Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate lithium ion batteries and systems, today announced the creation of two focused business groups -- one dedicated to the transportation market and the other to cell design and development -- to best serve customers across all of A123's vertical markets.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
MEMS industry execs attending the annual MEMS Executive Congress last week were rapt by presentations and panel discussions by leading innovators in automotive, bio/medical, consumer electronics, mobile communications and energy.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials has been identified by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
At this year's exhibit, SWeNT will feature breakthrough CNT Ink technology, which allows low cost printing of conducting and semiconducting features on a roll-to-roll basis.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
Mit dem Innovationspreis des Leibniz-Instituts fuer Polymerforschung Dresden und des Vereins zur Foerderung des IPF werden in diesem Jahr Dr. Anton Kiriy und Dr. Vera Bocharova ausgezeichnet. Sie erhalten den Preis fuer ihre Arbeiten zur Entwicklung von nanoelektronischen Bauelementen auf der Basis von einzelnen Polymermolekuelen.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics has strengthened its bonds with Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Posted on: Nov 13th, 2009
Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing and packaging of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announced multiple orders from new and existing HB-LED customers for RPMBlue and IVS185 metrology systems, which will be used for photoluminescence mapping and critical dimension and overlay control, respectively.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Reliable flexible displays are only one of a variety of new microelectronic and micromechanical devices that may become possible thanks to fundamental research by Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Kevin Turner.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
A team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has created a new visualization tool that can render a room containing such an object, showing the visual effects of such a cloaking mechanism and its imperfections.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
BioAlliance Pharma SA, a company dedicated to the treatment and supportive care of cancer and AIDS patients, has presented its results on new oral chemotherapy nanoparticle formulation at the AAPS Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (November 8 to 12, 2009).
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting an advance toward overcoming one of the key challenges in nanotechnology: Getting molecules to move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside forces.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
A portable instrument based on an ultrasensitive nanoscale sensor could detect bacteria in minutes, helping to catch infectious diseases early and prevent their spread.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Applied Nanoscience Inc. (ANI), a nanotechnology-based filtration company, today issued a progress report to its investors relating to progress in commercializing the disposable NanoFense Protective Face Mask, designed to offer superior protection against a broad spectrum of harmful virus, bacteria and fungi.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
The Dow Chemical Company and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced today that they had recently signed a multi-year research collaboration that is strategic to both organizations' interests in solar energy.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
At the International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS) in Korea on 18-23 October LayTec presented its latest product: Pyro 400. Unlike conventional infrared pyrometry, which can only detect the susceptor surface temperature under sapphire or SiC wafers, Pyro 400 is the first real solution for measuring the exact surface temperature of GaN layers.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
The researchers in the University's new Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) have discovered that light within optical fibers can be squeezed into much tighter spaces than was previously believed possible.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
QD Vision's green-tech Quantum Light technology platform lit up President Obama's recent tour of laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where low-power, long-life Array Lighting LED lamps from Nexxus Lighting, Inc. are utilizing breakthroughs in quantum dot technology from QD Vision, Inc. to emit high-quality warm LED light.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
The New England Clean Energy Council has named QD Vision, Inc., developer of nanotechnology-based products for lighting and displays, the 2009 'Emerging Company of the Year.'
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
The directory includes over 30 institutes, Government departments, networks and commercial service providers who are recognised in some way in contributing to the HSE debate.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced that the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center demonstrated the utility of WaferGen's new proprietary SmartChip Nano-dispenser.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
SEMATECH engineers and the industry at large continue to make progress in developing the infrastructure that will enable lithography for cost-effective manufacturing, according to papers presented at the 2009 International EUVL (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) and 193 nm Immersion Extensions Symposia, held Oct. 18-23, in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Three major European semiconductor manufacturers – Infineon, NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics – got together in ROBIN to define and deal with such problems early in the design phase, thus avoiding problems further down the development flow or in the production phase.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
For the first time a collaboration of researchers across Europe now achieved to investigate the electrical behaviour of only two C60 molecules touching each other.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Professor Cees Dekker of TU Delft has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euros for research at the cutting edge of biology and nanotechnology. He will use the funding to investigate the evolution of bacteria in specially manufactured miniature 'nano landscapes', a type of very small Galapagos archipelago for bacteria.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Research into designing and building unique metamaterials has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust.
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Posted on: Nov 12th, 2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was expected to ramp up his drive for economic reform Thursday when he delivers an annual state of the nation speech with industry still reeling from the economic crisis.
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