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Providing Valuable Insight into the Development of Pharmaceutical Nebulizers

New experimental work using the Sysmex FPIA-3000 and Spraytec systems from Malvern Instruments, highlights the complementary nature of particle characterization by image analysis and laser diffraction respectively, when applied to the development of pharmaceutical nebulizers.

24 Oct 2008

Solvay Joins Holst Centre Research Program on Systems-in-Foil

The international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay today signs an agreement to become part of the research network of Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).

24 Oct 2008

Selah to Present During Nanotechnology Session at 2008 ISPE Annual Meeting

Selah Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that the company has been invited to be a guest speaker at the upcoming 2008 ISPE Annual Meeting. At the ISPE Annual Meeting, pharmaceutical manufac...

24 Oct 2008

New Proteomics Project Revolutionizes Cancer Diagnostics and Other Biomedical Challenges

A new proteomics project promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges.

24 Oct 2008

SharpEye Inspecting New MEMS-Based Display

Integral Vision, Inc., a leading global supplier of automated display inspection technology, today announced it has received orders for the Company's SharpEye(TM) inspection system from its largest customer. These sy...

24 Oct 2008

Satcon to Deliver World's First Hybrid Fuel Cell Energy System

Satcon Technology Corporation, a leading provider of utility scale distributed power solutions for the renewable energy market, today announced that it has partnered with FuelCell Energy Inc. and Enbridge Inc. in the pro...

24 Oct 2008

NanoEngineer to Lead Project on "Field Hospital on a Chip"

With a $1.6M grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), UC San Diego NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang will lead a project to create a "field hospital on a chip" that soldiers can wear on the battlefield.

24 Oct 2008

Nanogen Extends Celera License Agreement for Additional in-vitro Diagnostic Products

Nanogen, Inc., developer of molecular-biology and rapid diagnostic products, announced today that Celera Corporation has extended its license agreement of Nanogen's patent portfolio in molecular biology to develop ad...

From Nanogen 24 Oct 2008

Study Indentifies Wave of Disruptive Technologies Reshaping Industry

CSC today announced that a wave of disruptive technologies is reshaping industry, triggering new business models and altering consumer and employee behaviors, according to a report issued by CSC's Leading Edge Forum ...

24 Oct 2008

Scientists Created the World's Smallest Storage Space

An international team of scientists recently performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory: storing information at the nucleus of an atom. The breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life quantum computers, devices based on the theory of quantum mechanics.

24 Oct 2008

Water-Soluble Organic Electronic Materials that Spontaneously Assemble Themselves into Wires

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science fiction novel.

24 Oct 2008

Penn State Receives NSF Grant to Establish Nanotechnology Applications Center

Penn State will receive $5 million over four years from the National Science Foundation to establish a National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK). Penn State has been a national leader...

24 Oct 2008

UNSW Claims 25 Percent Solar Cell Efficiency Title

UNSW's ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency.

24 Oct 2008

ORNL Nanomanufacturing Technologies Wins $8.4 Million in Funding from DOE

Eight Oak Ridge National Laboratory nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program. The awards, which will bring $6.8 million to the...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 24 Oct 2008

Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom

Another step towards quantum computing - the Holy Grail of data processing and storage - was achieved when an international team of scientists that included researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were able to successfully store and retrieve information using the nucleus of an atom.

24 Oct 2008