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KSK Surya Photovoltaic Venture Signs Contract with Applied Materials

KSK Surya Photovoltaic Venture, Private Limited (KSK), a subsidiary of KSK Power Ventur plc, a leading independent power provider in India, announced today that it has signed a contract with Applied Materials, Inc. to purchase two Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Lines for manufacturing high-power output 5.7m2 solar panels.

From Applied Materials Inc. 7 Oct 2009

MIT Announce Awards to Eight Revolutionary Early-Stage Research

The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $600,000 in grants to eight MIT research teams currently working on early-stage technologies. These projects have the potential to m...

7 Oct 2009

Leading MEM Provider Won SEMICON MicroNanoSystems Innovation Award 2009

MEMSCAP (NYSE Euronext: MEMS), the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) technology, announces today it has won the SEMICON MicroNanoSystems Innovation Award for the ye...

7 Oct 2009

Bacterium Transforms Toxic Gold to Metallic Form by Active Cellular Mechanisms

Researchers reported the presence of bacteria on gold surfaces but have never clearly elucidated their role. Now, an international team of scientists has found that there may be a biological reason for the presence of these bacteria on gold grain surfaces.The experiments showed that C. metallidurans rapidly accumulates toxic gold complexes from a solution prepared in the lab.

7 Oct 2009

Scientists Shows Fingerprints of Classical-World Chaos in a Quantum System

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics. Now, however, Jessen and his group in UA's College of Optical Sciences have performed a series of experiments that show just how classical chaos spills over into the quantum world.

7 Oct 2009

Nanoaluminium Rocket Propellant Shows Promising Future in Space Missions

Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars and other water-bearing bodies.

7 Oct 2009

Carl Zeiss Redefining the Science of Brain Mapping and 3-D Reconstruction

Wide-field, high resolution imaging, huge data storage and manipulation capabilities plus highly automated sample preparation techniques are yielding research results 100-times, or more, faster than ever before. As a result, a number of high-ranking research institutes are adopting these remarkable instruments.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 7 Oct 2009

2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Mapping of Ribosome Atoms

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Thomas A. Steitz, Yale...

7 Oct 2009

Nanogate Cutting-Edge Optical System Receives Further Improvements for LED Applications

Nanogate, a leading international enabler in nanotechnology, has achieved further successes in the development and marketing of its cutting-edge Dotfarm®Optics technology: with an additional European application patent, comprehensive protection is guaranteed for Nanogate's technology for LED applications.

From Nanogate SE 7 Oct 2009

Improving Breast Cancer Detection Using Highly Sensitive Nanoparticles

Errki Ruoslahti, professor at UC Santa Barbara's Burnham Institute for Medical Research, is the recipient of a $2.8 million award from the Department of Defense for research into detection and therapies for breast ca...

7 Oct 2009

mPhase Announced Renewal on Smart NanoBattery Prototype Development

mPhase Technologies, Inc. announced today that their Phase II STTR Grant was renewed by the U.S. Army. The two year grant was initially awarded in September 2008 for the amount of $750,000. mPhase will continue to develo...

From MyPebble 7 Oct 2009

Hamamatsu Corporation Introduces Next-Generation Slide Scanners

Hamamatsu Corporation has announced the release of its next-generation slide scanners, the NanoZoomer 2.0 series. Operating at nearly twice the speed of the original series, the NanoZoomer 2.0 converts a 20 mm x 20 mm area on a glass slide into a 1.9-gigapixel color image in as little as 1 minute 40 seconds.

From Hamamatsu Photonics Europe 7 Oct 2009