Navigation On Topic Complete Directory About Us Add-site Link to Us MerchantStore Shopping	Advertisement 500 Nanotechnology Resources 3DIcon and Berkeley Lab Sign Agreement for Specialized Nanocrystals 3DIcon Corporation, a developer of volumetric, three-dimension projection and display technologies, today announced that it has signed a Materials Transfer Agreement ("MTA") with the regents of the University of California through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ("Berkeley Lab") under which Berkeley Lab will provide specialized nanocrystals to 3DIcon. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information 15 new US patents awarded this past year to NJIT researchers New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers were awarded 15 new U.S. patents this past year, increasing the total number of issued patents for NJIT to 97. More than 150 applications are in process. With projected research expenditures greater than $90 million for 2010-11, NJIT ranks as a leader in size and growth of research programs among technological universities. The patents were awarded from July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010. Specifics follow. View Source August 23, 2010 Provides Information 25nm Half-pitch EUV Fabricated Gratings From Eulitha Now Available Eulitha continues to add higher resolution structures to its line of standard products. The newest such item is a 50 nm-pitch grating etched into silicon. These gratings are made with Eulitha's unique EUV interference lithography technology which means extremely smooth structures and none of the stitching or pixel related imperfections that are found in patterns of similar resolution produced using e-beam lithography. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information 1000th Nanosurf Scanning Tunneling Microscope Goes to High School Nanosurf delivers its 1000th Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) to the Claude-Dornier-Schule, a technical high school in Friedrichshafen, Germany, near the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The STM was demonstrated during an official event that attracted a large number of interested students, teachers, and representatives of the local press. View Source July 8, 2010 Provides Information A A Homemade, Open-Source Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope Imagine being able to examine anything you want, at the atomic level, in your living room. If Sacha De'Angeli gets his way, a scanning tunneling electron microscope -- currently just the domain of research labs -- will be something you can order off the Web, as an easy-to-assemble, open-source kit, for about $750. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information A model system for group behavior of nanomachines For the casual observer it is fascinating to watch the orderly and seemingly choreographed motion of hundreds or even thousands of fish, birds or insects. However, the formation and the manifold motion patterns of such flocks raise numerous questions fundamental to the understanding of complex systems. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information A new design for a gravimeter Scientists have developed a novel design for a highly compact, ultra-sensitive quantum device to measure subtle changes in gravity over very short time or distance scales ("Interferometry with Synthetic Gauge Fields"). View Source August 27, 2010 Provides Information A new ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs At the very heart of applications such as quantum cryptography, computation and teleportation lies a fascinating phenomenon known as "entanglement". Two photons are entangled if the properties of one depend on those of the other, whatever the distance separating them. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information A new vista in smart materials: Fully reversible functionalization of inorganic nanotubes Inorganic chalcogenide (WS2) nanotubes have shown revolutionary chemical and physical properties that offer a broad range of applications. They are ultra-strong impact-resistant materials. This makes them excellent candidates for producing bullet proof vests, helmets, car bumpers, high strength glues and binders, and other safety equipment. The unique nanotubes are up to four to five times stronger than steel and about six times stronger than Kevlar, the nowadays most popular material used for bullet proof vests. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information A simple, one-step process to fabricate three-dimensional graphene macrostructures Given the massive interest and rapid developments in graphene research, scientists are now convinced that the controlled preparation of graphene-based materials with hierarchical and well-defined structures will pave the way for achieving high-performance applications of graphene in various technological fields such as optoelectronics, energy storage, polymer composites and catalysis. Self-assembly techniques have become some of the most effective strategies for this purpose. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information A123 Systems Becomes First Major U.S. Battery Manufacturer to Earn TS 16949 Certification for Automotive Design and Manufacturing A123 Systems, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate™ lithium ion batteries and systems, today announced it has received TS 16949 certification which validates that A123's product design and manufacturing processes meet the highest standards for excellence in the automotive industry. A123 is the first major U.S.-based battery manufacturer to receive this automotive certification for cylindrical lithium ion cells. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information AB SCIEX, CDC Partner to Facilitate Use of Liquid Chromatography for Hormone Testing AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation to facilitate the use of mass spectrometry technologies in clinical laboratories for hormone testing. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Abakan Announces New Appointments Abakan Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Sherman as a member of the board of directors and the appointment of Costas Takkas as chief financial officer and principal accounting officer. View Source August 27, 2010 Provides Information Accelrys world-class employees help you to accelerate design, discovery, and development of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and materials by providing and integrating products and services in informatics and computation. View Source   Provides Information Additional speakers add new dimensions to Particle Summit program Organisers of the two-day Particle Summit, which takes place near Boston in October (October 20-21, 2010; The Charles Hotel, Cambridge MA), have announced two further speakers for the event, adding to an already packed program: View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Advanced Diamond Technologies Awarded Grant to Develop the Next Generation of Pad Conditioners for CMP Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT) received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the next generation of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioners for the semiconductor industry. The controlled geometrical protrusions on ADT's microfabricated diamond CMP pad conditioners enable the production of next generation semiconductor devices while offering the unsurpassed chemical inertness of diamond without the "pull out" failure that characterize currently available diamond CMP pads. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information AECOM Collaborates on Nanotechnology Research with University of California AECOM Technology Corporation is collaborating on new nanotechnology research with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara. AECOM's global environmental practice, a world leader in developing environmental solutions, is advancing the understanding, application and potentially beneficial uses of nanotechnology in additional projects around the world. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Affinity Biosensors Selects Innovative Micro Technology as Foundry Partner for Volume Production of MEMS Particle Mass Sensor Affinity Biosensors and Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. entered into a strategic foundry partnership today for volume production of suspended mass resonator (SMR) MEMS devices enabling particle measurement in fluidic solutions with femtogram resolution. The SMR MEMS devices are the chips that drive Affinity Biosensors' ARCHIMEDES Particle Measurement System, which won the Gold Award for the Best New Product at Pittcon 2010, and most recently, the 2010 R&D100 Award, recognizing it as one of the most technologically significant new products of the past year. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Agar Scientific Announces The New Labcut 150 Low-speed Diamond Saw Agar Scientific, a leading supplier of microscopy accessories and consumables, announce the availability of the new Labcut 150 low speed diamond saw for sample preparation. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Agilent Selects SeqWright as First Target Enrichment Certified Service Provider for AB SOLiD Sequencing Agilent Technologies Inc. and SeqWright DNA Technology Services today announced that SeqWright is the first Certified Service Provider (CSP) for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System for use with the next-generation AB SOLiD sequencing platform. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Agilent Technologies' Atomic Force Microscope Chosen by Imperial College of London Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the installation of an Agilent 5500 atomic force microscope (AFM) in the Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information Agilent Unveils New Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the introduction of the Agilent 8500 field emission scanning electron microscope. The 8500 is a compact system that offers researchers a field emission scanning electron microscope for low-voltage, high-performance imaging in their own laboratory. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information AIXTRON Announces Move of South Taiwan Office AIXTRON AG today announced the move of its South Taiwan Office into its new facilities in Tainan Tree Valley, next to the Tainan Science Based Industrial Park. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information AIXTRON Receives Order from Major Taiwanese Foundry AIXTRON AG today announced an order for its QXP-8300 ALD deposition tool from a major Taiwanese foundry. The order is for a 300MM system for the deposition of next generation high-k materials by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). The order was received in the first quarter of 2010 and the system will be delivered in the second half of this year. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information AIXTRON Receives Order from Nanotechnology Laboratory AIXTRON AG today announced an order for one Black Magic deposition system in a 4-inch wafer configuration from Soochow University’s Functional Nano + Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM) in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The order was received in the first quarter of 2010 and after the system´s delivery and installment in the current quarter, the Black Magic will be used for the controlled growth of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information AIXTRON Receives Order from New Customer in Bulgaria AIXTRON AG today announced an order for three mass production MOCVD systems for GaN HB-LED production from the INCOTEX Group, a new AIXTRON customer in Bulgaria. INCOTEX placed the order in the first quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered from the third quarter of 2010 onwards. The local AIXTRON Europe support team will commission the new reactors at the company’s purposebuilt facility in Bulgaria. View Source August 10, 2010 Provides Information AIXTRON Secures New MOCVD System Order from Meijo University AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for one Close Coupled Showerhead GaN based LED MOCVD system from Meijo University, in Nagoya, an established AIXTRON customer in Japan. The order was received earlier this year and the system will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2010 in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration.The local AIXTRON support team will commission the new reactor at Meijo University. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information AMDS Secures Badger Meter Funding to Develop REX Generation 1 Product American Micro Detection Systems, Inc., a privately held technology company with 30 years of experience developing and manufacturing innovative, real-time instruments which enable a cleaner and safer environment, announced that it received first round funding from Badger Meter, Inc.. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information American Nano Silicon Technologies Has Applied in China For a Patent For New Concrete Accelerator Agent American Nano Silicon Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of micro nano silicon based products, announced today that the Company has applied in China for a national patent for their new concrete enforcement and accelerator agent. View Source August 6, 2010 Provides Information An optical 'tripod' enhances the use of atomic-force microscopy Scanning-probe microscopes, major enabling tools underlying scientific discovery at nanometer length scales, are applied across a wide range of fields. These instruments—essentially sharp tips affixed to nanoscale robotic arms—have captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike in their ability to image and manipulate individual atoms and molecules. Since their invention nearly three decades ago, View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Analysis on Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Nanostructured Solids Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Functionalized Inorganic Fluorides: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Nanostructured Solids" to their offering. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information Anasys nanoIR Wins Prestigious R+D 100 Award Anasys Instruments is pleased to announce that their nanoIR™ platform, a powerful new measurement tool that reveals the chemical composition of samples at the nanoscale, has been selected to receive a prestigious R+D 100 Award. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information ANT130-5-V Vertical Lift Stage from Aerotech Ideal for Nanopositioning Applications Aerotech's ANT130-5-V is a linear-motor-driven wedge-style vertical lift stage that provides the exceptional resolution, accuracy, and in-position stability required in nanopositioning applications, all while offering travel up to 5 mm. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Another step towards making nanotechnology practical The €1.7 million EU funded InForm project, involving 17 world-leading research institutions working together, is bringing together scientists to make the new advances in nanotechnology practical and useful, by combining them into things we use everyday. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information Applied Materials Announces Restructuring of Energy and Environmental Solutions Segment Applied Materials, Inc. today announced plans to restructure its Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) segment to put a primary emphasis on opportunities in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar and advanced energy, including light emitting diode (LED) technology. Upon completion of the restructuring plan, annual operating expenses are expected to decrease by at least $100 million on an annualized basis. The restructuring plan is intended to make EES a profitable segment in fiscal year 2011. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Applied Nanotech Composite Program to be Presented at Army Science Conference Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that work related to improving the ballistic performance of E-glass composite panels using carbon nanotubes performed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center – Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) was selected for presentation at the 27th Army Science Conference (ASC). View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Applied Nanotech to Present Ballistic Panel Project at 27th Army Science Conference Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that work related to improving the ballistic performance of E-glass composite panels using carbon nanotubes performed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center – Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) was selected for presentation at the 27th Army Science Conference (ASC). The goals of the 27th ASC are to enable Army and DOD leaders, Congress and the public to understand the scope of the Army’s science and technology (S&T) activities in support of the Army and the Nation, and to strategically communicate the S&T community’s efforts to rapidly develop technologies that will enhance the capabilities of the Current Force while enabling the Future Force. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Arrowhead Research Appoints Nanomedicine Pioneer Dr. Mauro Ferrari to its Board of Directors Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that Dr. Mauro Ferrari has joined the Company's Board of Directors. Dr. Ferrari has served as Arrowhead's Scientific Advisory Chairman since 2008 and is regarded as a thought leader and pioneer of nanomedicine. With his appointment to Arrowhead's Board of Directors, Dr. Ferrari will resign his consultancy and his post on the Scientific Advisory Board of Arrowhead. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information Asylum Research Advanced tools for nanoscale science and technology. View Source   Provides Products Asylum Research and ORNL Wins Prestigious Microscopy Today Innovation Award Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe and atomic force microscopy, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have just received the prestigious Microscopy Today Innovation Award for the development of Band Excitation (BE), a new breakthrough scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technology. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Attosecond Real-Time Observation of a Quantum Hole An international team of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (www.attoworld.de), led by Professor Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and LMU Munich, in collaborations with researchers from the United States and Saudi Arabia, have observed, for the first time, the quantum-mechanical behaviour occurring at the location in a noble gas atom where, shortly before, an electron had been ejected from its orbit. The researchers achieved this result using light pulses which last only slightly longer than 100 attoseconds. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Autodesk Software Speeds Nanotechnology Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory Autodesk, Inc. has named Brookhaven National Laboratory — a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy — as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for July in recognition of its innovative nanotechnology equipment. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information AZoNano.com The aim of AZoNano.com is to become the primary Nanotechnology information source for the science, engineering and design community worldwide. View Source   Provides Information B Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities Tougher than a bullet-proof vest yet synonymous with beauty and luxury, silk fibers are a masterpiece of nature whose remarkable properties have yet to be fully replicated in the laboratory. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information BioImagene Receives License to Access Olympus' Patents in Virtual Microscopy Olympus America Inc. has signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement with BioImagene, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, allowing BioImagene to access an extensive portfolio of Olympus patents in the field of digital pathology and virtual microscopy. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Biosensors: Color-coding hormone tricksters Certain chemical pollutants can imitate hormones produced naturally in the body; bisphenol-A, for example, can mimic estrogen. Because estrogen can pass directly through cell walls to influence the transfer of genetic information, measuring changes in hormone activity with DNA-level accuracy is critically important. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information Breakthrough discovery enables nanoscale manipulation of the piezoelectric effect The generation of an electric field by the compression and expansion of solid materials is known as the piezoelectric effect, and it has a wide range of applications ranging from everyday items such as watches, motion sensors and precise positioning systems. Researchers at McGill University's Department of Chemistry have now discovered how to control this effect in nanoscale semiconductors called "quantum dots," enabling the development of incredibly tiny new products. View Source August 23, 2010 Provides Information Breakthrough in understanding of blinking molecules phenomena A new paper by University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsár Jankó and colleagues offers an important new understanding of an enduring mystery in chemical physics. View Source August 11, 2010 Provides Information Bringing nanotechnology to market Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $2 million grant to help commercialize nanotechnology and put smaller, more energy efficient electronic devices in the hands of consumers more quickly. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Bruker to Acquire Veeco's Scanning Probe Microscopy and Optical Industrial Metrology (OIM) Scientific Instruments Business Bruker Corporation today announces the signing of an agreement to acquire the Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) and Optical Industrial Metrology (OIM) instruments business from Veeco Instruments, Inc. for $229 million in cash. The transaction has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2010, pending regulatory review and subject to customary closing conditions. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information Business Week Top Start Up Xolve Announces New President and CEO Xolve, Inc., a University of Wisconsin-Platteville technology spin-out, has announced the appointment of John Biondi as its new President and CEO. Mr. Biondi has been involved in the Madison area technology community for some time and has been a senior manager in six other start-up ventures, including two which made initial public offerings and one that was acquired. View Source August 6, 2010 Provides Information C Cadence Announces Comprehensive SOI Design Hub Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today introduced the Cadence® SOI Design Hub, a new Web portal that lowers the barriers to adopting silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology through comprehensive silicon-proven design enablement solutions and services. The SOI Design Hub is aimed at reducing SOI adoption start-up costs, cutting time to market for SOI intellectual property (IP), and improving design quality. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information Cambridge NanoTech CEO Wins Ernst + Young Award Cambridge NanoTech, the world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), today announced that Founder and CEO Dr. Jill S. Becker received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2010 Award in New England in the Energy & Materials category. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information Cambridge NanoTech Sells First ALD System Into Korea Cambridge NanoTech, a world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), today announced that they have sold their first ALD system into Korea. The Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) is Korea's premier research facility that shares its state-of-the-art research equipment and laboratories to promote the development of science and technology through research support and cooperation. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Can the international science community find the proper balance between cooperation and competition? Cooperation comes naturally to science; or at least it should, as the big problems science is called upon to address – from climate change to pandemics – respect no boundaries. And science at its best is a group effort, inclusive and open. View Source August 17, 2010 Provides Information Carbon nanotubes and the pursuit of the ultimate body armor With the ever-increasing multiple threats like traditional warfare, counterinsurgency and terrorism in border areas/urban centres/airports/public places etc. looming, there is an urgent need for providing reliable armor protection to personnel from the armed forces and law enforcement agencies. View Source August 6, 2010 Provides Information Carbon nanotubes making waves in kayak design Baytubes®, the carbon nanotubes from Bayer MaterialScience, are now making waves in kayak design, marking a new chapter in the evolution of these popular boats, which were originally made by the Inuits using wood, bone and animal skin. Today's kayaks are usually made from plastics and composite materials. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Carl Zeiss Appoints Jim Pouquette as Senior Vice President Sales Carl Zeiss today announced that Emile James (Jim) Pouquette, a former FEI Executive, has joined Carl Zeiss SMT North America as senior vice president sales. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information Carl Zeiss Introduces New Gas Injection System for ORION Plus Helium Ion Microscope Carl Zeiss today introduced a new Gas Injection System for the ORION® Plus Helium Ion Microscope. The combination of a sub-nanometer (less than 0.35nm) probe of inert gas ions with a small interaction volume at the sample surface enables highly precise induction chemistries. The resulting structures have extremely small dimen- sions and high profile fidelity. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Carl Zeiss offers online promotions - Discounts on etereomicroscopy and converting to 3D imaging Carl Zeiss, a leading provider of microscopy solutions for a variety of research, clinical and industrial applications, recently announced two exciting online promotions. These special web promotions are now being extended through to August 31, 2010. These promotions include a price reduction on Zeiss's top-rated stereomicroscopy instrument and a 5 percent discount for conversion of certain existing models of Zeiss research microscopes into a 3D imaging workstation. