Tagged: Nanotechnology
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Google Doodle celebrates science fiction author News
23.11.2011 Google has gone all out for its latest Google Doodle to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first-ever book penned by Stanislaw Lem. The prolific author, whose output covered...Tags: Nanotechnology, Science Fiction -
CRANN package to introduce nanoscience to Irish classrooms News
22.11.2011 Irish secondary school students will be able to dive into the world of nanoscience courtesy of a new educational package by CRANN titled 'Nano in My Life'. -
Nanoscientist named SFI ‘Researcher of the Year 2011’ News
15.11.2011 Prof Jonathan Coleman, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-funded researcher from Trinity College who has achieved international success in the area of nanostructures, was named... -
Scientists create world’s smallest car via nanotech News
11.11.2011 You’ll never get to sit in this car, and even a hummingbird couldn’t fit in it, but scientists in Switzerland and the Netherlands have been playing with nanotechnology to the...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Green, Enterprise, Engineering, Engineer, Green Tech -
US-Ireland R&D pact to include telecoms, energy and green News
01.11.2011 The US-Ireland R&D Partnership Steering Group, which is currently supporting collaborative strategic research involving €14m worth of investment, has extended the partnership to...Categories: Database, Communications, Energy, Green Computing, Investments, R&D, Research, Science, Sustainability, Telecommunications -
Trinity College nanotech spin-out Biocroí secures €800k funding News
06.10.2011 Trinity College spin-out Biocroí Ltd has secured €800,000 in investment from a syndicate of investors, including a €500k investment by the Bank of Ireland MedTech Accelerator Fund. -
CRANN in €130k nanotech deal with Merck News
27.09.2011 Ireland’s nanotechnology research institute CRANN has forged a €130,000 partnership with biotech and pharmaceutical firm Merck Millipore, which employs 400 people in Cork. -
Turning sand into silicon chips News
25.08.2011 The nations that produce tomorrow’s cutting edge technologies will be best positioned for economic growth, says Intel’s Eamonn Sinnott. He tells JOHN KENNEDY that advanced...Categories: Computers, Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, Hardware, Investments, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, R&D, Wireless Communications -
CRANN researchers involved in €1.4m EU nanotech projects News
21.07.2011 Two researchers at the SFI-funded CRANN group are involved in separate nanotech projects that are worth €1.4m. One involves next-generation chemical and gas sensors and the... -
EU’s €7bn R&D fund to generate 450,000 jobs News
19.07.2011 The European Commission’s €7bn FP7 R&D fund launched today by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is expected to generate 174,000 jobs in the short term and nearly 450,000 in the...Tags: US, China, Europe, Health, SMEs, Nanotechnology, Smart Cities, R&D, EU, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, FP7, European Commission -
Venture for America to team graduates up with start-ups News
20.07.2011 Launched this week, Venture for America is a new, non-profit that will be recruiting enterprising college graduates in the US to work for two years at emerging start-ups in...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Life Sciences, Jobs, IT Organisation, Investments, Green, Energy, Education, Green Tech, Careers and Employment -
Europe's big technology bets News
04.07.2011 We look at some of the next big things that Europe wants its scientists and manufacturing industries to focus on. These include nanotechnology, industrial biotech, photonics,... -
Ireland to draw down €600m from EU R&D fund by 2013 News
24.06.2011 Ireland has to date received €300m from the EU’s €55bn Framework Programme Seven (FP7) and this is expected to increase to €600m by 2013 – signally an upsurge in science and R&D...Categories: Security, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Government, Energy, Education, Economy -
Dublin VC firm sells Nanotech for US$34m News
07.04.2011 Dublin-based venture capital company Atlantic Bridge has sold one of its portfolio companies Nanotech Semiconductors to Gennum Corporation for US$34m. -
Dublin scientists generate electricity from waste News
04.02.2011 A team of Dublin-based scientists have discovered a way of splitting layered materials resulting in a whole family of new nanomaterials which have exceptional properties...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Multimedia, Life Sciences, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Computing, Green, Energy -
Saudi Arabian university KAUST invests €1m in CRANN News
04.02.2011 Trinity College-based nanotech centre CRANN has attracted €1m in investment from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to focus on solving some of the... -
Major nanotech breakthrough by Tyndall researchers News
01.02.2011 A team of scientists at the Cork-based Tyndall Institute have made the world’s first junctionless transistor even smaller. The breakthrough has already sparked off huge interest... -
Microchips that ‘harvest’ their own energy News
20.01.2011 A research team based in the Netherlands and China has succeeded in making a microchip that has an efficient solar cell placed on top of the microelectronics, meaning the chip... -
New nanotechnology industry group established in Ireland News
14.01.2011 A new industry body consisting of all the stakeholders in Ireland’s €15bn nanotechnology industry has been formed to establish the sector as a vital component of the Irish economy.