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Creating Solar Cells that Could Power a Tent or Keep a Car Charged between Trips

On a 104-degree Friday in July when sunlight bathed The University of Arizona campus, doctoral student Dio Placencia sat before a noisy vacuum chamber in the Chemical Sciences Building trying to advance the renewable ene...

5 Aug 2009

Grant to Support Scale-up of Vertically-Integrated U.S. Battery Manufacturing System

A123Systems announced today that it was awarded a $249 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative. Under the terms of the $249 milli...

5 Aug 2009

"Door to the Future" Highlights Postdoctoral Program

Every year, the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology appoints 10 to 15 new postdoctoral research fellowships under a program sponsored by NIST and mana...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 5 Aug 2009

mPhase Technologies Completes Functional Prototype of Lithium Reserve Battery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL) today announced that it has completed the first functional prototype of its Lithium Reserve Battery that will function in the AlwaysReady Emergency Flashlight. The prototype is the ...

From MyPebble 5 Aug 2009

View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement

An efficient catalyst is needed to get the half liter of hydrogen out of this small, 240 mg pellet of solid ammonia borane.

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

5 Aug 2009

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial "hot spots," or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment.

5 Aug 2009

UCLA's Incubator at California NanoSystems Institute Opens Lab Space to MediSens Wireless

UCLA's newly launched on-campus technology incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) has opened lab space to MediSens Wireless, a startup company that develops and manufactures personal body-monitoring...

5 Aug 2009

New Photo Library Shows How Nanotechnology is Changing the Energy Consumption of the World

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets: INTK), a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Greenbuilding Council and the American Solar Energy Society, announced today that the Company has l...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 5 Aug 2009

System Specifically Designed for Plasma Etching Dielectric Films Required in Flexible Electronics Fabrication

The FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics industry supply chain, today announced the award of a contract to Etched in Time, Inc., totaling $324,000.

5 Aug 2009

Ontario Government Invests $16.7 Million in Battery Research at Electrovaya

Electrovaya Inc. (TSX:EFL) announced that Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty, along with members of his caucus, visited Electrovaya yesterday and announced an investment of up to $16.7 million to support battery resea...

5 Aug 2009

U.S. Customer Qualifies Strasbaugh's New nVision II CMP Endpoint Detection System

Strasbaugh (OTC Bulletin Board: STRB) announced today that a U.S. customer has qualified Strasbaugh's new nVision II CMP endpoint detection system for production and has placed a purchase order for the product. nVisi...

5 Aug 2009

The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre Holds First Open Day in September

The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which will make smaller, more powerful nano- and bio-nano technologies possible, will hold its first open day in September.

5 Aug 2009

Three Companies Sharing Professorship of Thin Film Technology

Thin Film Technology is the field of work of Professor Wilhelm Schabel, holder of a shared professorship at the KIT: This shared professorship is the first, in which three enterprises are involved as industry partners: Bayer, BASF, and Roche.

5 Aug 2009

Stack of Nanometer-Scale Thin Films Synthesized using Diamond Isotopes

Japanese researchers have succeeded in the vapor-phase synthesis of a stack of nanometer-scale thin films of diamond using carbon isotopes 12C and 13C, which differ in mass. Electrons and holes were confined to a single material for the first time using the diamond stack.

5 Aug 2009

Award to Fund Research on Self-Organizing Polymer Nanocomposites

Eric Cochran, an associate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the organization's most prestigious award for junior researchers.

4 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology News

Creating Solar Cells that Could Power a Tent or Keep a Car Charged between Trips

Grant to Support Scale-up of Vertically-Integrated U.S. Battery Manufacturing System

"Door to the Future" Highlights Postdoctoral Program

mPhase Technologies Completes Functional Prototype of Lithium Reserve Battery

View of Rhodium-Based Catalyst for Hydrogen-Fuel System Offers Ideas for Improvement

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

UCLA's Incubator at California NanoSystems Institute Opens Lab Space to MediSens Wireless

New Photo Library Shows How Nanotechnology is Changing the Energy Consumption of the World

System Specifically Designed for Plasma Etching Dielectric Films Required in Flexible Electronics Fabrication

Ontario Government Invests $16.7 Million in Battery Research at Electrovaya

U.S. Customer Qualifies Strasbaugh's New nVision II CMP Endpoint Detection System

The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre Holds First Open Day in September

Three Companies Sharing Professorship of Thin Film Technology

Stack of Nanometer-Scale Thin Films Synthesized using Diamond Isotopes

Award to Fund Research on Self-Organizing Polymer Nanocomposites

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