http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanotechnology business news headlines from Nanowerk Copyright 2005-2009 Nanowerk LLC http://www.nanowerk.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/images/logo10.gif michael@nanowerk.com (Michael Berger) en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:42 -0500 http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13640.php CRAIC Technologies, the leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions for science and industry, announced Windows 7 compatibility of its MINERVA microspectrometer control and spectral analysis software. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13640.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13643.php A new application note, freely available on the Malvern Instruments' website, describes how the new ZEN1010 high concentration zeta potential cell for the company's market-leading Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system, overcomes a major hurdle in measuring the zeta potential of high concentration samples. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13643.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13645.php ClassOne Equipment, Inc., a leading supplier of refurbished equipment for the semiconductor and nanotechnology markets, has recently purchased all of the equipment assets of Colibrys' MEMS facility in Stafford, Texas, outside of Houston. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13645.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13647.php Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTI) has announced that it has filed three new PCT patent applications to protect our intellectual property worldwide. The patents are for Flow-Through Cavitation Assisted Rapid Modification of Crude Oil, Modification of Beverage Fluids, and Method for Cavitation Assisted Refining, Degumming and Dewaxing of Oil and Fat, for its Nano Cavitation Technologies. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13647.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13648.php Nano ePrint Ltd, the pioneer in planar nano-electronics, announced that it has secured a Grant for Research and Development to demonstrate Nano ePrint's unique printed programmable logic architecture. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13648.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13649.php On behalf of its parent company SiMPore, Inc., TEMwindows.com is pleased to introduce the SepCon Spin Column, a revolutionary separation device that makes it possible to separate nanoparticles that differ in size by 5 nm or less. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13649.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13651.php Hosokawa Micron Ltd announce the launch of the NanoCreator FCM-Mini, a continuous nano-particle production system for metal oxides. High purity particles are created by the build up method that allows particles to be adjusted from a few nm to a few hundred nm. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13651.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13613.php Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) has recently won a contract with French research centre, STnano in Strasbourg, France for the supply of a Plasmalab System80 Plus ICP system. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13613.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13555.php A Canadian software company and a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, Lumerical Solutions Inc., is donating 10 simulation engine licenses of its finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software to Compute/Calcul Canada at one of the new WestGrid installations. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13555.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13619.php Russian innovative developments in the field of high technologies have always attracted a great interest among political leaders in many countries. The proof is a long-term history of collaboration between India and Russia is being offering the challenge of mutually beneficial growth. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13619.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13621.php Beneq has entered a strategic agent partnership with Armgate SIA for representation in the Baltic countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13621.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13622.php WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced a new, innovative service for gene-expression profiling of thousands of genes using the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13622.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13624.php Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic circuits. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13624.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13632.php PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. - the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems - has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 micrometer in XY and XYZ. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13632.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13636.php Spectrographic data taken from an Ocean Optics spectrometer has helped NASA confirm the presence of water ice on the moon. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13636.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13599.php An ultrasensitive, high speed camera has helped US researchers see the 3D spatial relationship between cellular structures - mitochondria and microtubules - with nanometer-scale resolution, for the first time. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13599.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13600.php NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a molecular barcoding detection system, today announced that it is collaborating with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to investigate molecular networks involved in immune response and other important biological processes. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13600.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13606.php Solar Metrology, a global provider of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis tools, expands its SMX XRF tool portfolio for film composition and thickness measurement of CIGS photovoltaic depositions with the addition of the System SMX-Remote static head ILH. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13606.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13607.php A radiation-resistant version of NRAM carbon-nanotube-based memory, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Nantero, was tested on a recent Space Shuttle mission. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13607.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13610.php The CeNS start-up company NanoTemper Technologies founded by Stefan Duhr and Philipp Baaske was chosen at the selection committee meeting on 12 November at Imperial College London as finalist for the Academic Enterprise Awards (ACEA). http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13610.php