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Carl Zeiss Ships First 32 nm Photomask Registration and Overlay Metrology System to NuFlare Technology Carl Zeiss reports the delivery of the first PROVE™ Registration and Overlay Metrology System for photomasks to NuFlare Technology, the world leading supplier of e-beam based maskwriters. It is the kick-off for a series of deliveries in the upcoming months. View Source August 12, 2010 Provides Information Carl Zeiss ZEISS On Your Campus 2010 Vodcast Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, a leading provider of microscopy solutions for a variety of research, clinical and industrial applications, discusses its "ZEISS On Your Campus" (ZOYC) 2010 traveling tour, bringing free workshops designed to educate scientists and their students in the fundamentals of various microscopy techniques to universities across the United States and Canada. ZOYC provides participants with a unique opportunity to attend educational seminars and participate in live cell imaging workshops. View Source August 27, 2010 Provides Information Carving up water In its bulk state, magnesium oxide (MgO) is a chalky white, rather unreactive mineral that is best known as an ingredient in antacid medication. But when this compound is formed into nanoscale films, only a few atoms deep, things begin to change. While bulk MgO is an insulator, ultrathin MgO can transfer small amounts of charge to substances, such as metal catalysts, adsorbed on its surface—giving these films the ability to tune chemical reactivity and unlock new reaction routes. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information CEA Leti Selects Eyelit’s Software Suite to Support MEMS Production in France Eyelit Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, discrete electronics, semiconductor, and photovoltaic (solar) industries, announced today that CEA-Leti, the French nanoelectronics Research & Development plant, has purchased Eyelit’s manufacturing software suite ¯including Eyelit MES, SPC, Asset Management, Quality Management and SYSTEMA’s Equipment Integration Suite¯ to support semiconductor and MEMS production in its facilities in Grenoble, France. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information Chemical element 112 is named Copernicium On Monday July 12, 2010, the chemical element discovered at GSI was christened "copernicium". This symbolic christening celebrated the element's eternal entry into the periodic table of elements. Copernicium is 277 times heavier than hydrogen and the heaviest element officially recognized in the periodic table. Its name honors the great astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Chemist Awarded 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience New York University Chemist Nadrian Seeman has been awarded the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for his creation of robotic devices that have the potential to create new materials a billionth of a meter in size. View Source June 4, 2010 Provides Information Chemists grow crystals with a twist - and untwist Chemists from New York University and Russia's St. Petersburg State University have created crystals that can twist and untwist, pointing to a much more varied process of crystal growth than previously thought. Their work, which appears in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, may explain some of the properties of high-polymers, which are used in clothing and liquid crystal displays, among other consumer products. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Clemson University Hosts Nano 2010 International Conference The next huge advance in technology will be really, really small. Nanotechnology — the manipulation of materials and processes at the atomic level — is a key part of the next industrial revolution. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information CNSE and CMOST to host Summer NanoCamp as part of 'Girls in Science and Technology' program The effort to interest young women in the fields of science and technology received a boost on July 20 through a partnership between the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany and the Children's Museum of Science and Technology ("CMOST") that showcased the exciting world of nanotechnology. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Collaboration leads to simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Compact microscope a marvel A compact microscope invented at Rice University is proving its potential to impact global health. In a paper published online today in the journal PLoS ONE ("Portable, Battery-Operated, Low-Cost, Bright Field and Fluorescence Microscope"), Rice alumnus Andrew Miller and co-authors show that his portable, battery-operated fluorescence microscope, which costs $240, stacks up nicely against devices that retail for as much as $40,000 in diagnosing signs of tuberculosis. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Company Announces Worldwide Distribution of FemtoTools' Microgrippers and Force Sensors Nanoscience Instruments, a premier distributor of nanotech instrumentation and supplies, announces today the worldwide distribution of FemtoTools' Microgrippers and Force Sensors. View Source June 3, 2010 Provides Information Competition Drawing Attention of Scientific and Business Communities to Achievements of Young Researchers in Nanotechnology The competition is held to draw attention of scientific and business communities to achievements of young researchers in nanotechnology field. View Source June 4, 2010 Provides Information Conference held on nanotechnology education On May 18-20th the nanotechnology equipment manufacturer in Russia NT-MDT Co. and one of the main Russian scientific nanocenters the Kurchatov Institute held an international conference "Nanoeducation: the main approaches and perspectives". The meeting had a unique format – the first educational international conference with trainings on working with nanoeducational equipment for teachers. 185 participants took part in the event, including representatives from Russia, the USA, Europe and CIS. The conference has become an essential part of Russian Government Federal Program. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information Construction Begins for the European XFEL The traditional tunnel and borer christening celebration today marked the start of construction of the tunnel system for the X-ray laser European XFEL. More than 500 guests attended the ceremony on the building site in Schenefeld (Pinneberg district, Schleswig-Holstein), the future research campus of the X-ray laser facility. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information ContourGT-X8 PSS: Tailored Surface Metrology Solution for Patterned Sapphire Substrates At the SEMICON West trade shows and seminars in San Francisco this week, Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets, will announce a new ContourGT™ Optical Surface Profiler configuration optimized for characterizing high-brightness light-emitting diode patterned sapphire substrates. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Correcting a trick of the light brings molecules into view Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to "see" something as small as an individual molecule. But science has once again overturned conventional wisdom. Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Steven Chu led the development of a technique that enables the use of optical microscopy to image objects or the distance between them with resolutions as small as 0.5 nanometers – one-half of one billionth of a meter, or an order of magnitude smaller than the previous best. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Cresset Announces Release of Free Molecular Fields Viewer Cresset is delighted to announce the release of FieldView, its powerful new molecular Fields visualizer. FieldView is a molecular viewer/editor designed to create, modify, view and compare molecules along with their associated Field patterns and physicochemical properties. This provides a richer more informative view of how molecules behave in biological systems. View Source June 22, 2010 Provides Information CTI Announces First Commercial Operation of Green D Plus Nano Refining System Cavitation Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce that its Green D Plus Nano Refining System is now in commercial operation at Carolina Soya, LLC, a vegetable oil refining facility located in South Carolina. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information CVD Equipment Corporation 2010 Orders Increase by 70% CVD Equipment Corporation announced that it received over $6.0 million in new orders during the three (3) months ended June 30, 2010 and approximately $9.3 million in new orders for the six (6) months ended June 30, 2010. This surpasses the $2.8 and $5.5 million of new orders received during the three (3) and six (6) months ended June 30, 2009 by 125% and 70% respectively. The orders received during this period also exceeded all January through June periods in the history of CVD. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information D DARPA Fund Supports Development of New Bio-Inspired Nanosensors Scientists at GE Global Research, GE’s technology development arm, in collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory, State University at Albany, and University of Exeter, have received a four-year, $6.3 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new bio-inspired nanostructured sensors that would enable faster, more selective detection of dangerous warfare agents and explosives. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Delayed time zero in photoemission When light is absorbed by atoms, the electrons become excited. If the light particles, so-called photons, carry sufficient energy, the electrons can be ejected from the atom. This effect is known as photoemission and was explained by Einstein more than hundred years ago. Until now, it has been assumed that the electron start moving out of the atom immediately after the impact of the photon. This point in time can be detected and has so far been considered as coincident with the arrival time of the light pulse, i.e. with "time zero" in the interaction of light with matter. View Source June 24, 2010 Provides Information Delivery of First PROVE Photomask System Featuring 193 nm Optics Carl Zeiss reports the delivery of the first PROVE™ Registration and Overlay Metrology System for photomasks to NuFlare Technology, the world leading supplier of e-beam based maskwriters. It is the kick-off for a series of deliveries in the upcoming months. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc. (DNT) is the world's leading developer and provider of advanced dendritic polymers. View Source   Products Development of world's highest performance thin-film condenser A research group headed by MANA Scientist Dr. Minoru Osada and Principal Investigator Dr. Takayoshi Sasaki of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) discovered a new high-k dielectric nanosheet with a molecular level thickness (~1.5 nm), and successfully developed the world's highest performance thin-film condenser by a solution-based bottom-up nanotechnology View Source August 30, 2010 Provides Information DFI's Largest Glass Chemical Vapor Deposition Chamber Implemented in Spain Diamon-Fusion International, Inc., global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced today the completion of its largest all-glass vapor chamber, certified and implemented by DFI in Spain for its licensee CRISTEC VIPLA S.L., a highly-reputable Cataluña-based company dedicated to the fabrication and processing of a wide-range of glass products reaching a diversity of market segments, including aluminum, PVC, furniture, and other industries. View Source August 10, 2010 Provides Information Diamant Art’s Subsidiary to Begin Security Solution Installation in Chinese Nanotechnology Factory Diamant Art Corporation, a publicly traded INTERNATIONAL company that assists businesses in boosting revenues and decreasing expenses through its product management and security solutions, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary -- T&R International, is entering into a significant partnership that will begin to generate a demand for T&R's range of products in China beginning in September of this year. View Source August 26, 2010 Provides Information Direct-write process brings nanotechnology fabrication closer to mass production The technology for nanomaterial-based device fabrication is still at its infancy, despite the surge in research publications over the past decade. As a matter of fact, the controllable fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures remains a difficult challenge; it will still take some time before a commercial product can be realized. View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information Dolomite Introduce Modular Droplet Advanced System Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and manufacture, has introduced the modular Droplet Advanced System, which enables users to produce more than 10,000 highly monodispersed droplets per second, ranging from Ø 20 to 250µm. Developed for more experienced researchers, this system is the latest addition to Dolomite's Micro Droplet System range and provides a flexible, high-performance solution for droplet formation. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Dolomite Introduce The Mitos In-line Connector for Microfluidic Processing Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and manufacture, has introduced the new Mitos In-line Connector System. This innovative connector provides a single, fast and reliable multi-way connection, which offers extensive time savings when compared to traditional connections between individual pipes. In addition to being quick and easy to use, the Mitos In-line Connector provides in-line sealing and highly accurate alignment between the tubes, enabling uninterrupted liquid flow. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Dolomite Leads the Way in Multi-way Fluidic Connections Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and manufacture, has introduced the new Mitos In-line Connector System. This innovative connector provides a single, fast and reliable multi-way connection, which offers extensive time savings when compared to traditional connections between individual pipes. In addition to being quick and easy to use, the Mitos In-line Connector provides in-line sealing and highly accurate alignment between the tubes, enabling uninterrupted liquid flow. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information Domtar and FPInnovations to Jointly Develop Innovative Fiber-based Nanotechnologies at New Demonstration Plant Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced that they have formed a new joint venture company to build the world's first one metric ton per day commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant at the Domtar Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site. Construction will begin in the coming weeks and will take approximately 20 months to be completed. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Dongbu HiTek Opens Sales Office in France Dongbu HiTek today announced it has kicked off its strategy to expand its European presence by opening a sales office in Nice, France with plans to open another in Milan, Italy later this year. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Dynasil Secures DOE Funds for Developing Nano-Enhanced Sensors and Detectors Dynasil Corporation of America today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has approved seven of its Phase-II SBIR projects for awards, ranging from $750,000 to $1,000,000 each. View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information E EasyTube 101, a New Nanotechnology/Energy Material Research and Development Platform from CVD Equipment Corporation First Nano, a division of CVD Equipment Corporation introduced today the EasyTube™ 101, a new Chemical Vapor Deposition research and development tool platform as part of the growing EasyTube™ family of products. This platform is designed to address the budget limitations and growing safety concerns for the university or industrial researcher at the forefront of technology in new processes for Nanotechnology and Energy related materials. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Effects of periodic constrictions on drift, diffusion in systems experiencing driving force An understanding of particle diffusion in the presence of constrictions is essential in fields as diverse as drug delivery, cellular biology, nanotechnology, materials engineering, and spread of pollutants in the soil. When a driving force is applied, displacement of particles occurs as well as diffusion. A paper in the Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), quantifies the effects of periodic constrictions on drift and diffusion in systems experiencing a driving force. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Egypt's Technology Innovation to be Exhibited at 2010 CIO 100 Symposium Already established as a world leader in global outsourcing and offshoring, Egypt is now focusing its investments and resources towards technology innovation and entrepreneurship. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Electric fields make ceramic production quicker, cheaper Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that applying a small electric field results in faster formation of ceramic products during manufacture at lower temperatures, and enhances the strength of the ceramic itself. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Electrons are late starters Contrary to previous assumptions, electrons are catapulted out of an atom during photoemission with a delay. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Electrons in motion In order to understand the behavior of atoms and molecules, it does not suffice to know their structure, but physicists furthermore want to observe their motions, and the motions of the electrons that are contained in them. View Source August 11, 2010 Provides Information Elsevier Honors Chemists for Research Excellence Elsevier Properties SA announces the winners of the Reaxys PhD Prize, a competition for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the last 12 months. The Prize recognizes research excellence in the fields of organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry. View Source June 2, 2010 Provides Information Energy Secetary Chu advances nanotechnology in spare time Some people relax by doing crossword puzzles, watching movies or reading a good book. In his down time, often while flying somewhere, Energy Secretary Steven Chu relaxes by tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information EPA releases draft document of silver nanomaterial case study EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft document, Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray (External Review Draft), as announced in the August 13, 2010 Federal Register Notice. The deadline for comments is September 27, 2010. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information Epilight to Start Up Phase 5 of Its Purchase Plan With AIXTRON MOCVD Tools AIXTRON AG today announced a new order from Epilight Technology Co., Ltd, China for four CRIUS 31x2 inch MOCVD tools. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information EU ups its stake in COST science programme The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) programme. This was announced by the Spanish Secretary of State for Research, Felipe Pétriz, at the COST Ministerial Conference on 15 June in Palma de Majorca (Spain), organised by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information EU-Chinese collaboration in nanotechnology consumer protection The Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine and the European Commision Joint Research Centre (JRC) Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) have kicked off collaboration to support risk management and improve consumer protection through new approaches in the areas of nanotechnology and alternative methods to animal testing. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information European Commission publishes reference report on definition of nanomaterials for regulatory purposes Despite the growing utilisation of engineered nanomaterials in consumer products and innovative technological applications, there is at present no widely accepted definition of the term "nanomaterial" that is suitable as a basis for legislation on their safe use. View Source July 5, 2010 Provides Information European Environmental Bureau welcomes European Parliament's vote on nanofoods The European Environmental Bureau, Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens' organisations, welcomes the outcome of yesterday's vote in European Parliament, endorsing strong safety and labelling measures for food containing nanomaterials. This was decided during the second reading of the Novel Foods Regulation. View Source July 8, 2010 Provides Information European FP6 nanotechnology research evaluation - little impact, no kidding? A new 290-page tome titled "Strategic impact, no revolution" (pdf download, 5.7 MB) is the result of a year-long effort to study the strategic value and impact of NMP in its wider European and international context, with special focus on the ERA dimension, against the general policy objectives of FP6 and against the specific objectives of NMP. View Source August 12, 2010 Provides Information Europeans are more interested in science than sport and want EU research boosted According to a new Eurobarometer report (pdf) published today, nearly 80% of Europeans say they are interested in scientific discoveries and technological developments, compared to 65% interested in sport. Over 70% of Europeans think EU-funded research will become more important in the future. 57% think scientists should put more effort into communicating about their work and 66% believe governments should do more to interest young people in scientific issues. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information Euspen Challenge 2010 for students in micro-, nanotechnology and precision engineering Carl Zeiss is hosting euspen Challenge 2010 which is taking place in Jena from 1 – 3 July. The international competition for students of the engineering sciences in the fields of precision engineering, microtechnology and nanotechnology is organized by the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen) and is taking place for the first time this year. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information Exhibitor grant competition opens for UK nanotechnology organisations As part of their commitment to assisting UK nanotechnology organisations engage internationally, NanoKTN are pleased to announce an Exhibitor Grant Competition for UK nanotechnology organisations. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Extend the Capabilities of Your Desktop SEM with Phenom Pro Suite Phenom-World BV, producer of the Phenom desktop scanning electron microscope, announces the launch of a new software product, the Phenom Pro Suite. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Evonik Establishes Independent Carbon Black Company Evonik Industries is reorganizing its carbon black activities. On July 1, Evonik Carbon Black GmbH was founded as a legally independent management company under the umbrella of Evonik Industries. Chairman of the Board (CEO) is Jack Clem and Rainer Wobbe will take over the position of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The operational headquarters of the company, currently in Frankfurt, will move to Hanau-Wolfgang on October 1. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information F Fabrication of gold nanoparticles with chiral surfaces Nanoparticle chirality has attracted much attention among nanoscientists, and the application of chiral nanoparticles in chemistry, biology and medicine is of great importance for the development of new molecular nanosystems. In chemistry, chirality usually refers to molecules. A chiral molecule is a type of molecule that lacks an internal plane of symmetry and has a non-superimposable mirror image. Two mirror images of a chiral molecule are called enantiomers or optical isomers. Pairs of enantiomers are often designated as 'right-handed' and 'left-handed'. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Fabrication of photoluminescent glass capsules containing high concentrations of uantum dots Norio Murase and Masanori Ando, Advanced Health Research Group, the Health Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have developed photoluminescent glass capsules containing multiple CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs) (semiconductor nanocrystals) that retain their photoluminescence (PL) properties. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information Fast-tracking the manufacture of glasses Old glass is not the same as new glass -- and the difference is not just due to manufacturing techniques. Unlike crystalline solids, glasses change as they age, increasing packing density and stability. Ideally, a glass should be cooled slowly, maybe over 10,000 years or so, but that is not usually practical. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Federal grant invests in nanostructured 'super' materials Backed by a $1.2 million federal grant, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) has launched a Center for Advanced Materials Manufacturing (CAMM) that will support the transfer of UWM research in bulk nanostructured materials to manufacturing industry in both Wisconsin and the nation. View Source August 6, 2010 Provides Information FEI Announces New Solutions for Natural Resource Analysis FEI Company, a leading instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for applications across many industries, announces the availability of two new software solutions that provide quantifiable data to improve natural resource extraction. In addition, FEI announces that its popular QEMSCAN® software is now available on the Quanta™ 650 scanning electron microscope (SEM) platform. