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Oxford Instruments Voted Business Superbrand for First Time

The UK's Business Superbrand programme has announced the country's strongest B2B brands. The top 500 names are selected through an independent selection process which assesses a brand's strength in the UK mar...

From Oxford Instruments plc 25 Sep 2009

New Green Laser Supports Cost Sensitive, High-Throughput Micromachining

The new MATRIX™ 532-8-100 from Coherent is a Q-switched, diode pumped, solid state laser designed to deliver the best cost to performance ratio for demanding micromachining tasks in solar, semiconductor and medical device manufacturing.

25 Sep 2009

Sandia Receives "Trusted Foundry" Accreditation from DoD

Sandia National Laboratories' silicon fabrication facility in Albuquerque, N.M., has been accredited by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide "trusted foundry" services for both unclassified and classified integrated circuits. The foundry accreditation represents an increase in scope to Sandia's already-existing accreditation for design services.

From Sandia National Laboratories 24 Sep 2009

Boston Scientific Founder to Advise Leading Nanotechnology Firm

Nanobiosym® today announced that John Abele, Cofounder and former Co-Chairman of the multibillion-dollar global medical device company, Boston Scientific, has joined the Nanobiosym Global Advisory Board.

From Nanobiosym 24 Sep 2009

New Sensor Made with Carbon Nanotubes Enable Rapid Detection of TNT and Poison in Water

A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water samples. The research appears online this week in the journal ACS Nano.

24 Sep 2009

QuantaSol Engages in Collaborative Research with University of Houston

QuantaSol Ltd, an independent designer and manufacturer of strain-balanced quantum-well solar cells has exclusively licensed advanced materials growth technology from the University of Houston to make its manufacturing p...

24 Sep 2009

Intel Introduces First 45nm-Manufactured Consumer Electronics SoC

Intel Corporation today unveiled the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4100, the newest System-on-Chip (SoC) in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.

24 Sep 2009

Battlefield Pain Treatment Moves a Step Closer using Nanotechnology

University of Michigan scientists have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle situations to give a fallen soldier both morphine and a drug that limit...

24 Sep 2009

Nanomedicine Research Group Receives $5 Million Grant from NSERC

A nanomedicine research group led by a University of Toronto chemist has received a $5-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), giving them the green light to develop fa...

24 Sep 2009

Berkeley Scientists Confirm the Production of Superheavy Element 114

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 24 Sep 2009

Report Examines World Market for MEMS Equipment And Materials

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report "WMEM 09: World MEMS Equipment + Materials Market 2009" is available in its catalogue. The MEMS business continues to be driven by innovation. Fol...

24 Sep 2009

A Step-by-Step Analysis of How to Create Nanoparticles

Tiny objects known as nanoparticles are often heralded as holding great potential for future applications in electronics, medicine and other areas. The properties of nanoparticles depend on their size and structure. Now ...

24 Sep 2009

Altair Nanotechnologies to Participate at BATTERIES 2009 Conference

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) (NASDAQ: ALTI), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced its participation at BATTERIES 2009 "The international power supply conference and exhibition" in Cannes-Mandelieu, France.

From Altair Nanotechnologies 24 Sep 2009

Symposium Focuses on Practical Issues Arising from Nanotechnology

A two-day nanotechnology symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24 and 25, in the Whitaker Hall auditorium to highlight the opening of Washington University's nano research center. WUSTL invested $8 mi...

24 Sep 2009

Founder of Liquidia Receives Top NIH Award

Liquidia Technologies today announced its founder, Dr. Joseph DeSimone, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award. Pioneer Awards are designed to support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering - and possibly transforming - approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

From Liquidia Technologies, Inc. 24 Sep 2009