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CFX Battery Recognized for Novel Primary Carbon Fluoride Battery

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 primary carbon fluoride...

7 Oct 2008

Leading Supplier for MEMS Market Receives Multiple Orders for EVG Systems

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that three European universities -- Southampton University, University...

7 Oct 2008

EntreTech Forum Presents: 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 translat...

7 Oct 2008

NSF Establishes Five New Engineering Research Centers

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the establishment of five new NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) for the development of interdisciplinary research and education programs in partnership with industry. The NSF ERCs share the goal of advancing knowledge, technology, and innovations that address significant societal problems and provide the workforce and technical foundation for economic competitiveness. NSF will invest approximately $92.5 million in the centers over the next five years.

7 Oct 2008

Complete Genomics Announces Partnership to Conduct First Human Genome Population Study

Complete Genomics, Inc., a newly-launched, third-generation human genome sequencing company, and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) today announced their partnership to conduct population-wide human genome studies. ...

7 Oct 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Search for New Cancer-Fighting Drugs

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.

7 Oct 2008

Japanese Researchers Awarded 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship

Four Japanese researchers were awarded the 2008 SNM Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship and are currently studying in the United States through 2010 as part of the two-year program. These scholars are Kenji Fukushima, Tokyo W...

7 Oct 2008

Impact of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on Modern Life

With more and more frequency, nanotechnology is being offered to the American public as a transformative technology, with the potential to improve every aspect of our social, physical, and economic well-being. As a resul...

7 Oct 2008

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 Petrobras, is the Brazilian o...

6 Oct 2008

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 placement of its common stock to A...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 6 Oct 2008

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 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, a monthly journal.

6 Oct 2008

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 delivers 20%(1) more chips from a...

6 Oct 2008

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 those devices on and off? In an advance toward giving humans that control, scientists in The Netherlands are reporting use of an external electrical signal to control an atomic-scale mechanical device that looks like the flippers on a pinball machine.

6 Oct 2008

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 CombiMatrix will host this call and wil...

From Invitae Corporation 5 Oct 2008

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 Tech 2008, October 27-30, at the San Francisco Airport Mariott Hotel.

5 Oct 2008