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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

Sugar-Coated Nanocapsule Delivers Large Doses of Radioactivity to Tumors

Starting with simple carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Spain has developed a sugar-coated nanocapsule that can deliver large doses of radioactivity to tumors. The researchers envision de...

16 Jul 2010

Veeco Receives Order from Neo-Neon

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Neo-Neon Holdings Ltd., a leading lighting company listed on the Hong Kong exchanges, has ordered its first Veeco TurboDisc(R) K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor...

From Veeco 16 Jul 2010

SEMI Honors Leading Innovations in Microelectronics Industry

Jordan Valley Semiconductors (Migdal Ha’Emek, Israel) and Nikon Corporation, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) are the winners of the prestigious “SEMICON Best of West” award. These awards, given today at the SEMICON West 2010 ex...

16 Jul 2010

Tekmira to Advance RNAi Therapeutic Using Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: TKM), a leader in RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that it has been awarded a new contract with the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) through the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).

16 Jul 2010

Thin Film Solar Module Production Expected to Grow 24%

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ca34d2/thin_film_photov) has announced the addition of the "Thin - Film Photovoltaic (PV) Cells Market Analysis to 2020 - CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium ...

16 Jul 2010

Solvay to Develop PEEK Products Using Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced Compounds

Solvay Advanced Polymers, LLC is partnering with Entegris Inc.’s TEGO(TM) Polymers unit to develop and market advanced carbon nanotube-enhanced PEEK products suited for a range of emerging applications in the medic...

16 Jul 2010

BioImagene Receives License to Access Olympus' Patents in Virtual Microscopy

Olympus America Inc. has signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement with BioImagene, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, allowing BioImagene to access an extensive portfolio of Olympus patents in the field of digital pathology and virtual microscopy.

16 Jul 2010

United Microelectronics to Purchase 300mm CMOS Manufacturing Tools from TI

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) (NYSE: UMC; TSE: 2303), today announced it will further increase its production capacity with the purchase of numerous advanced 300mm CMOS manufacturing tools. The tools wil...

From United Microelectronics Corporation 16 Jul 2010

New Publication on Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/421af7/nanostructured_mat) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology III, Volume 3...

16 Jul 2010