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HRL Laboratories Issued Its 500th Patent

HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today that it has obtained its 500th patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. An independent research and development company located in Malibu, CA, HRL reached this milestone in...

24 Nov 2009

Understanding the Chemical Analysis and Biological Sensing on the Molecular Scale

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences lead by Prof. Yuanhua Shao's group have recently studied the kinetics of several ion transfer (IT) reactions at the water/1,2-dichloroethane (W/DCE) interface by nanopipette voltammetry collaborated with Prof. Hubert H. Girault (EPFL, Switzerland).

24 Nov 2009

Carl Zeiss Performs Initial Installations of Platform Shuttle+Find

Together with several pilot customers, Carl Zeiss has started application development for correlative microscopy in materials analysis and performed the initial installations of the platform Shuttle+Find.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 24 Nov 2009

Suspect Nano-Ingredients Found in Big Name Cosmetics

Testing commissioned by Friends of the Earth has found nanoparticles in foundations and concealers sold by big name brands, including Revlon, Clarins, Clinique, Max Factor, the Body Shop, L'Oréal, By Terry and Lancôme Pa...

24 Nov 2009

Article Focuses on CVD's Solutions for Depositing Transparent Conductive Oxide on Glass

CVD Equipment Corporation (CVD) (NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that an article about the Company was published in the November issue of Photovoltaics World magazine titled "Off-line APCVD offers paradigm shift for TCO gl...

24 Nov 2009

Synopsys Releases Broad Range of Data Converter IP Solutions for 40-nm Process Technologies

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced the release of a broad range of data converter IP solutions for 40-nanometer (nm) process technologies.

From Synopsys, Inc. 24 Nov 2009

China's Patent Office Now the World's Leading Producer of Patent Invention Applications in Chemistry

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the global expert on chemical information, reports that China's patent office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications in chemistry. China trailed Jap...

24 Nov 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for MOCVD System from HRL Laboratories

AIXTRON AG today announced an order for one Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) 6x2 inch MOCVD system from HRL Laboratories LLC, based in Malibu, USA. The order was received in the third quarter 2009 and the system will be de...

From AIXTRON SE 24 Nov 2009

Researchers Show that Computing with Light isn't So Far Fetched

Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir Stojanovic and Rajeev Ram and their colleagues in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratory hope to change that, by designing optical chips that can be built using ordinary chip-manufacturing processes.

24 Nov 2009

Bio Nano Consulting Key Collaborator Recognised for Scientific Contributions to Nanomechanics

Bio Nano Consulting (BNC), the specialist bio-nanotechnology product development consultancy, is delighted to announce that one of their key collaborators has been specifically recognised for her scientific contributions...

From Bio Nano Consulting 23 Nov 2009

Tailored Supply Chain of New CNT-Filled Composites with Enhanced Mechanical and Electrical Properties

CONTACT is a 4-year project involving 10 partners from 7 countries. Coordinated by the Fraunhofer ICT and funded by the EU, 15 PhD students and 3 post docs will focus their research on nanomaterials, processes, characterisation methods and simulation tools.

23 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Researcher Named Arkansas Professor of the Year

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has announced the national and state Professor of the Year Awards. Physicist Greg Salamo, the Joe N. Basore Professor in Nanotechnology and Innovation in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, was named Arkansas Professor of the Year.

23 Nov 2009

Freiburg Materials Research Center Celebrates its 20th Birthday in 2010

The Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2010. The center will commemorate the occasion by co-organizing three symposia in February, March, and June. The festivi...

23 Nov 2009

Physicists Discover Hitherto Unknown Metallic Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors

Physicists at the Walther Meissner Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Garching) conducted very precise measurements, discovering hitherto unknown metallic properties of high-temperature superconductors.

23 Nov 2009

Studies Reveal How Ribosome Interacts with Other Molecules

Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used molecular dynamics flexible fitting (MDFF) to examine the interaction of the ribosome with two prominent molecular partners.

23 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology News

HRL Laboratories Issued Its 500th Patent

Understanding the Chemical Analysis and Biological Sensing on the Molecular Scale

Carl Zeiss Performs Initial Installations of Platform Shuttle+Find

Suspect Nano-Ingredients Found in Big Name Cosmetics

Article Focuses on CVD's Solutions for Depositing Transparent Conductive Oxide on Glass

Synopsys Releases Broad Range of Data Converter IP Solutions for 40-nm Process Technologies

China's Patent Office Now the World's Leading Producer of Patent Invention Applications in Chemistry

AIXTRON Receives Order for MOCVD System from HRL Laboratories

Researchers Show that Computing with Light isn't So Far Fetched

Bio Nano Consulting Key Collaborator Recognised for Scientific Contributions to Nanomechanics

Tailored Supply Chain of New CNT-Filled Composites with Enhanced Mechanical and Electrical Properties

Nanotechnology Researcher Named Arkansas Professor of the Year

Freiburg Materials Research Center Celebrates its 20th Birthday in 2010

Physicists Discover Hitherto Unknown Metallic Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors

Studies Reveal How Ribosome Interacts with Other Molecules

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