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Rusnano seeking nanotechnology cooperation partners in Taiwan

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano), a state-run company set up to encourage the development of nanotechnology worldwide and to strengthen Russia's position in the field, is currently in...

CombiMatrix to Hold Conference Call to Discuss the Development of Array for Cancer Screening

CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) will hold a conference call to discuss the development of its CombiMatrix Cancer Array (CCA) test for cancer screening. Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of Combi...

Rare herbal plants aboard Shenzhou VII spacecraft studied

Several rare herbal plants aboard the recent Shenzhou VII space mission have now been transferred to a Chinese nanobiotechnology lab for study. The plants, including rauwolfia and salvia miltiorrhi...

CIS Cooperation Council on Fundamental Science to be created

Meeting of state scientific and technical organizations' leaders attended by representatives of the International Science Academies' Association resulted into a decision of creation a Cooperation Coun...

BioAlliance Acts in Favour of Patients’ Quality of Life in Connection with the French National Event ‘La Semaine du Goût’

BioAlliance Pharma SA (Paris:BIO), the specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of opportunistic infections in cancer and AIDS, announced its collaboration to the book entitled "Redis...

IMEC and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. collaborate on green LED manufacturing technology

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC), a total solution provider in the compound semiconductor field, today announce that they have...

Minerva Biotechnologies Announces Major Stem Cell Breakthrough

Minerva Biotechnologies, a leading nanotechnology, cancer and stem cell development company today announced a major breakthrough in stem cell research. Minerva and collaborators at the University of C...

Microfluidics Nanotechnology Expert to Speak at National Nano Engineering Conference in Boston November 12-13

Presentation will cover scalable and robust technologies and processes for production, deagglomeration, purification and modification of nanomaterials

Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment

A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have bee...

Emerging Technology: Webinar Examines How to Detect an Emerging Technology Opportunity in the Medical Device Industry and Assess Market Disruptions

Nerac Medical Device Analyst Perry De Fazio will discuss how medical device companies can assess whether a new technology will disrupt the market during an MDM Webinar at 2 p.m. EDT Oct. 8, 2008. He a...

Süss MicroTec AG: Changes in the SUSS MicroTec AG Management Board

SUSS MicroTec AG, which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, announced today that the Supervisory Board of SUSS MicroTec AG has relieved management board member Dr. Stefan...

Webcast Alert: Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. Announces Its October 8, 2008 Investor Conference Call and Webcast

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: APNT) announces a Conference Call and Webcast, with the details described below.

Targeting Metastatic Cancer From the Inside: Epeius Biotech Reveals a New Generation of Tools for Medical Gene Delivery

Epeius Biotechnologies Corporation today announced the publication of another landmark paper describing recent technological advances in medical gene delivery. The latest scientific paper, entitled "T...

Industrial Nanotech Announces Results of September Meetings In NY and NJ With Petrobras, One of the World's Top Ten Energy Producers

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced the results of the recent visit by a team from Petrobras' headquarters. Petroleo Brasileiro S...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes CFX Battery's Innovation in Commercializing a Revolutionary Primary and Secondary Battery Chemistry

Based on its recent analysis of the battery market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes CFX Battery, Inc. with the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Emerging Company of the Year for its novel pri...

First Lifeboat Foundation conference

The Lifeboat Foundation is supporting its first conference. And this conference is next month!

The EntreTech Forum Presents 'Recent High Tech University Spin-Outs: Who is Funding These Deals and Why?'

The EntreTech Forum's October 21st panel focuses on the Forum's core theme: Given the wealth of research and technology generated by our nation's leading universities, how does this academic strength...

Industrial Nanotech Announces Results of Meetings with Petrobras

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced the results of the recent visit by a team from Petrobras' headquarters. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or P...

Researchers Designed Material Made of Graphene Sheets for Hydrogen Storage

Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practica...

Elpida Memory Shrinks 65nm Chip

Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM that deliv...

Altair Nanotechnologies Announces $10 Million Private Placement with Al Yousuf

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced materials and products for power and energy systems, today announced the execution of an agreement for a $10 million private pl...

$1.14 Million Federal Grant to to Equip Nanoscience Laboratories

As anticipated, Northwest has received a $1.14 million federal grant that will be used to equip nanoscience laboratories in the University's new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. W...