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information FEI Commissions Titan S/TEM at Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon FEI Company, a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, has successfully completed the installation of its Titan™ scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) at the Zaragoza University Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), located in Spain. View Source June 29, 2010 Provides Information Fibers that can hear and sing For centuries, "man-made fibers" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink, an Associate professor of Materials Science and principal investigator at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics, the threads used in textiles and even optical fibers are much too passive. For the past decade, his lab has been working to develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Figuring out how the rules of physics in the quantum world change when applied to the classical world Dartmouth researchers have discovered a potentially important piece of the quantum/classical puzzle – learning how the rules of physics in the quantum world (think smaller than microscopic) change when applied to the classical world (think every day items, like cars and trees). View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information First HighTech Europe Knowledge Auction on food packaging innovations The first European Knowledge Auction on food packaging innovations aims at bringing together latest scientific knowledge and industrial needs. The knowledge auction is a tool to accelerate the transfer of scientific results to marketplace, thus strengthening the competitiveness of the European food economy, especially SMEs. This innovative instrument was developed by HighTech Europe, the European Food Processing Network of Excellence. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information First Order From Bulgaria: INCOTEX Group Purchases AIXTRON MOCVD Systems AIXTRON AG today announced an order for three mass production MOCVD systems for GaN HB-LED production from the INCOTEX Group, a new AIXTRON customer in Bulgaria. INCOTEX placed the order in the first quarter of 2010 and the systems will be delivered from the third quarter of 2010 onwards. The local AIXTRON Europe support team will commission the new reactors at the company's purpose-built facility in Bulgaria. View Source August 10, 2010 Provides Information First recipient of the Yang Family Nanotechnology EXploration for Undergraduate Scholarship Michael Hovish, an undergraduate student at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany, was recognized on July 26 as the first recipient of the Yang Family Nanotechnology EXploration for Undergraduate Scholarship. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information Fisher Scientific Launches Two Complete Packages for the Simple, Accurate and Rapid Characterization of Carbon Nanomaterials Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced the availability of two new DXR Nanocarbon Analysis Packages for the characterization and microcharacterization of carbon nanomaterials. Both packages offer large-scale chemical and materials producers complete systems for carbon nanotube analysis. Incorporating the proven Thermo Scientific DXR Raman platform, the packages provide a wealth of information on the molecular structure and morphology of carbon nanomaterials. Designed to simplify the Raman technique for non-specialist instrument users, the packages enhance productivity and provide accurate, rapid and reproducible results. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Fisher-Tropsch Microchannel Technology Wins the Chemical Industry Association Innovation Award A combination of a highly active Fischer Tropsch (FT) catalyst and FT microchannel reactor developed by Oxford Catalysts Group was announced as winner of innovation category of the 2010 Chemical Industry Association Awards at an awards ceremony held at St George's Hall, Liverpool on Thursday 24 June 2010. The FT microchannel reactor was chosen for the award from a strong shortlist of six. Derek Atkinson, Business Development Director at Oxford Catalysts accepted the award on behalf of the Group. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information For the first time ever, scientists watch an atom's electrons moving in real time An international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom's outer electrons for the first time. Through a process called attosecond absorption spectroscopy, researchers were able to time the oscillations between simultaneously produced quantum states of valence electrons with great precision. These oscillations drive electron motion. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Florida County Utilizes Nansulate Insulation to Coat Metal Handrails Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanoscience energy saving solutions, announced today that the Company's patented nanotechnology based Nansulate® thermal insulation and protective coating is being used by a Florida County to coat the metal handrails at municipal facilities to protect its citizens from contact burn injury caused by touching these metal surfaces which have been exposed to the intense summer sun. View Source July 8, 2010 Provides Information Forecast Report on Worldwide Market for Nanocoatings Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Nanocoatings industry. View Source June 29, 2010 Provides Information Former FEI Executive Becomes SVP Sales of Nanotechnology Systems at Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss today announced that Emile James (Jim) Pouquette, a former FEI Executive, has joined Carl Zeiss SMT North America as senior vice president sales. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Former Queensland Premier Named Adjunct Professor in Bioscience and Nanotechnology with UQ's AIBN Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will be back at the cradle of Australia's 'Smart State' in an honorary capacity at two University of Queensland institutes that he helped found. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Frontiers of Nanotechnology: Impact on India Department of IT, BT and S & T, Government of Karnataka in association with Vision Group on Nanotechnology, chaired by Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and MM Activ Scitech Communications is organizing the 3rd edition of Bangalore Nano. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Frontiers of plasmonics Surface plasmons are quanta of collective oscillations of free electrons at metal-insulator interface, usually excited by photons. Since it was first proposed in 1950s by Ritchie, new interests have been aroused due to recent advances in synthesis and fabrication of various nanostructures. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Fully epitaxial microcavities open the door to quantum optoelectronic effects in GaN-based system For the very first time, a team of researchers in Germany has introduced quantum dots in fully epitaxial nitride laser structures without the need for hybrid systems -- effectively eliminating the cumbersome method of combining different materials from epitaxy and evaporation. View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information Fully Reversible Functionalization of Inorganic Nanotubes Scientists at JGU have devised a tool which allows fully reversible binding of metal oxides to inorganic nanotubes View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information Funding for development of optical nanoscopy technology A Cardiff University researcher has secured a highly sought-after Leadership award which could propel her research onto the world stage. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information G GCL-Poly Energy to Make Additional Investment in Silicon Wafer Business This announcement is made by GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited pursuant to Rule 13.09(1) of the Listing Rules. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Georgia Tech Receives Fund to Develop Hollow-Fiber Membranes Using Nanoporous Materials Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy – also known as ARPA-E – to pursue two different, but related, approaches for removing carbon dioxide from the flue gases of coal-burning power plants. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information Geometry affects drift and diffusion across entropic barriers An understanding of particle diffusion in the presence of constrictions is essential in fields as diverse as drug delivery, cellular biology, nanotechnology, materials engineering, and spread of pollutants in the soil. When a driving force is applied, displacement of particles occurs as well as diffusion. View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information German Micro- And Nanotechnology Industry Sees Economic Trend Reversed After the years of the economic crisis, 2008 and 2009, the microtechnology, nanotechnology and advanced materials industries in Germany are now confirming a reversal of the economic trend. More than half of the companies say that business in the first half of 2010 fared better than expected. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information German Paint and Printing Ink Association publishes guidance for workplace handling nanomaterials The German Paint and Printing Ink Association has published a guideline document to inform its members on the responsible handling of nanoscale materials at the workplace. The document can be downloaded in either English or German language from the association's website. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information German Research Foundation supports molecular biology research with new center Beginning July 1, 2010, the German Research Foundation will support a new collaborative research centre (CRC) at Göttingen University. CRC 860 is titled "The integrative structural biology of macromolecular complexes" and includes a total of 16 projects. The grant totals about €8.5 million over four years. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information German researchers take a look inside molecules Looking at individual molecules through a microscope is part of nanotechnologists' everyday lives. However, it has so far been difficult to observe atomic structures inside organic molecules. In the renowned scientific journal Physical Review Letters, Juelich researchers explain their novel method, which enables them to take an "x-ray view" inside molecules. The method may facilitate the analysis of organic semiconductors and proteins. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information German Start-up Particular Uses Lasers to Produce Better Nanotechnology Products On July 1st, a new German nanotechnology company has started its business: Particular GmbH is the first company to commercialize a novel process for the production of highly pure nanoparticles. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information Glass magic - a film that changes what glass can do Fogged or frozen windows are the bane of drivers' lives in winter. Researchers have developed a process that allows them to manufacture not just transparent, but heatable films. These films also prevent condensation, ensuring ice cannot build up on the windscreen overnight – and, once and for all, consigning the ice scraper to the trash can. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information Global nanotechnology innovation contest The 2011 Global Nano Innovation Contest–Prototype on Prototype was initiated by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). View Source August 23, 2010 Provides Information Goodrich to Produce Nano-Enhanced Composites Along with UDRI Goodrich Corporation will work with the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) to produce an innovative nanomaterial with metal-like conductive properties into a rugged composite structure, in sizes suitable for large-scale commercial aerospace applications. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Grant funds powerful microscope for nanoscience research Materials science and nanotechnology researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting some much-needed equipment that will help enhance and expedite their studies. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Graphene 2.0: A new approach to making a unique material Since its discovery, graphene—an unusual and versatile substance composed of a single-layer crystal lattice of carbon atoms—has caused much excitement in the scientific community. Now, Nongjian(NJ) Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has hit on a new way of making graphene, maximizing the material's enormous potential, particularly for use in high-speed electronic devices. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information Graphene Manufacturer Vorbeck Materials Receives a Top Innovator Award by the New York Venture Summit Graphene producer Vorbeck Materials is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a winner of the Top Innovator Award by the annual New York Venture Summit. The award recognizes cutting edge private companies driving the future of innovation. John Lettow, President of Vorbeck, has been invited by the New York Venture Summit to present the company to 450 entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate developers June 17th in New York City. View Source June 18, 2010 Provides Information Groundbreaking photonics research from Intel demonstrated at IPR The Optical Society (OSA) is pleased to recognize the groundbreaking research presented yesterday at its topical meeting, Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano Photonics (IPR), by Intel Corporation. IPR is currently being held at the Monterey Plaza Hotel in Monterey, Calif., USA through today. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information H Heidelberg Instruments Receives Order from Leading Asian Based Photomask Production Group Heidelberg Instruments, GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, a leading supplier of direct write laser lithography systems, announced order for an advanced VPG maskless lithography system from a leading Asian based photomask production group. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Henniker Scientific Release Prevac CLAM II Thin Film Deposition System With immediate effect Henniker Scientific Ltd. of Warrington, England announce the release of the new Prevac CLAM II thin film deposition system featuring the motorized CLAM opening providing full, unobstructed access to the targets, substrates and ancillary devices. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information High definition diagnostic ultrasonics on the nanoscale Scientists and Engineers at The University of Nottingham have built the world's smallest ultrasonic transducers capable of generating and detecting ultrasound. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information Highest X-ray energy used to probe materials Scientists for the first time have dived into the effect that an intense X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has on materials. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Highly Sensitive Arrays Engineered for Nanoscale Applications With a network of more than 5,000 sensors that monitor weather conditions, seismic activity, traffic, bacteria on beaches, water levels and much more, Sensorpedia is a significant resource that continues to expand. View Source June 3, 2010 Provides Information Hitachi High-Tech Develops a New Class of Transmission Electron Microscope Enabling Novel Work Environments Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation has announced the development and release of the HT7700, a new type of transmission electron microscope (TEM) that integrates previously complex system operation onto a single monitor screen, and allows for sample observation even under normal room light conditions. Sales of the HT7700 will begin outside of Japan in August 2010. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Hitachi High-Tech to Display New Transmission Electron Microscope at M+M-2010 Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (Hitachi High-Tech) has announced the development and release of the HT7700, a new type of transmission electron microscope (TEM) that integrates previously complex system operation onto a single monitor screen, and allows for sample observation even under normal room light conditions. Sales of the HT7700 will begin outside of Japan in August 2010. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Hitschfel Instruments to Represent Olympus Industrial Microscopes in Parts of U.S. Midwest, Southeast Olympus America Inc. continues to build its industrial instrument distribution network, naming Hitschfel Instruments, Inc., to handle distribution of Olympus industrial microscope products in central and southern Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and greater Memphis. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information How not to blow up a molecule Free-electron-laser light sources, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, arrived on the scene promising a unique scientific capability: "single-shot imaging." The idea is that a single, short-enough pulse of bright x-rays can generate enough information about a sample, perhaps a virus or a strand of DNA, to record the position of all its atoms before the energetic pulse blows the sample apart. View Source June 24, 2010 Provides Information How Soccer Ball Molecules Push Their Way Under Surfaces HZB researchers observe atomic processes while doping semicon-ductor materials Fullerene and graphene, two forms of carbon only recently discovered, have been stimulating the imaginations of researchers ever since their discovery (fullerene in 1970, graphene in 2004). View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information How to grow ultra-thin manganite films while retaining their magnetic properties Using cutting-edge spectroscopy at atomic resolutions, researchers have discovered how to grow ultra-thin manganite films while retaining their magnetic properties. View Source June 18, 2010 Provides Information Hydra MultiProbe Microscope of Nanonics Wins MT-10 Award Nanonics’ Hydra MultiProbe BioScanned Probe Microscope is a new revolution in the BioAFM market that resolves many of the limitations of BioAFM, opening new horizons for the application of AFM in biology. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information I IBM Fellow Awarded Most Prestigious Honor in Nanotechnology From the World Science Festival in New York, IBM Fellow Dr. Donald M. Eigler was awarded the most prestigious honor in nanoscience, The Kavli Prize, sharing the honor with Nadrian Seeman, a professor at New York University. View Source June 4, 2010 Provides Information Illuminex Closes $500K Financing Round to Accelerate Functional Nanomaterial Development Illuminex Corporation, based in Lancaster, PA, recently closed a $500K financing round from undisclosed investors. Combined with the Company's multiple State and Federal research grants, this funding will provide over one year of operating runway for Illuminex to accelerate the development and commercialization of functional nanomaterials for commercial devices aimed at emerging alternative energy markets. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Imaging System for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography Validated by Researchers at Five French Sites CEA-Leti today announced that after extensive beta testing at five French research facilities, its new imaging system for near-infrared fluorescence-enhanced diffuse optical tomography (fDOT) is ready for commercial applications. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information Imec makes significant contribution to the 2010 IEDM meeting A record number of 16 papers with imec authors has been accepted for this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), being held Dec 6 – 8 in San Francisco. Both ITRS-related as well as More-than-Moore-related research papers have been accepted, rewarding imec's multidisciplinary R&D platform featuring two state-of-the-art R&D fabs. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information Imec inaugurates first phase in its high-tech pole expansion Imec today officially opens the extension of its state-of-the-art cleanroom at its campus in Leuven, Belgium. Moreover, imec also kicks off the construction of a new office building fitting in its plan for further expanding its high-tech ecosystem. With these extra 18,000m2 cleanroom, lab and office space, imec will have a research campus of 80,000m2 that can stand the comparison with any other high-tech research center worldwide. As such, imec aims at playing an important role in the growth of the Flemish high-tech economy. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Industrial Nanotech Develops Extreme High Temperature Coating for High Pressure Steam Pipeline in Saudi Arabia Industrial Nanotech, Inc. reported today that the Company has successfully developed a nanotechnology based thermal insulation coating capable of being applied to surfaces of at least 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, "Nansulate® Extreme High Heat". View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Industrial Nanotech's Patented Nansulate Now Part of Mexican Governments Mandatory Energy Saving Program Industrial Nanotech, Inc. announced today that the Company's patented Nansulate™ thermal insulation and mold prevention coating has been awarded the NOM certification and is now part of the Green Mortgage program by INFONAVIT, Mexico's state owned and largest mortgage provider. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information Innovnano Launches New Grades of Nano-Zirconia to Obtain Zirconia Coatings by Atmospheric Plasma Spraying INNOVNANO has launched new grades of nano Zirconia YSZ (ZrO2-3% mol Y2O3) and nano Zirconia Alumina (ZTA) used to obtain Zirconia coatings by atmospheric plasma spraying (APS). View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information 'Instant acid' method offers new insight into nanoparticle dispersal in the environment and the body Using a chemical trick that allows them to change the acidity of a solution almost instantly, a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a simple and effective technique for quantifying how the stability of nanoparticle solutions change when the acidity of their environment suddenly changes ("Dynamic light scattering investigations of nanoparticle aggregation following a light-induced pH jump"). The measurement method and the problem studied are part of a broader effort at NIST to understand the environmental, health and safety implications of nanoparticles. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Institute of Food Technologists report reviews the role of food science and technology in meeting the needs of a growing world population The world's food system provides food for nearly seven billion people each day. But according to a new report from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), more advances are critical for an adequate food supply, which must nearly double during the next several decades, for the future world population. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Integrated Nano-Science & Commodity Exchange (INSCX) issues Global Call Series for Nanobusiness and Member States The Integrated Nano-Science & Commodity Exchange (INSCX exchange) operates to provide the world's only source of accredited, compliant and validated engineered nanomaterials available on any exchange. INSCX will transform the commercial sustainability of nanomaterials by providing Nanomaterials (SHE) accredited suppliers with the most direct route to market in a manner which meets the trade performance and material integrity requirements of commercial purchasers and downstream users of nanomaterials and nano-enabled commodities. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information International bioengineering and nanotechnology experts to present the latest research advances in Biopolis next week The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, will organize the 5th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN 2010) from August 2-4, 2010. Over 300 international delegates are expected to convene at the Biopolis for this interdisciplinary conference, and members of the media are welcome to attend to find out more about the latest research advances in science, engineering and medicine from around the world. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information International Conference on "Nanoeducation: Main Approaches and Perspectives" On May 18-20th the nanotech manufacturer in Russia NT-MDT Co. and one of the main Russian scientific nanocenters the Kurchatov Institute held an international conference “Nanoeducation: the main approaches and perspectives”. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information International Council on Nanotechnology Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology Database. View Source   Provides a Service International Enterprise Singapore to Lead Seven Nanotechnology Companies in Debut Appearance at Nanotech 2010 Touted as the key to unlocking a new generation of materials and devices with revolutionary properties and functionalities, nanotechnology has already seen widespread commercial success in industries ranging from the medical and electronics sectors, to communications and defence. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Invisibility cloak uses magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light From Tolkien's ring of power in The Lord of the Rings to Star Trek's Romulans, who could make their warships disappear from view, from Harry Potter's magical cloak to the garment that makes players vanish in the video game classic "Dungeons and Dragons, the power to turn someone or something invisible fascinates mankind. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Irilliant Announces New Patent; Broad Claims Granted for Aerosol Synthesis of Nanomaterials Irilliant, Inc., a developer of high-throughput manufacturing processes for nanomaterials, has further enhanced and protected its CAFS (Chemical Aerosol-Flow Synthesis) process with a soon-to-be-issued U.S. patent. View Source July 6, 2010 Provides Information Irish high-tech companies get over 213m euros from European FP7 programs Researchers from Irish companies and higher education institutions won funding totalling €213 million for collaborative research projects in areas like ICT, health, nanotechnology and energy from the largest European R&D funding programme ever, announced Minister Conor Lenihan TD. