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New Book on Rise of Thin-Film Solar Technology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Rise and Rise of Solar Thin Film: The 2010 Thin-film Annual" book to their offering. The Rise of Thin-Film Solar Technology represents the combine...

20 Jan 2011

ReneSola Develops New Virtus Wafer to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

ReneSola Ltd ("ReneSola" or the "Company") a leading global manufacturer of solar wafers and provider of solar modules, today announced that it has developed a new multicrystalline wafer, the Virtus Wafer, which improves solar cell efficiency.

20 Jan 2011

The Challenge to Creating Graphene-Based Electronics

Electronics researchers love graphene. A two-dimensional sheet of carbon one atom thick, graphene is like a superhighway for electrons, which rocket through the material with 100 times the mobility they have in silicon. ...

19 Jan 2011

Nanopreme--New Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Epoxy Resin for Racquets and Golf Clubs

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:APNT) is pleased to announce that it has developed a new nanotechnology carbon composite material in partnership with Japanese sporting goods giant, Yonex. The new material, call...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 19 Jan 2011

Using Nanocrystals in Lead Telluride Can Harness Electricity

Researchers at Northwestern University have placed nanocrystals of rock salt into lead telluride, creating a material that can harness electricity from heat-generating items such as vehicle exhaust systems, industrial processes and equipment and sun light more efficiently than scientists have seen in the past.

19 Jan 2011

Chemistry Students Synthesize Molecules That Might Treat Deadly Diseases

Not many college students can say their efforts in the laboratory may lead to therapies for diseases that devastate millions of people worldwide, but chemistry students in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis can.

19 Jan 2011

New Cholera Toxin Detection Technique Uses Sugar Coated with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year.

19 Jan 2011

New Nano-Structured Materials for Human Stem Cell Development

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 322,000 deaths globally per year are linked to severe injuries from fire and in many of these cases death could have been avoided with surgical intervention....

19 Jan 2011

U-M Researchers Develop New Biosensor to Speed Treatment of Bacterial Infections

With an invention that can be made from some of the same parts used in CD players, University of Michigan researchers have developed a way to measure the growth and drug susceptibility of individual bacterial cells without the use of a microscope.

19 Jan 2011

Arrowhead Research Invests $1 Million in Calando Pharmaceuticals

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR) (“the Company”) today announced that it has invested $1 million in its majority owned subsidiary, Calando Pharmaceuticals, and converted approximately $8M of Cala...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 19 Jan 2011

Spreadtrum Unveils New SC8800G Baseband Processor Designed with 40 nm Silicon Technology

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD; "Spreadtrum" or the "Company"), a leading fabless semiconductor provider in China with advanced technology in both 2G and 3G wireless communications stan...

19 Jan 2011

MEMS Industry Group to Host 2011 Sensors Expo

MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems, will be a key technology featured in the educational sessions and throughout the Expo Hall during the 2011 Sensors Expo & Conference taking place June 6-8 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

19 Jan 2011

Magnetotactic Bacteria Orient Themselves Using Nanomagnets

Magnetotactic bacteria orient themselves in their environment with the aid of tiny compasses, consisting of chains of membrane sacs called magnetosomes, each containing a single nanomagnet. Only a few of these species...

19 Jan 2011

Three GLOBALFOUNDRIES Processes Use Sidense's One-Time Programmable Memory IP

Sidense Corp., a leading developer of Logic Non-Volatile Memory (LNVM) OTP IP cores, announced today that the Company has qualified its OTP (one-time programmable) SiPROM products in three GLOBALFOUNDRIES CMOS processes -- 180nm, 130nm and 65nm.

19 Jan 2011

Korea-Based Wisepower Acquires Arrowhead's Subsidiary

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that its Unidym, Inc. subsidiary has been acquired by Wisepower Co., Ltd., a publicly-traded, Seoul, Korea-based electronics company.

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 19 Jan 2011

Nanotechnology News

New Book on Rise of Thin-Film Solar Technology

ReneSola Develops New Virtus Wafer to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

The Challenge to Creating Graphene-Based Electronics

Nanopreme--New Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Epoxy Resin for Racquets and Golf Clubs

Using Nanocrystals in Lead Telluride Can Harness Electricity

Chemistry Students Synthesize Molecules That Might Treat Deadly Diseases

New Cholera Toxin Detection Technique Uses Sugar Coated with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

New Nano-Structured Materials for Human Stem Cell Development

U-M Researchers Develop New Biosensor to Speed Treatment of Bacterial Infections

Arrowhead Research Invests $1 Million in Calando Pharmaceuticals

Spreadtrum Unveils New SC8800G Baseband Processor Designed with 40 nm Silicon Technology

MEMS Industry Group to Host 2011 Sensors Expo

Magnetotactic Bacteria Orient Themselves Using Nanomagnets

Three GLOBALFOUNDRIES Processes Use Sidense's One-Time Programmable Memory IP

Korea-Based Wisepower Acquires Arrowhead's Subsidiary

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