New State-of-the-Art Equipment Will Help Photovoltaics Group at South Dakota

South Dakota scientists' work building next-generation devices to harvest solar energy will be easier thanks to a National Science Foundation grant for state-of-the-art equipment. Assis...

Nanotech Device that Resembles Flippers on a Pinball Machine

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn...

Emerging Technology Opportunity in the Medical Device Industry

Nerac Medical Device Analyst Perry De Fazio will discuss how medical device companies can assess whether a new technology will disrupt the market during an MDM Webinar at 2 p.m. EDT Oct. 8...

Thin Film Photovoltaics Take Center Stage at Nanotechnology Conference

A special Thin Film Photovoltaics Forum will focus on new developments and groundbreaking research in the field of solar energy during the 5th Annual International Congress of Nano Bio Clean T...

CombiMatrix to Discuss the Development of Cancer Array (CCA) Test for Cancer Screening

CombiMatrix Corporation will hold a conference call to discuss the development of its CombiMatrix Cancer Array (CCA) test for cancer screening. Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of CombiMa...

Nanoscopic screening process to speed drug discovery

Researchers at Wake Forest University are using nanotechnology to search for new cancer-fighting drugs through a process that could be up to 10,000 times faster than current methods.

IP: home and away

Davies says there is little doubt that the proportion of heavy engineering patents or trademarks - namely ships, trains and buildings - has decreased when compared with other patents. Filings have, ho...

Complete Genomics, ISB To Collaborate on Genome Studies; Firm Targets $5K Genome for 2009

The Institute for Systems Biology and third-generation sequencing company Complete Genomics announced today that they are collaborating on population-wide human genome studies. During the first sta...

Playing Pinball with Atoms

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices on and off?

New material could speed development of hydrogen powered vehicles

Researchers in Greece report design of a new material that almost meets the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 2010 goals for hydrogen storage and could help eliminate a key roadblock to practical hydrogen-powered vehicles. Their study on a way of safely storing hydrogen, an explosive gas, is scheduled for the Oct. 8 issue of ACS' Nano Letters.

Flexible Silicon Solar Cells

Thin but efficient solar cells use one-tenth the silicon of conventional cells.

Nanomaterials research

As part of a unique collaborative agreement, the Japanese government has located a new research satellite at the Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University. Cambridge is one of four institutes loca...

Nanotube catalysts improve industrial reaction

A catalyst consisting of modified carbon nanotubes makes an important industrial reaction milder, safer and more selective, according to researchers in Germany. Dangsheng Su and chemists at the Fr...

Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper

As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, that mean...

Which came first, the nanotube or the egg?

Egg whites have found a novel use as a template for making inorganic nanotubes, thanks to Chinese scientists. Baoyou Geng and colleagues at the Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, made magnetite (Fe3O4...

No nanoelectronics technology can replace CMOS until 2030, says TI exec

Still looking ahead, Buss gave his predictions regarding nanoelectronics. He said he believed that there is no nanoelectronics technology that has a chance to replace CMOS until 2030 at the earliest....

Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper

(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, that means that TVs, computer monitors, and especially mobile displays could become brighter, lighter, and thinner in the future.

Nanotechnology deployed in textiles to fight global MRSA bug

A novel approach of deploying nanotechnology in textiles to reduce MRSA infection rates in hospitals has resulted in an Irish university team winning funding of €5m to carry out the necessary R&D. ...

NMR reaches the nanoscale

Diamond defects 'feel' tiny magnetic fields

Peugeot Magnet Uses Magnetic Energy

"Peugeot Magnet", designed by Tolga Metin from the United States, is one of the 29 finalists at the 5th Peugeot Design Contest. This year's competition theme is "imagine the Peugeot in the worldwide m...

ONAMI gets $13.4 million

Oregon's first and largest signature research center will receive $13.4 million in research funding from the $487.7 billion defense appropriations bill recently passed by Congress. The Oregon Nanos...

Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper by researchers at Yale University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology takes it to a cellular level. Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life, they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them. Artificial versions of the eel`s electricity generating cells could be developed as a power source for medical implants and other tiny devices, they say.

New study on properties of carbon nanotubes, water could have wide-ranging implications

A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Under pressure at the nanoscale, polymers play by different rules

Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules.

Nanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment

A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed.

First atomic -scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a step toward developing better fuel cells for electric cars and more, engineers at MIT and two other institutions have taken the first images of individual atoms on and near the surface of nanoparticles key to the eco-friendly energy storage devices.