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Iron Nanoparticles Demonstrate Unprecedented Ability to Clean Contaminated Groundwater Iron nanoparticles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to clean contaminated groundwater since they were invented 10 years ago at Lehigh. View Source June 18, 2010 Provides Information Ironbridge Innovator to Launch Odegon Nano Tags with Fabric Patches Ironbridge innovator Steve Rawlings develops BO-eliminating iron-on patches; son Tom ditches big City job to help launch Dad’s invention View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information ISO Introduces New System for Logical Classification of Nanomaterials From new medical applications, to the latest gadgets and consumer products, innovative nanotechnology is pushing the boundaries of what we believed possible. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information ItN Nanovation Signs Cooperation Agreement With Leading Italian Builder of Wastewater Treatment Facilities ItN Nanovation AG, a portfolio company of Nanostart AG, yesterday announced the signing of a major cooperation agreement with one of Italy's leading builders of wastewater treatment facilities. Under the newly signed agreement, Ecologia Soluzione Ambiente S.p.a. has committed itself to exclusively use the CFM Systems® ceramic flat filter membrane technology from ItN Nanovation in the construction of its future wastewater treatment facilities. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information IVAM Launches Third Japanese-German Micro, Nano Forum In co-operation with the German Asia-pacific Business Association, IVAM Microtechnology Network launches the third Japanese-German Micro/Nano forum within the framework of the Exhibition Micro Machine/MEMS“- in Tokyo, one of the most important Japanese exhibitions in the field of micro- and nanotechnology. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Ivy Nanoparticles-Based Sunscreens May Protect Skin from UV Rays Nanoparticles in ivy may hold the key to making sunscreen safer and more effective. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Izon Science to Sponsor Sydney 2010 International Nanomedicine Conference New Zealand based nanotechnology company Izon Science, today announced its sponsorship and participation in the Sydney 2010 International Nanomedicine Conference. The three day nanomedicine conference, to be held 30 June to 2 July, will bring together researchers and developers from around the world working in targeted delivery, diagnostics and regenerative medicine. View Source June 29, 2010 Provides Information J Jason Carlson Named President and CEO of QD Vision QD Vision, developer of Quantum Light™ nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, announced that Jason Carlson has been named President and CEO. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information JEOL Correlative Microscope Wins MT-10 Award The ability to examine biological samples with both electron microscopy and light microscopy using a single instrument and switching between the two with a single mouse click is garnering top honors for the JEOL ClairScope. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information JEOL Scanning Electron Microscope Offers Versatile Through-the-Lens System for Ultrahigh Resolution JEOL has introduced a unique Scanning Electron Microscope with optics that enable ultrahigh resolution imaging at low kV and high spatial resolution microanalysis. The Through-the-Lens System (TTLS) combines new objective lens and detector technologies with the proven JEOL in-lens Field Emission Gun. The TTLS is designed to enable imaging of a wide variety of samples, including magnetic materials. The model JSM-7001FTTLS LV also features low vacuum operation and a large specimen exchange airlock. View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology welcomes 16 summer nanobio research interns For 10 weeks this summer, 16 students from universities across the country will join the highly competitive Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The internship is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is supported and administered by INBT. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information Johns Hopkins researchers appointed to governor's task force to study nanobiotechnology Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has appointed Peter Searson and Steve Desiderio, two researchers from The Johns Hopkins University, to serve on a special task force to study the benefits of nanobiotechnology. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro opens for first day of classes It's the first day of school at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering in Greensboro. That's not just for the new school year; it's the first day of school ever for one of the UNC system's most innovative educational initiatives. View Source August 23, 2010 Provides Information JPK Announces the Annual Two Day International Meeting on the Application of SPM and Optical Tweezers for Life Sciences JPK Instruments is happy to announce that registration is now open for the ninth annual international symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and optical tweezers. The symposia will be held on the 6-7th October 2010 in Berlin focusing on applications developments in life sciences. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information JPK Instruments Launches NanoWizard3 BioScience AFM at MicroScience 2010 JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to select MicroScience 2010 to announce the launch of their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard®3 BioScience AFM. View Source June 29, 2010 Provides Information K K-Swiss Chooses Oon-Mask Liquid Repellent Nanocoating K•Swiss is the latest premium sports footwear brand to announce that it has teamed up with P2i, the world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, in a move which is set to revolutionize the performance of its two latest product lines – Kwicky Blade-Light™ and California™, debuting at retail in February 2011. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information KLA-Tencor Introduces The New Aleris 8330 Film Metrology Tool Today KLA-Tencor Corporation, a leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced the latest addition to the Aleris family of film metrology tools. The Aleris 8330 is a reliable, production worthy, low cost of ownership metrology solution for measuring thickness, refractive index and stress of non-critical* films at the 32nm node and beyond, complementing the existing Aleris 8350 system, which is designed to measure critical films. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information KLA-Tencor Launches the Archer 300 LCM Overlay Metrology System Today KLA-Tencor Corporation, the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, introduced the Archer 300 LCM metrology system. The Archer 300 LCM offers precision and measurement speed significantly better than that of its predecessor, the widely-adopted Archer 200, and features new in-die metrology capability. With these innovations, the Archer 300 LCM can serve as a comprehensive overlay error management solution throughout the fab, meeting the strict specifications required to qualify scanners and tightly control high volume manufacturing of leading-edge logic and memory devices. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information L Laboratory in microdrops A group of scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, headed by D.Sc. Piotr Garstecki, constructed a microflow system allowing the streams of drops containing various solutions to merge. The new system makes it possible to produce and precisely control concentrations of reaction micromixtures, and it operates several times faster and with smaller volumes of liquids than the microtitre plate method currently popular at laboratories. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Labsphere, Photal Launch New Quantum Efficiency Measurement System Labsphere and Photal Debut New HalfMoon-based Quantum Efficiency Measurement System at Photonics West 2010. High accuracy measurements for both solid and liquid samples. View Source July 5, 2010 Provides Information Laser Pulses Help to Control Individual Electrons in Atoms and Molecules The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one—in some cases creating hollow atoms. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information Latest Advancements in Sensing Technologies Shown at Sensors Expo and Conference Over 4,000 engineers, scientists and industry professionals from around the world gathered at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL last week for the Sensors Expo & Conference, the leading event in North America focused exclusively on sensors and sensor-integrated systems. The Expo and Conference was held Monday, June 7 through Wednesday, June 9 and was co-located with ESC Chicago. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information Leica Microsystems Wins European Scanner Contest Leica Microsystems' Slide Scanner Leica SCN400 and Autoloader Leica SL801 have come first in two categories of the first European Scanner Contest (ESC). The prizes were awarded in the "Scan Speed and Best-Focused Images" categories, each at 20x and 40x magnification. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Linkam Scientific Instruments Teams Up to Supply Stages to LC-Vision Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, teams up to supply stages to LC-Vision, suppliers of state-of-the-art turnkey systems for high throughput automated liquid crystal analysis. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Liposome-hydrogel hybrids: No toil, no trouble for stronger bubbles People have been combining materials to bring forth the best properties of both ever since copper and tin were merged to start the Bronze Age. In the latest successful merger, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the University of Maryland (UM) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have developed a method to combine two substances that individually have generated interest for their potential biomedical applications: a phospholipid membrane "bubble" called a liposome and particles of hydrogel, a water-filled network of polymer chains. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information Looking to leap forward on laser and photodetector technologies A team of Arizona State University researchers will get support from the U.S. Department of Defense to aid development of the next generations of lasers and infrared photodetectors. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information London Centre for Nanotechnology Wins RSC Marlow Award Professor Angelos Michaelides from London Centre for Nanotechnology has been awarded the Marlow Award 2010 of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his work in surface and physical chemistry. View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information LORD Corporation Advances Materials Development with DEK Galaxy and Wafer Transport Solution Enjoying the materials innovation success it has realized with its first DEK Galaxy system, Cary, North Carolina-based LORD Corporation recently expanded its development capacity with the addition of a second Galaxy equipped with DEK's new Wafer Transport Solution. View Source August 11, 2010 Provides Information Luminaires Now Available Based on Qshift Coral Nanotechnology NN-Labs is pleased to announce the immediate availability of materials based on NNCrystal’s Qshift Coral technology following the recent successfully completed review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information M Mapping the structure of protonated water clusters Water molecules are continuously forming short-lived networks called clusters. These can in turn bind positively charged protons, and such clusters can provide active functional groups in proteins. Using infrared spectroscopy, it is possible to determine the bond strengths, geometrical structures and chemical properties of protonated water clusters. In order to measure the spectrum of molecular vibrations in clusters it is, however, necessary to use other molecules as messengers. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information MagForce Nanotechnologies AG Successfully Completes Share Placement MagForce Nanotechnologies AG, a medical technology company listed in the Entry Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, completed a placement of equity with German and international institutional investors. A total of 80,190 newly issued shares were placed, with profit participation rights dating from January 1, 2009, at a price of EUR 42.00 per share. The gross proceeds from this capital increase of EUR 3,367,980.00 will go to the company and are to be used to finance its further growth. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information Major Taiwanese Foundry Orders Next Generation QXP-8300 ALD Deposition Tool From AIXTRON AIXTRON AG today announced an order for its QXP-8300 ALD deposition tool from a major Taiwanese foundry. The order is for a 300MM system for the deposition of next generation high-k materials by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). The order was received in the first quarter of 2010 and the system will be delivered in the second half of this year. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Malvern Zetasizer Nano Being Used to Support Water Treatment Plant Operators An advanced particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments is being used to support water treatment plant operators in their optimization of treatment processes, and is removing the need to wait for external laboratory results. Saving valuable resources, the Zetasizer Nano enables operators to easily measure and track the zeta potential (charge) of inflowing waters on site - hourly, daily, or across cycles, according to seasonal needs. These parameters are critical to final water quality and treatment plant efficiency. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information Malvern's Zetasizer Nano Particle Characterization System on Show at NanoMaterials 2010 Malvern Instruments is exhibiting the Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system at NanoMaterials 2010, on 8-10 June at the Hotel Russell in London, UK. Europe's leading conference and exhibition on the safe and profitable commercialisation of nanomaterials, the theme of this year's NanoMaterials is 'Inspiring commercial success'. As the world's most widely used light scattering system for nanoparticle and biomolecular characterization, Malvern's Zetasizer Nano is emerging as a key technology in advancing nanomaterials. View Source June 2, 2010 Provides Information MANCEF Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems Conference The Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation, MANCEF, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems Conference (COMS) in New Mexico. COMS 2000 was a seminal event for New Mexico Small Tech, and COMS 2010 will once again put the global spotlight on New Mexico's high tech expertise and potential. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Marcy NanoCenter With more than $14 billion in private and public investment in New York State in high-tech R&D and manufacturing, this cluster includes semiconductor industry giants AMD, ASML, Applied Materials, IBM, NXP Semiconductor, and Tokyo Electron among others. View Source   Provides Information MarketPublishers.com Now Authorized to Distribute iRAP’s Research Reports Market Publishers Ltd and Innovative Research and Products (iRAP) signed partnership agreement for quality market research promotion on Internet. MarketPublishers.com is now authorized to distribute and sell research reports by Innovative Research and Products. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information MesoCoat Licenses Transformational Surface Engineering Technology Developed at Batelle MesoCoat is pleased to announce that it has acquired exclusive commercial rights to the high density infrared surface modification technology IP Portfolio from UT-Battelle, LLC. This breakthrough surface engineering technology was developed over the last decade at the infrared processing center, part of the industrial materials division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Michelle Povinelli recognized by MIT Technology Review's prestigious TR35 listing The University of Southern California announced today that Michelle Povinelli, a member of the faculty of the Viterbi School of Engineering, has been recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for her research on the optical properties of nano-structured materials. View Source August 26, 2010 Provides Information Micralyne Appoints Nancy Fares as New President and CEO Micralyne Inc., a world-renowned, independent MEMS solutions company, today announced the appointment of Nancy Fares as President and CEO. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Microfluidics Proof of Concept Testing Improves Customer Product Quality and Scaleup Efficiency by Optimizing Nanomaterial Processing Microfluidics, the exclusive developer of scalable Microfluidizer® high shear fluid processors for uniform particle size reduction, robust cell disruption and bottom-up nanoparticle creation, offers professional Proof of Concept testing for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, energy, cosmetic and nutraceutical/food companies worldwide interested in leveraging the benefits of nanomaterials. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Micro Materials Comes Under Private Ownership Again Micro Materials Ltd (MML), established in 1988, has returned to private ownership following a buy-out by major shareholder David Harding, managing director of Winton Capital. Mr Harding first became interested in MML via his substantial shareholding in Millbrook Scientific Instruments plc., who acquired MML in 2004. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Microscopy Field Researcher Michael K. Miller Honored by UT-Battelle UT-Battelle has appointed Michael K. Miller of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow. The honor is reserved as the highest level of recognition for career achievements in science and technology, performance and leadership. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Microscopic firewalls - robust foils of synthetic nacre analogues act as a heat shield Biological materials are fascinating because they are very light but have the ability to withstand extreme forces. Nacre is amazingly tough thanks to a multi-layer arrangement of platelet-shaped calcium carbonate crystals ("bricks") and proteins ("mortar") in the form of a "brick wall". A Finnish and Swedish team headed by Andreas Walther and Olli Ikkala has now developed a nacre analogue with mechanical properties that outperform those of some high-performance polymers. View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information Microbots transport, assemble and deliver micro- and nanoscale objects Nanotechnology research groups around the world are actively pursuing the dream of building nanomachines that mimic biological motors and that can convert chemical into mechanical energy to perform certain functions such as transporting cargo and assembling structures and devices at the molecular scale. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Officially Opens The first multi-purpose nanofabrication centre in Australia has been officially opened by Victorian Premier John Brumby this morning. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Micro Droplet Systems Enable Fast and Advanced Droplet Microfluidics Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and manufacture, has introduced the Micro Droplet Systems which enable rapid advances in droplet microfluidics and allow users to produce more than 10,000 monodispersed droplets per second. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Microbubbles Help Trap, Remove Toxic Carbon Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes are already a major tool in bioscience research. In addition, these particles are finding themselves as a central component for production of variety of consumer products, from cosmetics to specialized plastics. Because of their intrinsic toxicity, though, there are still numerous questions about the safety of carbon nanotubes and how they're processed by the human body. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information mPhase Technologies Announces Showcase of Emergency Illuminator in Men's Journal mPhase Technologies, Inc., a leader in the development of Smart Surfaces and advanced battery technologies today announced that its mPower Emergency Illuminator is showcased in the September 2010 issue of Men's Journal magazine, on newsstands now. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information N Nano Adaptive Hybrid Fabric is a multifunctional, multitasking novel nanomaterial Strategic investments made by Ohio Third Frontier have resulted in a thriving advanced materials industry cluster and are leading the way for technological breakthroughs that will help the state compete on a global level. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Nanobiotechnology doctoral program in Munich The International Doctoral Program NanoBioTechnology (IDK-NBT) is a doctoral excellence program administrated by LMU's Center for NanoScience (CeNS). It offers outstanding graduates interdisciplinary research conditions and excellent education in the highly promising field of nanobiotechnology. Last year, the program attracted 280 applicants, and Kamila Klamecka, from Poland, was among the 32 candidates invited to Munich for a selection workshop, where she presented her Master's work. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information NanoBusiness Alliance issues statement on sustainable development of nanotechnology The NanoBusiness Alliance today issued a Position Statement on Nanomaterials Product Sustainability, which reflects NanoBusiness Alliance members' enduring commitment to managing effectively the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of nanotechnology. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information NanoBusiness Talent Program Arranges High School Internships with Nanotechnology Start-ups Summer jobs are a rite of passage for teens. But this summer, Christian Johnson, 18, isn't scooping ice cream or catching a tan as a lifeguard. Instead, the soon-to-be college freshman will investigate the use of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery along with scientists at BD Technologies in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Nanocomp Technologies Awarded Air Force Contract to Optimize Carbon Nanotube Sheets Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar Phase II contract by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Nano design, just like in nature Every living cell in our body can do it: covered with a thin membrane known as a cell membrane or nanomembrane, the cells can deliberately let specific substances in and out. Although it is thousands of times thinner than a human hair, this nanomembrane has an extremely complex structure and function. Three Nobel prizes have already been awarded for improving our understanding of these nanomembranes. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information Nano-Enabled Advanced Coating Developer Receives Term Sheets for Additional Funds Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, today announced that it has received conditional term sheets from a number of individual investors for an investment totaling $2.4 million. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information Nano-Fibers Spun from Melt-Blown Polymers Nano-fibers less than 0.5 micron diameter have been made from low cost polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PET), PBT and many other polymers using an innovative, nano-fiber melt-blown extrusion die designed, developed and manufactured by The Arthur G. Russell Company, Inc View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Nanofluidic 'multi-tool' separates and sizes nanoparticles A wrench or a screwdriver of a single size is useful for some jobs, but for a more complicated project, you need a set of tools of different sizes. Following this guiding principle, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have engineered a nanoscale fluidic device that functions as a miniature "multi-tool" for working with nanoparticles—objects whose dimensions are measured in nanometers. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Nanogate Accelerates Expansion With Acquisition of GfO The majority takeover of GfO Gesellschaft für Oberflächentechnik mbH propels Nanogate, a leading international nanotechnology enabler, to the top slot in Europe as the leading system provider of high-performance surfaces for industrial applications. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Nanogate Presents Innovative UV-hardening Material for Coating Plastic Sheet Goods Nanogate AG will be present at the international trade fair for surface treatments and coatings (O&S) in Stuttgart at a joint stand with sarastro GmbH. Among other novelties Nanogate is to display a newly developed UV-hardening coating for plastic sheet goods. In collaboration with one of the largest providers of coatings to enhance polycarbonate and acrylic sheet goods, it has been possible to develop a procedure by which the material can be flexibly applied using UV-hardening to a variety of different types of plastic without any further pre-treatment. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Nanogen - Making the revolutionary routine™ Nanogen's mission is to become a leading supplier of molecular diagnostic tests to the medical community and to clinical researchers. View Source   Provides Products Nanogenerator for mechanical energy harvesting The journal, Nano Letters, recently published an article highlighting the fascinating nanogenerators developed by Dr. Yong Shi, a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information NanGenex to Introduce the New GMP Compliant Industrial Scale NanoPilot Instrument NanGenex Inc. presents its latest GMP compliant benchtop and pilot plant reactor for the industrial scale production of NanoActive™ nanoparticles. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information NanoH2O Selected by The Artemis Project as a Top 50 Water Company NanoH2O announced today that it has been chosen by The Artemis Project™ as a winner of the 2010 Top 50 Water Companies Competition. This award distinguishes the company in one of the greatest high-growth industries of the 21st Century. NanoH2O was the only desalination membrane manufacturer selected. The company was selected by a panel of industry experts based on four criteria: technology, intellectual property and know-how, team and market potential. In 2009, NanoH2O was ranked fourth among the Top 50 Water Companies. