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ATTC is offering a free Nanotechnology technician's training course Sept 26-Nov 15 with 15 hours of training over 6 classes. The course has been paid for by grant.

Did you miss the Agilent webinar on resolution and magnification for SE-FEMs? I did. I forgot and them my browser crashed, but you can view the archive now.

The ACS has produced a webinar on nanochemistry that is available on the web.

The British Geological Survey has produced a list of elements at risk to the nation's lifestyle and industry. More 50% of the elements are produced in China and the elements with the highest supply risk include antimony, platinum group elements, mercury, tungsten, and the rare earth elements.

Wiley publishing has made the Advanced Energy Materials journal available open source through 2012.

Princeton University is hosting the PCCM Symposium: Quantum Control of Solid State Systems on Nov 3-5, 2011. The symposium is free, but it will make you think.

Actor comedian Steven Fry narrates this wonderful short introductory film on the Strange new world of nanoscience produced by Cambridge University. It's really up to date too since they show the atomic structure of a pentacene molecule.

FEI has posted the winners of their annual photo contest. There are some pretty interesting photos in this years competition.

A team of researchers at Rice University have developed a super capacitor based on graphene oxide. The video shows the capacitor being made from a continuous sheet of graphene oxide using a laser to pattern the planar super capacitor structure.

Nextnano3 Quantum has built a next generation 3D nanodevice simulator. The simulator is under development and available for free after registration.