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New Nanotechnology for Enhanced Delivery of Cosmetics and Drugs Through the Skin

A team of researchers at the University of South Australia have developed and patented new technology that allows for enhanced delivery of cosmetics and drugs through the skin.

5 Jul 2010

Global Nanotechnology Market in Energy Sector to Reach $700 Million by 2013

With the use of nanotechnology in the energy sector for improvement of manufacturing processes, conversion, storage and energy saving, we anticipate that the market for nanotechnology in Energy Applications will cli...

3 Jul 2010

NEXX Announces Delivery of 50th Stratus Electrochemical Deposition System

NEXX Systems, a leading provider of processing equipment for advanced wafer-level packaging applications, today announced the shipment of its 50th Stratus electrochemical deposition system, to be installed at a Taiwanese foundry.

3 Jul 2010

MEMC Acquires California-Based Solar Firm

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR), a global leader in the manufacture and sale of wafers to the semiconductor and solar industries, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of privately held S...

3 Jul 2010

McBain to Exhibit Automated Wafer Handling Systems at Semicon West

McBain Systems of Simi Valley announced that it will be exhibiting at the Semicon West show in San Francisco later this month.

3 Jul 2010

Quantum Dot Product Developer QD Vision Appoints New CEO

QD Vision, developer of Quantum Light™ nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, announced that Jason Carlson has been named President and CEO.

3 Jul 2010

Researchers Develop Microrobot Weighing Half a Gram

Robotic cars attracted attention last decade with a 100-mile driverless race across the desert competing for a $1 million prize put up by the U.S. government. The past few years have given rise to a growing...

3 Jul 2010

Carl Zeiss Hosts International Competition for Upcoming Micro- an Nanotechnology Engineers

Carl Zeiss is hosting euspen Challenge 2010 which is taking place in Jena from 1 – 3 July. The international competition for students of the engineering sciences in the fields of precision engineering, microtechnology and nanotechnology is organized by the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen) and is taking place for the first time this year.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 2 Jul 2010

Keller and Heckman and NanoReg Hosts Nanotechnology Today 2010

Building on last year's popular webinars on the regulation of nanotechnology, Keller and Heckman and NanoReg are pleased to announce Nanotechnology Today 2010, a series of four new webinars designed to address import...

2 Jul 2010

Researchers Use Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Emulsions

New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.

2 Jul 2010

Architecture of Mitochondrial Complex I at Nanoscale Level

Scientists of the University of Freiburg and the University of Frankfurt have elucidated the architecture of the largest protein complex of the cellular respiratory chain.

2 Jul 2010

Study on Quantum-to-Classical World Transition

Darwinian concept of natural selection figures into theory about the core of physical reality Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that c...

2 Jul 2010

CEA Leti Selects Eyelit’s Software Suite to Support MEMS Production in France

Eyelit Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control, and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, discrete electronics, semiconductor, and photovoltaic (solar) industries, announced today that CEA-Leti, the French nanoelectronics Research & Development plant, has purchased Eyelit’s manufacturing software suite ¯including Eyelit MES, SPC, Asset Management, Quality Management and SYSTEMA’s Equipment Integration Suite¯ to support semiconductor and MEMS production in its facilities in Grenoble, France.

From CEA-Leti 2 Jul 2010

SAIC-Frederick Utilizes Fluidigm’s System for EBV Genome Sequencing

SAIC-Frederick, Inc. and Fluidigm Corporation are collaborating to decode the entire genome of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) using technology that can speed up research on the genetic basis of cancer and other diseases.

From Standard BioTools 2 Jul 2010

Owlstone Nanotech Receives New Purchase Order in Japanese Market

Advance Nanotech, Inc. is pleased to report that Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. has announced the receipt of a new order for five development platform systems from a Japanese technology company, and has announced recent appointments of two Asian distributors for its products.

2 Jul 2010