Altuglas International, a subsidiary of ARKEMA group, today launches its R&D department's very latest innovation: the Altuglas® ShieldUp nanostructured acrylic sheet. This acrylic glass is “meshed” and structured at the scale of a billionth of a metre to maximize its properties.
In the field of brain cancer research, Glioblastoma is considered to be the most aggressive form, in which the tumour spreads to the surrounding brain tissue thereby causing greater difficulty to be removed surgically or be treated through radiation or chemotherapy.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Online Research Company, Research and Markets has released a report titled, “Global Funding of Nanotechnologies- 2011 Edition”. The investment into nanotechnology research by various governments world- wide over the last 11 years is more than US$ 67 billion.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
A team of researchers from the University of California have tweaked the technology offered in the iPhone to turn them into handy medical-quality imaging and chemical detection aids.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Scientists at the University of Texas have successfully created a nano cloaking device using Carbon Nano Tubes (CNT’s) to make objects disappear underwater adapting the “Mirage Effect”.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Three-dimensional imaging of a cell will help understand the cellular structure and their functions in the cells more in detail. The lack of the right techniques in cell microscopy has inhibited scientists from having a deeper look into the cells microstructures and inside the cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Published in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, the review titled, “Breast implants: the good, the bad and the ugly. Can nanotechnology improve implants?” explains how nanotechnology can be used to develop safer implants.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Waters’s Centers of Innovation Program recognition was awarded to Dr Joseph Dalluge who heads the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of University of Minnesota. Dr Joseph Dalluge was honored for his research in the development of diagnostic marker assays to determine cystic fibrosis and other such diseases.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
The time consuming process of performing DNA analysis has been reduced to a matter of minutes, thanks to the research headed by Donald K Roper, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
The various challenges and applications of optofluidics have been addressed by the Dean of EPFL School of Enginnering, Demetri Psaltis in the latest issue of Nature Photonics, which focuses on the study of microfluidics with optics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
The semiconductor technology company located in Lexington, Massachusetts, Adapteva has revealed the 4th generation Epiphany multicore architecture IP in 28 nm chip design.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Research and Markets has added the report titled,The World Market For Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials, Markets and Companies 2011, to their offering.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Nanoco Group, a developer and producer of cadmium-free quantum dots and nanomaterials, and Tokyo Electron, a leading equipment supplier in Japan, have inked a further agreement subsequent to the end of the initial phase of a nanomaterial-based solar film development.
TESCAN has unveiled a high-resolution Schottky Field Emission scanning electron microscope called the FERA3 XMH with a built-in xenon plasma source-based focused ion beam (FIB).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
7 Oct 2011
Rudolph Technologies proclaimed that it has delivered its multiple NSX Macro Defect Inspection Systems, Wafer Scanner 3880 3D Inspection System and Discover Yield Management Software Suite to a major semiconductor manufacturing company for developing sophisticated three-dimensional IC integration using through silicon via (TSV) based processes.