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High-profile American Technological Entrepreneurs Visits Nanotechnology Corporation

When the international forum Global Innovation Partnerships opened yesterday in Moscow, a delegation of executives from California-based investment funds was there to meet RUSNANO.

20 Oct 2010

AFS Nano Platform Chosen by Analog and Mixed-Signal IP Developer

Berkeley Design Automation Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform today announced that Mohagi, a developer of energy-efficient analog and mixed-signal IP, has selected the company's Analog FastSPICE Nano SPICE simulator (AFS Nano) for analog and mixed-signal IP verification.

20 Oct 2010

Vistec Combines New Air-Bearing Stage Platform with Electron-Beam Lithography Systems

Vistec Electron Beam GmbH announced today that the company is ready to provide its electron-beam lithography systems with a vacuum compatible air-bearing based positioning system overcoming the limitations of roller bear...

From Vistec Electron Beam 20 Oct 2010

Extreme DA Launches Enhanced Timing Analysis Technology for Nanometer IC Processes

Extreme DA™, the leader in new-generation timing analysis software, announced the 2010.09 release of its GoldTime™ product with 2X faster timing analysis, including signal integrity (SI) effects and enhanced ...

20 Oct 2010

Making Sugar Juice Flow using Nanotechnology

Plants play an important role as producers of sugar and carbohydrates. Scientists from the University of Würzburg are conducting research in this area – with the long-term goal of influencing sugar levels in agricultural crop plants.

20 Oct 2010

Imec Taiwan Signs Co-Funding Contract with Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs

Imec Taiwan today signed the co-funding contract with the Taiwanese Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) for its R+D activity Imec Taiwan Innovation Centre (ITIC). ITIC’s goal is to expedite applied research project...

From IMEC 20 Oct 2010

New Bionanotechnological Device for Use in Genetic Diagnostics

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Artificial Intelligence Group (LIA), based at the Facultad de Informática, has created a new DNA-based biological sensor that has potential applications in the field of genetic diagnostics.

20 Oct 2010

PSI Signs Licensing and Technology Development Agreement with SoluBest

Particle Sciences Inc. (PSI), a leading pharmaceutical CRO and SoluBest have entered into a licensing and technology development agreement. Under the agreement, Particle Sciences will be the exclusive contract researc...

20 Oct 2010

UCLA Engineer Designs Nano-Enhanced Component for 3D Microbatteries

Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous in today's consumer electronics -- powering our laptops, phones, and iPods. Research funded by DARPA is pushing the limits of this technology and trying to create some ...

20 Oct 2010

Study on High Reactivity of Gold Nanoparticles in Oxidation Mechanism

University of Virginia chemical engineers Robert J. Davis and Matthew Neurock have uncovered the key features that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water. The re...

20 Oct 2010

Applying Capillary Forming Process to Carbon Nanotubes Create New 3D Shapes

Twisting spires, concentric rings, and gracefully bending petals are a few of the new three-dimensional shapes that University of Michigan engineers can make from carbon nanotubes using a new manufacturing process.

20 Oct 2010

Research Underway to Mass Produce Cheap, High-Quality Graphene

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to the two scientists who first isolated graphene, one-atom-thick crystals of graphite. Now, a researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is trying to ...

20 Oct 2010

Georgia Tech Physicists Develop New Quantum Communication Device

When the military needs to send the key to encrypted data across the world, it can't necessarily rely on today's communication lines, where the message could be covertly intercepted. But physicists at the Geor...

From Georgia Institute of Technology 20 Oct 2010

Understanding Inner Level Structure of Single-Molecule Magnet

In the world of the very small, researchers at Shanxi University in China have announced progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quant...

20 Oct 2010

New Hand-Held Sensor for Detecting High-Powered Explosive

University of Illinois chemists have developed a simple sensor to detect an explosive used in shoe bombs. It could lead to inexpensive, easy-to-use devices for luggage and passenger screening at airports and elsewhere...

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 20 Oct 2010