Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a flexible triboelectric generator based on the principle of generating electricity by rubbing two different plastic materials. This generator can produce alternating current from motion.
Imec and Tokyo Electron (TEL) announce that they will accelerate their Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) activities at imec’s recent 300 mm fab-compatible DSA process line.
Over the past two years, both companies hav...
ASM International N.V, provider of production solutions for the semiconductor device industry, has introduced two new deposition systems to cater to the 300 mm high volume manufacturing (HVM) segment.
A study published in the latest issue of “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)” offers a novel approach to cancer treatment by combining supramolecular nanochemistry with drug design.
By Will Soutter
12 Jul 2012
A team of scientists from various research facilities including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a metamolecule whose chirality can be switched optically at the speed of light.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand the positive impact that the generation of knowledge around nanosciences has on the economy. But it is very simple when there is an opportunity to talk to Antonio Porro, coordinator of the Tecnalia Nano Programme.
The deadline for entering Nanochallenge&Polymerchallenge will expire on July 19th.
Two seed financing Prizes of 300.000€ each are available for the eight edition of Nanochallenge and Polymerchallenge, interna...
Innovative Materials Processing Technologies (IMPT), along with 13 partners, has secured a major European research project in photovoltaic nanotechnology worth €10 million.
Lattice Semiconductor and United Microelectronics have declared a long-term technology partnership through which they will carry on their ongoing work on non-volatile products based on sophisticated technology nodes. The two companies will also accelerate their efforts to integrate other product lines of Lattice Semiconductor.
By Will Soutter
11 Jul 2012
Today at SEMICON West 2012, Bruker announced three new 450mm X-Ray and AFM semiconductor metrology products to support the industry’s transition to larger wafer production. These new products include the InSight-450 3DAFM from Bruker’s Nano Surfaces division and both the next generation of the D8 FABLINE and the new S8 FABLINE-T X-ray systems from Bruker’s AXS division.
Merck has inked an exclusive global licensing deal to use PDS Biotechnology’s innovative Versamune nanotechnology platform in Merck’s two investigational antigen-specific cancer immunotherapies that are now in pre-clinical development.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Jul 2012
Nanotech Security has announced the conclusion of its first large scale test-run utilizing its optical security feature based on nanotechnology called NOtES.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jul 2012
Swedish MEMS foundry, Silex Microsystems has been awarded close to 1M SEK by VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems under the aegis of its 30M SEK program for advancement of MEMS-based gas sensor manufacture.
Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona have partnered with the Centro National de Biotecnologia in Madrid and developed a novel technique for identifying nanoscale objects and viruses using an electrostatic force microscope (EFM).
By Will Soutter
11 Jul 2012
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoWizard® AFM system at the INSERM/CNRS Laboratories in Marseille, France