Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of high-performance solar products, today announced that it is working to commercialize a new generation of high-performance solar products using silicon ink technology from Innovalight, Inc.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT), a leading developer and manufacturer of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube materials, today introduced a new category of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) materials it refers to as 'Specialty' Multi-Wall.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale technologies for biomedical research, molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, today announced that Dr. Charles Lee and Dr. David L. Barker have joined the company?s advisory team.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
College football fans cheer when marching bands spell out the home team?s name in gigantic letters on the field at halftime. Now scientists in Utah are reporting the ultimate in one-upmanship: Development of a new technology for writing the school name in letters so small that 500 would fit across the diameter of a human hair.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Carl Zeiss IMT will be introducing the next generation of TiMS software, the ACCTeePro integrated software for surface finish, form and geometry, at the 2009 Quality Expo held in Chicago on September 22 -24th.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Delivery of first optical system from Carl Zeiss joins list of positive news about EUV Lithography.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has completed the foundry industry's first reported carbon footprint verification for integrated circuit wafers produced at its facilities.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Berlin, Germany, has for the first time made graphene visible on gallium arsenide - A successful combination of two unique electronic materials.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Tiny particles of albumin, a protein found in the blood, can be used to carry radioactive isotopes to the site of a cancerous tumour in the body and so avoid many of the side-effects of conventional radiotherapy.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Organized by the Cambridge CNT Society, the 2009 forum on November 13, 2009 in Cambridge, UK, will provide a platform for reviewing and discussing novel developments in the field of carbon nanostructures and related materials as well as their applications.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
Der Branchendialog 'NanoEngineering' soll am 8. Dezember 2009 in Duesseldorf zeigen, wie neue Entwicklungen aus der Material- und Nanotechnologieforschung in die Praxis des Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus ueberfuehrt und damit Kosteneinsparungen erzielt sowie neue Maerkte erschlossen werden koennen.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
A new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) on the development of materials to advance sustainable living.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
For decades, researchers have been trying to combine semiconductor materials that have different and potentially complementary characteristics into a single microchip. Now, an MIT team has finally succeeded in this effort, an advance that could point to a way of overcoming fundamental barriers of size and speed facing today's silicon chips.
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Posted on: Sep 16th, 2009
The Life Science Instruments and Technological Innovation Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences has been established in the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing on September 10th.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
The Wall Street Journal selected the Novelx mySEM as the runner-up in the Materials and Other Base Technologies category in this year's Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
The Australian research community will soon have access to one of the most powerful nanotechnology instruments in the world, able to write and etch data on particles ten thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
The annual awards recognize the country's leading green power purchasers for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation?s voluntary green power market.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
In this podcast from BASF you will learn how chemical innovations from BASF help to make solar energy more economical on its way being a sustainable contribution to the worldwide energy supply.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Europe is pumping an extra EUR156.3 million into accelerating the discovery and development of novel drugs as part of a new wave of public-private investment in innovative medicines.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Today NorTech, the champion for high tech industry growth in Northeast Ohio, announced it will transition operations of its Nano-Network initiative to PolymerOhio, a statewide organization that accelerates commercialization activities across a wide range of applications in the polymer and advanced materials industries.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Digital Surf, the surface metrology solutions provider, announced the release of Mountains 5.1, the latest version of its Mountains surface imaging and analysis software.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Japanese researcher Motoichi Ohtsu receives the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics 2009 for his pioneering work in the field of nanophotonics.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Titandioxidroehrchen koennen nun eine neue Qualitaet erwerben, die ihnen bisher fehlte: eine elektrische Leitfaehigkeit, die der von Metallen gleicht.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
The Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST has successfully initiated a COST Action on the subject of 'highly ionised pulse plasma processes - HIPP processes' and now takes the lead of the action.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Nanocyl announced today it has broadened its portfolio of PREGCYL prepreg materials for advanced composite applications.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
Hirtenberger PROSAFE Safety Technology GmbH is to use Bayer MaterialScience Baytubes in the manufacture of newly developed spheres designed to prevent the formation of explosive gas mixtures in fuel tanks. The spheres are soon to be introduced onto the global market under the name SAFEBALL.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
AIXTRON AG announced today an order for a new MOCVD tool from Nanjing University's Institute of Optoelectronics (IOE) at Yangzhou.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
U.S. researchers have developed a new type of membrane that can be made reversibly porous at the flick of a switch.
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Posted on: Sep 15th, 2009
CleanFutures AquaSens, based in Adelaide, was formed specifically to develop the AquaSens biosensor. The technology is a rapid, highly sensitive sensor probe for the detection of nitrates and phosphates in water, and sulfites in wine and food products.
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