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Researchers Conduct Basic Chemistry Experiment in World's Smallest Test Tube

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair. The nano-scale ...

15 Oct 2009

Farfield Partners with the European FP7 Programme ASMENA

Farfield is a proud partner in the European FP7 programme ASMENA, which held its first annual project review meeting recently in Budapest. The project will run over three years, and aims to develop new platforms for drug...

15 Oct 2009

BioNanomatrix Receives New Supplemental Grants from NHGRI

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough single-molecule genomic analysis technology, today announced receipt of two new supplemental grants totaling $833,490 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

15 Oct 2009

Generating Hydrogen Fuel using Artificial Photosynthesis and Nanotechnology

A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight. The project has caught the attention of the U.S. Departmen...

15 Oct 2009

Oxford Nanopore Congratulates Professors for Winning NIH Grant

Oxford Nanopore Technologies congratulates our collaborators Professor Mark Akeson and Professor David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on receiving a $1.1 million NIH grant under the US National...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 15 Oct 2009

Graphene Pioneer Wins Royal Society Anniversary Professorship

A leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary. Prof Andre Geim is Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester and is known primarily for the discovery of graphene.

15 Oct 2009

Physicists Taming the Quantum World

Two UQ physicists have taken to the big screen to explain how the weird and wonderful world of quantum principles is being tamed to advance our future technologies. Professor Gerard Milburn and Professor Andrew White...

15 Oct 2009

TSMC and SVTC Forms Innovation Incubation Alliance

SVTC, the leading provider of silicon technology development and commercialization services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330) (NYSE: TSM) have formed an Innovation Incubation Alliance tha...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 15 Oct 2009

Mobius Photonics Names New Chairman of its Board of Directors

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), has named Robert L. Byer Chairman of its board of directors. "As co-founder of Mobius Photonics, Robert Bye...

15 Oct 2009

DFI Continues Global Growth with Patented CVD Industrial Nanocoating System

Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, announced today the signing of a new license agreement in Spain with CRISTEC VIPLA, a highly reputable Catalunya-based company.

15 Oct 2009

Modern Tissue Engineering Developed by Researchers Could Improve Function of Prosthetic Hands

Modern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients. Researchers will present their updated fi...

15 Oct 2009

Using Thermo Electric Nanotechnology to Convert Waste Heat into Electricity

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhau...

15 Oct 2009

Applied Materials and Taiwan's ITRI to Accelerate Development of 3D Chip Stacking Technology

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Applied Materials, Inc. announced today a collaboration to accelerate the development and commercialization of 3D* chip stacking technology. To enable this important effort, a full line of processing systems from Applied Materials has been selected by ITRI for its 3D laboratory in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

From Applied Materials Inc. 15 Oct 2009

Merck and Dyesol Signs Dye Solar Cells Collabration Agreement

Merck KGaA and Dyesol Limited have signed an agreement to collaborate in the development of electrolytes for use in Dye Solar Cells (DSC). This joint development agreement is the precursor to potential future commercial ...

15 Oct 2009

Researchers Found Way to Control Structure and Function of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in fuel cells; or as energy-saving transistors and wires, but building them with the right structure has been a challenge.

15 Oct 2009