On the evening of November 8, Vitaly Ginzburg, a world-famous Russian physicist and academician died.

Ginzburg was born in Moscow in 1916. He only studied four years in school before he had to start working at a factory.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Minobrnauka of Russia) submits the report on the current state and short-term forecast assessments of the situation in the national innovation system of Russia.

Researchers seeking business partners and high-tech companies looking for capital could all benefit from the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies’ global investment program. nanotechweb.org interviews Anatoly Chubais, CEO of RUSNANO, to find out more.

A new industry, the photovoltaics, may soon come to the South Urals area of Russia. The ambitious plans of the regional authorities and business community envisage the establishment of a cluster whose ventures will be making everything needed for the solar power engineering The Sunny Silicon project based on Kyshtym Mining and Concentrating Integrated Plant (JSC Kyshtymsky Gornoobogatitelny Kombinat – KGOK) – is going to become the cluster's core. Projects like this are gaining momentum in other regions of Russia, they will not, however, be competing with each other but only with foreign players and for foreign markets.

As the world’s largest producer of gas, and one of the worlds major producers of oil and coal, Russia isn’t generally seen as being at the forefront of the global thrust towards greater use of renewable energy sources.

What is the connection between Dubna and Russia’s plans for high-tech diversifications and innovations?

Finally the genius of this self-educated individual had been recognized de facto. Saint Petersburg scientists give the best references for his inventions, one of the central TV channels runs a topic about him and his achievements, Russian Academy of Sciences arranges special group of recognized academicians to look into his findings… Japanese specialists investigate his inventions…

Dramatic oil prices increase that we watched in 2008 called for alternative competing energy sources. One of them is sustainable solar energy, which in most applications is being converted to electricity using silicon photovoltaic modules. Polycrystalline silicon is a key component of solar panel construction.

It is not well known yet that the Nanotechnology Group at South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk had developed a new and very effective method for GaN crystals growing them from the flux.

Dramatic oil prices increase that we watched in 2008 called for alternative competing energy sources. One of them is sustainable solar energy, which in most applications is being converted to electricity using silicon photovoltaic modules. Polycrystalline silicon is a key component of solar panel construction.

NT-MDT new advanced development – a universal controller, which supports all kind of SPM designed by the company – gives the user the freedom of unlimited research capabilities. Use of the most high-end technologies makes possible to increase productivity of data processing. High performance DSP, fast ADC-s and expanded nomenclature of user inputs/outputs dramatically enrich functionality.

In the beginning of May the delegation of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) led by general director Anatoly Chubajsom has arrived with working visit to Houston, the State of Texas where has taken part in Forum Nanotech 2009. Representative NanoNewsNet has set some questions to the general director of corporation

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We decided to keep our priority first on research and science, and second on the development and new startup in nanotechnologies for businesses.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The use of gold nanoparticles in numerous biological and chemical nanotechnology applications experiences limitations due to the stability of the particles and their tendency for non-specific binding. One method to overcome these problems has been the use of carbon nanoshells to encapsulate gold and other noble metal particles.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Many nanotechnology research efforts have explored the use of hollow nanochannels formed by carbon nanotubes (CNTs). However, the usually large length/diameter aspect ratio of CNTs has made it challenging to insert other materials into them in a controlled manner. A team of scientists has now developed the idea of using a nanocup morphology to solve this problem. The length/diameter ratio of these new graphitic architectures is 1,000 to 100,000 times smaller compared to conventional carbon nanotubes.