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Nanoparticles Can Deliver dsRNA to Mosquito Larvae

Research conducted by a Kansas State University team may help solve a problem that scientists and pest controllers have been itching to for years.

20 Jul 2010

Microscopy Technique Helps to Produce Plant Cell Image at Nanoscale

By imaging the cell walls of a zinnia leaf down to the nanometer scale, energy researchers have a better idea about how to turn plants into biofuels. In a paper appearing online in the journal Plant Physiol...

20 Jul 2010

Arima Puchase Multiple MOCVD Systems from Veeco

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Arima Optoelectronics Corporation (AOC), a world-leading manufacturer of LED epitaxial wafers and chips headquartered in Taiwan, purchased multiple TurboDisc(R) K465i Gallium Nitride (GaN) and E475 Arsenic Phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems.

From Veeco 19 Jul 2010

Nanotechnology Boosting Power Plant Efficiency and Reducing Nuclear Waste

With renewed attention being given to nuclear power, a UT Dallas researcher has snagged an $875,000 Department of Energy (DOE) grant to explore a means to boost power plant efficiency and reduce nuclear waste.

19 Jul 2010

DCU Receives Funding for Construction of Nano-Bioanalytical Research Facility

DCU has been awarded €23.8m in Cycle V PRTLI, following an announcement earlier today by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen.

19 Jul 2010

SIA Appoints Toohey as New President

Brian C. Toohey took office today as president of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Toohey, 42, succeeds George Scalise, who has led the association since 1997.

19 Jul 2010

UNL Researchers Secure $1.3 Million Grant to Purchase New Transmission Electron Microscope

Materials science and nanotechnology researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting some much-needed equipment that will help enhance and expedite their studies. UNL’s Nebraska Center for Mat...

19 Jul 2010

Researchers Develop New Barcode Method to Produce Sharper Image of Genome

A completely new method for producing an image of individual DNA molecules’ genetic make-up has been developed by researchers in Sweden and Denmark. The results are published in the latest issue of the journal Proce...

19 Jul 2010

New Way to Optimize CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Mainz have made a major breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells. Computer simulations designed to investigate the so-called in...

19 Jul 2010

Nanotechnologists Develop New Sensor to Detect Anthrax Spores

Nanotechnologists at University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have developed a sensor that can detect anthrax spores.

19 Jul 2010

STMicroelectronics to Exhibit MEMS Solutions at Embedded Systems Conference

STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, is using the Embedded Systems Conference in Bangalore from July 21-23, 2010, to showcase its leading-edge embedded systems technologies aimed at India’s fast growing consumer and industrial segments.

From STMicroelectronics 19 Jul 2010

Boston Micromachines Honored for Development of MEMS-Based Instrument

Boston Micromachines Corporation, a leading provider of MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products for adaptive optics systems, announced today that a collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Univer...

From Boston Micromachines Corp. 19 Jul 2010

Genetic Immunity Releases Phase II Study Result of DermaVir Nanomedicine

Genetic Immunity, a US/Hungarian biopharmaceutical company developing nanomedicine-based immunotherapies for HIV/AIDS and other chronic diseases, is releasing Phase II data on the Company's novel DermaVir therapeutic vaccine for HIV/AIDS during the XVIII International AIDS Conference this week in Vienna, Austria.

19 Jul 2010

Goodrich to Produce Nano-Enhanced Composites Along with UDRI

Goodrich Corporation will work with the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) to produce an innovative nanomaterial with metal-like conductive properties into a rugged composite structure, in sizes suitable for large-scale commercial aerospace applications.

19 Jul 2010

New Optical Solution from Nova Enables Development of Advanced 22nm Technology

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ: NVMI) provider of leading edge stand-alone metrology and the market leader of integrated metrology solutions to the semiconductor process control market, today introduced its...

From Nova Measuring Instruments 17 Jul 2010