AIXTRON has reported the installation and commissioning of two new MOCVD systems that are capable of operating either in multiple 6" or 8" configuration at EpiGaN’s advanced purpose-built facility situated in Hasselt, Belgium.
Ceres Ventures has declared plans to accelerate the development and commercialization of its cutting-edge water and wastewater purification and treatment system called the BluFlow water treatment system, which integrates the company’s patent-pending nanotechnology and sophisticated ultra-purification technology to obtain clean water at a lower cost.
By G.P. Thomas
18 Jul 2012
Industrial Nanotech, a provider of sustainable nanotechnology based solutions, has announced that Nanosulate Crystal, its patented clear and nanotechnology based roof coating continues to be in demand. A popular technique adopted presently to improve energy efficiency of buildings is to give a white coating to the roofs.
Multi-level events in translocation experiments of nanopore can now be processed automatically thanks to a method devised by the team led by Professor Aleksandra Radenovic at the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Lausanne.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Jul 2012
The Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) institute has signed an agreement of partnership with EPFL, Switzerland to jointly establish a laboratory for Nanosciences research.
By Will Soutter
18 Jul 2012
It is known that conventional treatment methods of cancer are accompanied by toxic side effects. This is particularly true of chemotherapy in which chemicals injected into the body are not confined to the tumors alone but attack healthy tissues and vital organs thereby impacting normal bodily functions.
By Will Soutter
18 Jul 2012
A team of scientists from Lockheed Martin and Rice University has developed a process to extract manifold superior-performance anodes from single silicon wafers.
By G.P. Thomas
17 Jul 2012
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, a company specializing in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced that Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has reported its Phase 1 clinical trial results for ALN-TTR02, an RNAi therapeutic that uses Tekmira's lipid nanoparticle delivery platform to target transthyretin (TTR) for TTR-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR) treatment.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
STMicroelectronics has unveiled an ultra-compact multi-sensor MEMS module equipped with programmable motion-recognition capabilities called the LSM330.
Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. announced today that it has appointed Dr Andy Goodwin as Commercial Director for its Advanced Materials Division. Dr Goodwin will join Thomas Swan on 20th August this year and will be based at ...
The Queensland Government has granted a research funding worth $1 million to the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre of the Griffith University to devise manufacturing techniques for a silicon carbide microchip.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
Visiongain, the London based independent media company, has presented its analysis of the Mobile MEMS market in the report, “The Mobile Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) Market 2012-2017: Smartphones, Tablets, Netbooks, E-readers, Ultrabooks.”
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jul 2012
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered the optical nonlinear property of graphene that could pave the way for low-power telecommunication devices. Silicon-based photonic circuits are passive systems.
By G.P. Thomas
17 Jul 2012
Yale researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery technique that addresses the challenges in combinatorial drug therapy.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
A German-made 800 MHz, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer was delivered at the Texas A&M University. After being flown in on a cargo plane, the US $2.7 million instrument was set up at the university by using a crane to lower it down on an opening in the roof of a building of the biochemistry and biophysics department.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012