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Electrons Spiral to a New Future

A new physical quantity of electrons-orbital angular momentum-has been generated by Masaya Uchida and Akira Tonomura at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako, Japan. The work, published in the international scienc...

1 Apr 2010

NEI Corporation to Develop Self-Healing, Anti-Corrosion Coatings

NEI Corporation and its collaborator, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, were awarded an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop self-healing, anti-corrosion...

From NEI Corporation 1 Apr 2010

Company Acquires Exclusive License to Patent Pending Chemical Detection Technology from UC Riverside

Nano Engineered Applications, Inc. (NEA), a majority owned subsidiary of Avisio, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AVIC), announced today that the company has acquired an exclusive license to a patent pending chemical detection technolo...

1 Apr 2010

Technology that Could Accelerate Scanning Probe Microscopes by Factor of 1000

Since more than twenty years, scanning force microscopes are employed in research and industry. Their enormous resolution triggered many applications in nanotechnology. Their rather low image rate is however a disadvantage - changing objects and processes cannot be imaged.

1 Apr 2010

Program Targets Development of Low-Cost Metallization to Drive Improved Efficiency

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany and Technic Inc., a global leader in the development of photovoltaic electrodeposition processes, today announced a research...

1 Apr 2010

Swiss Biotech Association and IBM Research Launches Life Sciences and Nanotechnology Platform

The Swiss Biotech Association serves this purpose but, due to the wide-spread activities of its members, topic or product focused pooling of interests is a challenge. Therefore, the Association identified industrial and ...

1 Apr 2010

Leaders of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Want its Members to Go for the Impossible

Leaders of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science want its members to go for the impossible. The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control.

1 Apr 2010

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Wins Contract for Five Module Cluster Tool from Robert Bosch

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) has just won a contract for a five module cluster tool from Robert Bosch, one of the world's leading manufacturers of solar cells. The System100Pro deposition tool is a &...

1 Apr 2010

Researchers Discover Photovoltaic Effect at Nanoscale in Multiferroic Ceramic Material

A newly discovered path for the conversion of sunlight to electricity could brighten the future for photovoltaic technology. Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found a new mechanism by which the photovoltaic effect can take place in semiconductor thin-films.

1 Apr 2010