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NanoBusiness Alliance Confirms Commitment for Nanomaterials Product Sustainability

The NanoBusiness Alliance today issued a Position Statement on Nanomaterials Product Sustainability, which reflects NanoBusiness Alliance members’ enduring commitment to managing effectively the environmental, healt...

From Nanobusiness Alliance 2 Jul 2010

E Ink Introduces New Electronic Paper Display Technology

E Ink® Corporation, the leading developer and marketer of electronic paper display technology, today announced the Q2 release of its next generation display technology, Pearl. With Pearl, E Ink expands the capabilities of reflective displays, bringing electronic paper performance to the next level.

From E Ink Corp. 2 Jul 2010

Shape Memory Alloy Composition Discovered Using Thin Film Material Libraries

A new shape memory alloy with up to now unprecedented functional stability was developed by researchers from the Institute for Materials at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in cooperation with researchers from the USA and Japan.

2 Jul 2010

ASU Researcher Finds New Way to Commercialize Graphene

Since its discovery, graphene—an unusual and versatile substance composed of a single-layer crystal lattice of carbon atoms—has caused much excitement in the scientific community.

2 Jul 2010

New Market-Oriented Project to Develop Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

A grant to the Danish company Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S and Risoe DTU will ensure that the current efforts within solid oxide fuel cells will lead to prototypes in 2012 which meet market demands for efficiency, lifetime ...

2 Jul 2010

Mekoprint Turns Polymer Solar Cell Manufacturing into Reality

Production of polymer solar cells starts from a roll of flexible foil onto which the solar cell is built layer by layer by printing and finally rolled up onto the coil again. Encapsulated and ready-to-use units can ...

2 Jul 2010

New Method to Produce High-Efficiency Flexible Solar Cells

The Dichtel group in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has developed a method to organize organic dyes into stacked sheets that are porous for incorporation into flexible solar cells.

2 Jul 2010

Nanofibers: Technologies and Developing Markets

According to a new technical market research report, NANOFIBERS: TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPING MARKETS (NAN043B) from BCC Research, the global market for nanofibers is an estimated $102 million in 2010, but is expected to increase to $442.7 million in 2015, for a 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.3%.

1 Jul 2010

Single Water Molecules Slicing into Different Atomic Components

In its bulk state, magnesium oxide (MgO) is a chalky white, rather unreactive mineral that is best known as an ingredient in antacid medication. But when this compound is formed into nanoscale films, only a few atoms dee...

1 Jul 2010

Leti to Highlight Latest Research Findings and Key Programs for Semiconductor Industry

At Semicon West, Leti will highlight some of its latest research findings and key programs for the semiconductor industry, including maskless lithography, FDSOI and 3D integration. The abstracts below summarize Leti&rsqu...

From CEA-Leti 1 Jul 2010

"Transformational Plasmon Optics" Opens Door to Practical Integrated, Compact Optical Data-Processing Chips

Powerful new microscopes able to resolve DNA molecules with visible light, superfast computers that use light rather than electronic signals to process information, and Harry Potteresque invisibility cloaks are just some of the many thrilling promises of transformation optics.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Jul 2010

Strategic Collaboration with Applied Materials and Biofilm Helped Bringing This Key Advancement to the Market

To prevent unpleasant surprises like this, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (Fraunhofer FEP) in Dresden developed a method to coat plastic foils with a very thin barrier layer that keeps out humidity and oxygen, the main culprits of food deterioration.

1 Jul 2010

Roche Partners with IBM for Developing Nanopore-Based Sequencer

Roche (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets: RHHBY) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an agreement to develop a nanopore-based sequencer that will directly read and decode human DNA quickly and efficiently.

1 Jul 2010

Construction Begins for the European XFEL

The traditional tunnel and borer christening celebration today marked the start of construction of the tunnel system for the X-ray laser European XFEL. More than 500 guests attended the ceremony on the building site in S...

1 Jul 2010

NEXX to Deliver Wafer Level Packaging Technologies to Unisem

NEXX Systems – a leading provider of advanced wafer-level chip scale packaging equipment, headquartered in the Boston area – today announced a repeat, multi-product order for an Apollo physical vapor deposition system and Stratus electrochemical deposition system to Unisem Advanced Technologies (UAT), a wafer bumping facility in Malaysia.

1 Jul 2010