Ioxus, a provider of high-performance ultracapacitor technology for various markets, has declared the acquisition of Power Systems, a Japanese company that manufactures slim-pack, flexible electric double layer capacitors, and has a strong customer base in Asia Pacific.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Feb 2012
NaturalNano, a material science company manufacturing and commercializing novel nanocomposites, declared that it has received purchase orders for its Halloysite Natural Tube (HNT) that is being used as a key element in Fiabila’s nail polish products sold in Europe and in the United States.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Feb 2012
Industrial Nanotech has declared the first sale of Nansulate, its patented protective and insulation coating line based on nanotechnology, to a nuclear power facility located in the US.
A novel form of buckypapers or carbon nanotube sheets developed by a research team has eliminated their major drawback.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Feb 2012
A team of researchers at IBM Research – Zurich, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pennsylvania has developed a nano-sized silicon carbide tip that has a wear resistance of 10,000 folds higher than that of the earlier designs, a major breakthrough in nanomanufacturing for applications such as biosensors for environment and healthcare monitoring.
A study by Martin Z. Bazant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered the reasons behind the unusual charging and discharging behavior of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) nanoparticles, paving the way to develop high-efficient battery materials.
Kilopass Technology has announced that its XPM embedded one-time programmable anti-fuse non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) has successfully qualified the reliability testing as per the JEDEC 47 specification for the TowerJazz 130 nm G CMOS process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
Veeco Instruments, a provider of equipment for developing and manufacturing hard disk drives, solar cells, LEDs and other devices, has declared that its TurboDisc K465i gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) tool has been qualified by SemiLEDs for mass-production of high-brightness LEDs.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has declared that its Ultrastar enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD) portfolio has become the first in the industry to use 25 nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
Biotechnology firm, Lauren Sciences has declared that The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded a grant to the company to further develop its innovative V-Smart nanovesicle platform technology for target-specific delivery of glial-derived naturetic factor (GDNF) systemically to the brain across the blood brain barrier for treating Parkinson's disease.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
sp3 Diamond Technologies, a provider of diamond deposition equipment, products and services, has witnessed a three-fold increase in the delivery of its hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HF CVD) reactors and a revenue growth of 73% in 2011when compared to 2009.
The NanoMaterials Innovation Center LLC (NMIC) in Alfred, NY welcomes Dr. Alan Rae as CEO. Dr. Rae has extensive experience in product commercialization and business development in Ceramics, Electronics and Alternative Energy.
Bruker announced today the call for papers for the ‘Seeing at the Nanoscale 2012’ conference, which will take place at the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, UK, from July 09–11, 2012.
At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light.
The SOI Industry Consortium, Soitec and CEA-Leti have jointly organized the sixth annual workshop on fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology for sophisticated semiconductor architectures.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
8 Feb 2012