Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
MagForce Nanotechnologies AG has successfully completed patient recruitment for its study on recurrent glioblastoma, which is of critical importance for demonstrating the efficacy of its proprietary Nano-Cancer therapy.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Nanoco Group announces that it has signed a joint development agreement with a major Japanese electronics company under which it will design and develop quantum dots for use in light emitting diodes (LEDs) in liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Hamburger Wissenschaftler bieten neuen Einblick in das Schaltverhalten kleinster Magnete.
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Posted on: Sep 23rd, 2009
Doctors are not well armed in the fight against antibiotic-resitant bacteria. It is very difficult or, in the worst case, impossible to fight such infections. A team of researchers in Germany has now developed a unique nanomaterial that kills antibiotic-resitant bacteria.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, today announced that it has achieved a new stabilized record efficiency level for amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction PV cells.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Disease diagnosis, toxin detection and more are possible with DNA-graphene nanostructure.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found that the gems might turn out to be a patient's best friend as well.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists have employed microfluidics?the manipulation of fluids at the microscopic scale?to make microdroplets that contain single molecules of interest.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
A research team studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they should be.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available 'meter stick' for the nano world, the new measuring tool?a calibration standard for X-ray diffraction?boasts uncertainties below a femtometer.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Irene Revenko, MD/PhD, of Asylum Research, has been seconded to Asylum?s continental Europe distributor, Atomic Force F+E, as their representative in France for atomic force/scanning probe microscopy.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
BioMicro Systems announces the appointment of Rob Parry as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Parry will be focused on expanding sales of the MAUI Microarray Product Suite, as well as launching a new line of products for the cytogenetics market.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has formed a partnership with a Swedish consortium headed by Forsvarets Materielverk (FMV) that will develop technologies for electronic standardization and miniaturization for the Swedish Gripen and U.S. aircraft.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Vitex Systems, Inc., a leading technology developer, licensor and engineering service provider for thin-film encapsulation and moisture barrier films, today announced that it has expanded its leading edge thin-film barrier capability with the qualification of its new state of the art, 2nd generation deposition equipment.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Fabrics with embedded nanoparticles to detect counterfeiting devices, explosives and dangerous chemicals or to serve as antibacterials for hospitals, law enforcement or the hospitality industry are just a few of the products that a new company, launched by two Cornell researchers, will produce.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Thin carbon sheets enhance titanium dioxide-based batteries.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
DEK has launched its brand new Paste Roll Height Monitor, an easy-to-use productivity tool designed to eliminate defects and improve end-of-line yield.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Intermediate products present the best opportunity to profit in nanotech, says Lux Research, but only some firms can tap it successfully.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have uncovered what happens to biomimetic nanoparticles when they enter human cells.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny microchannels has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers and other devices.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has signed a five-year contract with ENN Solar Energy Co., Ltd. to support ENN's solar photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Langfang, China, which features an Applied SunFab Thin Film Line.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
The four-year PhD programme welcomed its first cohort of 10 students yesterday as they begin an intensive first year of graduate training.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have succeeded for the first time worldwide in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
The annual International Symposium on Emering and Industrial DLP® Applications covers technical and application related aspects of industrial DLP systems. This year the event is held in Frankfurt/Germany on November 12, 2009.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
AIXTRON AG announced today that in the third quarter 2009 the Indian Institute of Science, India placed an order for one AIX 200/4 RF-S R+D MOCVD reactor.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
NEXUSBioMed, in partnership with HUMANeX Ventures, announces the launch of a comprehensive study of organizations that are committed to pursuing excellence and becoming industry leaders within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and nanotechnology industries.
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Posted on: Sep 22nd, 2009
Corning Incorporated and Geron Corporation today announced the successful development of novel synthetic surface matrices demonstrated to enhance and support the scalable manufacturing and growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., a provider of DNA-based security solutions, announced that its anti-counterfeit technologies can be deployed in covert programs that seek to identify 'leaks' in supply chains.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Recently, measurements of the electrical properties of ferroelectric materials performed at the Alexei Gruverman lab led to experimental verification of the predicted behavior.
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