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Mayo Clinic's Strategic Alliance Focuses Nanotechnology Projects

Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are announcing a strategic alliance designed to promote a broad spectrum of collaborative research, development of new technologies and clinical tools, and design and implementation of novel education programs. Both parties recently signed an agreement establishing the formal relationship.

23 Jun 2010

New Programmable Nanodevice Made of DNA is Ideal for Medical Applications

By emulating nature's design principles, a team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has created nanodevices made of D...

23 Jun 2010

FANAS: Conference Highlighting Friction and Adhesion Relationship at Nano-Scale

FANAS is a new series of conferences initiated as annual meetings of the ESF EUROCORES Programme FANAS, but is open to all scientists working on related topics.

23 Jun 2010

Cambridge NanoTech Marks Milestone by Delivering 200th ALD System

Cambridge NanoTech, the world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) science and equipment, today announced the delivery of its 200th ALD system.

23 Jun 2010

Alchimer Introduces New AquiVia Fill Process for High-Aspect-Ratio TSV Films

Alchimer S.A., a leading provider of technology for the deposition of nanometric films used in both semiconductor interconnects and 3D through-silicon vias (TSV), today announced a groundbreaking advance for filling narrow, high-aspect-ratio TSVs while significantly reducing the need for chemical components in the metallization process.

23 Jun 2010

Waters Releases New ACQUITY UPLC H-Class Bio System

Waters Corporation today introduced the first-of-its-kind Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class Bio System, expanding the scientific and business benefits of UPLC® Technology for macromolecule analysis by optimizing characterization of biomolecule structures supporting their progression to viable biotherapeutics.

23 Jun 2010

Innovative and Versatile Sputter Coater and Carbon Evaporator for SEM Applications

Electron Microscopy Sciences, the premier supplier of preparation equipment for microscopy, is pleased to offer the EMS 150R, a compact rotary-pumped coating system. The EMS 150R boasts high quality performance and flexibility and is ideally suited for SEM and other coating applications.

22 Jun 2010

Thin-Film Material Increases Power Production in Fuel Cells

A surprising MIT laboratory finding about the behavior of a thin sheet of material - less than a thousandth of the thickness of a human hair - could lead to improved ways of studying the behavior of electrodes and perhaps ultimately to improvements in the rate of power production from one type of fuel cell, according to a report published this week.

22 Jun 2010

Major Advance in Quantum Information Technology with Coupling of Light and Superconductors

Raytheon Company's (NYSE: RTN) BBN Technologies has achieved a major advance in quantum information technology with the coupling of light and superconductors. The achievement is described in a paper, "Direct...

22 Jun 2010

Asymetric Nanostructures for Early and More Accurate Prediction of Cancer

Researchers at the nanotechnology research centre imec (Leuven, Belgium) have demonstrated biosensors based on novel nanostructure geometries that increase the sensitivity and allow to detect extremely low concentrations...

From IMEC 22 Jun 2010

Initial investment to Develop Technological Applications for Future Electronics

Key executives of Bayer MaterialScience and the Singapore Economic Development Board officially opened today the company's new Functional Films Research Centre. The full-scale facility for upstream research will focus on coated high-tech films and nanotechnology to meet the ever-evolving and growing demand of the electronics market in Asia Pacific.

22 Jun 2010