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NIST Awards $6 Million to Construct New Western Institute of Nanotechnology Building

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science $6 million to support the construction of the new st...

From University of California, Los Angeles 7 Oct 2010

Indian Researchers Demonstrate That Nanocrystals Can Make Drugs Soluble in Water

Researchers in India have demonstrated that producing nanoscopic crystals of a pharmaceutical product can allow the medication to be absorbed by the gut even if the drug is not soluble in water. Research suggests that...

7 Oct 2010

ISSYS’ New Manufacturing Site Helps to Increase MEMS-Based Sensor Production

Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS) announced that it has completed its 2010 manufacturing expansion project, adding 5,400 square feet to its existing facility.

7 Oct 2010

Quantiam Technologies Brings Potential of Nanotechnology to Edmonton, Canada

Quantiam Technologies Inc., this month’s featured innovator at Edmonton Research Park, is bringing Edmonton the potential of nanotechnology to benefit the environment and transform the city’s economy. The ...

7 Oct 2010

Camtek Wins New Order for Multiple Wafer Inspection Systems

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that it received an order for multiple wafer inspection systems from a major OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) company in South Ea...

7 Oct 2010

CEA-Leti, SPTS to Develop New Processes for 3D-ICs

CEA-Leti and SPP Process Technology Systems (SPTS) today announced they have agreed to develop advanced 300mm through-silicon via (TSV) 3D-IC processes at CEA-Leti’s 300mm facilities in Grenoble, France.

From CEA-Leti 7 Oct 2010

New Paper Describes Method for Growing 3D Bone Tissues in Microfluidic Channels

A research team, co-headed by Dr. Woo Lee and Dr. Hongjun Wang of Stevens Institute of Technology, has published a paper describing a new method that generates three-dimensional (3D) tissue models for studying bacterial ...

7 Oct 2010

NanoScale Applies Military Know-How To Chinese Drywall Crisis

NanoScale Corporation (NanoScale®), a leader in advanced chemistry products, services, and technologies, today announced an expansion of its focused program to apply its chemical technology platform for use in combat...

6 Oct 2010

Researchers Discover Nanosize Diamonds in Greenland Ice Sheet

An international team of scientists has discovered nanosize diamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, according to a study presented in the Journal of Glaciology. The diamonds, which number in the trillions and are so tiny that they can only be observed with special, highly magnifying microscopes, add credence to the controversial hypothesis that fragments of a comet struck North America and Europe approximately 12 900 years ago.

6 Oct 2010

$6 Million to Support Construction of New State-of-the-Art Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering and Metrology

6 Oct 2010

IRDEP Showcases Photon's Photovoltaic Hyperspectral Analyzer

Photon etc. and the Institute for Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP) in France have agreed to showcase Photon etc's Photovoltaic (PV) Hyperspectral Analyzer in order to demonstrate its performanc...

6 Oct 2010

Hiden Introduce Compact Benchtop Mass Spectrometer for Continuous Gas Monitoring

Hiden Analytical introduce the new QGA compact benchtop mass spectrometer configured for continuous real-time multi-species analysis of both gases and vapours in the pressure range from 2 bar to 100mbar absolute.

From Hiden Analytical 6 Oct 2010

Russian-Kazakhstan Nanotechnology Venture Fund Moves Closer to Founding

RUSNANO, Kazyna Capital Management (Republic of Kazakhstan), VTB Capital, and I2BF Holdings have signed a memorandum of intent to establish the Russian-Kazakhstan Nanotechnology Venture Fund. The fund’s target size...

6 Oct 2010

Researchers Use Nanosight NTA to Size and Count Cellular Microvesicles and Exosomes

Researchers from Oxford have recently presented exciting new data applying nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) from Nanosight to size and count both cellular microvesicles and exosomes at a low concentration and, when used in conjunction with fluorescent labels, to selectively determine and analyse specific types of vesicle within a complex sample.

6 Oct 2010

Researchers and Entrepreneurs to Start Nanotechnology Cooperation In Tomsk

Nanotechnology is considered in Russia as an engine for innovation and growth of the technology sector. To compensate for developmental deficits and create international competitiveness, an ambi-tious government program ...

6 Oct 2010