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Using Nanotechnology to Extract Oil More Efficiently

The University of Twente (UT) will contribute to the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Exploratory Research Program (ExploRe) from the energy company BP, started 23 September 2009. In this program, researchers examine methods ...

24 Sep 2009

NanoViricides CEO to Serve as Panelist at 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), announced today that the Company's CEO, Eugene Seymour, MD, MPH has been invited as a panelist at the 2nd Annual Livingston Healthcare Summit on September 24th, 2009 in New York City.

From NanoViricides, Inc 24 Sep 2009

Jordan Valley Semiconductors Announces Delivery of JVX6200 XRR Metrology Tool to HDD Vendor

Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd., the market leader in X-ray metrology tools is pleased to announce the delivery of its JVX6200 XRR (X-Ray Reflectometry) metrology tool to a leading-edge HDD (Hard Disk Drive) vendor, us...

24 Sep 2009

Scientist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Dramatically Improved Biomarker Research and Clinical Diagnostic Tools

An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.

24 Sep 2009

Nanotechnology Internship Helps Undergradate Students Learn Research Ropes

Summertime flies by when it is spent hard at work in a laboratory; but the 12 student researchers selected for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) still had plenty of fun.

23 Sep 2009

Dais Nanotechnology Will Help China Go "Green"

Dais Analytic Corporation (Dais) (OTCBB: DLYT), along with the Pasco Economic Development Council (PEDC) and the U.S. Trade and Development Office, today released details of a $200 million international trade agreement w...

23 Sep 2009

PI Switches to New Generation of Nanopositioning Stage Controllers

Piezo system specialist PI is switching to a new generation of 24-bit resolution interfaces for its nanopositioning stage controllers. The new interfaces will allow better than 100 picometers command resolution even on the latest generation long travel piezo nanopositioning stages (1 mm and up) such as the PIHera™ series closed-loop flexure stages.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 23 Sep 2009

Natcore Technology Signs Sponsored Research Agreement with Rice University

Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NXT) ("Natcore" or the "Company") reports that it has signed a Sponsored Research Agreement with Rice University to develop thin films incorporating silicon quantum dots.

23 Sep 2009

RainDance Technologies Expands Sequence Enrichment Solution Capabilities

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for health and human disease research, announced today it has expanded the capabilities of its Sequence Enrichment Solution to e...

From Bio-Rad Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. 23 Sep 2009

Research Uncover New Information About Nanoscale Patterns

Research at MIT has uncovered new information about how nanoscale patterns on the surface of a material can produce significant changes in the way it interacts with liquids. The discovery could be significant in understanding interactions that affect a wide variety of biological processes in living cells, as well as many manufacturing or energy storage systems.

23 Sep 2009

IQC Shares Multi-Institution Grant to Fund Research into Advanced Materials for Superconducting Qubits

The Quantum Device Theory group led by IQC faculty member Dr. Frank Wilhelm will be sharing in a multi-institution grant to fund research into advanced materials for superconducting qubits. The grant, funded by the I...

23 Sep 2009

Physicists Made an Important Advance in Quantum Mechanics

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The researchers sh...

23 Sep 2009

Flasks, Beakers, and Hot Plates May Soon be a Thing of the Past in Medicinal Chemistry Labs

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands of chemical reactions, with results literally shrinking the lab down to the size of a thumbnail.

23 Sep 2009

Magnetically Responsive Gold Nanostars Offer New Approach to Biomedical Imaging

Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter lig...

23 Sep 2009

New siRNA Delivery Vehicle Based on Nanotechnology

Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in developme...

23 Sep 2009