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Nanoinformatics 2010: A collaborative roadmapping workshop Save the Date for Nanoinformatics 2010! A collaborative roadmapping and workshop project, Nanoinformatics 2010 will take place from November 3 – 5 in Washington, D.C. This workshop will bring together informatics experts, nanotechnology researchers and policy makers, and other stakeholders and potential contributors to jointly develop a comprehensive roadmap for the area of nanoinformatics. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Nanoinformatics 2010: Abstract submission now open Proposals are now being accepted for Nanoinformatics 2010, a collaborative roadmapping project for the nanotechnology community. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information NanoKTN and Institute of Nanotechnology Launch International NanoMicroClub to Encourage Global Investment in UK SMEs The NanoKTN and the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), a professional membership organisation for the nanotechnology industry, has announced its collaboration that with the support of Technology Strategy Board funding, will encourage and support UK nanotechnology SMEs in international business development. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information NanoKTN and IoN Collaborate to Support UK Nanotechnology SMEs The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for micro and nanotechnologies, has announced a collaboration with the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), a professional membership organisation for the nanotechnology industry. The partnership, with the support of Technology Strategy Board funding, will encourage and support UK nanotechnology SMEs in international business development. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information NanoMarkets Market Research Reports on Nanotechnology, Nanostorage and Nanoelectronics NanoMarkets' mission is to measure the impact of nanotechnology on the communications, information technology and computing industries and provide both qualitative and quantitative assessments of the opportunities available to companies operating within these markets as well as the component, semiconductor, materials and manufacturing companies that supply them. View Source   Provides a Service NanoMarkets Offers New Research Report on E-Paper Market A new report from NanoMarkets, predicts that e-paper will generate a $2.6 billion opportunity in 2015. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterial in novel home-air treatment counters hazards from toxic drywall A nanomaterial originally developed to fight toxic waste is now helping reduce debilitating fumes in homes with corrosive drywall. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterial Supplier Illuminex Corporation Closes Angel Round Of Funding Illuminex Corporation, based in Lancaster, PA, recently closed a $500K financing round from undisclosed investors. Combined with the Company's multiple State and Federal research grants, this funding will provide over one year of operating runway for Illuminex to accelerate the development and commercialization of functional nanomaterials for commercial devices aimed at emerging alternative energy markets. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterials are widely used in commerce, but EPA faces challenges in regulating risk The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report "Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials Are Widely Used in Commerce, but EPA Faces Challenges in Regulating Risk" in which it recommends that EPA complete its plans to modify its regulatory framework for nanomaterials as needed. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterials environmental impact conference to be at Clemson Clemson University is hosting Nano2010, an international conference of scientists whose research will help us understand how nanotechnology will affect our world. View Source August 12, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterials in the construction industry and resulting health and safety issues Tailing after emerging nanotechnology applications in biomedical and electronic industries, the construction industry recently started seeking out a way to advance conventional construction materials using a variety of manufactured nanomaterials. The use of nanotechnology materials and applications in the construction industry should be considered not only for enhancing material properties and functions but also in the context of energy conservation. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Nanomaterials: Twist-on caps Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are versatile nanomaterials made of rolled-up honeycomb-like sheets of carbon atoms. Depending on the direction and degree of twisting of these sheets, nanotubes can behave as metals or semiconductors, which is a potential boon for the development of ultrasmall electromagnetic devices. However, the exact mechanism that controls this twisting, known as chirality, has so far eluded materials scientists. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information NanoMech Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Test Nanolubricant Use in Machining Processes The United States National Science Foundation has awarded NanoMech, Inc. a Phase 1 grant focused on applying NanoMech's proprietary and patent-pending nanotechnology innovations to improve machining and grinding processes across a broad range of applications in manufacturing. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Nanomix sensors operate at the intersection between the molecular and macroscopic worlds. The central element, carbon nanotubes, are individual molecules to which electrical leads can be attached. View Source   Provides Products Nanoparticle-coated pavement that cleans the air The concentrations of toxic nitrogen oxide that are present in German cities regularly exceed the maximum permitted levels. That's now about to change, as innovative paving slabs that will help protect the environment are being introduced. Coated in titanium dioxide nanoparticles, they reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide in the air. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Nanophase Technologies is an industry-leading nanocrystalline materials innovator and manufacturer with an integrated family of nanomaterial technologies. View Source   Provides Products Nanophotonics proposal wins 1.5m euro European Research Council grant The European Research Council (ERC) has again granted one of the prestigious Starting Independent Researcher Grants to a member of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS). Prof. Thomas Klar convinced the peer review panel of the ERC in the category "Physical Science and Engineering" with his research proposal called "ActiveNP" which stands for "Active and Low Loss Nanophotonics " and will now receive a sum of about 1.5 Mio € for the next 5 years. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information NanoRidge Materials Signs Contract for New Defense Armor NanoRidge Materials, Inc., a Houston based nanotechnology manufacturing company has partnered with Riley Solutions, Inc. to manufacture and supply specialized nanotechnology enhanced armor for the Department of Defense. As part of the partnership, Riley Solutions, Inc. is moving their headquarters from North Carolina to Houston, Texas, resulting in NanoRidge Materials, Inc. expanding into a 55,000 sq. ft. facility in the Houston area and creating 300 new jobs for the region within the next three years. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Nanoscale plasmonic motor drives micro-sized disk While those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile imagination, light mills – rotary motors driven by light – that can power objects thousands of times greater in size are now fact. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created the first nano-sized light mill motor whose rotational speed and direction can be controlled by tuning the frequency of the incident light waves. View Source July 5, 2010 Provides Information Nanoscientists will benefit from new tools for new light source at Brookhaven lab The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is constructing the world's most brilliant light source, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). In a recent decision, DOE has approved a new project to begin conceptual design of NSLS-II experimental tools, named NEXT. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information NanoSight Holds First European Users Meeting on Nanoparticle Characterization NanoSight, world-leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, together with distributor partners Schaefer Technologie, have recently held a meeting of users of their successful range of nanoparticle tracking analysis instruments in Langen, Germany. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Nansulate Thermal Insulation and Mold Prevention Coatings Being Used To Keep Sailboats Cooler Industrial Nanotech, Inc. reported today that the Company's Nansulate® thermal insulation and mold resistant coatings provide effective insulation and protection for boats and sailboats and effectively reduce interior cabin temperature. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Nanotech Insight conference to provide a look at the latest trends and discoveries in nanoscience Nanotech Insight (NTI), scheduled for February 27 - March 2, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt, will provide a look at the latest trends and discoveries in nanoscience. The conference will feature keynote lectures from some of the world's leading speakers in the field. They will discuss the international nanotech industry with the latest practical developments, as well as the technological, scientific and social aspects of nanometer scale systems. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology and Ecology to be Discussed at ESA's Annual Meeting Whether it is a single rock being overturned or an entire mountaintop being removed, humans play a continuous role in environmental processes, and vice versa. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Asset Map connects the dots on Alberta's nano resources Players in the technology world now have a new gateway available to nanotechnology activities in Alberta. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology-based personal care products and brands on the rise Small particles are becoming a big business for the world's personal care products manufacturers according to an analysis of world patent activity published today by the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters. The new report, Can Nanotech Unlock the Fountain of Youth? (pdf), finds that the beauty industry has begun to make an aggressive foray into nanotechnology, using tiny molecular compounds to improve the performance of creams, sunscreens, shampoos and other personal-care products. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Boosting Power Plant Efficiency and Reducing Nuclear Waste With renewed attention being given to nuclear power, a UT Dallas researcher has snagged an $875,000 Department of Energy (DOE) grant to explore a means to boost power plant efficiency and reduce nuclear waste. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology company uses fish skin to electrospin nanofibers Not that many companies claim they can turn a kilo of collagen from discarded hoki skins into a fibre that could reach all the way to the Sun. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Corporation Establishes Center for Technology Transfer Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, RUSNANO, and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have jointly established Center for Technology Transfer (CTT). The project is implemented under a cooperation agreement between RUSNANO and RAS. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Corporation Invests in Major Preclinical Studies Center Near Moscow to Involve a Leading American CRO The Supervisory Council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) has approved the corporation’s participation in a project to create a center for preclinical studies. The project’s budget will total 1.6 billion rubles, from which RUSNANO will invest 228 million rubles in equity and extend a loan of 580 million rubles (19.3 million dollars). A project applicant, Investment Advisory Group (IAG), will contribute 52 million rubles in equity. A financial coinvestor will contribute 180 million rubles in equity and extend a loan of 19.3 million dollars. View Source June 3, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology for water purification Nanotechnology refers to a broad range of tools, techniques and applications that simply involve particles on the approximate size scale of a few to hundreds of nanometers in diameter. Particles of this size have some unique physicochemical and surface properties that lend themselves to novel uses. Indeed, advocates of nanotechnology suggest that this area of research could contribute to solutions for some of the major problems we face on the global scale such as ensuring a supply of safe drinking water for a growing population, as well as addressing issues in medicine, energy, and agriculture. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Manufacturing Company to Produce Enhanced Armor for DoD NanoRidge Materials, Inc., a Houston based nanotechnology manufacturing company has partnered with Riley Solutions, Inc. to manufacture and supply specialized nanotechnology enhanced armor for the Department of Defense. As part of the partnership, Riley Solutions, Inc. is moving their headquarters from North Carolina to Houston, Texas, resulting in NanoRidge Materials, Inc. expanding into a 55,000 sq. ft. facility in the Houston area and creating 300 new jobs for the region within the next three years. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Master program: The companies of Trentino rise to the call 13 companies will be hosting the student internships of the Master FSE, promoted jointly by the University and Fondazione Bruno Kessler. With "intelligent systems", a look beyond conventional technologies. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology materials poised for big impact in construction Bricks, blocks, and steel I-beams — step aside. A new genre of construction materials, made from stuff barely 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, is about to debut in the building of homes, offices, bridges, and other structures. And a new report is highlighting both the potential benefits of these nanomaterials in improving construction materials and the need for guidelines to regulate their use and disposal. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology methods allow to bust the mystery surrounding what happens when bubbles collide The mystery surrounding what happens when bubbles collide has finally been busted. And knowing how bubbles bounce apart and fuse together could improve the quality of ice-cream and champagne as well as increase efficiency in the mining industry. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology Professor Featured in The Journal of Chemical Physics Editors' Choice for 2009 The Editors at The Journal of Chemical Physics facilitate publication of the most innovative and influential articles in the field of Chemical Physics each year. In a recent edition, the Editors selected a few of the many notable JCP articles published in 2009 that present ground-breaking research and amongst them is a paper by LCN's Prof. John Finney. View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information Nanotechnology webinar series on regulatory issues Building on last year's popular webinars on the regulation of nanotechnology, Keller and Heckman & NanoReg are pleased to announce Nanotechnology Today 2010, a series of four new webinars designed to address important regulatory issues and the challenges associated with the safe development of nano-enhanced products. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information NanoTechnology.com The company's respected Scientific Advisory Board is composed of world-renowned scientists, and the Corporate Development Team lists the most, well-regarded professional practitioners. View Source   Provides Information NanoTecNexus announces collaboration with the Switzerland Trade and Investment Promotion NanoTecNexus (NTN) announces its collaboration with the Switzerland Trade & Investment Promotion organization as part of our International Alliance Initiative. "We are excited to partner with Swiss thought leaders in nanotech and clean technologies and help catalyze business and investment activities between Swiss and American companies and research institutions", said Adriana Vela, Founder and CEO, NanoTecNexus. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information NanoTest Engineer Celebrates 20 Years with Micro Materials This week NanoTest engineer Nick Pickford celebrates 20 years with Micro Materials Ltd. Nick became MML's first full-time employee on Jul 2nd 1990, hired by the then-owner and original developer of the NanoTest, Dr Jim Smith. Nick carried out his first NanoTest installation in Paris in 1991 and since then has travelled the world with MML, working with MML customers in all corners of the Americas, Asia and Europe. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information NASA telescope finds buckyballs in space Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time. Buckyballs are soccer-ball-shaped molecules that were first observed in a laboratory 25 years ago. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Replacement Mission to Launch in 2013 In February 2009, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a research spacecraft that crashed into the ocean shortly after launch. The project, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was designed to map the distribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere. In February 2013, NASA has announced, it will launch its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information National Nanotechnology Initiative at ten: Nanotechnology Innovation Summit The Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), in cooperation with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), announced today a National Nanotechnology Innovation Summit to mark the 10th anniversary of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to be held December 8-10, 2010 at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Navrotsky Presents Findings on Nanoparticles at Goldschmidt Conference Scientists who work at the atomic and molecular levels – nanoscale – have to think big. After all, it is at this level where everything happens. View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information Nearly as hard as steel: Aluminum with fullerenes Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes—soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms— to aluminum to obtain a new material that is roughly three times harder than conventional composites, yet weights much less. The lightweight yet strong aluminum could be used to improve the performance of compressors, turbochargers and engines. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Need Help Characterizing Proteins or Polymer Solutions, This Presentation May Help Dr Jean-Luc Brousseau from the separations systems team at Malvern Instruments has recorded a downloadable presentation that helps illustrate the importance of specific analytical details when characterizing protein or polymer solutions. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information New Agreement to Optimize Physical IP for TSMC's Advanced 28nm and 20nm Technologies ARM and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today jointly announced a long-term agreement that provides TSMC with access to a broad range of ARM processors and enables the development of ARM physical IP across TSMC technology nodes. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information New Applications of Carbon Nanotubes to Emerge in the Future Carbon nanotubes enable radical design changes for a wide variety of markets by permitting combinations of properties not previously possible in materials design and affording multi-functionality for increased efficiency. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information New architectures of nano-brushes developed Just as cilia lining the lungs help keep passages clear by moving particles along the tips of the tiny hair-structures, man-made miniscule bristles known as nano-brushes can help reduce friction along surfaces at the molecular level, among other things. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information New Book on Supramolecular Chemistry of Hybrid Nanomaterials Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "The Supramolecular Chemistry of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials" to their offering. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information New Capabilities Extend Ultrastable Atomic-Force Microscope Applications Scanning-probe microscopes (SPMs), major enabling tools underlying scientific discovery at nanometer length scales, are applied across a wide range of fields. These instruments—essentially sharp tips affixed to nanoscale robotic arms—have captured the imagination of scientists and the public alike in their ability to image and manipulate individual atoms and molecules. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information New Cold Field Emission Gun Enhances Ultrahigh Atomic Level Resolution of JEOL ARM200F Aberration-Corrected S/TEM JEOL USA is pleased to announce that a new Cold Field Emission Gun is now available for the atomic resolution analytical JEM-ARM200F Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The ARM200F, introduced in 2009, has set a new benchmark for advanced aberration-corrected S/TEM technology with the highest resolution commercially available in its class. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information New Consortium Encourages Companies to Adopt Versatile, Industry-Ready Nanoimprinting Technology A*STAR’s new Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint, or ICON, encourages companies to adopt versatile, industry-ready nanoimprinting technology that allows new chemical and additive-free products for the market. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information New Diffusion Measurement Package for the Olympus FluoView FV1000 Confocal Microscope Olympus has today introduced the new Diffusion Measurement module for Olympus ASW 2.1 software. Designed specifically for use with the Olympus FluoView FV1000 confocal microscope system for live cell imaging, this new software module provides users with the flexibility to undertake three different types of diffusion study: point fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; raster scan image correlation spectroscopy (RICS) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). As a result, the Diffusion Measurement Package is ideal for a broad range of cell biology and biophysics applications. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information New Downloadable Presentation on the Accuracy and Reproducibility of DLS Particle Sizing "What is the real accuracy and reproducibility of dynamic light scattering and the relevance for my applications?" is the question tackled by Biophysical Characterization Specialist Dr Ulf Nobbmann in a new downloadable presentation available via the Malvern Instruments website. View Source August 26, 2010 Provides Information New Edition Comprising Articles on Nanotechnology Applications Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Progress in Nanotechnology: Applications" to their offering. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information New EU-funded project to develop sustainable solutions for nanotechnology-based products based on hazard characterization The Nanosustain FP7 project commenced on 1st May 2010 followed by a kick-off meeting in Sweden. The project is funded for three years and has the objective of developing innovative solutions for the sustainable design, use, recycling, and final treatment of nanotechnology-based products. Although production of nanomaterials is rapidly increasing, our knowledge about possible health and environmental effects associated with these materials is still rather poor. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information New Family of Electron Microscopes Combines Ultra-High Resolution and Analytical Performance for the Widest Range of Materials FEI Company, a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, announced today the availability of its new Nova™ NanoSEM 50 Series of ultra-high resolution scanning electron microscopes. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information New Federal Law Signed to Reorganize RUSNANO President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has signed Federal Law On Reorganization of Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO). View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information New gas sensor chip paves the way to autonomous e-nose Imec and Holst Centre researchers have developed very sensitive integrated sensing elements for gas detection. The polymer-coated microbridges in high-density arrays can detect ppm-level concentrations of vapors using on-chip integrated read-out techniques. The demonstrated technology is very suitable for miniaturization of electronic nose devices thanks to the low power consumption (<1 µW/bridge) and small form factor. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information New HIPIMS research center to lead the global development of the physical vapour deposition process Sheffield Hallam University has established a HIPIMS Research Centre with German research institute Fraunhofer IST to lead the global development of the physical vapour deposition (PVD) process - which is revolutionising high tech industry by improving the quality of a wide range of applications from jet engines, through microelectronics to biomedical implants. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information New JEOL Correlative Microscope Makes U.S. Debut This August, JEOL USA will demonstrate the first correlative microscope to enable concurrent light microscopy and atmospheric scanning electron microscopy (ASEM) for observation of and experimentation on samples in their native state. The new JEOL ClairScope will make its debut in the United States at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) in Portland, Oregon August 2-5, 2010, just prior to installation at Northwestern University's Biological Imaging Facility where it will be used for demonstrations and applications development. