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EnerDel Awarded $4 Million R+D Contract to Develop New Hi-Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

EnerDel, a developer and manufacturer of advanced Lithium-ion batteries for automotive, defense and other energy storage markets, has been awarded a $4 million research and development contract by the U.S. Department of ...

18 Sep 2008

Technique Sees into Tissue at Greater Depth

By coupling a kicked-up version of microscopy with miniscule particles of gold, Duke University scientists are now able to peer so deep into living tissue that they can see molecules interacting. If future studies in ...

18 Sep 2008

Center to Study the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have awarded $14.4 million to create the Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) to explore the potential ecolog...

18 Sep 2008

Researchers Developed Method to Rapidly and Inexpensively Copy Biological Surface Structures

Someday, your car might have the metallic finish of some insects or the deep black of a butterfly's wing, and the reflectors might be patterned on the nanostructure of a fly's eyes, according to Penn State researchers who have developed a method to rapidly and inexpensively copy biological surface structures.

18 Sep 2008

New Center Will Explore Impact of Nanomaterials on Life Forms

UCLA and 12 collaborating institutions have been awarded $24 million in federal funding to establish the University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), which will help researc...

18 Sep 2008

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Wins 2008 Free Electron Laser Prize

Samuel Krinsky, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won thee 2008 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize. Sponsored by the FEL Conference, which was held this year in Gyeungju, Korea, the prize consists of an award citation, a plaque, and approximately $3,000.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 18 Sep 2008

RPM Systems Offering Programming Support for Cypress's PSoC

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced RPM Systems Corp. offers production programming support for Cypress’s PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip family. RPM’s MPQ-PSoC 4 Port In-System Programmer (ISP)...

17 Sep 2008

GreenBrilliance Selects Spire for Crystalline Silicon Module Line in India

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that it has received a contract from GreenBrilliance to pro...

17 Sep 2008

Semilab Licenses Metal and Implant Thickness Metrology Technology

Semilab Co. Ltd., a leading supplier of non-contact wafer mapping metrology solutions for the semiconductor and solar cell industries, announced today that it has licensed key patents and transferred relevant know-how fr...

17 Sep 2008

SOLiD System Enables Single Cell Gene Expression Profiling to Advance Stem Cell Research

Today, scientists from Applied Biosystems will present data at the Connecticut Stem Cell Technology Symposium revealing how the company’s ultra-high-throughput genomic analysis platform, the SOLiD(TM) System, gener...

17 Sep 2008

Ceramic Nanotechnology to Create Fuel-Savings Product with Large Market Potential

The value of ceramic as a thermal barrier and for protection against corrosion has been proven in thousands of applications over the last five decades in the electronics industry, and in other products. Ceramic coatings,...

17 Sep 2008

Key Step Forward in Regulating the Responsible Use of Nanomaterials in Industry

A key step forward in regulating the responsible use of nanomaterials in industry has been achieved by Thomas Swan and Co Ltd after the company’s nanotube product received the sector’s first manufacturing con...

17 Sep 2008

Nanoscience Instruments Adds Unique Line of SPM Sensors and MEMS Devices

Nanoscience Instruments, the premiere US-based distributor of nanotechnology instrumentation, today announced the worldwide distribution of the Nascatec line of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes and sensors.

17 Sep 2008

“Racetrack Memory” Promises High Performance and Capacity

IBM announced today that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to further explore "Racetrack Memory," an entirely new approach to so...

17 Sep 2008

New Real-Time Imaging Technique Captures Cell Movements

A new advance in cellular imaging is allowing scientists to better understand the movement of cells in the area around tumors, also known as the tumor microenvironment. In a recent article published in Disease Models + M...

17 Sep 2008