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Applied Materials Announces the Acquisition of Advent Solar

Applied Materials Announces the Acquisition of Advent Solar

Applied Materials, Inc., the leading supplier of equipment and services to the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets, including the intellectual property, of Advent Solar, Inc. for an undisclosed cash amount.

From Applied Materials Inc. 6 Nov 2009

Computers Making Accurate Predictions of Reactions Between Molecules and Surfaces

Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of researchers, headed ...

6 Nov 2009

UCSC Professor Appointed Co-Director of Advanced Studies Laboratory

UCSC Professor Appointed Co-Director of Advanced Studies Laboratory

Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed co-director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory (ASL), a collaborative research facility jointly administered by UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.

6 Nov 2009

BMVIT Showcases The Austrian Nano Initiative

The "NANO: Wissenschaft. Wirtschaft. Wirkung. 09" event the exhibition for the Austrian NANO Initiative of the BMVIT on 9 November at Tech Gate Vienna has been fully booked for a number of days. Since 2004, 50 ...

6 Nov 2009

German Chemists Making Progress on the Road to Achieving Artificial Photosynthesis

Imitating photosynthesis in plants? If we were to accomplish this, mankind would have a little less to worry about. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have now made progress on the road to achieving artificial...

6 Nov 2009

Centre Providing Materials Scientists with Unique Atomic Insights

With a groundbreaking ceremony, work began today on an extension to the Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) on the campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich. Under the umbrella of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), fro...

6 Nov 2009

CAS Institute Exports Optical Instruments and Equipment to Canada

CAS Institute Exports Optical Instruments and Equipment to Canada

Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a laser optical tweezers micro-operation instrument for University of Toronto, Canada.

6 Nov 2009

Nanoparticles Could Become a Safer Alternative to Gene Therapy Delivered by Viruses

Nanoparticles Could Become a Safer Alternative to Gene Therapy Delivered by Viruses

About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion of genes into living cells for the treatment of disease.

5 Nov 2009

Argonne Receives $7 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Solar Energy Projects

Argonne Receives $7 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Solar Energy Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for three solar-energy related research projects.

From Argonne National Laboratory 5 Nov 2009

Unique Large-Scale Research Device Went into Operation in USA

Unique Large-Scale Research Device Went into Operation in USA

The NSE spectrometer enables detailed observations to be made of the motion of proteins and polymers. It will thus help to develop improved plastics or to understand metabolic processes in cells.

5 Nov 2009

Progress in Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biomedicine

Whether it's magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) giving an army of 'therapeutically armed' white blood cells direction to invade a deadly tumour's territory, or the use of mNPs to target specific nerve channels...

5 Nov 2009

Air Force Research Laboratory Selects American Semiconductor to Develop ULP CMOS Technology

Air Force Research Laboratory Selects American Semiconductor to Develop ULP CMOS Technology

American Semiconductor, Inc. has been selected by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a deep sub-volt, Ultra Low Power (ULP) CMOS technology that maintains high performance at very low voltages.

5 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Researcher Wins Prestigious Research Fellowship

A University of Ulster academic has won a prestigious research fellowship to work alongside world class scientists in Japan. Dr Davide Mariotti, who is based at Ulster’s Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials ...

5 Nov 2009

"Artificial Leaf" that Mimics a Real Leaf's Chemical Magic with Photosynthesis

Scientists are making progress toward development of an "artificial leaf" that mimics a real leaf's chemical magic with photosynthesis - but instead converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such as me...

5 Nov 2009

Company Realigns its Business for the Fuel Cell Market

Company Realigns its Business for the Fuel Cell Market

BASF is realigning its business for the fuel cell market. In the future, competencies for the production of high-temperature membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) will be concentrated in Somerset, New Jersey.

5 Nov 2009

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