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information New Microscope Captures Amazing Images of Animal Development To understand the complex stages of an embryo, you cannot simply watch it grow. However, it's difficult to accurately observe such fine, complex and high-speed details, even under the microscope. New technical feats now make it possible to capture fruit fly development on video, as well as clear images on how a zebrafish's eyes and midbrain are formed. The German-US team that perfected the method has presented its work in the Nature Methods journal. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information New model paves the way for the prediction of the properties of nanoparticle ensembles A team of scientists led by Eugenia Kumacheva of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto has discovered a way to predict the organization of nanoparticles in larger forms by treating them much the same as ensembles of molecules formed from standard chemical reactions. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information New Near-Infrared Spectrometer Has Spectral Response from 900-2200 nm Ocean Optics has expanded its offering of small-footprint near-infrared spectrometers with the introduction of NIRQuest512-2.2, a high-performance unit with response from 900-2200 nm. NIRQuest512-2.2 is ideal for applications ranging from moisture detection and chemical analysis to high-resolution laser and optical fiber characterization. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information New Open Access Journal on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience The Beilstein-Institut, a non-profit foundation, launches a scientific journal in the area of nanotechnology and nanoscience. The “Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology” is an Open Access Journal, which is globally available and publishes the latest research results and reviews. Publishing in this Journal is offered without any fees for authors and readers. View Source June 2, 2010 Provides Information New plasmonic nanoparticle technique can sense movement of single molecules over hours Scientists can detect the movements of single molecules by using fluorescent tags or by pulling them in delicate force measurements, but only for a few minutes. A new technique by Rice University researchers will allow them to track single molecules without modifying them -- and it works over longer timescales. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information New Research Report on Global Nanocoatings Market Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanocoatings: Global Market and Applications" report to their offering. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information New, simple technique enables large-scale production of graphene at room temperature Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene. The new technique works at room temperature, needs little processing, and paves the way for cost-effective mass production of graphene. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information New Software Increases Throughput and Ease-of-Use of Electron Microscopes for Biological Research FEI Company, a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, released today a set of software applications that increase the throughput and ease-of-use of its electron microscopes for biological research. The four software packages make electron microscopes more useful for life science researchers involved in structural, cellular and tissue biology as they build the full solution from sample to biological answer. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information New Sterling’s Derma Mist Fights Skin Disorders Using Nano Silver Particles An effective remedy for almost all types of skin disorders occurring today, Sterling’s Derma Mist Colloidal Silver comes in the form of a dispersion containing pico and nano silver particles that are suspended in water. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information New Technique to Form Liposome-Hydrogel Hybrid Nanoscale Vesicles People have been combining materials to bring forth the best properties of both ever since copper and tin were merged to start the Bronze Age. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information New UV ND Filters from Ophir-Spiricon Operate at 190 to 380nm Range Ophir-Spiricon, the global leader in precision laser measurement, today announced the UV ND Filter system, a family of modular, slide-in neutral density attenuators and a C-mount holder designed to attenuate UV laser beams so they are at the proper intensity for CCD or Pyroelectric cameras. The filters work on lasers in the 190 to 380nm range and cover, for example, Excimer, Helium Cadmium, and Nd:YAG UV harmonic wavelengths. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information New Videoconferencing Solution Utilizes CALIENT's MEMS-Based Photonic Switch CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic switching technology, today announced that it has partnered with Freeport Technologies, Inc. to deliver the industry's first video teleconference solution that can accommodate multiple government security domains without breeching network security. View Source August 11, 2010 Provides Information Newly released 'Nanomaterials in IUCLID 5.2' industry user manual The Nanomaterials in IUCLID 5.2 Industry User User Manual gives practical instruction to REACH registrants on how to include information on different forms of a substance in a IUCLID 5.2 dossier. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information NIH Honors Two Caltech Scientists for Innovative Biomedical Research Two scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their innovative and high-impact biomedical research programs View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information NIST nanoscale dimensioning technique wins R+D 100 award A radical, new method developed at NIST that transforms the humble, ubiquitous and inexpensive optical microscope into a powerful three-dimensional nanoscale and microscale measurement device has won one of this year's prestigious "R&D 100 Awards." The annual R&D 100 Awards program recognizes "the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the market" during the previous year, as selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Novartis Obtains Licenses to Develop And Commercialize Two Novel Nanobodies Ablynx announced today that Novartis has obtained licenses to further develop and commercialise Nanobodies against two complex targets. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Novel maskless e-beam technique a promising tool for engineering metallic nanostructures The manufacture of certain types of nanostructures – nanotubes, graphene, nanoparticles, etc. – has already entered industrial-scale mass production. However, the controlled fabrication of nanostructures with arbitrary shape and defined chemical composition is still a major challenge in nanotechnology applications. It appears that electron beams from electron microscopes (EM) – nowadays routinely focused down to the nanometer regime – are ideal candidates for versatile tools for nanotechnology. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information Novel microscopy technique for three-dimensional imaging of nanostructures wins ERC starting grant The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to the TERATOMO proposal presented by Rainer Hillenbrand. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Novel Technique to Grow Membranes of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information NPL Using Olympus LEXT OLS4000 to Develop Areal Surface Texture Measuring Standards Olympus has today announced that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is using its LEXT OLS4000 in a project to establish good practice guidelines for the calibration of 3D/areal surface texture measuring instruments. View Source July 5, 2010 Provides Information NT-MDT Invites SPM Users To Participate In Open Contest of Probe Images ProIMAGE Contest is a competition of images obtained with NT-MDT probes. The Contest is open to anyone over the age of 18, currently using SPM and being NT-MDT probes customer. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information NT-MDT Wins Prestigious Innovation Award for SOLVER NEXT AFM-SPM On May 27th 2010 the Federal Russian Competition "Russian Innovations" presented their awards. The Scanning Probe Microscope SOLVER NEXT manufactured by the global nanotech producer NT-MDT Co. won the Grand Prix of the competition. The main goal of the competition is to announce and promote new innovative products, systems and tools in Russia and worldwide. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information O Observing quantum particles in perfect order Ultracold atoms in optical lattices have evolved in the last years into an interdisciplinary tool for many-body solid state and quantum physics. But so far only limited possibilities were available to manipulate and to image the quantum gas on a microscopic scale. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Ocean Optics Spectroscopy Software Add-on Calculates PAR A new add-on module for Ocean Optics' SpectraSuite Spectrometer Operating Software allows users of the company's miniature spectrometers and Jaz optical sensing systems to calculate Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR), an important parameter for evaluating the effect of light on plant growth. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information OECD publishes Guidance Notes for the safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials This document aims to assist sponsors of the OECD Sponsorship Programme as well as others involved in the safety testing of manufactured nanomaterials, through providing general and common issues as well as specific considerations on sample preparation and dosimetry. The part of specific consideration includes: physical chemical properties; ecotoxicity studies; degradation, transformation and accumulation; health effects. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information OECD revises Guidance Manual for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials This is the first revision of the Guidance Manual for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials, first published in 2009, accompanied with Annex III (Data Sharing Template Format) and Annex IV (Alternative Test Methods). This document is intended to support the testing undertaken in the context of OECD's Sponsorship Programme and to ensure that the information collected from this testing programme be reliable, accurate and consistent. It was always envisaged that this would be a living document and will be updated/amended in an iterative manner. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Ohio Third Frontier Contributes to Nano Adaptive Hybrid Fabric Production Strategic investments made by Ohio Third Frontier have resulted in a thriving advanced materials industry cluster and are leading the way for technological breakthroughs that will help the state compete on a global level. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Olympus Features New Wafer Handler And All-in-one Microscope Olympus will be exhibiting two exciting new products designed for research, design and quality assurance applications in the microelectronics and solar industries at the SEMICON West and Intersolar North America exhibitions, being held concurrently at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from July 13-15. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Olympus’ LEXT OLS4000 Confocal Microscope Used for NPL Project Olympus has today announced that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is using its LEXT OLS4000 in a project to establish good practice guidelines for the calibration of 3D/areal surface texture measuring instruments. View Source July 6, 2010 Provides Information One-of-a-kind chemical formulation enables sub-50 nanometer process technology Nabil Mistkawi, a new Portland State University (PSU) chemistry graduate and full-time Intel employee, has invented a one-of-a-kind chemical formulation that enables sub-50 nanometer (nm) process technology for advanced microprocessors manufacturing. This novel and environmentally friendly chemical formulation saves Intel tens of millions of dollars annually. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information OSIRIS Project to increase competitiveness of Europeans in ICT IBBT announces that it is leading the project OSIRIS under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The €1.2M project brings together Public Authorities and National Champions across 13 EU Members States and Associated Countries and regions with direct links to existing and future ICT European Research Infrastructures (RIs). The target RIs are in High Performance Computing, Grids, Networks, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Future Internet. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information Owlstone Announces Japan Orders and Distribution Agreements Advance Nanotech, Inc. is pleased to report that Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. ("Owlstone") has announced the receipt of a new order for five development platform systems from a Japanese technology company, and has announced recent appointments of two Asian distributors for its products. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information Oxford Instruments Announces Collaboration with the University of Southampton Oxford Instruments Magnetic Resonance and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, are delighted to announce that they have just signed a research-based collaboration agreement. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Oxford Instruments Receives Orders from Two Prestigious Neutron Scattering Facilities Oxford Instruments has just received orders from two prestigious neutron scattering facilities: the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US Department of Energy facilities, and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). These orders are for two high field superconducting magnets using Oxford Instruments’ helium recondensing cryostat technology. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Owlstone Nanotech Chosen for R+D 100 Award Advance Nanotech, Inc. (OTCBB: AVNA) is pleased to learn that Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. ("Owlstone"), in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ("PNNL"), has been selected to receive an award from the R&D100 Magazine. The following email was sent to Owlstone shareholders today to provide further elaboration and perspective on this prestigious award. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information OWT Announces Licensing of Oxygenator Technology to Produce Nanobubbles Oxygenator Water Technologies (OWT), an innovator in environmentally-friendly water treatment, will exclusively license its ground-breaking water oxygenation technology for use in the cleaning and sanitization equipment industries. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information P P2i Acquires Surface Innovations P2i, a world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, has acquired 100 per cent of the share capital of Surface Innovations Ltd, a UK-based technology company with a wide range of functional nano-coating patents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition expands P2i's product portfolio beyond its market-leading technologies for liquid repellency, adding "functional" coating technologies with applications including anti-bacterial resistance, super wettable, and many others. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information P2i Raises Additional $8M to Support Rapid International Growth of Liquid Repellent Nanocoating Technology P2i, the world leader in liquid repellent nano-coating technology, has completed a £5.5m ($8m) fund raising to provide further working capital to support its rapid international growth. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Park Systems Launches New Website Park Systems, the AFM technology leader and preferred nanotechnology solutions partner, launched a brand new website this month. The website is an interactive, visitor-focused site. Many of the design features of the new website were made in direct response to the requests received from customers around the world. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Pennsylvania State University Orders Vistec Electron Beam Lithography System Vistec Lithography Inc., a world leader in electron beam lithography, announced a major order with the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, for one of Vistec’s EBPG5200 electron beam lithography systems. The instrument will become part of the National Science Foundation's National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network to support advanced nanotechnology research across the nation. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Phenom Pro Suite Generates Answers Not Just Images Phenom-World BV, producer of the Phenom desktop scanning electron microscope, announces the launch of a new software product, the Phenom Pro Suite. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Phenom-World BV and Struers A/S Announce Partnership Phenom-World BV and Struers A/S announce the start of a new partnership making Struers the exclusive distributor for the Phenom Desktop SEM (scanning electron microscope) in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information Photon etc. Introduces Its New Turn-key Resonant Raman Spectroscopy (RRS) System Photon etc., pioneer in Bragg based hyperspectral imaging, brings new possibilities to nanotechnologists with the introduction of a turn-key Resonant Raman Spectroscopy (RRS) System. View Source August 17, 2010 Provides Information Physicists develop model that pushes limits of quantum theory All of the matter in the universe—everything we see, feel and smell—has a certain predictable structure, thanks to the tiny electrons spinning around their atomic nuclei in a series of concentric shells or atomic levels. A fundamental tenet of this orderly structure is that no two electrons can occupy the same atomic level (quantum state) at the same time—a principle called the Pauli exclusion principle, which is based on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum theory. View Source August 3, 2010 Provides Information Physicists find clues to the origin and evolution of wrinkles in thin sheets As a sign of aging or in a suit, wrinkles are almost never welcome, but two papers in the current issue of Physical Review Letters ("Smooth Cascade of Wrinkles at the Edge of a Floating Elastic Film" and "Draping Films: A Wrinkle to Fold Transition") offer some perspective on what determines their size and shape in soft materials. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Physicists identify the transition from superfluid to Mott insulator Researchers studying a gas of trapped ultracold atoms have identified a set of conditions, never before observed but in excellent agreement with new theoretical predictions, that determine the onset of a critical "phase transition" in atomic arrays used to model the behavior of condensed-matter systems. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Picosun Opens Its II Global World Forum And Anounces Fourth Consecutive Profitable Year Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems today opened its II Global World Forum and announced having achieved its fourth consecutive profitable fiscal year from May 2009 to April 2010. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Picosun's Fiscal Q1 Orders Up By 400% Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems today announced a 400 % increase in new orders received during its fiscal Q1 (May to July 2010) on a year-on-year basis. View Source August 30, 2010 Provides Information Picosun's Order Books up 280 Percent Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems today opened its II Global World Forum and announced having achieved its fourth consecutive profitable fiscal year from May 2009 to April 2010. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Plunkett’s Research Report Analyzes Major Trends in Nanotech Industry Plunkett Research, Ltd. has released its newest market research and competitive analysis report, Plunkett’s Nanotechnology and MEMS Industry Almanac, 2010 edition, which identifies and analyzes major trends shaping the nanotech industry. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information Polymer passage takes time Polymer strands wriggle their way through nanometer-sized pores in a membrane to get from here to there and do their jobs. New theoretical research by Rice University scientists quantifies precisely how long the journey takes. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Postdoctoral research awards will recognize entrepreneurship excellence The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association have announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs who are working to commercialize research. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information Prediction markets to facilitate real-time science? Kaggle, a web platform for data prediction competitions, has just issued a press release that touts the usefulness of open prediction technology for data-heavy scientific problems. The platform allows researchers and organizations to post their problem and have it scrutinized by the world's best statisticians to predict the future (produce the best forecasts) or predict the past (find the best insights hiding in data). View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information Presentation on Next-Generation Lithography at Photomask Industry Event An all-day special session on a roadmap for maskless lithography R&D and a keynote presentation offering insights on how to be successful in the photomask industry will highlight the SPIE Photomask Technology symposium next month in Monterey, California. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information Princeton builds research ties with historically black universities As an early career scientist, Max Fontus wondered how successful researchers repeatedly make discoveries worth publishing. Collaborating with a Princeton engineering professor this summer, he realized that working with scientists from other fields of research results in a cross-pollination of ideas that lays the foundation for great progress in science. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Protochips Announces Poseidon, a Revolutionary In Situ Liquid Solution for Transmission Electron Microscope Protochips, a company specializing in revolutionary products for in situ electron microscopy, today announced the Poseidon™ solution for in situ characterization of materials in liquid directly within the transmission electron microscope (TEM). Poseidon™ allows scientists and engineers to image both materials and biological samples that are self-contained within a fully hydrated environment, effectively creating the native environment of a sample directly within the TEM. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Protochips Introduces New In Situ Solution for Electron Microscopes Protochips, a company specializing in revolutionary products for in situ electron microscopy, today announced the Poseidon™ solution for in situ characterization of materials in liquid directly within the transmission electron microscope (TEM). View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Public consultation on scientific basis for a definition of the term 'nanomaterial' The European Commission has requested the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) to provide advice on the essential elements of a science-based working definition of "nanomaterials" and, specifically, to identify the most appropriate metrics to define materials at nanoscale, taking into account reported size ranges and other relevant characteristics and corresponding metrics, characteristics, physico-chemical properties and thresholds. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Purdue Uses HP Performance-Optimized Data Center to Accelerate Research Projects HP today announced that Purdue University is using the container-based HP Performance-optimized Data Center : (POD) to expand and speed its ability to deliver research projects. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Q Quantum dot 'dark pulse laser' produces bursts of ... almost nothing In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new type of pulsed laser that excels at not producing light. The new device generates sustained streams of "dark pulses"—repeated dips in light intensity—which is the opposite of the bright bursts in a typical pulsed laser. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Quantum dynamics of matter waves reveal exotic multi-body collisions MPQ-LMU scientists demonstrate for the first time exotic multi-particle interactions between ultracold atoms in an artificial crystal of light. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in the most ubiquitous of phenomena, including photosynthesis, the process by which organisms convert light into chemical energy. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Quantum experiments in microgravity At the beginning of the 20th century two theories have been developed that have completely changed our understanding of the forces of nature: General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Whereas General Relativity applies to the classical world and in particular describes the large structures in the universe, Quantum Mechanics rules the behaviour of the particles of the microcosm. Up to now scientists have not succeeded to reconcile both theories, e.g. to extend General Relativity to quantum systems. View Source June 29, 2010 Provides Information Quantum fractals at the border of magnetism U.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week the unexpected discovery of a simple "scaling" behavior in the electronic excitations measured in a related material. The experiments, which were conducted on magnetic heavy-fermion metals, offer direct evidence of the large-scale electronic consequences of "quantum critical" effects. The experimental and theoretical results are reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by physicists at Rice University in Houston; the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, both in Dresden, Germany; and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Quantum networks advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as the first experimental demonstration of a means by which solid-state quantum bits, or "qubits," can communicate with one another over long distances. