Posted on: Sep 11th, 2009
The Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) is using the NanoSight nanoparticle characterisation LM10 system to study metal nanoparticles generated by laser ablation.
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Posted on: Sep 11th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Sep 11th, 2009
The theme of the recent contest was 'How Will Nano Change the World'?
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Using high tech equipment at Argonne National Laboratory, a group at Northern Illinoisd University is developing methods to synthesize a new class of free-standing superconducting nanowires and nanoribbons that are stable in atmosphere.
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Posted on: Sep 11th, 2009
Die ItN Nanovation AG wird neben einem deutschen DAX-Konzern als einziges deutsches Nanotechnologieunternehmen am internationalen Henix (Enhanced Nano-Fluid Heat Exchange) Projekt mitwirken.
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Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTI) commented today that it has entered into an agreement with Desmet Ballestra Group to evaluate CTI's Nano Cavitation Reactor technology and its potential benefits to the vegetable oil industry.
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At the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB in Erlangen as well as its project partners, the operations around the largest European joint research project on efficiency increase in semiconductor industry - IMPROVE - have been started.
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Located in Luckenwalde near Berlin, the fully-automated factory processes Nanosolar cells into finished Nanosolar panels using innovative high-throughput manufacturing techniques and tooling developed by Nanosolar and its partners.
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With just the right touch for fine tuning the optics of ultrahigh resolution microscopes, JEOL Applications Specialist Dr. Toshi Aoki is helping customers optimize the powerful imaging and analysis capabilities of their JEOL field emission TEMs.
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A group of renewable energy companies has joined forces with Ford and the State of Michigan on a bold plan to convert the 320-acre Wixom Ford Motor Co. assembly plant outside Detroit into a renewable energy manufacturing park. Oerlikon Solar USA Inc. has been selected by Clairvoyant Energy of Santa Barbara, Calif., as its preferred equipment partner for the thin film solar panel manufacturing line.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
Using a carbon nanotube instead of traditional silicon, Cornell researchers have created the basic elements of a solar cell that hopefully will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity than now used in calculators and on rooftops.
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The first online Nano-Globe Conference & Exhibition will be held simultaneously on 6 Continents from 22 to 25 March, 2010.
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The groundbreaking work titled, 'Mimicking celestial mechanics in metamaterials,' links the newly emerging field of artificial optic materials with celestial mechanics in order to investigate celestial phenomenon in a controlled laboratory environment.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study nanomaterials and their biomedical applications.
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Researchers in the lab of MIT materials science professor Carl V. Thompson grew dense forests of crystalline carbon nanotubes on a metal surface at temperatures close to those characteristic of computer chip manufacturing.
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Asylum Research, a technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM) announces its AFM in Biology Class to be held October 21-23, 2009 in Santa Barbara, California. The class is open to all Atomic Force Microscopy users that want to increase their knowledge of AFM in biology and life sciences.
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Phase 1 of the project will be a 30 megawatt demonstration project that will begin construction by June 1, 2010 and be completed as soon thereafter as practicable.
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mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced that a consumer products division has been created in anticipation of the AlwaysReady Emergency Flashlight product launch.
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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have a new weapon in their arsenal of tools to push back the boundaries of science, engineering, veterinary medicine and archaeology.
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A project for the production of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals has been approved by the Supervisory Council of RUSNANO.
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RUSNANO is considering a setup of international investment fund in the form of a partnership in Q4 2009 with the total fund size of up to up to $1 billion.
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In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers have reported a technique by which the electrical conductivity of nanorod crystals of the semiconductor cadmium-selenide was increased 100,000 times.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new way to deliver drugs into cancer cells by exposing them briefly to a non-harmful laser.
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On September 9, 2009, a Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) delegation, headed by Anatoly Chubais, its Chief Executive Officer, started its working trip to France.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
Ener1, Inc. Advanced lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel, Inc. today named Richard L. Stanley as company President. Stanley is a proven leader with 30 years' global manufacturing and management experience and a distinguished record of creating new business lines.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
To help meet the world's critical need for renewable energy, Applied Materials, Inc. has developed an innovative fab2farm business model for solar deployment designed to bring cost-effective, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation capability to local areas and stimulate economic development.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
Unwanted blooms of Cladophora algae throughout the Baltic and in other parts of the world are not entirely without a positive side. A group of researchers at the Angstrom Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
RNAs, serving as a mere intermediary between DNA and proteins, were long regarded as a poor relation by researchers, attracting little interest. However, following the discovery of small RNAs known as microRNAs, they have increasingly been moving into the limelight.
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Posted on: Sep 10th, 2009
AIXTRON AG announced today that Mitsubishi Chemicals headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has ordered one AIX 2800G4 HT Planetary Reactor system in the third quarter of 2009.
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