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Altairnano Receives SBIR Grant to Support Strategic Initiatives for NAVSEA

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) (Nasdaq: ALTI), a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced the company has received a Small Business Innovati...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 30 Jul 2009

Detecting More Nanoparticles and Speeding Up Acquisition by a Massive Amount

Oxford Instruments' market leading automated feature and particle analysis system is now available with new image acquisition hardware INCAmicsF+ for even faster and more accurate data acquisition.

From Oxford Instruments plc 30 Jul 2009

X-Max Maximising Performance of TEM

Oxford Instruments' revolutionary X-Max large area Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) is now available for the analytical TEM.

From Oxford Instruments plc 30 Jul 2009

Cadence CPF-based Low Power Flow and Integrated DFM Capabilities Enable Simplified Advanced Node Design Methodology for UMC Customers

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global design innovation, announced today that it has delivered an end-to-end CPF-based low power and DFM-aware design, verification, and implementation solution...

From Cadence Design Systems 30 Jul 2009

Research to be Centered at Argonne National Lab in Chicago

Advanced lithium-ion automotive battery producer EnerDel and the Nissan Motor Co. of Japan are teaming up to research a new generation of electrical conductive material intended to reduce cost and improve the performance of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries.

From Argonne National Laboratory 30 Jul 2009

CTS Electronic Components Awarded Contract from a Major Industrial Manufacturer

CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS), a global leader in the design and manufacture of electronic components, today announced that CTS Electronic Components has been awarded a production program from a major industrial North Amer...

30 Jul 2009

Bioo Scientific Receives SBIR Phase II Award from NSF to Develop a Targeted in Vivo RNAi Delivery Technology

Bioo Scientific, an Austin, TX based biotechnology company, announced today that it has been awarded a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of a targeted in vivo RNA Interference (RNAi) delivery technology.

30 Jul 2009

Project Provides a Boost to an Exciting Area of Research Known as Formulation Science

A new €1.7 million EU funded project involving 17 world-leading research institutions - and led by The University of Manchester - will encourage the transfer of ideas and knowledge between top scientists around the ...

30 Jul 2009

Corning and Soitec Group Announces Agreement on Developing High-Performance Silicon-on-Glass Substrates for Flat Panel Mobile Display Market

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) and the Soitec Group (Euronext Paris) today announced an agreement to work together on the development of high-performance silicon-on-glass (SiOG) substrates for the flat panel mobile disp...

From The Soitec Group 30 Jul 2009

Treating Advanced Ovarian Cancer with Nanotechnology

Nanoparticle delivery of diphtheria toxin-encoding DNA selectively expressed in ovarian cancer cells reduced the burden of ovarian tumors in mice, and researchers expect this therapy could be tested in humans within 18 to 24 months, according to a report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

30 Jul 2009

Breaking Planck's Law at the Nanoscale

A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together. Scientists had never been able to confirm, or measure, this breakdown in practice.

30 Jul 2009

ASM Receives Order for Pulsar ALD System from Japanese Logic Device Manufacturers

ASM International N.V. (NASDAQ: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM), today announced that it has sold its Pulsar® Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system for high-k gates to two top Japanese logic device manufacturers for...

From ASM International 29 Jul 2009

Companies Scrambling to Find Unconventional Ways to Increase Revenue and Maximize Assets

Today, in the midst of the recession, companies are scrambling to find unconventional ways to increase revenue and maximize their assets -- ideally at little or no additional cost. According to Chipworks, the world's...

29 Jul 2009

Findings Open Door to Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Architecture

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power.

29 Jul 2009

Revision to an Important ASTM Nanotechnology Standard Incorporates a Large-scale Interlaboratory Study

The revised standard, ASTM E2490, Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS), is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E56.02 on Characterization: Physical, Chemical and Toxicological Properties, part of ASTM International Committee E56 on Nanotechnology.

29 Jul 2009

Nanotechnology News

Altairnano Receives SBIR Grant to Support Strategic Initiatives for NAVSEA

Detecting More Nanoparticles and Speeding Up Acquisition by a Massive Amount

X-Max Maximising Performance of TEM

Cadence CPF-based Low Power Flow and Integrated DFM Capabilities Enable Simplified Advanced Node Design Methodology for UMC Customers

Research to be Centered at Argonne National Lab in Chicago

CTS Electronic Components Awarded Contract from a Major Industrial Manufacturer

Bioo Scientific Receives SBIR Phase II Award from NSF to Develop a Targeted in Vivo RNAi Delivery Technology

Project Provides a Boost to an Exciting Area of Research Known as Formulation Science

Corning and Soitec Group Announces Agreement on Developing High-Performance Silicon-on-Glass Substrates for Flat Panel Mobile Display Market

Treating Advanced Ovarian Cancer with Nanotechnology

Breaking Planck's Law at the Nanoscale

ASM Receives Order for Pulsar ALD System from Japanese Logic Device Manufacturers

Companies Scrambling to Find Unconventional Ways to Increase Revenue and Maximize Assets

Findings Open Door to Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Architecture

Revision to an Important ASTM Nanotechnology Standard Incorporates a Large-scale Interlaboratory Study

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Single-Step Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes for Better Energy Storage

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