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Quantum simulations uncover hydrogen's phase transitions Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and is a major component of giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information QuantumSphere manufactures leading metallic nanopowders for breakthrough propellants, munitions and other energetic applications in the aerospace, defense, automotive, energy and other markets demanding advanced material applications. View Source   Provides a Service R Rainbow trapping in light pulses Over the past decade, scientists have succeeded in slowing pulses of light down to zero speed by letting separate frequency components of the pulse conspire in such a way that a receptive medium through which the pulse is passing can host the information stored in the pulse but not actually absorb the pulse's energy. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Rapid increase in the number of worldwide nanotechnology degree programs Going hand in hand with the rise of research funding and commercial investment into nanotechnology, universities and colleges around the world are increasing their degree offerings in this field. View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information Registration opens for inaugural Particle Summit Registration is now open for the inaugural Particle Summit, an exciting new event that provides a forum for users of particle characterization technology and equipment to learn more and to connect with one another. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information Reinventing iron production using clean renewable energy instead of coal Along with control of fire, iron smelting is one of the founding technological pillars of civilization. Industry has used the same basic process to make iron for over 3000 years. Yet, it is also one of the major global sources of greenhouse gas release. Iron, a basic commodity, is still produced by the greenhouse gas intensive reduction of iron oxide by carbon-coke and currently accounts for the release of one quarter of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions by industry View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information Rensselaer appoints cyberinfrastructure expert James Myers to lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations James Myers, who currently serves as associate director for cyberenvironments at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, has been selected by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at Rensselaer. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information Replicating a sticky situation in nature Inspired by the ease with which gecko lizards can move on almost any surface, researchers at Northeastern University, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and Seoul National University hope to reproduce properties found in the gecko's footpad for applications ranging from adhesives to robotic movement and navigation. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Research on multifunctional optical nanocomposite coatings wins award R&D Magazine has named Lockheed Martin and Sandia National Laboratories' research on multifunctional optical coatings as one of the 100 greatest technologies introduced this year. The technology was developed as part of the Shared Vision cooperative program that fosters collaboration among top scientists and funds research in key technologies for both organizations. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Researchers capture the 'evolution' of nanoparticles as they remove contaminants in water Iron nanoparticles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to clean contaminated groundwater since they were invented 10 years ago at Lehigh. View Source June 18, 2010 Provides Information Researchers create 'quantum cats' made of light Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created "quantum cats" made of photons (particles of light), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on quantum physics. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Develop Mechanism Enabling Metallic Glasses to Become Ductile Under Tensile Loading Metallic glasses are -just as other types of glasses- brittle materials. This property sets a limit to the possibilities of their technical use. Researchers have now developed a mechanism that enables metallic glasses to become ductile under tensile loading. View Source June 25, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Explain Beading Mechanism of Saliva and Other Complex Fluids Researchers at Rice University, Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have solved a long-standing mystery about why some fluids containing polymers -- including saliva -- form beads when they are stretched and others do not. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Explore New Applications for Nanometallic Structures Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded Professors Mark L. Brongersma of Stanford University and Stefan A. Maier of Imperial College London are investigating new applications for terahertz sensors. View Source June 3, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Invent New Flexible, Lightweight, Impact-Resistant Composite Material Not quite body armour made out of cornstarch but scientists from Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the National University of Singapore have used the same scientific principles to invent a new made-in-Singapore lightweight, flexible, and simple to make composite material capable of dissipating high impact energy. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Observes Unexpectedly Small Proton Radius in a Precision Experiment International team of researchers observes unexpectedly small proton radius in a precision laser experiment with exotic hydrogen atoms. View Source July 9, 2010 Provides Information Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons Electrons are negatively charged elementary particles. They form the shells around atoms and ions. This or something similar is what you will find in text books. Soon, however, this information may have to be supplemented. The reason is that many physicists believe that electrons have a permanent electric dipole moment. An electric dipole moment is usually created when positive and negative charges are spatially separated. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Simulate Frustration in Quantum System For most people, frustration is a condition to be avoided. But for scientists studying certain "frustrated" ensembles of interacting components – that is, those which cannot settle into a state that minimizes each interaction – it may be the key to understanding a host of puzzling phenomena that affect systems from neural networks and social structures to protein folding and magnetism. View Source June 3, 2010 Provides Information Researchers successfully replicate nature's design principles to create customized nanofabrics In Nature, cells and tissues assemble and organize themselves within a matrix of protein fibers that ultimately determines their structure and function, such as the elasticity of skin and the contractility of heart tissue. These natural design principles have now been successfully replicated in the lab by bioengineers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University. View Source June 2, 2010 Provides Information Researchers take a look inside molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope For their look into the nanoworld, the Jülich researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope. Its thin metal tip scans the specimen surface like the needle of a record player and registers the atomic irregularies and differences of approximately one nanometre (a billionth of a millimetre) with minuscule electric currents. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Use Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Emulsions New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information Researchers Use Beam-Pen Lithography to Pattern 15,000 Identical Skylines A Northwestern University research team has done just that -- drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication technology called beam-pen lithography (BPL). View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Researchers use small crystal of ions to detect forces at the yoctonewton scale Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces—one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth—can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale science, and tests of fundamental physics theories. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information Roadmap published on 'Nanomaterials in Polymer Applications for the Transport Industry' Materials KTN, supported by industry and academia held a roadmapping event on the use of nanomaterials in the transport sector. The objective was to determine the gaps in participants knowledge and ability, with a view to possibly providing SPARK Awards to help companies become more competitive. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Roenalytic Announces New XRF Service Representative for North America In the process of re-introducing its line of x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers to the North American market, Roenalytic GmbH announces Eastern Applied Research Inc as its Exclusive Service and Support Representative. By teaming with the well respected service provider, Roenalytic can immediately offer the attentive response that users' demand and strengthens the global position of the XRF development and manufacturing company. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Rudolph Enhances Clients’ Wafer Test Performance by Adding New Capability to VX4 Platform Rudolph Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of process characterization equipment and software for wafer fabs and advanced packaging facilities, announced today the availability of direct-dock probe card capability for its PrecisionWoRx® VX4 probe card test and analysis tool. The VX4 inspects and repairs the delicate probe tips that contact the electrical device during testing. View Source June 8, 2010 Provides Information Russian Nanotechnology Corp. and Russian Academy of Sciences Establish Technology Transfer Center Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, RUSNANO, and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have jointly established Center for Technology Transfer (CTT). The project is implemented under a cooperation agreement between RUSNANO and RAS. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Russian Nnaotechnology Corporation Completes Registration Process for Swiss Investment Management Company The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, RUSNANO, announces the completion of its incorporation and registration procedure for the investment management company RUSNANO Capital AG. RUSNANO Capital AG will be involved in attracting global investors for financing promising Russian innovative projects as well as investing in existing Western innovative technologies with the aim of implementing them in Russia. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information RTI International to develop nanomaterials registry Scientists at RTI International will develop a registry for nanomaterials as part of a new contract from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information S Safe Work Australia publishes reports on methods to reduce the risk of exposure to nanomaterials Safe Work Australia commissioned RMIT to undertake a survey of the current substitution/modification practices used in Australian nanotechnology-related activities and a literature review in order to determine the potential substitution/modification options that may reduce the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials used in Australia. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Scalable Smart Reserve Cell Technology Positioned for Congressional Appropriation in Fiscal Year 2011 mPhase Technologies, Inc. announced today that scalable smart reserve cell technologies is one of the items included in the Fiscal Year 2011 Defense Appropriations bill that was recently passed out of subcommittee in the United States House of Representatives. It is listed to receive funding in the amount of $2,500,000. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information Scientists achieve highest-resolution MRI of a nanomagnet In a development that holds potential for both data storage and biomedical imaging, Ohio State University researchers have used a new technique to obtain the highest-ever resolution MRI scan of the inside of a magnet. View Source August 11, 2010 Provides Information Scientists construct molecular knots with dimensions of 2 nanometers Scientists at the University of Liverpool have constructed molecular 'knots' with dimensions of around two nanometer – around 30,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Scientists Discover That Nanoparticles Create Sputter Deposition Problems When you tear open a bag of potato chips or pop in a DVD, you're probably putting your hand on sputter deposition. No, don't run for the soap. View Source August 26, 2010 Provides Information Scientists Demonstrate Toxicity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Scientists at Purdue University, United States, have demonstrated that one class of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) produces cell-damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) when dispersed in water and exposed to sunlight. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information Scientists find unusual electrons that go with the flow On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists has found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles of imperfect microsurfaces, sometimes moving straight through barriers. View Source July 14, 2010 Provides Information Scientists glimpse the motion of electrons in molecules Physicists in Europe have successfully glimpsed the motion of electrons in molecules. The results are a major boon for the research world. Knowing how electrons move within molecules will facilitate observations and fuel our understanding of chemical reactions. Presented in the journal Nature, the study is supported via three EU-funded projects, which received a total of EUR 14.4 million in financial support from the EU. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Scientists provide a new angle on quantum cryptography An ultra-secure form of coded communication could be given a boost, thanks to scientists from the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Rochester (USA). View Source August 6, 2010 Provides Information Scientists Study Effects of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Beam on Nitrogen Gas Scientists for the first time have dived into the effect that an intense X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has on materials. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information Scientists Use Flexible Plastic Sheets to Create Large-Area Nanoscale Patterns The magical world of Shrinky Dinks -- an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s -- has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information Scientists watch a chemical bond break using molecule's electrons Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) enjoyed a bird's eye view of a chemical bond as it breaks. The making and breaking of chemical bonds underlie the biochemical processes of life itself. A greater understanding of the quantum processes that lead to chemical reactions may lead to new strategies in the design and control of molecules — ultimately leading to scientific breakthroughs in health care and diagnostic medicine, quantum computing, nanotechnology, environmental science and energy. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Search for the bridge to the quantum world Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to make sense of it. A team of Arizona State University researchers, however, believe they've opened a door to a clearer view of how the common, everyday world we experience through our senses emerges from the ethereal quantum world. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information SEMATECH achieves submicron 3D IC bond alignment results Researchers from SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect program based at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex have reported advances in wafer-to-wafer bonding alignment accuracies through a series of tool and process hardening improvements. At the same time, the SEMATECH team has explored unique 3D metrology and failure analysis techniques to complement bonding tool development. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Seven Singapore nanotechnology companies give debut appearance at Nanotech 2010 Touted as the key to unlocking a new generation of materials and devices with revolutionary properties and functionalities, nanotechnology has already seen widespread commercial success in industries ranging from the medical and electronics sectors, to communications and defence. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information Shape Memory Alloy Composition Discovered Using Thin Film Material Libraries A new shape memory alloy with up to now unprecedented functional stability was developed by researchers from the Institute for Materials at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in cooperation with researchers from the USA and Japan. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information ShengdaTech, Inc. Announces Asphalt Program Progress ShengdaTech, Inc., the leading manufacturer of nano-precipitated calcium carbonate ("NPCC") in China, today provided an update on its asphalt program. The Company has established business relationships with more than ten potential asphalt customers, and recently received favorable test feedback from potential customers on its NPCC product for the large modified-asphalt market. These positive results are due to ShengdaTech's determined efforts over the program. The Company has been developing potential customers and expects to succeed in attaining commercial orders. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information Shrink Nanotechnologies Enters into Technology Integration and Development Agreement With Lydall, Inc. for Solupore Plastic Membrane Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink"), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it has entered into a technology integration and development agreement with Lydall, Inc. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information SIA Appoints Toohey as New President Brian C. Toohey took office today as president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Toohey, 42, succeeds George Scalise, who has led the association since 1997. SIA is the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry, America’s number-one export industry over the past five years. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information SII NanoTechnology Launches a Website with X-ray and XRF Product Solutions SII NanoTechnology USA Inc. (SIINT) will be debuting a redesigned company website, www.SIINTUSA.com, to assist current and potential customers in choosing the best X-ray detector and spectrometric systems for their companies. The website redesign will enhance the user experience while incorporating more information on X-ray and XRF solutions as well as a blog. View Source July 30, 2010 Provides Information Silicon can be made to melt in reverse Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt — that is, change from a solid to a liquid state — as they get warmer. But a few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler. Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silicon, the most widely used material for computer chips and solar cells, can exhibit this strange property of "retrograde melting" when it contains high concentrations of certain metals dissolved in it. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Silicon microring resonator could help advance nanomanipulation To trap and hold tiny microparticles, engineers at Harvard have "put a ring on it," using a silicon-based circular resonator to confine particles stably for up to several minutes. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Simple way to separate nano-pollutants We live in the age of dynamic development of various nanotechnologies. A side effect of their popularisation is the fact that more and more nanometric structures get into the environment. Many of these structures are very dangerous for man. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Simulation-based matchmaking for shape memory alloys A new shape memory alloy with up to now unprecedented functional stability was developed by researchers from the Institute for Materials at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in cooperation with researchers from the USA and Japan. Based on a theoretical prediction, they used combinatorial materials science methods, i.e. so-called materials libraries, for a targeted search of optimized alloy compositions. The result consists of four components: titanium, nickel, copper and palladium. From the new material, the researchers expect a stable shape memory effect and improved lifetime, e.g. for applications in medical devices such as stents. View Source July 1, 2010 Provides Information SMTC Teams Up with Microscope Provider FEI SMTC Corporation, a global electronics manufacturing services provider, announced today a strategic relationship with FEI Company. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Software Release from FEI Opens New Territory for Electron Microscopy in Life Sciences FEI Company, a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, released today a set of software applications that increase the throughput and ease-of-use of its electron microscopes for biological research. The four software packages make electron microscopes more useful for life science researchers involved in structural, cellular and tissue biology as they build the full solution from sample to biological answer. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information SolRayo Utilizes NSF Grant to Develop New Nanomaterials for Commercial Use Enable IPC Corporation announced today that its subsidiary, SolRayo, has commenced work on its recently awarded STTR grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) SBIR/STTR Program. The work will continue through June 30, 2011 and is being performed under the guidance of SolRayo's Director of Battery R&D, Dr. Walter Zeltner and in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin. SolRayo is developing new nanoparticle-based materials for commercial use in various renewable energy, industrial, consumer and automotive applications. View Source July 13, 2010 Provides Information Solvay to Develop PEEK Products Using Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Compounds Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC is partnering with Entegris Inc.’s TEGO™ Polymers unit to develop and market advanced carbon nanotube-enhanced PEEK products suited for a range of emerging applications in the medical, aerospace, automotive, and oil and gas industries. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Sosei to Acquire Nano-Particle Technology Developer in Japan Sosei Group Corporation, announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Activus Pharma Ltd. ("Activus"), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company based in Chiba, Japan. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information SouthWest NanoTechnologies Carbon Nanotubes Being Used in Enhanced Body Armor SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. the leading manufacturer of single-wall and Specialty Multi-Wall carbon nanotubes is manufacturing specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes for NanoRidge Materials, Inc. These CNTs are being incorporated into enhanced body armor to improve protection of soldiers and law enforcement officers from small arms fire. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information SouthWest NanoTechnologies CEO Speaking at New England Nanomanufacturing Summit CEO of SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT) Dave Arthur will be speaking at the New England Nanomanufacturing Summit 2010 about "The Commercialization of Carbon Nanotube Materials for Coatings and Composites". View Source June 17, 2010 Provides Information sp3 Diamond Technologies Launches New Dual-Chamber CVD Diamond Deposition Reactor sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of diamond products, equipment and services, today introduced its newest hot-filament chemical vapor deposition diamond reactor, the Model 665. The new dual-chamber system can accommodate up to eighteen 100 mm-diameter substrates at a time, representing a 100 percent increase in deposition area over the company's single chamber model. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Spheric Technologies' High-Temperature Continuous Production Microwave Furnace Now Operating at Alfred University NanoMaterials Innovation Center The Western Hemisphere's first high-temperature (1500 degrees C) continuous production microwave furnace is now fully functional at New York's NanoMaterials Innovation Center (NMIC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alfred Technology Resources, Inc. (ATRI), near the campus of Alfred University. The announcement came from Spheric Technologies, Inc., the Arizona company that sold the SPHERIC/SYNO-THERM system and that has been providing assistance with set-up, training and beta testing. View Source August 23, 2010 Provides Information Spin ice used to examine exotic properties of magnetic systems Spin ice can be used to examine exotic properties of magnetic systems. Surprising observations have been made by physicists working with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel at the Ruhr-Universität, using magnetic islands only micrometres in size that are placed on a periodic lattice with honeycomb symmetry. When a magnetic field is applied, the system selects an unexpectedly ordered state, hazarding the consequences of having the like poles of the magnets (all south or all north) close together which is energetically unfavourable. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information Stakeholder preferences in regulating nanotechnology How to regulate nanotechnology and the application of nanomaterials has been quite a controversial issue in recent years. A good example of opposing positions could be found in last year's comprehensive review of existing legislation on nanotechnology, conducted by the FramingNano project. This report documents variations in governance structures across the world and disagreement over whether voluntary codes of conduct will be enough to regulate nanomaterials. