ISSUE No. 7 July 2009

ANF Headquarter, Singapore

Newsletter Details please go to the website to download: http://www.asia-anf.org/NewsDetails.php?NewsId=168 .

NEWS ------Partnerships/Collaborations
New Zealand

•  ¡° Wool to Weta¡± Launch

•  Minister opens refurbished lab

China

• RSC Publishing and NCNST to launch new journal Nanoscale

Korea

• ¡°The 6 th Korea-U.S. NanoForum¡± Successfully Hel d

• Korean Government Investing $19 billion for 17 New Growth Engines, 200 detailed implementations

Indonesia

• NANOTECHNOLOGY ROADMAP IN INDONESIA

Singapore

• Singapore and Korea research institutes embark on landmark collaboration for breakthroughs in micro- and nanotechnologies

NEWS ----Commercialization and Business
New Zealand

• IZON launch commercial nanopore platform , Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 June 2009

China

• 1st International Contest of Applicationin Nano-Micro technology (iCAN'2009)

Taiwan

• Taiwan Nanotechnology Standard Council (TNSC) is officially funded on July 1 st , 2009

Iran

• ECO-NANO Opening Ceremony,

• Second Iran-India Joint Conference on Nanotechnology

NEWS ---- New education/research program
Singapore

• A*STAR SCIENTISTS INVENT THE WORLD'S ONLY CONTROLLABLE MOLECULE-GEAR OF MINUSCULE SIZE OF 1.2NM

• Boosting the brightness of LEDs

China

• NSFC set up Research Fellowship for International Young Scientists

New Zealand

• Nanocamp at Massey University

• Maori and Pacific Students Discover Science

Iran

• Iranian researcher uses silver nano-particles to produce a tooth-filling substance

• Iranian scientists make High-Thermal Stable Titanium Nano-Oxide Photocatalysts

Indonesia

• Nano Indonesian society participated in BOBO FAIR

RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGH

New Zealand

• Zinc oxide research breakthrough

China

• Nanoparticles May Damage Lungs: Study

• Tuning the Supramolecular Chirality of Polyaniline by Methyl Substitution

• Ion-Transfer-Based Growth: A Mechanism for CuTCNQ Nanowire Formation

• Carbon Nanotube Film-Based Speaker Developed in Tsinghua University

Taiwan

• Intermolecular Donor¨CAcceptor Regioregular Poly(hexylphenanthrenyl-imidazole thiophene) Exhibits Enhanced Hole Mobility for Heterojunction Solar Cell Applications

• A method for fabricating 2-inch freestanding GaN substrates of high crystallographic quality and low residual strain.

• AFM imaging

NEW PUBLICATION

China

Guangliang Zhang, Hari Bala, Yueming Cheng, Dong Shi, Xueju Lv, Qingjiang Yu and Peng Wang ,¡±High efficiency and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with an organic chromophore featuring a binary http://www.rsc.org/images/entities/c_h2_char_03c0.gif-conjugated spacer¡±, Chem. Commun. , 2009, DOI: 10.1039/b822325d

EVENTS

China
The First International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology (iCAN'2009)
11th Annual Conference of the China Society of Micro-Nano Technology
ChinaNANO 2009 International Conference on Nanoscience & Technology
The 8th China International NanoScience and Technology Symposium, Xiangtan (2009)
The 2nd ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International conference

2009 International Conference on Optical Instrument and Technology (OIT'09)

Taiwan

The 2 nd NSC-JST Nano Devise Workshop

Taiwan Nano 2009

Asia Nano Camp 2009

IEEE-NANOMED 2009

Thailand
Nanophotonics Down Under 2009: Devices and Applications
Indonesia
International Conference on Natural and Material Sciences (NAMES 09),
workshop in Nanotechnology: nanotechnology in pharmacy
2 nd International Conference on advanced material and Practice (2 nd ICAMPN),
Malaysia

Nanotech Malaysia 2009

Vietnam

Second International Workshop on Nanotechnology and Application 2009 (IWNA 2009)

New Zealand

The 5th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

 

Editors

Hongfang JIN

 Advisor

Lerwen LIU

Dr Lerwen Liu @ newsletter@nano-globe.biz

Hongfang JIN @ hongfang@nano-globe.biz

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