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AMEC Discloses Milestones That Favors Rising Momentum in Asian Market

Today in San Francisco, Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., (AMEC) revealed a series of milestones that document its rising market momentum across Asia. Since its debut at SEMICON Japan 2007, the company has ...

17 Jul 2010

Vishay Expands its Optoelectronics Product Family

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of the new AEC-Q101-qualified VEMD25x0X01 high-speed silicon PIN photodiodes and VEMT25x0X01 NPN planar phototransistors.

17 Jul 2010

New Lab on a Chip Device Developed to Diagnose HIV Infection

UC Davis biomedical engineer Prof. Alexander Revzin has developed a "lab on a chip" device for HIV testing.

17 Jul 2010

Chemists Discover New Dynamic on Crystal Growth

Chemists from New York University and Russia's St. Petersburg State University have created crystals that can twist and untwist, pointing to a much more varied process of crystal growth than previously thought. Their...

17 Jul 2010

Using Nanotechnology, Tecnalia Develops New Green Cement

The Tecnalia Construction Unit, within the framework of its commitment to sustainability, has developed a new generation of environmentally-friendly cements that enable cutting direct CO2 emissions to the atmosphere...

17 Jul 2010

Nanophotonics Device Market to Reach $58 Billion in 2014

Nanotechnology, optoelectronics, and photonics are expected to make a significant impact on the way we see the world today. Nanophotonics is the combination of these three technologies. The nanophotonics components ...

17 Jul 2010

Nanotechnology Making Generators More Efficient

Siemens is searching for insulators that will make generators more efficient. The electrical energy in generators is generated in copper bars insulated against high electrical voltages with thick layers of plastic. New materials would enable a thinner design for these insulators, freeing up space for thicker bars in which ultimately more energy could be generated.

16 Jul 2010

Domtar and FPInnovations Forms New Joint Venture Nanotechnology Company

Domtar Corporation (NYSE/TSX: UFS) and FPInnovations today announced that they have formed a new joint venture company to build the world's first one metric ton per day commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demo...

16 Jul 2010

Researchers Using Special Carbon Nanoparticles to Optimize Materials

Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes -- soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms -- to aluminum to obtain a new material that is roughly three times harder than conventional composites, yet weights much less.

16 Jul 2010

Magnetic Nanoparticles Selectively Bind to and Remove Ovarian Tumor Cells from Abdominal Cavity Fluid

A major complicating factor in the treatment of ovarian cancer is that malignant cells are often shed into the patient’s abdominal cavity. These cells can then spread to other tissues, seeding new tumors that make ...

16 Jul 2010

In Vivo Assembly of Nanoparticle Components to Improve Targeted Cancer Imaging

Virtually every study that uses nanoparticles to deliver drugs and imaging agents to tumors starts by loading the clinical payload into the nanoparticle and then injecting the resulting delivery agent into the body. Whil...

16 Jul 2010

Nanosponge Delivers Sustained, Specific Release of Paclitaxel to Irradiated Tumors

When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material that its creators call a nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection of the same drug. That is the conclusion of a paper published in the journal Cancer Research.

16 Jul 2010