In order to study the toxic effects on skin by zinc oxide nanoparticles, the commonly used ingredient in sunscreen products, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Australia has devised an optical method to quantitatively examine the zinc oxide nanoparticle concentration level at various skin depths.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
ICT-FET integrated European project, AtMol has announced the launching of the International Workshop on Architecture & Design of Molecule Logic Gates and Atom Circuits to be conducted at the Hotel Campus UAB located in Barcelona on 12 to 13 January 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Dec 2011
A team of researchers at the Brown University and University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated earthquake friction impact at the nanoscale, paving the way to better understand the calamities.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
Quest PharmaTech, a biotechnology firm specializing in cancer treatment products, has declared that the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology has accepted to publish a research paper titled ‘Antitumor Efficacy of Photodynamic Therapy Using Novel Nanoformulations of Hypocrellin Photosensitizer SL052.’
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
Cavitation Technologies has declared that its strategic partner, Desmet Ballestra has received a research grant worth €690,000 from The Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) for the proprietary CTI Nano Neutralization process of Cavitation Technologies.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
ASML has signed a deal with Tokyo Electron to jointly promote ArF immersion and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) development activities utilizing advanced lithography cluster.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
Analog Bits has revealed that it now offers key product lines at the 28 nm node process technologies. The company disclosed for the first time that it has supplied several 28 nm IP for lower power and high performance processes and has working silicon on the 32 nm process nodes.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
A team of scientists at Aneeve Nanotechnologies has utilized inexpensive ink-jet printing technology to create the first-of-its-kind circuits comprising top-gated and printed back-gated electronics based on carbon nanotubes for OLED display applications.
Maxwell Technologies has announced that Maxwell Technologies SA, its subsidiary in Switzerland, will incorporate and assess graphene-based electrodes fabricated through ‘ElectroGraph,’ a technology development program funded by the European Union.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Dec 2011
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered that nanoparticles of zinc oxide, a widely used chemical in consumer products, are capable of causing cancer.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
1 Dec 2011
A research team at the London Centre for Nanotechnology has for the first time found electronic stripes dubbed as ‘charge density waves,’ on the graphene sheet surface that produce a graphitic superconductor.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
1 Dec 2011
A nanoparticle that can destroy drug-resistant bacteria developed by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), and the IBM Almaden Research Center, has recently been named one of 10 world changing ideas by Scientific American in its Technology Special Report (‘World Changing Ideas – 10 New Technologies That Will Make a Difference’, December 2011).
CVD Equipment has introduced a new portfolio of products made of a three-dimensional graphene-foam like material functionalized by chemical vapor deposition.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2011
MicroTech has designed a wet process station for performing etching on patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) wafers utilized to improve light extraction efficiency of high-brightness LEDs.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2011
High-performance CMOS image sensor supplier, AltaSens has chosen Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE (AFS) platform, the quickest nanometer circuit verification platform of the world, for performing device noise analysis, block-level characterization and full-circuit post-layout verification of its wide-dynamic-range, high-performance and high-definition (HD) CMOS image sensors.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Nov 2011