Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
A research team led by Daniel Kohane of Children's Hospital Boston has devised a drug delivery solution that combines magnetism with nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have developed a nanoparticulate formulation of cisplatin that may be able to eliminate or reduce platinum-associated toxicity while boosting cisplatin's tumor-killing activity.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
NanoSight, manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterisation technology, announces a webinar on Tuesday 10th November, 3pm UK time and then repeated at 5pm UK time (1000 EST, then 1200 EST/0900 Pacific Time). NanoSight has developed a new technique which is gaining much interest in the area of viral vaccine development and phage therapeutics.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Steven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Proterra LLC, a Colorado-based manufacturer of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle systems and transit buses, and Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) , a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today introduced to Washington DC policymakers the only made-in-America electric rapid-charge hybrid bus that meets California's zero emission rules.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Dr Amanda Barnard was awarded the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for major contributions to the field of nanoscience.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the addition of the new DesignWare USB 2.0 picoPHY IP to its USB 2.0 PHY IP product line that has been successfully deployed in more than 300 customer designs, and in more than 50 different process technologies ranging from 180-nanometer (nm) to 32-nm.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Raytheon Company a $6.9 million, phase two contract to develop a new class of nano-composite optical materials.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Markku Rajala has been nominated as the awardee of the Fine Particle Forum Award 2009. For long, Rajala has carried a central role in the networking of the Finnish fine particle field by increasing the interaction both between academia and industry and within industry stakeholders, in an unprejudiced, interdisciplinary way.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
First-ever simulation of a stretching silver nanowire over a period of a millisecond.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Sigma-Aldrich announced today it has teamed with 3M to distribute TIPS Pentacene, a high-performance soluble organic semiconductor for printed and flexible electronics.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Officials from University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro and N.C. A+T State University will hold a groundbreaking for the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park, 2901 E. Lee Street, Greensboro.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Electrovaya Inc. today announced that it is accelerating the set-up of its joint-venture production facility in Norway with its partner Miljobil Grenland based on robust demand.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, today announced a donation of FDTD Solutions Engine licenses to the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) National Facility based at the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility (ANUSF) in Canberra, Australia.
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Posted on: Oct 29th, 2009
Based on the Cadence Low-Power Solution, the flow enables faster design of leading-edge, low-power semiconductors using a single, comprehensive design platform.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
SwissINSO, an innovative company offering turn key industrial applications powered by solar energy, is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Solar Energy Laboratory and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
RUSNANO and Alcoa have agreed to explore potential opportunities in applying nanotechnology to a variety of technical and commercial fields, including such promising areas as off shore oil and gas drilling systems, high efficiency power transmission, next generation lighting, energy efficient buildings, transportation systems, packaging and others.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
DSM Biomedical, a global leader in biomedical materials, today announced the development of VitroStealth, a breakthrough non-biofouling coating technology.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
A collaborative team of biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it will continue groundbreaking work developing electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) SyNAPSE program, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules burst when exposed to light, releasing their contents in ways that could have wide-ranging commercial uses from home and personal care to medicine.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
At the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Hamburg on October 21, 2009 LayTec ranked 30th among the 50 fastest growing companies in Germany.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has significantly lowered the cost for customers to manufacture solar photovoltaic panels on its SunFab Thin Film Line using its next-generation module technology.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Collaboration leverages Baytubes multi-walled carbon nanotubes in response to customer demand for improved composites.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced a basic agreement for the transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc. to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments Co., Ltd.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Nanoco Group plc, a world leader in the development and manufacture of commercial quantities of quantum dots, is pleased to announce its final results for the year ended 31 July 2009.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
A123 Systems and IHI Corporation announced today that they have entered into a collaborative business development agreement to serve potential customers in the Japanese transportation, industrial and marine markets.
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Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Nanostart has increased its stake in Curiox Biosystems Pte Ltd, Singapore, to almost 19% by a follow-up investment through its Nanostart Singapore Early Stage Venture Fund I.
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