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Making Graphene Bend, Twist and Roll

Can graphene -- a newly discovered form of pure carbon that may one day replace the silicon in computers, televisions, mobile phones and other common electronic devices -- be made to bend, twist and roll?

21 Apr 2010

NaturalNano Acquires Major Stake in COMBOTEXS to Expand Nano Tubule Market

NaturalNano, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NNAN) (Frankfurt:N3N) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of a 51% interest in COMBOTEXS, LLC (Combotexs) from World Wide Medical LLC (WWM) a privately held company in con...

21 Apr 2010

New STM32L Series Microcontrollers Based on 130nm Process Technology

STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) , a world leader in microcontrollers, today announced sampling to lead customers of the STM32L series: the industry's first ultra-low-power ARM® Cortex(TM)-M3 microcontrollers available from a top-10 silicon supplier.

From STMicroelectronics 21 Apr 2010

Magma Design Automation Announces MUSIC India's Best Paper Award Winners

Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced the "Best Paper" winners for MUSIC – Magma Users Summit on Integrated Circuits – held in Bangalor...

21 Apr 2010

Industrial Nanotech Becomes Member of DOE’s Save Energy Now ALLY Program

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanoscience energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company has been approved as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Industrial Technologies Program Save Energy Now as an ALLY organization.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 21 Apr 2010

NC State Researchers Work to Improve Reliability of Smart Sensors

In military and security situations, a split second can make the difference between life and death, so North Carolina State University's development of new "smart sensors" that allow for faster response tim...

21 Apr 2010

Duke and LabCorp Form Joint Venture to Commercialize Newly Discovered Biomarkers

Duke University Medical Center and Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) announced today the formation of a joint venture to commercialize new biomarkers.

21 Apr 2010

Oxford Instruments NanoScience Awarded The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation

Oxford Instruments NanoScience has been awarded The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation for the development of Triton™200, a cryogen-free dilution refrigerator with an integrated high-field superconducting...

21 Apr 2010

Nanotechnology Researcher Wins 2010 Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize

We are delighted to announce that Dr Christian Rüegg from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London is the 2010 recipient of the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize.

From Oxford Instruments Nanoscience 21 Apr 2010

veonis Chosen as Agent for Tegal's DRIE Products in Germany

Tegal Corporation, an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and optoelectronic devices, announced today it has appointed veonis Technologies GmbH, Puchheim, Germany, as its agent for silicon DRIE and dielectric DRIE products in Germany.

From Collabrx, Inc. 21 Apr 2010

Yale University Engineers Find That Defects in Carbon Nanotubes Stimulate Immune Response

Yale University engineers have found that the defects in carbon nanotubes cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's natural immune response. Their findings, which appear as the cover a...

21 Apr 2010

Innovative Technology to Produce Thin Film Absorbers for Solar Cells

Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells – an innovative technology that could significantly reduce the cost of sola...

21 Apr 2010

Successful Bonding of Glass Reservoir to the Microfluidic Layer of NanoBattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc., the developer of Power On Command™ battery technologies, will be announcing this afternoon at the NanoBusiness Conference/NYC, an event sponsored by the NanoBusiness Alliance, that it has successfully bonded a glass reservoir capable of holding various electrolytes to the microfluidic structured layer of the mPhase Smart NanoBattery -- a key step in the packaging and assembly phases of this innovative new power source.

From MyPebble 21 Apr 2010

Nangate’s New Footprint Compatible Module Help Improve Performance of Digital Designs

Nangate Inc, the leading supplier of digital cell library development and design optimization solutions, today announced the release of the Footprint Compatible module, a solution enabling power reduction and faster timing closure when used with Nangate Design Optimizer™ and MegaLibrary™.

21 Apr 2010

Nemotek Unveils New Wide View Lens Based on Wafer-Level Optics

Nemotek Technologie, a manufacturer of customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today introduced the first wafer-level, one-element lens with a wider field of view.

21 Apr 2010