The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), is pleased to announce that its disease diagnostics technology, the MicroKit, has won the Silver Award at the Asian Innovation Awards 2011 organized by The Wall Street Journal Asia.
Particle characterization using the Zetasizer Nano is a growing area of demand among a whole arsenal of research methods available for use at the Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA.
Reliable and accurate single-molecule medical diagnosis is a step closer to reality with the development a new technique by Cambridge University researchers which uses sub-nanometre "cages" to capture and ident...
SiMPore Inc. has been awarded a phase 1 SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a microarray cell culture system.
SiMPore will examine methods to create micro-patterned walls in order to exp...
The organizers of TNT - Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference are pleased to announce today the final scientific program. The program is available online here.
The 12th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnol...
Duke University researchers have developed a reusable DNA chip that can be used as a template to reproduce a large number of DNA building blocks, paving the way to produce preferred DNA strands rapidly and economically.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
The first MEMS Technology Showcase, where firms can display their innovative MEMS-enabled products, will be moderated by Movea’s Executive Vice President, Bryan Hoadley.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
The usage of gallium arsenide (GaAs) device has been increased in network infrastructure and mobile phone applications, which in turn increases the usage of GaAs epitaxial wafers, which are the base materials for these devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
Scientists at Vanderbilt University have developed a potential new technique using electron microscopy to view gold nanoparticle-tagged proteins on the move in undamaged, whole cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed the Semiconductor High-NA Actinic Reticle Review Project (SHARP) microscope for photolithography. The SHARP microscope is an advanced extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) photomask-imaging microscope which has been developed in partnership with semiconductor manufacturers.
Graphene Technologies has published the first of a set of patent applications submitted by it on its innovative technology for the manufacturing of graphene and other nanomaterials on 20 October 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
Phaedon Avouris, who serves as Manager at the Nanometer Scale Science and Technology division of the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM, will deliver a presentation titled ‘Graphene-based Electronics and Optoelectronics’ at the AVS 58th International Symposium & Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Nov 2011
The healthcare market is poised to see some of the earliest benefits of nanotechnology. Over the next decade, it will be one of nanotech's highest growth sectors.
Targeted drug delivery therapies for the treatmen...
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have utilized piezoelectric materials such as zinc oxide nanowires to radically enhance the effectiveness at which gallium nitride LEDs enable conversion of electricity into ultraviolet light.
Micrel has declared that it has started microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) production at its foundry and wafer operations located in San Jose, California.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Nov 2011