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GE Makes its Sixth Investment in Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturer

GE is recharging the electrification of transportation by making its sixth equity investment in lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123Systems. GE invested $30 million in A123's $102 million Series E financing, making ...

23 Oct 2008

Hague Corp Announces Solterra has Concluded Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Hague Corp, a resource exploration company, has announced that Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. has concluded the worldwide exclusive license with the William Marsh Rice University for intellectual property which in...

From Solterra Renewable Technologies 23 Oct 2008

Scientists Developed Device that Could Serve as Electronic Reader for Wellness Cards

Scientists are reporting development of a device that could serve as the electronic "reader" for a coming generation of "wellness cards," specimen holders used to diagnose disease from a drop of a pat...

23 Oct 2008

World's Smallest Complete Mass Spectrometer for Detecting Health and Safety Threats

Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device - some of which would dominate a living room - to identify tiny amounts of chemicals in the environment.

23 Oct 2008

Sensitive Ultrasound That Can Detect Reflective Microbubbles Engineered to Stick to Tumour Cells

European researchers have developed highly sensitive ultrasound equipment that can detect tiny quantities of reflective microbubbles engineered to stick to specific tumour cells. The technique should pick up tumours early and improve patients' chances of survival.

23 Oct 2008

NTMOS Sensor Uses Nanotechnology in a MOS Sensor to Save Lives

Detector Electronics Corporation (Det-Tronics) today announced an NTMOS hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas sensor that detects low H2S gas concentrations in five seconds or less while tolerating harsh environments that experienc...

23 Oct 2008

International Conference Focusing on Predicting and Improving Properties of Materials

Researchers from all over the world will gather at Florida State University for a major international conference that focuses on predicting the properties of materials and finding new ways to improve these properties.

23 Oct 2008

The Potential Environmental Impacts of Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Hatice...

23 Oct 2008

More Powerful Computer Chips Possible with Plasmonic Nanolithography

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern integrated circuits manufacturing.

23 Oct 2008

Using 3-D Nanoimaging Process to Improves LCDs

Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such as liquid crystals, ...

23 Oct 2008

Breakthrough A Key Step in Bringing Life to Quantum Computer

An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer...

23 Oct 2008

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Using SNALP RNAi Delivery Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that studies conducted by Tekmira and Johnson + Johnson Pharmaceutical Research + Development, Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., have shown that novel small inte...

23 Oct 2008

5-Year NIH Grant to Investigate Nano-Based Pharmaceuticals for Drug and Gene Therapy

Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy.

23 Oct 2008

Project Will Advance Promising New RNAi Cancer Therapies

Kylin Therapeutics, Inc., a developer of next-generation RNAi therapeutics, announced the expansion of its research and development efforts. The project will advance promising new RNAi cancer therapies. This expanded...

23 Oct 2008

An Innovative Way to Make and Pattern Nanoscale Wires and Other Devices

By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers have created an innovative way to make and pattern nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive lithographic to...

23 Oct 2008

Nanotechnology News

GE Makes its Sixth Investment in Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturer

Hague Corp Announces Solterra has Concluded Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Scientists Developed Device that Could Serve as Electronic Reader for Wellness Cards

World's Smallest Complete Mass Spectrometer for Detecting Health and Safety Threats

Sensitive Ultrasound That Can Detect Reflective Microbubbles Engineered to Stick to Tumour Cells

NTMOS Sensor Uses Nanotechnology in a MOS Sensor to Save Lives

International Conference Focusing on Predicting and Improving Properties of Materials

The Potential Environmental Impacts of Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials

More Powerful Computer Chips Possible with Plasmonic Nanolithography

Using 3-D Nanoimaging Process to Improves LCDs

Breakthrough A Key Step in Bringing Life to Quantum Computer

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals to Present Data Using SNALP RNAi Delivery Technology

5-Year NIH Grant to Investigate Nano-Based Pharmaceuticals for Drug and Gene Therapy

Project Will Advance Promising New RNAi Cancer Therapies

An Innovative Way to Make and Pattern Nanoscale Wires and Other Devices

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