Qcept Technologies, a company specializing in wafer inspection solutions, has declared its participation in several major key nanotechnology conferences to be conducted during Q1 of 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Feb 2012
A Rice University research team comprising Jaime Taha-Tijerina, Tharangattu Narayanan and Matteo Pasquali has discovered that trace quantities of hexagonal boron nitride nanoparticles are capable of improving the efficiency of standard transformer oils by up to 80%.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Feb 2012
High conductivity is one of the major issues of graphene and this restricts it to be used as a base material for producing computer chips.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Feb 2012
Northern Graphite has consented to deliver its +32 mesh and +48 mesh extra-large-flake, high- carbon graphite to Grafen Chemical Industries for use in graphene research.
United Microelectronics, a major semiconductor foundry, and Faraday Technology, a provider of ASIC and silicon IP, have signed a deal for reinforcing their IP alliance to add basic and specialized IP for sophisticated processes of United Microelectronics.
Innova Biosciences, known for its easy-to-use antibody labeling kits called Lightning-Link or Lightning-Link Rapid, has released a new informative guide titled ‘A Beginners Guide to Flow Cytometry’ for researchers. The guide can now be viewed online.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Feb 2012
Research and Markets now offers a new book titled ‘Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Science & Applications’ published by John Wiley and Sons.
A research team comprising Leonhard Prechtel and Leonhard Prechtel from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen’s Walter Schottky Institut has devised a method to improve the time resolution down to the picosecond range for measuring photocurrent in graphene, which in turn helped in detecting pulses in a few picoseconds.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Feb 2012
A Rice University study on fluorescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes has discovered that the brightest nanotubes of identical length demonstrate uniform fluorescence intensity and their brightness varies proportionally with their length.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Feb 2012
Uson, a company specializing in leak detection equipment, has introduced Uson Optima vT leak and flow tester for manufacturers of nanotech products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Feb 2012
A research team at the Organic Polymer Chemistry Laboratory (CNRS/ Bordeaux 1 University/ Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux) has succeeded in encapsulating nanovesicles inside slightly larger vesicles, paving the way for new options in terms of compartmentalized reactors, multiple encapsulation and vector administration through new delivery channels.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Feb 2012
A research team from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy has demonstrated that point defects in graphene are helpful in transferring atomic-scale data by integrating electrons with light, paving the way to develop quicker and compact electronic devices.
GT Advanced Technologies has introduced its DSS 450 MonoCast crystal growth system in the market.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
1 Feb 2012
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a company specializing in RNAi therapeutics, has declared the issuance of a notice of allowance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the patent application number 12/813,448 that covers the company’s in-house second generation lipid nanoparticle platform and the MC3 lipid.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
1 Feb 2012
A research team led by Paul Alivisatos from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy has developed a novel solution-based synthesis method to produce nanocrystals with superior optoelectronic properties.