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FibeRio Unveils New Nanofiber System Based on Forcespinning Technology

FibeRio Technology Corporation – The Force For Nanofibers - is announcing the launch of the first ever nanofiber production equipment utilizing Forcespinning Technology at the Filtration 2010 and Materials Research Society conferences in Philadelphia and Boston, respectively, from November 30 - December 2.

9 Nov 2010

Calando Pharmaceuticals and Nanotope Receive Funds under U.S. Government’s QTDP Program

Arrowhead Research Corporation today announced that its portfolio companies, Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Nanotope, Inc., have been awarded cash grants totaling $490,000 ($245,000 each) under the U.S. Government’s Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (“QTDP”) program.

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 9 Nov 2010

Scientists Find Ways to Create Thin Layers of Highly Ordered Polymers

Displays thin like paper, rolled into a tube and other equally futuristic devices will not be created without organic electronics. Creating flexible electronic systems requires knowledge of polymer properties and conditions in which they become self-organised.

9 Nov 2010

Relativistic Transparency in Plasma Has Potential to Function Like Optical Switch

Just like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic transparency in plasma can act like a fast optical switch allowing the flow of light through otherwise opaque plasma. ...

9 Nov 2010

AIXTRON Receives New Order for Black Magic PECVD System from DTU Danchip and DTU Nanotech

AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for a Black Magic Plasma Enhanced CVD (PECVD) system from DTU Danchip and DTU Nanotech at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark. The institution placed the order...

From AIXTRON SE 9 Nov 2010

Georgia Tech Professor Designs Enhanced Nanogenerator Using Array of Nanowires

Blinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number on a small LCD signals the success of a five-year effort to power conventional electronic devices with nanoscale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment using an array of tiny nanowires.

9 Nov 2010

Northrop Grumman Awards Manufacturing Contract to Nanocomp Technologies

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced it has been awarded a manufacturing contract from Northrop Grumman under the U.S. Army Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech).

9 Nov 2010

IEEE Honors Cyrium for Patented Photovoltaic Cell Technology

Cyrium Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of multi-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells, today announced that it was awarded the 2010 Outstanding Corporate Award in Clean Tech from the Ottawa Section of IEEE, the global association that advances innovation and technological excellence.

9 Nov 2010

SEMATECH Engineers to Highlight Advanced Nanowire FETs at IEDM Event

Revealing research breakthroughs, engineers from SEMATECH’s Front End Processes (FEP) program will present technical papers at the 56th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) from December 6-8, 2010, at the Hilton in San Francisco, CA.

9 Nov 2010

ADA Technologies to Develop Enhanced Carbon Nanotube-Based Thermal Interface Materials

ADA Technologies, Inc. received a $100,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force for Phase I research into the development of improved thermal interface materials (TIM) for use in microchips.

From ADA Technologies 9 Nov 2010

Researchers Successfully Store Quantum Information Using Two Entangled Light Beams

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in storing quantum information using two 'entangled' light beams.

9 Nov 2010

Professor Geim and His Team Creates Fluorographene Similar to Teflon

Professor Andre Geim, who along with his colleague Professor Kostya Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene – the world's thinnest material, has now modified it to make fluorographene – a one-molecule-thick material chemically similar to Teflon.

9 Nov 2010

One of the Co-Discoverers of Fullerenes to Provide Lecture on Carbon

Robert Curl, Ph.D., awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 as one of the co-discoverers of carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes, will discuss the timeline of human experience with elemental carbon ...

9 Nov 2010

New Study Describes Complete Cycle of Nanoparticle Trafficking

Using a novel, real-time imaging system, scientists have tracked a group of near-infrared fluorescent nanoparticles from the airspaces of the lungs, into the body and out again, providing a description of the characteris...

9 Nov 2010

Agilent Technologies, Wyss Institute to Advance Genome Engineering and Nanobiotechnology

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced an agreement to work together to develop innovative tools, technologies and instruments that will advance human health and improve the environment.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 9 Nov 2010