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Aviza Technology to Sell Certain Assets to Sumitomo Precision Products under Agreement

Aviza Technology, Inc., a supplier of semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, and certain of its subsidiaries have entered into a definitive agr...

14 Aug 2009

Work is a Further Advance in the Study of Metamaterials

While the researchers can't promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman's Dark Materials and JK Rowling's Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers in China have created the first tunable electromagnetic gateway.

14 Aug 2009

Researchers Identify Proteins Capable of Direct Response to Alarm Signal

Our genome is constantly under attack from things like UV light and toxins, which can damage or even break DNA strands and ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. Scientists have known for a long time that when DNA...

14 Aug 2009

IMEC to Present Host of New Partners within its Silicon Solar Cell Industrial Affiliation Program at Upcoming Conference

At the upcoming 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (21 - 25 September, Hamburg, Germany), IMEC will present a host of new partners within its Silicon Solar Cell Industrial Affiliation program (IIAP). Among these are MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH, Roth & Rau AG and Mallinckrodt Baker B.V.

From IMEC 14 Aug 2009

ANSI Announces Nanotechnology Standards Panel Meeting To Be Held in September

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the official U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has announced that it will hold a meeting of its Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) this September in Chicago, co-located with the NanoBusiness Alliance's Eighth Annual NanoBusiness Conference.

14 Aug 2009

Intradermal Delivery of Vaccines can Provide Significant Dose Sparing Urgently Required in the Swine H1N1 Pandemic

Following the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of a swine flu pandemic,[1] NanoPass Technologies Ltd. (NanoPass) announced today that it has successfully developed a microneedle-based injection device that cou...

From NanoPass Technologies 14 Aug 2009

Mechanically Trapped Molecules Throw Light on Energy Transfer within Artificial Photosynthetic Systems

Now, a research team led by Makoto Fujita from the University of Tokyo and Tahei Tahara from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has found a simple way to mimic the initial stage of photosynthesis by mechanically trapping a guest molecule inside a cage structure.

13 Aug 2009

Sigma-Aldrich Publication Continues to be a Premier Forum for Chemical Research

Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced today that its chemistry review journal, Aldrichimica Acta, was recently ranked number one by Impact Factor (IF) when evaluated against all 55 international journals in the field of...

From Sigma Aldrich 13 Aug 2009

API Nanotronics and Pulse Introduces World's Smallest 1553 Data Bus

API Nanotronics Corp. in collaboration with an industry partner, Pulse, a Technitrol company, have introduced Bus+, the world's smallest 1553 data bus transceiver/transformer integrated into a single package.

From Spectrum Control 13 Aug 2009

Teaching Students and Teachers How to Analyze DNA using Agilent Lab-on-a-Chip System

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has adopted the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system to teach high school students and teachers how to analyze DNA.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 13 Aug 2009

Increasing Lifespan of Shingle Roofs using Nanotechnology Coating

Industrial Nanotech, a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Greenbuilding Council and the American Solar Energy Society, provided a follow up to their earlier product announcement for N...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 13 Aug 2009

National Effort to Accelerate the Identification of New Anti-Cancer Drugs

A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences will be working with the National Cancer Institute as part of a na...

13 Aug 2009

Modeling Single-Molecule Field-Effect Transistor

Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when things get really small, the regular rules of Newtonian physics quit and the weird rules of quantum mechanics kick in.

13 Aug 2009

University Awarded DOE Grant for Nanotechnology and Energy Research

Louisiana Tech University's College of Engineering and Science, a nationally recognized leader in educational innovation whose goal is to become "the best college in the world at integrating engineering and scie...

13 Aug 2009

Regional Partnership to Explore Complementary Scientific Research Efforts

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the University of North Dakota (UND) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) announced today that they are developing a regional partnership to explore complementary scientific research efforts.

From Argonne National Laboratory 13 Aug 2009