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information Startup uses lasers to produce pure nanoparticles -A new nanotechnology startup, Particular GmbH claims to be the first company to commercialize a novel laser-based process for the production of highly pure nanoparticles. The company's process technology was developed at Laser Zentrum Hannover e. V. (LZH) and took five years, according to company CEO, Niko Bärsch. He said that Particular's nanoparticles will make it easier to take advantage of nanotechnology in many areas, especially in the field of medical technology. View Source July 6, 2010 Provides Information State-of-the-art nanotechnology overview course at Rice Fans of nanotechnology can hear about the latest research from the source through a course offered this fall by Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. View Source August 12, 2010 Provides Information Stevens Researchers Receive Significant NSF Funding for Nanotechnology Research Dr. Woo Young Lee of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science department along with Dr. Hongjun Wang of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology have recently received significant NSF funding for their research entitled, "Evaporative Assembly of Drug-Eluting Bioresorbable Nanocomposite Micropatterns." View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Stretching single molecules allows precision studies of interacting electrons With controlled stretching of molecules, Cornell researchers have demonstrated that single-molecule devices can serve as powerful new tools for fundamental science experiments. Their work has resulted in detailed tests of long-existing theories on how electrons interact at the nanoscale. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Study on Nanotechnology Application in Textile Industry Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Nanotechnology in Textiles" report to their offering. View Source August 20, 2010 Provides Information Study on Quantum Processes Lead to Scientific Breakthrough Scientists at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) enjoyed a bird's eye view of a chemical bond as it breaks. View Source July 29, 2010 Provides Information Study on Quantum-to-Classical World Transition Darwinian concept of natural selection figures into theory about the core of physical reality View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information Submarines could use new nanotube technology for sonar and stealth Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise -- properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies. That's the topic of a report on these "nanotube speakers," which appears in ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information SUNY Research Foundation tech transfer hubs take shape across New York State The State University of New York (SUNY), in partnership with The Research Foundation of SUNY and SUNY campuses statewide, has launched five regional "Technology Transfer" hubs across the SUNY research enterprise as part of a novel effort to spur new high-tech business opportunities and stimulate economic growth across New York State. The move is in direct alignment with the SUNY Strategic Plan to build the Entrepreneurial Century. View Source August 12, 2010 Provides Information Supercomputer provides new insights into the vibrations of water Liquid water, as well as other liquids, exhibits characteristic vibrations upon excitation with electromagnetic waves over a wide spectral range. At frequencies which correspond to infrared light, vibrational motions within single molecules can be observed. View Source June 23, 2010 Provides Information Superlens lithography for nanofabrication With the advance of nanotechnology-based techniques and applications on the rise, developing low-cost and high-throughput nanofabrication techniques have become a key issue for moving these applications from the lab to an industrial production environment. For instance, a low-cost and parallel nano-processing technique for producing large areas of periodic uniform nanoholes and nanopillars would greatly benefit their wide applications in areas such as photonic devices, surface plasmonics, solar cells, fuel cells, or data storage. View Source August 16, 2010 Provides Information Surrey NanoSystems Sets a New Benchmark for the Production of Nanomaterials Today, Surrey NanoSystems sets a new benchmark for the production of nanomaterials with the launch of an automated and exceptionally versatile growth platform, NanoGrowth-Catalyst. Incorporating nine advanced nanomaterial processing techniques, the platform can synthesise an exceptional variety of nanomaterials including graphene, nanowires and carbon nanotubes. View Source July 6, 2010 Provides Information SWeNT Carbon Nanotubes Know Offered By Sigma-Aldrich SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), a leader in high quality, single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs), announces that Sigma-Aldrich® Materials Science is expanding its offering of SWeNT® Nanotubes. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information T Taking aim at a slippery target When molecules take the plunge into a liquid solvent, they undergo constant twists and turns as they spread out and interact within their new environment. Such haphazard movements in solvents make it difficult for scientists to measure specific reactivity changes. "Especially for liquids and solutions, it is not known how intermolecular interactions affect the electronic structure of the reactants, despite this being one of the key physical processes of chemistry," says Takashi Tokushima from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima. View Source August 27, 2010 Provides Information Teachers and Students Share Nanotechnology Knowledge at 2010 Shanghai Expo Victorian students more than 8000 kilometres apart today chatted live to celebrate the opening of the Connections 2010 classroom exhibit at the World Expo in Shanghai, China. View Source August 30, 2010 Provides Information Tekes and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai renew nanotechnology cooperation Tekes and the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai renewed the cooperation agreement for an additional five years. The Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai (STCSM) is in charge of the city's scientific and technological administration and also handles funding for research and development. View Source June 10, 2010 Provides Information Tegal to Supply 200 SE DRIE Tool to MEMS Research Institution in Asia Pacific Tegal Corporation, an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, today announced it has received an order for a Tegal 200 SE™ DRIE tool from a leading Asia Pacific-based Research and Development institution investigating MEMS and associated technologies. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Thai foundation honors outstanding scientists Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King today recognize and honor 8 Thai scientists with outstanding achievements in scientific research for 2010. The scientists will receive their awards from HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on August 9 at a Royal Presentation Ceremony to be held at BITEC International Trade and Exhibition Center. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Thailand builds capabilities in nanotechnology research Thailand's National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), National Institute of Metrology (NIMT) and Ministry of Science and Technology have announced that they would form the country's first research collaboration to build Thailand's capabilities in providing quality infrastructure in areas related to nano-scale measurement, calibration, and nanometrology. View Source June 22, 2010 Provides Information The Crystal Structure of Ribose Finally Revealed D-Ribose is just a small molecule – but an extremely important one for us life forms. It is astounding that the crystal structure of ribose is not included among the over 500,000 structures that have been solved. After all, ribose is a fundamental building block of ribosomes, the “protein factories” of cells. A Nobel Prize was awarded in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of ribosomes. View Source July 8, 2010 Provides Information The first fullerene organic metal Since their discovery in the mid 1980s, fullerenes have caused a sensation. The tiny hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms, constructed out of pentagons and hexagons like miniature soccer balls, have unusual physical properties. In the meantime, a variety of fullerene-containing materials have been developed. View Source June 9, 2010 Provides Information The future of microtechnology is green in Japan, too The third German-Japanese Micro/Nano Business Forum at the Exhibition Micromachine last Thursday in Tokyo attracted more than 300 Japanese industry representatives. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information The nano world of Shrinky Dinks The magical world of Shrinky Dinks -- an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s -- has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is using the flexible plastic sheets as the backbone of a new inexpensive way to create, test and mass-produce large-area patterns on the nanoscale. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information The power of nanotechnology: Manufacturing Digital focuses on the nanoscale As a pioneering digital media site that influences key decision-makers in its industry, Manufacturing Digital announces that its July issue is now live. Manufacturing Digital continues to deliver a superior product with quality and functionality at the core of each edition. View Source July 5, 2010 Provides Information The proton - smaller than thought Big problems sometimes come in small packages. The problem with which physicists must now concern themselves measures a mere 0.0350 millionth of a millionth of a millimetre. This is precisely the difference between the new, smaller, dimension of the proton, the nucleus of the hydrogen atom, and the value which has been assumed so far. Instead of 0.8768 femtometres it measures only 0.8418 femtometres. View Source July 12, 2010 Provides Information The World's First Diamond Nanoprobe Tips Demonstrate Success in Nanomanufacturing Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the University of Pennsylvania have published groundbreaking work in the May 2010 issue of the journal ACS Nano demonstrating that nanometer-scale diamond tips exhibit unparalleled stability and anti-fouling capabilities under extremely harsh conditions. View Source June 16, 2010 Provides Information Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring Robotic cars attracted attention last decade with a 100-mile driverless race across the desert competing for a $1 million prize put up by the U.S. government. View Source July 2, 2010 Provides Information Thermo Fisher to Introduce Enhanced LC, MS Workflow for Immunosuppressant Analysis Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will highlight its innovative offering of products and services for clinical research and specialty diagnostics during the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo held in Anaheim, California, July 25 - 29, 2010. View Source July 28, 2010 Provides Information Tiny rulers to measure nanoscale structures With the advent of nanometer-sized machines, there is considerable demand for stable, precise tools to measure absolute distances and distance changes. One way to do this is with a plasmon ruler. In physics jargon, a "plasmon" is the quasiparticle resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillation; it's essentially the collective oscillations of the free electron gas at a metallic surface, often at optical frequencies. View Source August 31, 2010 Provides Information Toward a new generation of superplastics Scientists are reporting an in-depth validation of the discovery of the world's first mass producible, low-cost, organoclays for plastics. The powdered material, made from natural clay, would be a safer, more environmentally friendly replacement for the compound widely used to make plastics nanocomposites. View Source July 21, 2010 Provides Information Two Dimensional Nanostructures Emerge Through Self-organisation An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing nanocrystals that build conductive two-dimensional nanostructures trough self-organisation View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information Two innovative LMU projects in physics receive EU funding Two junior researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich have been awarded prestigious Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Dieter Braun and Professor Philip Tinnefeld, both members of the Faculty of Physics, will each receive research funding in the amount of some 1.5 million Euros over the next five years. ERC Starting Grants are specifically designed to fund the work of outstandingly creative researchers in the early phases of their careers. View Source August 5, 2010 Provides Information Tyndall CEO welcomes report on the commercialisation of nanotechnology in Ireland Professor Roger Whatmore, CEO of Tyndall National Institute welcomed today the Forf s report on Ireland s Nanotechnology Commercialisation Framework 2010-2014. Speaking at the launch of the report, Professor Whatmore commended the Forf s report on its recognition of the importance of Nanotechnology as a powerful growth engine for the Irish economy. View Source September 1, 2010 Provides Information U UAlbany NanoCollege and New Energy New York present the Fifth Annual New Energy Symposium More than 300 attendees, including leading executives from the energy industry, state and federal government officials, venture capitalists and university researchers, will gather to promote the growth of clean energy and environmentally friendly technologies at the fifth annual New Energy Symposium, to be presented on August 9 and 10 by New Energy New York ("NENY") and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's ("CNSE") Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center ("E2TAC"). View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information UC Irvine’s Continuing Education Arm Announces Two New Certificate Programs The University of California, Irvine Extension, the continuing education arm of UC Irvine, today announced the availability of two new certificate programs designed for engineering professionals: Optical Engineering and Optical Instrument Design. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information UK nanotech centres may be axed, says science minister Britain's 24 nanotechnology centres could be among the casualties of cuts to the UK science budget, science minister David Willetts has said. View Source July 23, 2010 Provides Information Ultra-Precise Nano-Optical Systems for Space Metal mirrors made with extremely high precision and exactly positioned are the key elements of modern telescopes. A new production technique enables complex optical surfaces to be manufactured with excellent trueness of shape and hitherto unattained positional accuracy. The mirrors have been built for an infrared sounder telescope. View Source June 1, 2010 Provides Information Ultrashort X-Ray Pulses Produce Low Charge States in Nitrogen Molecules High-charge-state ions in a molecule cause strong Coulomb forces, repulsive forces that try to blow its atoms apart. But the research team's crucial finding was that a way to produce only lower charge states in nitrogen molecules is with shorter pulse lengths, even though their peak power is higher. View Source June 28, 2010 Provides Information Ultra-Strong Interaction Between Light and Matter Realized Researchers around the world are working on the development of quantum computers that will be vastly superior to present-day computers. Here, the strong coupling of quantum bits with light quanta plays a pivotal role. Professor Rudolf Gross, a physicist at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), and his team of researchers have now realized an extremely strong interaction between light and matter that may represent a first step in this direction. The results of their research are presented in the current online issue of the journal Nature Physics. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information University of Houston Professors Honored for Contributions to Chemistry Two University of Houston (UH) chemistry professors received one of their field's highest honors for career achievements, joining an elite group that includes some of the nation's leading chemists. View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information University of Montreal Student Receives NSERC Award for Research on Carbon NanotubesUniversity of Montreal Student Receives NSERC Award for Research on Carbon Nanotubes The University of Montreal has excelled at the 2010 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Awards. Three University of Montreal researchers won major prizes, including the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, which is the country's highest scientific honour. Professor Gilles Brassard, inventor of quantum cryptography and founder of quantum information science in Canada of international renown, received the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal that comes with a $1 million grant for university-based research. View Source June 2, 2010 Provides Information University of Oxford announces bursaries available for its Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology The University of Oxford is pleased to announce that there are a limited number of bursaries available for the Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology. The Postgraduate Certificate is a unique part-time, online course for those seeking a thorough introduction to the subject. View Source July 26, 2010 Provides Information University Poster Exhibition - Call for abstracts - Technology World in partnership with UK Nanoforum Technology World in partnership with UK NanoForum will bring over 350 senior international delegates together with the best of the UK's Science & Technology community. With a focus on trade, investment and collaborations, this will be a networking forum for industry, academia, technology purchasers and those seeking to develop joint ventures and future partnerships. View Source August 19, 2010 Provides Information UNL Researchers Secure $1.3 Million Grant to Purchase New Microscope Materials science and nanotechnology researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting some much-needed equipment that will help enhance and expedite their studies. View Source July 19, 2010 Provides Information Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one—in some cases creating hollow atoms. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Unprecedented look at oxide interfaces reveals unexpected structures on atomic scale Thin layers of oxide materials and their interfaces have been observed in atomic resolution during growth for the first time by researchers at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, providing new insight into the complicated link between their structure and properties. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information U.S. Patent Awarded to Marina Biotech for Amphoteric Liposomes Marina Biotech, Inc., a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued patent U.S. 7,780,983 covering processes for preparing amphoteric liposomes or SMARTICLES®. View Source August 25, 2010 Provides Information Using a unique hybrid nanostructure, researchers show a new type of light-matter interaction Using a unique hybrid nanostructure, University of Maryland researchers have shown a new type of light-matter interaction and also demonstrated the first full quantum control of qubit spin within very tiny colloidal nanostructures (a few nanometers), thus taking a key step forward in efforts to create a quantum computer. View Source June 30, 2010 Provides Information Using nanotechnology to unlock a fountain of bull Here is a perfect example of how someone, who apparently doesn't understand or care much about the science, writes a sensational press release hyping nanotechnology by cherry-picking information and distorting issues. And all that to sell a product that doesn't even have to do with nanotechnology. View Source July 15, 2010 Provides Information UT Austin's nanoscience building named after president emeritus The University of Texas at Austin's nanoscience building has been named the Larry R. Faulkner Nano Science and Technology Building by the UT System Board of Regents in recognition of former President Faulkner's leadership in bringing the university's nanotechnology program to national prominence. View Source August 13, 2010 Provides Information V Veeco Introduces AFM-Raman Systems for Physical and Life Sciences Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of atomic force microscopy technology to the nanoscience community, announced today the release of the IRIS™ models for Innova® and BioScope™ Catalyst™ Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) to provide superior integration and accessibility for combined atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy research. The new systems feature proprietary AFM performance and ease-of-use innovations that allow researchers to generate advanced AFM data simply and routinely, regardless of user skill level. View Source July 7, 2010 Provides Information Veeco Receives Order from Neo-Neon Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd., a leading lighting company listed on the Hong Kong exchanges, has ordered its first Veeco TurboDisc® K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system to support its LED manufacturing capacity ramp at its JiangMen, China factory. Veeco received the order during the recently completed second quarter. View Source July 16, 2010 Provides Information Veeco Receives Order from One of the Largest LED Manufacturers in China Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that during the recently completed second quarter, Shanghai Epilight Technology Company Ltd., one of the largest LED manufacturers in China, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco TurboDisc® K465i™ Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems. The equipment is for Epilight's planned capacity expansion at their Shanghai high-brightness light emitting diode (HB-LED) fab. View Source July 22, 2010 Provides Information Vertical Lift Stage Offers 2 nm Resolution While Providing up to 5 mm of Travel Aerotech's ANT130-5-V is a linear-motor-driven wedge-style vertical lift stage that provides the exceptional resolution, accuracy, and in-position stability required in nanopositioning applications, all while offering travel up to 5 mm. It is a precision stage that is perfectly at home in industrial applications. The ANT130-5-V was designed for stand-alone use or can be seamlessly integrated with other stages in the Aerotech ANT stage family for a superior multi-axis nanopositioning system. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information Viscosity at the nanoscale: 50-year-old intriguing puzzle solved At a snail's pace - this is how proteins should move inside living cells where viscosity of environment exceeds the viscosity of water even by million times. However, proteins move not much slower than in water! While looking for a solution to this puzzle, scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the PolishAcademy of Sciences discovered a new principle of physics. View Source June 25, 2010 Provides Information Visiting professor and students conduct nanotechnology research at Argonne National Laboratory Associate Professor Dr. Linda de la Garza and two of her students spent 10 weeks this summer conducting research at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) located just outside Chicago, Ill. View Source August 24, 2010 Provides Information Vive Nano Receives 2010 Frost + Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation Based on its recent analysis of the nanomaterial encapsulation technology market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Vive Nano with the 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for a unique encapsulation technology to synthesize nanoparticles. View Source June 21, 2010 Provides Information W 'Water from Neptun' soon in laboratories The conditions experienced by water molecules on Neptune might be simulated in 2015. A group of 15 international physicists created a project of pressure simulation on water molecules, that will be tested when the new Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) accelerator in Germany will be finalized. Scientists plan to create a level of pressure on water molecules equal to that of Neptune, by exposing them to heavy ion beams. View Source August 2, 2010 Provides Information White paper: Development of highly reliable multilayer piezo actuators Piezo technology specialist PI Ceramic has released a new white paper on the development and test of highly reliable multilayer piezo actuators. View Source July 20, 2010 Provides Information Winton Capital Invests in Micro Materials Micro Materials Ltd (MML), established in 1988, has returned to private ownership following a buy-out by major shareholder David Harding, managing director of Winton Capital. Mr Harding first became interested in MML via his substantial shareholding in Millbrook Scientific Instruments plc., who acquired MML in 2004. View Source July 27, 2010 Provides Information World's First All-Glass CVD Coating Chamber Built in Israel Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced today the completion of the world's first all-glass vapor chamber, constructed by DFI's licensee Blinds Aluminum & Glass, Ltd. View Source August 4, 2010 Provides Information World's smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win big The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), held at Sandia National Laboratories in mid May. View Source June 15, 2010 Provides Information X Xradia Unveils New High Energy Nanoscale X-Ray Microscope A new lab-based computed tomography (CT) system, capable of delivering synchrotron-like 3D imaging at 50 nanometer resolution within a laboratory setting, was announced today by Xradia, Inc. View Source August 18, 2010 Provides Information
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