Chemical

"Advances in Micro-Robotics" is presented by the Upstate New York LRIG and The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

The upcoming meeting and supplier exhibition is a free event offering a technical program and exhibition as well as food and networking to people interested in robotics and automation in the life science arena. MicroRobotics is robotics and automation in the single to hundreds of micrometer scale regime.

Technical Program
At this meeting we will hear about automation at the single-cell level with applications such as automated Patch-clamping, as well as targeted, in-vitro drug delivery using magnetotactic bacteria.

Air Quality Sciences, Inc. (AQS) and the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) join the Cleaning Industry Research Institute (CIRI) in announcing a national, interactive symposium focused on green cleaning and health. The event, hosted by CIRI, will be held at the Global Conference Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology, April 27-29, 2011.

Vision Technologies Inc., a leading IT services company for the commercial and federal markets, and Metis Secure Solutions, LLC an innovator of emergency notification systems, today announced a strategic reseller and integration partner agreement. As a result of the agreement Vision Technologies will market, sell, implement and support the Metis Secure precision emergency notification system.

“Vision Technologies can now provide a broader physical security solution, in addition to the access control and video surveillance systems we currently design and implement for our customers. This unique system can be easily integrated with existing notification and security systems to ensure full preparedness for building lock downs and active shooter scenarios.” said Al Saxon, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

EnerG2, a Seattle-based company producing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage breakthroughs, today announced a new energy storage application research platform. Based upon the company's proprietary carbon processing technologies, the EnerG2 Carbon Technology Platform will rapidly advance the speed with which carbon technologies are developed and applied to energy storage applications.

Carbon is a key component of numerous battery chemistries and...

Edinburgh is preparing itself for the most exciting science festival it has ever hosted, the Edinburgh International Science Festival, which will run from 9th to 22nd April 2011.

This year the Festival will be featuring a brand-new "World of Bubbles" Workshop and Exhibition for people of all ages, especially Children. Hopes are high and Sarah Radcliffe, who works in Production at the event, says "This event is the main thrust of press and campaigning for the Festival&q...