotechnology/index_en.html For more information on Industrial research - Nanotechnology, click the link above, which will take you to the Nanotechnology web site. Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:43 GMT http://ec.europa.eu/nanotechnology/index_en.html