Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
This business development advisory committee will be headed by Director Paul Rocheleau and will also include board member Clint Everton and members of management. The committee intends to add other qualified outsiders in the near future.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
A team of researchers from The Australian National University have discovered a way to remove salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Nanotherapeutics, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded a $30.9 Million, 5-year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop an inhaled version of the injectable antiviral drug, cidofovir, for non-invasive, post-exposure prophylaxis and treatment of the Category A bioterrorism agent smallpox.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Surrey NanoSystems has secured second round funding of GBP2.5 million from Octopus Ventures, IP Group, The University of Surrey and other investors.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Wissenschaftler am Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) beschreiben jetzt erstmals dreidimensionale Metamaterialien, die in spektroskopischen Messgeraeten Anwendung finden koennten.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
In a Federal Register notice published last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its withdrawal of the final significant new use rules (SNURs) for single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Michelle Khine, Ph.D., the scientific founder of Shrink's nanofabrication platform, was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 global innovators under the age of 35.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Nanocyl announced today it will showcase the performance and cost-competitive benefits of its CNTs for cutting-edge conductive plastic applications at Nano Korea 2009, from August 26-28, in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. has become the first foundry not only to achieve 28nm functional 64Mb SRAM yield, but also to achieve it across all three 28nm nodes.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today announced that it is adding a low power process to its 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) road map. The new process is expected to enter risk production in the third quarter of 2010.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
An der TU Graz, die den Kongress veranstaltet, arbeiten fuehrende Forscher im Bereich der Elektronenmikroskopie. Die Entwicklungen des Institutes fuer Elektronenmikroskopie und Feinstrukturforschung ermoeglichen der Wissenschaft und der Industrie Einblicke in Mikro- und Nanowelten, die beispielsweise das Erkennen von Krankheiten erleichtern, das Fliegen sicherer und Computer schneller machen.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
Scientists at the University of Tehran have advanced the production of nanofibers with new morphologies by synthesizing functional aureole nanofibers.
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Posted on: Aug 24th, 2009
The University of South Australia and SA Water are set to extend a research partnership deal that has seen SA Water invest $3.5m of funding into finding smart ways to manage and re-use water in South Australia.
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Posted on: Aug 23rd, 2009
NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice, called ALICE.
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Posted on: Aug 23rd, 2009
Designed for Semiconductor plating applications where single sided copper electroplating of large areas is required, Semiplate Cu is a high speed copper plating process capable of depositing copper at 40 - 60 ASF with virtually no internal stress in the deposit.
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Posted on: Aug 23rd, 2009
New Iowa State supercomputer, Cystorm, unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second.
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Posted on: Aug 23rd, 2009
A research team at the chemical process technology laboratory of Tabriz University, Iran found solutions for reducing emissions of volatile organic compounds in air.
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Posted on: Aug 22nd, 2009
A new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT is the first sensor that can reversibly detect nitric oxide, a gas that cells commonly use to communicate with each other.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Elena Shevchenko, nanoscientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has joined a select list of the world's youngest top innovators chosen by Technology Review magazine for her work at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time captured elusive nanoscale movements of ribosomes at work, shedding light on how these cellular factories take in genetic instructions and amino acids to churn out proteins.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
COMPAMED, the international leading trade fair for the supplier market of medical manufacturing, opens its doors in the scope of MEDICA from November 18 to 20, 2009 in Dusseldorf, Germany, again.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Only a few days after the release of the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) '2009 Sunscreen Investigation' report, a coalition of public interest groups including Friends of the Earth (FoE), Consumers Union and the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) have taken position in the highly controversial debate about the safety of sunscreens containing manufactured nanomaterials.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Leica Microsystems has released the first single molecule detection system which offers an integrated platform for the most common single molecule techniques, such as FLIM and FCS.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Es ist der Traum vieler Materialwissenschaftler: ein Materialsystem, das die Vorteile von magnetischen Metallen (dauerhafte Informationsspeicherung) mit denen von Halbleitern (ultraschnelle Informationsverarbeitung) vereint.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
First Western European recipient to establish new lab dedicated to advanced SoC design.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
The Lieberose Solar Farm is not only the leader in terms of size and capacity, but will also serve as a model project for the renaturalization of former military sites.
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Stubborn layers of paint had kept them hidden for several decades, but the bluish, purplish and reddish hues of a 1919 painting by 20th-century artist N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
The City of South Bend has reiterated its vow to support commercialization of nanoelectronics research emanating from the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).
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Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Philips Lumileds Lighting Company has selected Veeco's TurboDisc K465 gallium nitride Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Systems to support its LUXEON LED production ramp.
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