NanoBusiness News

ASM International N.V. and SAFC Hitech today announced that they have entered into a certified manufacturer and partnership agreement for certain Atomic Layer Deposition source materials for advanced Ultra High-k insulators. The agreement provides certification criteria for the chemical source materials, a license to certain ASM ALD patents and a partnership for the marketing and further development of these chemical source materials. ...read article

Company to enhance its current nanotechnology based Li-ion battery electrode materials capability for next generation space and aeronautical applications. ...read article

Bruker Daltonics and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research announced today the installation of the first maXis Ultra-High Resolution Time-Of-Flight mass spectrometer in Australasia, thereby further strengthening the collaboration between Bruker and one of the premier medical research institutes in Australia. ...read article

Nanotechnology has huge potential to take the consumer goods sector to new level of technological advancement. Resultantly, the total value of nanotechnology inputs used in manufacturing consumer goods worldwide is projected to grow at a CAGR of 9.4% to 2010, says 'Nanotechnology Market Forecast to 2011', a new research report from RNCOS. ...read article

NanoInk, Inc. began the new year by announcing the launch of its NanoStem Cell division. ...read article

Atmel Corporation today announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of the Company's wafer fabrication operation in Heilbronn, Germany to Tejas Silicon Holdings (UK) Limited, enabling Atmel to achieve its goal of reducing the number of its manufacturing facilities from five to two in 2008. ...read article

Advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturer Ener1, Inc. has applied for $480 million in low-interest loans under a new federal program to spur development of the next generation of U.S. fuel-efficient vehicles. ...read article

The testing equipment is a part of the R+D project focused on the new generation treatment of nonwoven textiles using atmospheric plasma, which was announced by the Company in the spring of this year. ...read article

Millipore Corporation and Guava Technologies announced they will jointly award a Guava flow cytometer instrument valued at over $100,000 USD to a scientist whose innovative research proposal will advance the understanding of cell biology. ...read article

3M and EV Group (EVG) have agreed to settle the patent infringement litigation brought by EVG against 3M in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to systems for temporary wafer bonding. ...read article

EAG, Inc., a leading global provider of surface analysis and materials characterization services, and microelectronic 'release to production' and failure analysis services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nano Integrated Solutions, Inc. ...read article

Following its debut at the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston (December 1-5) and its second exposure to the public during the 2008 ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco (December 13-17), Nanosurf officially announced the release of its latest atomic force microscope (AFM), the easyScan 2 FlexAFM. ...read article

The Aduro HT system for in situ electron microscopy is now available from Electron Microscopy Sciences, a leading supplier of accessories and supplies for electron microscopy. ...read article

Fluxion Biosciences announced today an exclusive distribution agreement with IUL Instruments GmbH. IUL will handle sales and service in Germany and Austria of Fluxion's BioFlux research tools for live cell image analysis in drug discovery. ...read article

The AxioVision Physiology software module from Carl Zeiss enables image capture with a camera and the measurement of physiological parameters in living cells both during microscopic observation (online) and afterwards (offline). ...read article

Worldwide mutual relationship with MPI Corporation and Chain Logic International to enhance semiconductor test solutions and service. ...read article

In a series of programs spotlighting innovative local companies, Dutch regional TV has recently featured Almelo-based analytical X-ray specialists, PANalytical. In one program, students were set a seasonal challenge - to identify which Christmas chocolate had been contaminated with a sleep-inducing drug. ...read article

The Sysmex Flow Particle Image Analyzer FPIA-3000 from Malvern Instruments is proving to be the ideal tool for monitoring the deterioration of abrasive slurries used in the wire saw cutting process in solar cell production. ...read article

nLIGHT Corporation announced today the availability of very large mode area, low numerical aperture, all erbium fibers manufactured using its proprietary Direct Nanoparticle Deposition active fiber production technology. ...read article

Bayer MaterialScience has received regulatory approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Baytubes, its multi-wall carbon nanotubes. ...read article

Micron Technology, Inc., today announced it has worked with Sun Microsystems, Inc., to develop a new single-level cell (SLC) enterprise NAND technology that dramatically extends the lifespan of flash-based storage for enterprise applications. ...read article

The eTEG Thermoelectric Power Generation Evaluation Kit provides customers with an easy to use first evaluation solution for assessment of Nextreme's power generation technology. The kit eliminates the need for a sophisticated laboratory set up and requires only modest equipment to measure the power generated by Nextreme?s eTEG UPF40 devices. ...read article

LayTec is currently developing the product for in-line monitoring of thin-film solar cell production processes. The upcoming sensor systems will measure the thickness of all functional layers and provide information on optical properties of the layer materials as well as surface roughness and formation of interdiffusion regions between layers. ...read article

Less than a year after launching a $5 million research and development program at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany, global technology firm Atotech will locate newly-created executive positions overseeing worldwide and U.S. sales at its growing operation at CNSE's Albany NanoTech Complex. ...read article

Living Cell Technologies Limited today announced that the Company has commenced a research agreement with Centocor Research and Development, Inc. Through this agreement, Centocor will have access to LCT?s proprietary encapsulation technology. ...read article

Invitrogen today announced the introduction of two reagent solutions to simplify genomic and transcriptome analysis on next-generation, high-throughput genomic analysis platforms. Both solutions provide basic and clinical researchers with an innovative workflow that greatly reduces the time, cost, and experimental variability associated with next-generation sequencing library preparation. ...read article

Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) will provide undergraduates with access to the Thermo Scientific NanoDrop 1000 spectrophotometer. ...read article

AIXTRON AG announced an order for a MOCVD system from Showa Denko K.K., a Japan based leading manufacturer of Ultra-High-Brightness (UHB) LEDs. ...read article

Kruess GmbH and the University of Bristol recently celebrated the opening of the Kruess Surface Science Centre, located inside the School of Chemistry. ...read article

Starting in 2008, Nanion's Port-a-Patch is being used in education and research at the Institute for Biomolecular Systems and Bioelectronics, Department of Physics at the Technical University of Munich. ...read article