Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Researchers have found a simple method of sandwiching organic molecules between silicon and metal, two materials fundamental to electronic components. By doing so, the team may have overcome one of the principal obstacles in creating switches made from individual molecules, which represent perhaps the ultimate in miniaturization for the electronics industry.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
A NIST research team has figured out why a recently discovered material can safely store at low pressure up to 100 times as much of acetylene as can be done with conventional methods
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
In response to the growing war for top talent, a unique strategic alliance is announced today between NEXUSBioMed, a highly-specialized boutique executive search firm specializing in the physical and life sciences, and HUMANeX Ventures, a leading talent-driven consulting, training, coaching, research, and assessment firm.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Using quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
FEI Company, a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) molecular, cellular and atomic-scale imaging systems, today announced that it has successfully completed the installation of its Titan Krios cryo transmission electron microscope (TEM) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $12.25 million renewal grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its industry-leading research: translating nanoscale scientific processes into commercially viable technologies.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Applied Nanoscience Inc., a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, today confirmed an expansion of its technical staff by adding three key positions to ensure a successful production scale-up and supply of the company's proprietary antimicrobial NanoFense technology, a U.S. patent pending nanoparticle formulation.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Nanometrics Incorporated today announced multiple system orders for its Caliper Mosaic overlay metrology systems and its complete NanoCD suite including Atlas OCD systems, NanoDiffract software, and NanoGen cluster computing solutions.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
With the introduction of 45-nm and below technologies, the demand for optical proximity correction (OPC) becomes greater due to design complexity and layer volume, making time to market and cost of ownership critical factors in OPC vendor selection.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
300mm lithography cluster successfully installed.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
The UK has made its first substantial commitment to a major emerging pan-European science project with a GBP10M investment by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Asylum Research and Intertech Corporation announced today that they have entered into a new distribution agreement that will enable Asylum to extend its global reach and promote its products in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, and Turkmenistan.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
A hand-held device which could offer point-of-care blood cell analysis in doctors' surgeries is being developed by academics at the University of Southampton.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Russian news site NanoNewsNet reports that Rusnano is negotiating with Advanced Micro Devices about launching a new Russian-American JV for 65 nm technology microchips production.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Magma Design Automation Inc., a provider of chip design solutions, announced Magma customers have passed the 50-tapeout mark for chips designed at 45 nanometer or smaller geometries using Magma's Talus netlist-to-GDSII design implementation system - more than with any other EDA supplier-s implementation system.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
CopyTele, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an Engagement Agreement with ZQX Advisors, LLC to seek business opportunities and licenses for its electrophoretic display technology (E-paper) and its related intellectual property, particularly its patent portfolio.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Over 1,000 nanotechnology-enabled products have been made available to consumers around the world, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of U.S.-based Applied Materials, Inc., invests in Tera Barrier Films Pte. Ltd., a newly incorporated spin-off from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Following oversubscription of Nano Bridging Molecules SA's first funding round in 2007 NBM significantly expanded its pre-clinical testing program, embarked on its first dental human clinical trial, recruited key scientific and clinical research staff and relocated its operations to purpose built laboratories and new offices in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
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Posted on: Aug 25th, 2009
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
The discussion highlighted key developments in energy storage technology and the importance of batteries in smart grid architecture.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
The NanoBusiness Alliance today announced details of its expanded conference program for the 8th annual NanoBusiness 2009 conference and exhibition, which will held at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, from September 8 - 10.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
The Texas Indiana Virtual STAR (TIVS) Center will contribute to the evolution of more reliable chemical risk assessments by developing high throughput in vitro and in silico screening models of developmental toxicity.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine have co-invented a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with radioactive material.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, for the licensing of its ultra-fast, low cross-talk solid state silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Does an exciting but controversial new model of quantum gravity reproduce Einstein's theory of general relativity? Scientists at Texas A+M University in the US explore this question.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Virginia Commonwealth University has received approval from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to offer an interdisciplinary doctoral degree program in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle 'inks' that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
A reference work involving exactly 100 authors just recently appeared: Compendium of Quantum Physics. Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy.
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