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Munich Researchers Develop New Test Process for Cancer Drugs

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical Electronics at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have developed a new test process for cancer drugs.

22 Oct 2009

SOI's Simpler Process Reduces Variability

The SOI Industry Consortium today announced the results of a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and bulk FinFETs comparison study conducted by the organization with the support of some of its key members. The study has evaluated...

21 Oct 2009

Order a Testament to Growing Acceptance of Signet Solar's Thin Film PV Modules in European Market

Signet Solar and BSC-Solar today announced that they are jointly developing a 1.8 MW solar power plant in the Czech Republic, located in the Blížkovice region, South Moravia near the Austrian border. Signet Sol...

21 Oct 2009

Carbon Nanotube Boosting Efficiency of Electric Propulsion Systems

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control the positions of satellites and planetary probes.

21 Oct 2009

Easy to Use Designer Molecule Quickly Detects Cyanide in Water Samples

A small molecule designed to detect cyanide in water samples works quickly, is easy to use, and glows under ultraviolet or "black" light. Indiana University Bloomington creators report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that the tool is already able to sense cyanide below the toxicity threshold established by the World Health Organization.

21 Oct 2009

Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials Dedicate New Scanning Probing Microscopy Building

The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory dedicated its new scanning probing microscopy building recently during its annual users conference. The new building will house a new scanning probe microscope that measures spin-polarized electrons on surfaces.

From Argonne National Laboratory 21 Oct 2009

2 Grand Prize Winners Have Innovations Related to Cell Engineering and Tools for Quadriplegics

A faster tool for cell programming and a new way of allowing quadriplegics to perform simple tasks have won grand prizes of the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame spon...

21 Oct 2009

Scientists Introduce Kinks into Arrow-Straight Nanowires

Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.

21 Oct 2009

Nanotechnology Having Beneficial Effects in Agriculture

With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could have beneficial effects in agriculture.

21 Oct 2009

Advancing Toward New Generation of Biobased Adhesives and Glues

With would-be goblins and ghosts set to drape those huge fake spider webs over doorways and trees for Halloween, scientists in Wyoming are reporting on a long-standing mystery about real spider webs: It is the secret of spider web glue.

21 Oct 2009

CVD Equipment Announces SuperPower Took Delivery of Second Reel-to-Reel MOCVD Deposition System

CVD Equipment Corporation (CVD) (NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that SuperPower, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Philips Electronics N.V., took delivery of a second Reel-to-Reel MOCVD deposition system for the pr...

From CVD Equipment Corporation 21 Oct 2009

Eliminating Residue Contamination from Photovoltaic Metallization

A new thermal oxidation process from Rehm Thermal Systems, an international supplier to the photovoltaic and electronics industries, specializing in curing, drying and firing technologies as well as convection and conden...

21 Oct 2009

Carl Zeiss Introduces Barrier-Breaking Superresolution Microscope Systems

The ELYRA product family features several new superresolution microscopy methods and significantly expands the application of light microscopy by clearly resolving details which previously could not be imaged by commercially available systems. ELYRA’s high resolution and flexibility will allow scientists to expand their experimental design to enable study of cellular components smaller than the diffraction limit.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 21 Oct 2009

Nanotechnlogy Researchers Exploiting Electron Spin to Build Next Generation Transitors

For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron's charge. Scientists now have discovered that transistors could use less energy, generate less heat and operate at higher speeds if they exploited another property of the electron: its spin.

21 Oct 2009

Motech Solar Installs Applied Materials Baccini for Double Printing Applications at Taiwan Facility

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that Motech Solar, one of the world's leading producers of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, has installed and qualified an Applied Baccini back-end line for double printing applications at its volume production facility in Tainan, Taiwan.

From Applied Materials Inc. 20 Oct 2009