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Researchers Win Prize for Developing Technology that Could Improve Medical Imaging and Targeted Drug Delivery

Researchers from University College London have won a £25,000 prize for developing technology that could be used to improve medical imaging, the targeted delivery of drugs and much more. The 2010 Armourers and B...

29 Jun 2010

JPK Instruments Launches NanoWizard3 BioScience AFM at MicroScience 2010

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to select MicroScience 2010 to announce the launch of their third generation, dedicated BioAFM system, the NanoWizard®3 BioScience AFM.

From Bruker BioAFM 29 Jun 2010

20 Attoseconds: The Shortest Time Ever Recorded

Over a century ago, Albert Einstein resolved an apparent paradox in the theory of photoemission by describing light as being composed of particles, called photons, rather than waves. Since then, photoemission has bee...

29 Jun 2010

AIXTRON Receives Order from Philips Lumileds Lighting Company for AIXTRON G5 HT MOCVD Reactor

AIXTRON AG (FSE: AIX; NASDAQ: AIXG) announced today that Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, a world leading manufacturer of high-power light emitting diodes (LEDs) and a solid-state lighting industry pioneer, has ordered...

From AIXTRON SE 29 Jun 2010

Starpharma and Monash Awarded Grant to Advance New Drug Delivery Method

Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRY) and the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) have been awarded an Australian Research Council funding grant for the purpose of advancing a new drug deliver...

From Starpharma Holdings Ltd 28 Jun 2010

Using Nanotechnology to Deliver Toxic Platinum Atoms to Tumors

Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers have devised a method that may allow clinicians to use higher doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug that has been limited because it is toxic not only to tumors but to patients' kidneys.

28 Jun 2010

Veeco Awarded $800,000 to Support Emerging Renewable Energy Technology

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that its St. Paul operations was awarded $800,000 in matching funds by the Minnesota Department of Commerce's Office of Energy Security provided by the American R...

From Veeco 28 Jun 2010

WiSpry and IBM Team Up to Develop Advanced RF-MEMS Technology

WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced that it is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to develop MEMS process technology and manufacture its tunable RF product roadmap.

28 Jun 2010

Book on Nanotechnology and Biomedical Applications

Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology explains nanotechnology to an audience that does not necessarily have a scientific background. It covers all aspects, including the new areas of biomedical applications...

28 Jun 2010

Nanotechnology Scientists Create iphone App for Exhibition

A group of researchers from UCL have created an iphone game as part of their entry for the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition.

28 Jun 2010

New Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at Göttingen University

Beginning July 1, 2010, the German Research Foundation will support a new collaborative research centre (CRC) at Göttingen University. CRC 860 is titled "The integrative structural biology of macromolecular com...

28 Jun 2010

AIXTRON to Deliver CRIUS Deposition System for Nitride Nanowire Project

AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for one CRIUS deposition system from the University of Duisburg-Essen. The order was placed in the fourth quarter of 2009 and the system will be delivered in the second quarter of 2010.

From AIXTRON SE 28 Jun 2010

Ultrashort X-Ray Pulses Produce Low Charge States in Nitrogen Molecules

High-charge-state ions in a molecule cause strong Coulomb forces, repulsive forces that try to blow its atoms apart. But the research team's crucial finding was that a way to produce only lower charge states in nitr...

28 Jun 2010

Altairnano Receives U.S. Patent for Unique Nanotechnology Manufacturing Process

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) (NASDAQ: ALTI), announced it had been granted a U.S. patent for the "Method of Producing Mixed Metal Oxides and Metal Oxide Compounds."

From Altair Nanotechnologies 28 Jun 2010

Smartkem Wins Gold for Innovative Print Electronics Solution

SmartKem, the developer of novel materials and processes that create high resolution microelectronic components directly onto thin flexible materials, today announced that it has been awarded gold at the Venturefest 2010 Best of British Innovation Award.

28 Jun 2010