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With the opening of UALR’s Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences (CINS) today, May 2, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said, “We no longer have to take a backseat to any state in the nation” in transferring discoveries in the lab to new products, new businesses, and new jobs. “We are one of the few states in the … Nanotechnology Sciences Center Now Open

Dignitaries including Gov. Mike Beebe, Sen. Mark Pryor, Rep. Tim Griffin, and UALR Chancellor Joel E. Anderson will be on hand at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 2, for the opening and dedication of UALR’s newest building – the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences. Center Director Dr. Alexandru Biris will offer tours of the research facility, with nanotechnology … New Nanotechnology Center Opens May 2

ACS Nano, a very prestigious Nanotechnology journal, has highlighted the Nanocenter’s most recently published article on the “Catalytic Conversion of Graphene into Carbon Nanotubes via Gold Nanoclusters at Low Temperatures”.  In their highlight we were categorized as “Very Cool” and that is cool! Follow the link for the highlight!

Poly Adaptive, LLC, an Arkansas nanotechnology development company, has received a $100,000 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to use new nanoscale materials to drastically reduce dust on spacecraft surfaces. Dust is a major problem on spacecraft surfaces. Technology exists that uses electrodynamic shields (EDS) to mitigate dust. But … Nano Research Leads to NASA Contract

Our scientific article “Design and Synthesis of Biomimetic Multicomponent All-Bone-Minerals Bionanocomposites”, published in Biomacromolecules 2010, 11, 2545–2549 , made the October 25th, ACS Noteworthy Chemistry News Web Portal. Follow the link here

Originally from Albania, Enkeleda Dervishi, 28, has spent the past 10 years in Little Rock making a life for herself and finding her niche in the nanotechnology field. Spending her last semester at Hall High School in Little Rock as an exchange student, Enkeleda then moved on to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock … Dr. Dervishi featured at InArkansas.com

  Alexandru S. Biris, the director and chief scientist at UALR’s Nanotechnology Center, has been named to the Arkansas Business “Forty Under Forty” group this year, along with 10 other UALR alumni. Biris, who earned a Ph.D. in applied science at UALR in 2004, is one of 11 UALR graduates honored this year by the … Biris Named to Arkansas Business’ ‘Forty Under Forty’

The Economist, a prestigious British magazine, has included the research paper published by Dr. Mariya Khodakovskaya and Dr. Alex Biris and other colleagues  at the ACS Nano Journal titled “Carbon Nanotubes Are Able To Penetrate Plant Seed Coat and Dramatically Affect Seed Germination and Plant Growth” Click here to view the article at the Economist.

The Cancer Research Conducted at the  Nanotechnology Center and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been featured at the Little Rock Business Quarterly Economic Development Report (Vol. 144. Issue 3). According to their website “The internally-produced publication was named “Best in State” by the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce Executives and received an “Honorable … Nanotechnology Center and UAMS Research Featured at The Little Rock Business Quarterly Economic Development Report

UALR, UAMS scientists testing new method for killing cancer cells BY CAROLYNE PARK ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE , p. 1 A, 5 A. Little Rock scientists are developing a method for attacking cancer cells by injecting them with tiny magnetic particles that are then heated with low radiofrequency radiation, killing the cells from within. Alexandru Biris, assistant … Tiny particles producing big hopes