Janelle Tam, a student from the Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has won the first prize in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada for her discovery of a disease-fighting, anti-oxidant compound utilizing nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
A team of researchers headed by Martin Wegener, a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has created a prototype of a pentamode metamaterial, a stable crystalline metafluid, paving the way to realize several 3D transformation acoustics ideas such as novel loudspeaker concepts, acoustic prisms and inaudibility cloaks.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 May 2012
A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.
A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery: Global Market for Nanocrystals’ to its database.
Si-Ware Systems, a company specializing in MEMS and IC-based solutions, has introduced an inertial sensor development platform called the SWS61111 that enables easy and rapid interfacing of most of the capacitive MEMS devices to superior performance electronics.
By Will Soutter
10 May 2012
As part of its continuing effort to offer customers access to world-class solutions, SVTC Technologies, the premier innovation partner for accelerating nanotechnology innovation, announced today it has adopted XperiDesk&...
MiniFAB will provide a seminar on advances in polymer microfluidic devices for sample preparation, handling and diagnostics for point- of-care, laboratory, and in-field applications. The seminar is hosted by The Jackson Laboratory on Friday, May 11, 2012.
A key aerospace components manufacturer has placed a multi-million dollar order with CVD Equipment to design a customized chemical vapor deposition system scalable solution to manufacture next-generation composite products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 May 2012
According to cell toxicity studies conducted by Professor Yinfa Ma and graduate student Qingbo Yang from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, zinc oxide nanoparticles, a common ingredient used in sunscreens, may increase risk of skin cancer.
By Will Soutter
9 May 2012
NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program has awarded a $750,000 Phase II contract to Boston Micromachines, a company specializing in adaptive optics systems and MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products, to assist NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program.
By Will Soutter
9 May 2012
A major foundry has chosen Nanometrics’ IMPULSE integrated metrology (IM) system and NanoDiffract software for optical critical dimension (OCD) metrology to deploy them for front-end-of-line etch process control in volume production of advanced 2x nm products.
By Will Soutter
9 May 2012
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc., a global leader in nanotechnology, is pleased to announce that it has unveiled the new product CNTstix™, an ultra-strong carbon-nanotube reinforced adhesive for structural applicati...
Baolab Microsystems has announced that it expects to be able to modify the structures that it designed for its 3D NanoCompass to build a range of other motion sensors and, ultimately, to create low cost, smart, reconfigurable Inertial Measurement Units.
MiniFAB Pty Ltd Founder and CEO, Erol Harvey, was named the 2012 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame's Enabling Technology Entrepreneur of the Year.