Nano Science and Technology: Blogs & Societies

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Nanostructured systems have the potential to revolutionize both preventive and therapeutic approaches for treating cardiovascular disease," says Morteza Mahmoudi, Director of and Principal Investigator at the NanoBio Interactions Laboratory at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. "Given the unique physical and chemical properties of nanostructured systems, nanoscience and nanotechnology have recently demonstrated the potential to overcome many of the limitations of cardiovascular medicine through the development of new pharmaceuticals, imaging reagents and modalities, and biomedical devices.

Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology and you have found yourself at Sustainable Nano, our outlet to communicate with the world! The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology is an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to carry out research that will enable the development of sustainable, societally beneficial nanotechnologies.We are a group of well-connected but geographically diffuse scientists—at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Hamers, Pedersen, & Cui groups), the University of Minnesota (Haynes & Carlson groups), Tuskegee University (Curry group), Johns Hopkins University (Fairbrother group), Augsburg College (Feng group), Northwestern University (Geiger group), Georgia Tech (Hernandez group), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Klaper group), University of Iowa (Mason group), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Murphy group), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Orr group), and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (Rosenzweig group).

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We offer consulting, technology monitoring, and in-depth analysis, as well as up-to-the-minute news briefs and breaking developments in the nanosciences. The world's leading nanotech experts routinely contribute to Nanotechnology Now, which has become the daily 'must read' site for stakeholders: inventors, investors, policy makers and opinion shapers.

European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents chemists, biologists, physicists and material scientists in Europe, Asia and America. European Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA) is a nonprofit organization and its mission is to promote interdisciplinary sciences. ENNA will ensure public services on all research and education matters within the scope of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It provides a common platform for the exchange of ideas among scientists, technologists, teachers, and students. ENNA is aiming at becoming the largest association of nanoscientists in Europe. The mission of the ENNA is to advance the creation, communication and application of nanoscience knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives.

he Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI) at UMass, an experienced survey and social evaluation research group led by Prof. Douglas Anderton, will conduct a contextual analysis of the organizational dynamics of university based research and development. This research will focus on the rewards, costs and risks embodied in research consortia on issues of product development, environmental health and safety, social implications, and regulation. This study will address the lack of information and literature regarding organizational dynamics in the context of nanotechnology complementing the Research and Innovation System Analysis—Research Program Analysis activity taking place at CNS—Georgia Tech.

The NCNST consists of several research laboratories and support infrastructures, including nano-processing and nano-device laboratories, nano-materials and nano-structure laboratories, nano-medicine and nano-biotech laboratories, nano-structure characterization and test laboratories, coordination laboratories, a website, and some databases for nanoscience. In NCNST, basic and applied research in nanoscience is emphasized as the main research direction. NCNST is dedicated to building a public technological platform and research infrastructure for nanoscience, which features state-of-the-art equipment and is open to both domestic and international users.

The Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano) was created in 2011, incorporating the laboratories of Electron Microscopy (LME), Laboratory for Surface Science (LCS) and Thin Films and Microfabrication (LMF), which until that time had been associated with LNLS. In 2012, the laboratories of Metals Characterization and Processing Laboratory (CPM) and Nanostructured Soft Materials (LMN) were added to the purview of LNNano. In the beginning of 2014, LNNano reorganized its internal structure with the objective to better attend the scientific and industrial community needs and to align with the thematic RD&I programs of CNPEM.