Nanowerk Nanotechnology News
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Posted on: May 9th, 2008
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Users Organization has named Oleg G. Shpyrko as the recipient of the 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Cabot Aerogel, a business of Cabot Corporation and Birdair, Inc., a global leader in tensile fabric roofing systems, announced the first installation of their new energy-efficient fabric tensile roofing product, Tensotherm with Nanogel aerogel. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
SmartMetric, Inc. said today that its new Biometric Card will make signing a credit card or inputting a PIN number for your ATM card a thing of the past. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Designer labels have a lot of cachet - a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes - the relatively new power scientists have to make specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Higher temperatures yield tunable, supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Scientists in Singapore have invented a tiny machine that can rapidly prepare, purify and genetically analyse blood or other biological samples in less than 20 minutes ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
In the future, the rigid electronic boards will not place restrictions in the design of new products, as the manufacturing technology is being developed towards more flexible, design-friendly and inexpensive form of electronics. New manufacturing methods will change the production processes and will enable the manufacturing of entirely new kinds of products. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
The UK's Technology Strategy Board has revealed its three-year strategic plan and outlined how it will promote and invest in technology-driven innovation for the benefit of business, to increase sustainable economic growth and to improve quality of life. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
New search technology provider Implicit Interfaces and biotech venture Titan Medical tied for first place at the 10th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Good insulation for nanowires provided by self-assembling molecular-scale sheaths. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
Government and private sector should join hands and carry out focussed research to make India a significant player in nanotechnology, former President APJ Abdul Kalam said. ...more
Posted on: May 9th, 2008
BAE Systems in Merrimack has signed a $38 million agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to lead a team to build insect-sized robots for government spying operations. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University invites you to help design the future of nanotechnology. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
An Arkansas nanotechnology company has been awarded $224,997 from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a green alternative to fluorescent lighting. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed the first device to directly measure complex ultrashort light pulses in space and time at and near the focus. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Fabrication technique could yield low-cost, scalable nanowire photonic and electronic circuits. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
British microchip designer ARM Holdings has invested $1 million to set up a VLSI test lab at its Bangalore design center. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
A cure for cancer, a solution to rising fuel prices or a whole new generation of super-strong materials coming out of the Hoosier state? This and much more possibly lies within the emerging realm of nanotechnology, according to a covey of national nanotechnology experts in Indiana on May 2, 2008. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
The House Science and Technology Committee yesterday unanimously supported H.R. 5940, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act, which will update and expand the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Applied Materials, Inc. announced the shipment of its 200th Applied Producer APF system. The Producer APF system has been key to enabling the extension of optical lithography to 45nm and beyond. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Professor Richard A.L. Jones to head Institute's advisory group. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, researchers from Delft University of Technology, in conjunction with two South Korean and one German research groups, have succeeded in mapping this process properly. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Establishing a permanent European Observatory on Nanotechnologies is one of the goals of the EU-funded observatoryNANO project, which started recently. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Lux Research report finds nanomedical start-ups generate 77% of returns but get only 27% of investment. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure plays in precisely tuning the fundamental properties of nanomaterials and, in particular, nanoparticle assemblies that are important for device applications. ...more
Posted on: May 8th, 2008
Net income increases 50 percent for fiscal year. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
DuPont and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd., are forming a strategic alliance to develop integrated manufacturing equipment for printed organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology equipment, today announced that it has acquired Tevet Process Control Technologies through an all-cash asset purchase transaction. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Nanogen, Inc., developer of innovative, high-quality diagnostic products, will host a conference call on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern to discuss 2008 first quarter results. ...more
Posted on: May 7th, 2008
Ener1's common stock will begin trading on the AMEX under the new ticker symbol HEV effective at the market open on Thursday, May 8th, 2008. ...more
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