Nano&me

Nano&me is a new educational website dedicated to nanotech, launched from the UK by the Responsible Nano Forum. According to the website producers : “Our aim with nano&me is to provide balanced information about anotechnologies and be the hub of debate for everyone to discuss the important issues which arise from its use.“ Here are the [...]

Nanoscience and nanotechnology in the EC research programs

- In February 2008, the European Commission released a recommendation on a code of conduct for responsible nanosciences and nanotechnologies research. It is based on seven principles : meaning (activities should be broadly comprehensible); sustainability; precaution; inclusiveness (with regard to stakeholders); excellence; innovation; and accountability (with regard to social and other impacts).*
- The 7th Framework [...]

Nano comments

Here is the list of people who already left comments here (most recent participation first), and of their websites :
Richard Holliday / Gold Innovations blog
John Thompson / Nanovip
Nizam Arjuna / “Where science & law converge”
Gregor Wolbring / Gregor Wolbring’s blog
“Nanon” / Нанотехнологии. Наука будущего
Ahmet Yükseltürk / Nanotürkiye

Twitter Journal of Nanoscience

The Twitter Journal of Nanoscience website includes a Live Feeds page where the 10 latest Twitter posts including Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nanomedicine, Nanoparticle or Nanotube are gathered.

Focus : nanotech on NGO websites

The emergence of increasingly numerous nanotechnology applications triggers a lot of debate, especially about health, environmental and ethical issues. Several NGOs have dedicated a part of their website to nanotechnologies to express their opinions / state their positions and initiate or relay campaigns related to nanotech, for example :
-> Campaign for Safe Cosmetics : nanotechnology page and position [...]

GoodNanoGuide

The International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) recently launched GoodNanoGuide, a “collaboration platform designed to enhance the ability of experts to exchange ideas on how best to handle nanomaterials in an occupational setting (…) meant to be an interactive forum that fills the need for up-to-date information about current good workplace practices, highlighting new practices as they [...]

Nanonewsnet.ru

For those wanting to track nanotech-related news directly in Russian, here is a relevant website : Nanonewsnet.ru.

International Council on Nanotechnology

The Newsroom of the International Council on Nanotechnology (ICON) website provides a news digest, several RSS feeds among which a News Digest and Items of Interest feed, a Twitter feed…

NanoHUB.org

NanoHUB.org was created by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). This collaborative website provides tools for research and educational activities such as online simulation tools, learning modules, …  Users (free registry) can upload and share with the NanoHUB.org community their own presentations and simulation tools ; they can also earn points by posting valuable questions [...]

Nanotubes at Nano Academic

Nano Academic is a sort of news aggregator specifically dedicated to nanotubes (mostly if not exclusively carbon nanotubes). For each news item, an extract and the link towards the original url are proposed ; a general RSS feed is also available.