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Nanomachines May Someday Operate Far More Efficiently Thanks to Important Theoretical Discoveries

Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famo...

7 Dec 2009

Harnessing Nanotechnology to Quickly Produce Ultra-Lightweight Bendable Batteries

Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.

7 Dec 2009

Scientists Develop Way to Rapidly Manipulate and Sort Different Cells in Blood Using Magnetizable Liquids

The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could dramatically improve the speed and sensitivity of tests used to detect cancer biomarkers, blood disorders, viruses and other diseases.

7 Dec 2009

MEMSCAP Incorporates Key Technology in PillCam COLON 2 Video Capsule

MEMSCAP (NYSE Euronext: MEMS), the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, today announces it has incorporated its key technology in the PillCam® COLON 2 ...

7 Dec 2009

Researchers Identify Peptide Specifically Recognizes and Penetrates Cancerous Tumors

Researchers at Burnham Institute for Medical Research at University of California, Santa Barbara have identified a peptide (a chain of amino acids) that specifically recognizes and penetrates cancerous tumors but not nor...

7 Dec 2009

Physicists Face Daunting Task of Developing New Reliable Ways of Measuring Extreme Low Temperatures

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised a thermometer that can potentially measure temperatures as low as tens of trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

7 Dec 2009

Ener1 Receives $20 Million in Fresh Investment Capital from ITOCHU Corporation

Large-format lithium-ion battery maker Ener1, Inc. (Nasdaq: HEV) today announced that it has received $20 million in fresh investment capital from ITOCHU Corporation, a Japanese commercial trading giant with deep ties in...

7 Dec 2009

Leading EDA Software for Analog and Mixed-Signal Design Gets Capacity, Performance and Usability Boosts to Shrink Design Cycle

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, today extended its leadership position in analog and mixed-signal chip design technologies with the introduction of dramatic...

7 Dec 2009

ASM Features Innovative Atomic Layer Deposition Processes at Luncheon Seminar

ASM International N.V. (Nasdaq: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM) today announced that it will be hosting a technical luncheon seminar in Baltimore, Maryland, on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, the last day of the Internati...

From ASM International 7 Dec 2009

Core Wafer Systems Joins SEMATECH's Front End Processes Program

Core Wafer Systems, Inc. (CWS) and SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, today announced that CWS has joined SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program, and will work with SEMATECH to characterize novel transistor processes, emerging technology devices and designs.

7 Dec 2009

microRNAs Shrinking Lung Cancer Tumors

Researchers from Yale University and Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., reversed the growth of lung tumors in mice using a naturally occurring tumor suppressor microRNA. The study reveals that a tiny bit of RNA may one day play a...

7 Dec 2009

Tiny Gyroscopes at the Heart of Next-Generation Personal Navigation and Vehicle Stabilisation Tools

Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation tools thanks to European researc...

7 Dec 2009

Photon Management Improves Efficiency of Solar Panels

Extremely thin, flexible high-efficiency silicon solar cells are the solar cells of the future, according to Professor Miro Zeman. This is the gist of the inaugural address he will be giving to mark his appointment as Professor of Photovoltaic Materials and Devices at TU Delft.

7 Dec 2009

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Acquires Private Biotechnology Company

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that it has acquired Hermes Biosciences, Inc. a private biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. Hermes specializes in targeted drug delivery techno...

7 Dec 2009

First-Ever Device Highlights the Potential of 'Self-Assembling' Patterning for Transistors Smaller Than 22 Nanometers

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and researchers from Stanford University and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturin...

7 Dec 2009

Nanotechnology News

Nanomachines May Someday Operate Far More Efficiently Thanks to Important Theoretical Discoveries

Harnessing Nanotechnology to Quickly Produce Ultra-Lightweight Bendable Batteries

Scientists Develop Way to Rapidly Manipulate and Sort Different Cells in Blood Using Magnetizable Liquids

MEMSCAP Incorporates Key Technology in PillCam COLON 2 Video Capsule

Researchers Identify Peptide Specifically Recognizes and Penetrates Cancerous Tumors

Physicists Face Daunting Task of Developing New Reliable Ways of Measuring Extreme Low Temperatures

Ener1 Receives $20 Million in Fresh Investment Capital from ITOCHU Corporation

Leading EDA Software for Analog and Mixed-Signal Design Gets Capacity, Performance and Usability Boosts to Shrink Design Cycle

ASM Features Innovative Atomic Layer Deposition Processes at Luncheon Seminar

Core Wafer Systems Joins SEMATECH's Front End Processes Program

microRNAs Shrinking Lung Cancer Tumors

Tiny Gyroscopes at the Heart of Next-Generation Personal Navigation and Vehicle Stabilisation Tools

Photon Management Improves Efficiency of Solar Panels

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Acquires Private Biotechnology Company

First-Ever Device Highlights the Potential of 'Self-Assembling' Patterning for Transistors Smaller Than 22 Nanometers

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