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Funding Will Play Major Role in Development of Fluorescent Carbon Nanomaterials

Clemson University researchers developing imaging agents to allow a new method of detecting breast cancers have received $180,000 from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Breast cancer is the second leading caus...

30 Oct 2008

Global Nanomaterials Market to Reach $10 Billion by 2012

Nanomaterials of all types are poised to register robust growth driven by growing interest from healthcare and electronics sectors. Oxides and metals are expected to capture a major share of global NanoMaterial revenues ...

From Global Industry Analysts 29 Oct 2008

The Mysteries of Physics on the Nanoscale

Quantum dots (QD)-nanoscale particles that confine electrons and can emit and absorb light-have been studied in lasers, solar paneling, and biomedical therapeutics. Nina Markovic, affiliated faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) and assistant professor of physics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, believes this emerging technology will prove important in cancer therapies, energy transmission, and drug delivery.

29 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

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

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

Innovative Way to Make and Pattern Nanoscale Wires and Devices

18 Oct 2008

New Type of LED Centered on Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Holiday Creations/Diogen Lighting, Inc. and Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and purchase agreement to enable a new type of LED to be commercialized in the seasonal light s...

9 Oct 2008

Solterra Concluded Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Hague Corp., a resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. has concluded the worldwide exclusive license with the William Marsh Rice University for intellectual propert...

From Solterra Renewable Technologies 9 Oct 2008

New Nanomaterial Could be Used to Manufacture Smaller and Faster Computers

In the past few years, the design and manufacturing of circuits at nanoscopic scale for integrated devices has become one of the frontier fields in new material science and technology. The significant reduction achieved ...

9 Oct 2008