| Oct-09 |
"Hip, HiPco hooray for Rice's pioneering nanotube process" |
"It's been 10 years since Rick Smalley and his team at Rice University
introduced HiPco, a process for producing the high-quality
single-walled carbon nanotubes used in roughly two-thirds of nanotube
research worldwide." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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Sept-09
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"Dunn Foundation awards first grants under $3M collaborative research program"
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"As part of a 10-year commitment to Rice University’s Bioscience
Research Collaborative (BRC), the John S. Dunn Research Foundation has
awarded the first four competitive grants under the $3 million
collaborative research program the foundation established last year to
foster interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research at the BRC." - Rice News - Arie Wilson Passwaters
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| Sept-09 |
"Rice, Alberta join forces to produce green energy through nanotechnology"
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"A research collaboration between nanoAlberta, part of Alberta Advanced
Education and Technology, and Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for
Nanoscale Science and Technology will address issues surrounding the
production of petrochemicals from Alberta's oil sands, one of the
world's largest reserves of recoverable oil." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| Sept-09 |
"Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools"
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"Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought
graphite’s potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to
reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that
could bring about a revolution in integrated circuit logic design." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| Aug-09 |
"Protein folding: Diverse methods yield clues" |
"New research featured on the cover of today's issue of the Journal of
Physical Chemistry illustrates the value of studying proteins with a
new method that uses the tools of nanotechnology to grab a single
molecule and pull it apart." - Rice News - Jade Boyd
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| Jul-09 |
"Nanotubes take flight" |
"With products that range from carpets to kites, you’d think Rice University chemist Bob Hauge was running a department store.
What he's really running is a revolution in the world of carbon nanotechnology." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| July-09 |
"Video shows nanotube spins as it grows" |
"In February, Yakobson offered a new theory suggesting that nanotubes
grow like tiny, woven tapestries, with new atoms attaching to twisting
atomic threads. The new video appears to support the theory, indicating
that atoms are added in pairs as the tube spins and grows." - Rice News - Jade Boyd
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| Jul-09 |
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"Ryan Hammerly and Lillian Bodunrin, who will be seniors at Hightower
High School in Missouri City, will spend eight weeks at Rice learning
to make and manipulate nanoparticles on a grant from Project SEED, a
4-decade-old initiative by the American Chemical Society (ACS) to draw
high school students into the sciences. The program is making its debut
in Houston at Rice." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| Jun-09 |
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"Their research details why graphene may be a viable carrier for
hydrogen-based energy systems of the future, as small variations in
temperature and pressure can effectively control the capture and
release of hydrogen atoms." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| Jun-09 |
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"The Rice University-based International Council on Nanotechnology
(ICON) has introduced an interactive feature to its Virtual Journal of
Nanotechnology Environment, Health and Safety (VJ-NanoEHS) that allows
users to post ratings and comments about technical papers archived at
the site." - Rice News
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| Jan-09 |
"Rice researchers win grants to collaborate on cures" |
"Finding cures for hearing loss, breast cancer and childhood cancer and
a way to identify people at risk for tuberculosis are goals of the
first recipients of grants from the Virginia and L.E. Simmons Family
Foundation Collaborative Research Fund. The fund, a $3 million
initiative to discover new ways to diagnose and treat diseases,
supports collaboration among researchers at Rice University, Texas
Children's Hospital and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute." - Rice News - Mike Williams
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| Jan-09 |
"Rice ranks third in nanotoxicology publications" |
"A new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa
Barbara (UCSB) finds that Rice University ranks third globally in
publications in the growing field of nanotoxicology." - Rice News - Jade Boyd
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| Jan-09 |
"Pikens suggests ways to solve energy problems" |
"America should reduce its dependence on imported oil by shifting to
natural gas, oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens told a standing-room-only
crowd at Rice University Jan. 6." - Rice News - Lianne Hart
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