Nanotubes exhibit threshold toxicity

Living cells tolerate carbon nanotubes below certain doses

Dalton paper maker buys tech unit

Dalton paper maker Crane & Co. said it will buy the security technology unit of an Atlanta nanotechnology firm for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of Visual Physics from Nanoventions will giv...

Dark matter and nanotech may vie for Nobel prizes

A scientist who helped prove the existence of dark matter and a researcher who used the power of jellyfish to glow green in experiments may win Nobel prizes, Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday. The...

Researchers use nanoparticles to deliver treatment for brain, spinal cord injuries

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Paralysis Research and Welden School of Biomedical Engineering coated silica nanoparticles with a polymer to target and repair injured guinea pig spinal cords. That research is being published in the October edition of the journal Small.

Neb. school wins grant for nanotechnology work

Thanks to an $8.1 million grant, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln can continue its nanotechnology research through 2014. The newly awarded National Science Foundation grant will support the Mater...

Nanoparticles stick around for longer

Philips Research and the University of Urbino team up to develop contrast agents

Silica micro-tube networks

Liming Tang and colleagues from Tsinghua University in China, have prepared functional silica micro-tube networks (MTN) using an organogel as a template and a silane-based precursor, via a simple proc...

How do magnetic nanotubes interact?

Simple mathematical expression could drive real-world applications

Standard defines nanotechnology terms

In 2005 ISO started to develop standards to support nanotechnologies and now the first concrete result of this work is available in the form of ISO/TS 27687:2008, a new international standard for term...

Nano-pillars tipped for success

MIT researchers have multiple uses in mind for their high-aspect ratio silicon arrays

Russia, S. Korea Sign Accords, Adopt Statement

Russian and South Korean presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Lee Myung-bak adopted a joint statement on Monday. Also, a package of agreements was signed in the two leaders' presence. Gazprom (RTS: GA...

Self-assembly goes square-shaped

Block-copolymer square arrays could shrink integrated circuits

Learning to like it hot

By 2050, new developments may offer the promise of stabilising and reversing global warming. Schemes will emerge to seed the atmosphere with aerosols, microfoils and other particulate matter that scat...

California Scientists Design Working Tricorder

Since we learned yesterday that everyone's cell phone will be a nuclear weapon detector in the future, it comes as no surprise today that scientists at the University of California have created what i...

Nanoparticles detect cocaine

Solution changes colour from red to blue when drug is present

IQE provides epitaxy for US graphene project

DARPA interested in wafer-scale graphene synthesis

DIY solar cells on tour

Nanostructured device can be made by anyone in 15 minutes under ambient conditions

Atom expulsion shapes nanodevices

Focused electron beam blasts 2.5 nm holes in nanotubes and nanowires

Nanotubes on the Brain

Neural implants could benefit from coated electrodes.

Nano Carrier Targets Cell Sites

Nanonets Snare Energy

A new material could cheaply convert sunlight into hydrogen.

Tiny Drug Transporters

Carbon nanotubes could reduce side effects from cancer treatment.

A Helping Hand for Surgery

A tiny gripper that responds to chemical triggers could be a new tool for surgery.

Stretchy, High-Quality Conductors

Materials made from nanotubes could lead to conformable computers that stretch around any shape.

Drawing Circuits with Nano Pens

First All-Nanowire Sensor

Researchers integrate nanowire sensors and electronics on a chip.

Bringing Invisibility Cloaks Closer

The fabrication of two new materials for manipulating light is a key step toward realizing cloaking.

A Plastic That Chills

Finding Evidence in Fingerprints

A technique reveals drugs and explosives on the scene.

Shape Matters for Nanoparticles

Particles the size and shape of bacteria could more effectively deliver medicine to cells.

Desalination Made Simpler

A new chlorine-tolerant material may streamline desalination processes.

Lithium-Ion Batteries for Less

Nanotube Circuits

Carbon nanotubes combine high performance and flexibility for electronics.

Nanoradio Tunes In to Atoms

A carbon-nanotube radio receiver can detect individual gold atoms.

Strongest Material Ever Tested

Graphene, praised for its electrical properties, has been proven the strongest known material.

Self-Assembling Tissues

Nanotech Revives a Cancer Drug

A new formulation could bring a promising drug back to the clinic.