Posted on: Aug 21st, 2009
A new project to speed up the transfer of groundbreaking research and development from the North West Laser Engineering Consortium (NWLEC) to Northwest businesses has been given the go ahead following the confirmation of an 882,000 pound investment from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
A research team has found a way to use photons to manipulate the magnetism of semiconductor nanocrystals efficiently, even up to room temperature.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Fluxion Biosciences, a leading developer of microfluidic systems for functional cell analysis, today announced that it has received a $1.8 million NIH grant for the development of a high-throughput screening platform for anti-microbial drug discovery.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to receive a contract of approximately $750,000 for the development of non-contact, printable metallic inks for silicon solar cells.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Quantiam Technologies develops and commercializes innovative solutions from the small world of nanoscience and nanotechnology, including advanced materials, catalysts, coatings and surfaces for extreme operating environments for the chemical process industries and the defence and aerospace sectors.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
The research underpinning this new book was intended to better enable an informed national debate and to affect international debate on the potential role and impact of nanotechnology and emerging science on national defense and homeland security.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
For the first time this September Oakland Community College will offer courses in its new associate of applied science degree in the cutting-edge field of nanotechnology at the Auburn Hills Campus.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Professor Paul O'Brien and his research team in the School of Chemistry at The University of Manchester are joining forces with Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd, a Japan based manufacturer, to form a new research collaboration.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
In future, it will be possible to detect malignant tumors more rapidly and more reliably - with instruments that combine magnetic resonance tomography and positron emission tomography, two conventional methods in medical diagnostics.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
The systems will be installed with Nanometrics' scalable NanoGen cluster computing solutions to enable analysis of the most critical and complex process steps in an advanced technology node, supporting both film thickness and optical critical dimension (OCD) metrology.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
From superfluid to Mott insulator, density profiles of ultracold atomic gases reveal secrets of quantum phase transitions.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Research and Markets has released a new report on the opportunities for nanomaterials in sporting applications: 'Opportunities for Nanomaterials in Sporting Applications - 2008-2013: Trend, Forecast and Competitive Analysis'.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with a brief zap of a laser.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
The funding will allow the ALS - one of the world's brightest sources of ultraviolet and soft x-ray beams - to upgrade its facilities and maintain its position at the cutting edge of soft x-ray science.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
A new technique uses light to manipulate the activity of a protein at precise times and places within a living cell, providing a new tool for scientists who study the fundamentals of protein function.
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Posted on: Aug 20th, 2009
Researchers of the CAS Key Laboratory of Molecular Nanostructure and Nanotechnology successfully designed and synthesized a nanocomposite of LiFePO4 nanoparticles embedded in nanoporous carbon matrix as a superior cathode material for lithium-ion batteries.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Carl Zeiss, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis solutions, today presents its newly developed line of corrected LIBRA 200 transmission electron microscopes.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
A new method for attaching a large protective polymer molecule to a protein appears to improve protein drugs significantly.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
In a report today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists describe development of a test for performance of smudge- and reflection-resistant coatings and its use to determine how to improve that performance.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano) will approve 40 billion rubles ($1.25 billion) worth of investment this year, one-third more than it planned in May, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Computational biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have shown that proteins have an intrinsic ability to change shape, and this is required for their biological activity.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Friends of the Earth, Consumers Union, and the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) released a report today detailing why consumers should be wary of sunscreens that contain nanomaterials.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Nano-bio material kills cancer cells, leaves healthy cells in unharmed.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical properties.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
CVD Equipment Corporation announced today that it has hired Michael J. Gray as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Gray will head up all sales and marketing functions for the Company, working from the Ronkonkoma, NY headquarters.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
After engineers and scientists at Virginia Tech, Harvard and Drexel finish studying the locomotion of fish in water, Michael Phelps may find he still has a few new ways to increase his own world-breaking Olympic times.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
Nanobeak Inc. is a nanotechnology company focused on carbon based chemical sensing for gas and organic vapor detection - effectively electronic sniffing.
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Posted on: Aug 19th, 2009
A team at the University of Bristol (UK) and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm (Germany) has now successfully liquefied a protein without the assistance of a solvent.
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