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These photos of the Stanford Nano Center were taken in bottom of the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering building. There is also a replica of the HP Garage with their first oscillator on display down the hall from the SNC facilities. The Stanford Bookstore has a used copy of Solid State Physics by Ashcroft and Mermin for $274.24!

The March issue of the IEEE Pulse is out now. The magazine is produced by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. This issue feature articles on:

• How Nanomaterials Are Reshaping Biomedical Technology,
• How size matters, and
• Regulating nanomedicine.

The Diamond Light Sources is the UK’s national synchrotron radiation facility located in Didcot UK. The website has some wonder photographs of the facility.

The NISE Network has posted dozens of NanoDays training videos. The videos cover a wide variety of interesting topics including:

• Measurements
• Ferrofluids
• Robots
• Electroplating
• Thin film materials
• Nanofabrics

The nanoHUB has posted a web page with Nanotechnology resources for high school. The resource links are split into two categories. The first is to resources on the nanoHUB and the second is to resources on the web.

The nanoHUB is offering the new course Introduction to the Materials Science of Rechargeable Batteries and it begins on April 17. The course is instructor lead by Professor R. Edwin Garcia and costs only $30. The course is 5 weeks long and the lectures include:

• Week 1: Basic Concepts, Fundamentals, and Definitions
• Week 2: Thermodynamics of Battery Materials
• Week 3: Tortuosity and Porosity in Battery Materials
• Week 4: Reversible and Irreversible Interfacial Reactions
• Week 5: Rationalizing Classic and Advanced Battery Architectures and Design Guidelines

The IOP Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics has posted a special issue on Graphene: from functionalization to devices. The articles are open access.

NIST Standard Reference Materials now offers dispersed Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNT). The SWCNT come in four 2.5 ml ampoules and cost $1053.

Nano.gov has posted the 2014 NNI Strategic Plan. The plan outlines four goals:

• Goal 1: Advance a world-class nanotechnology research and development program.
• Goal 2: Foster the transfer of new technologies into products for commercial and public benefit.
• Goal 3: Develop and sustain educational resources, a skilled workforce, and a dynamic infrastructure and toolset to advance nanotechnology.
• Goal 4: Support responsible development of nanotechnology.

The plan then describe a framework and assessments to accomplishes these goals.