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Schott Solar Acquires Wacker's Shares in Joint Venture

Wacker Chemie AG exits from the solar wafer business and will transfer its shares in its joint venture WACKER SCHOTT Solar GmbH (WSS) to its former partner SCHOTT Solar AG. WACKER and SCHOTT Solar have reached agreement ...

1 Oct 2009

Controlling the Formation of Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional silicon-based transistors.

1 Oct 2009

Research Uncovers How Key Molecule Mends DNA Breaks

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Scripps Research Institute have uncovered the role played by the least-understood part of a first-responder molecule that rushes in to bind and repair breaks in DNA strands, a process that helps people avoid cancer.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Oct 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Having Potential to Transport Electricity Faster and Over Greater Distances

Microscopic carbon nanotubes 100,000 times thinner than a human hair may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research that will be p...

1 Oct 2009

Applied Nanotech Enters into Agreement with Prominent Chemical Company

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: APNT) announced it has entered into a continuation of its research and development agreement with a leading industrial chemical products company in Japan for manufacturing and com...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 1 Oct 2009

Understanding Shale Rock in a Revolutionary Nanotechnology Way

The AURIGA® CrossBeam® FIB-SEM workstation, recently introduced by Carl Zeiss, now has demonstrated the ability to improve the analysis of shale rock's porosity and permeability.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 1 Oct 2009

New Way to Target Brain Cancer Cells Using Nanotechnology

Scientists from the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to ...

1 Oct 2009

EU Must Do More to Develop and Deploy Key Enabling Technologies such as Nanotechnology

The EU must do more to develop and deploy key enabling technologies (KETs) such as nanotechnology, micro- and nano-electronics, advanced materials and photonics. This is the main message from a new Commission communicati...

1 Oct 2009

PeakView from Lorentz Solution Certified to Support TSMC's iRCX 65nm, and 40nm Technologies

Lorentz Solution, Inc., ounded in 2002 to develop and market EM design and verification tools for high-frequency IC design, today announced that the company's flagship product PeakView has been certified to support T...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 1 Oct 2009

Research Program Designed to Boost Australia's Manufacturing Capabilities

Flexible plastic solar cells that can be printed like money, carbon fibres so thin they can be spun into yarns and a raft of new biomedical products to combating illness and injury are just some of the research breakthroughs being developed by the new CSIRO National Research Flagship for Future Manufacturing launched today.

1 Oct 2009

New BW-H501 from Nikon Offers Rapid High-Precision 3D Surface Inspection

Nikon Instruments, Inc., a world leader in the development and manufacture of optical and digital imaging technology for biomedical and industrial applications, introduced the BW-H501 high-speed 3D surface profile system...

1 Oct 2009

Nanotherapeutics Acquires Certain Assets from DelSite

Nanotherapeutics, Inc., a privately held specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it had acquired certain assets from DelSite (formerly Carrington Laboratories, Inc.) out of Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedi...

From Nanotherapeutics Inc. 1 Oct 2009

Veeco Receives Order for TurboDisc K465 GaN MOCVD Systems from Bridgelux

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Bridgelux, Inc., a U.S. lighting company and leading supplier of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED)-based light sources, has placed a multi-unit order for Veeco's TurboDisc® K465™ gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems to support its production ramp.

1 Oct 2009

Meetings Focuses on Hydrogen Bond and Molecular Interactions

Meetings of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and other scientists from all over the world, which have been focused on hydrogen bond and molecular interactions, have a long tradition. A continuation of this tradition is this y...

1 Oct 2009

ItN Nanovation Developing High Performance Coatings for BepiColombo Probe

ItN Nanovation AG (ISIN DE000A0JL461) with its high expertise and successful work in the field of nanoscale coatings has been selected to develop important thermal coatings for the BepiColombo Mercury probe of the European space agency ESA and JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency.

1 Oct 2009