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Revolutionizing Printing Technology through Nanotechnology

With nanoparticulate functional materials and innovative printing pro-cesses, researchers from BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Darmstadt Technical University are revolutionizing printing technology.

27 Jul 2009

BNC Signs Largest Contract to Date with Major Chemical Company

The specialist product development consultancy, Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) is pleased to announce that it has recently signed its largest contract to date with a major chemical company. BNC has secured this contract as a result of unique intellectual property developed at its partner institutions of Imperial College and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

From Bio Nano Consulting 27 Jul 2009

Nanodiamond-Insulin Clusters Hold Promise for Wound-Healing Applications

Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting infection...

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Combine Two Nanoparticles in One Tiny Package

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package.

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Press on in Their Mission to Power Nanodevices of Tomorrow

Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can even produce electricity. Driven by the vision of ou...

27 Jul 2009

University of Notre Dame Selects Vistec's EBPG5200 for Cutting-Edge Nanotechnology Research

Vistec Lithography, Inc. is pleased to announce that the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, has selected Vistec's EBPG5200 system for its cutting-edge nanotechnology research. The new electron beam lithog...

27 Jul 2009

Flexible and Intuitive User Interface Enables Most Complex, High-Accuracy Nanostructuring at 16bit Accuracy

At Microscopy + Microanalysis show Carl Zeiss presents a highly flexible NanoPatterning Engine for its CrossBeam® (FIB/SEM) workstations. Being able to flexibly and precisely control the focused ion beam-possibly in combination with process gases-is key in scientific and industrial research and development.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 27 Jul 2009

Long-Sought Structure of a Layer of Carbon Buckyballs on a Silver Surface

Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver surface.

27 Jul 2009

Key Step Towards Producing Nanoscale Detectors for Weighing any Single Atom

By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom. Such ultrasensitive m...

27 Jul 2009

Atom-by-Atom Growth of Rotating Carbon Nanotubes

New video showing the atom-by-atom growth of carbon nanotubes reveals they rotate as they grow, much like the halting motion of a mechanical clock's second hand.

27 Jul 2009

New Bottom-Up Hierarchical and Hotspot Fixing Flows Improve Performance, Power and DFM

Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, today announced that the Talus(r) IC implementation system has been included in TSMC Reference Flow 10.0.

27 Jul 2009

Making Invisibility a Reality

One of the first things that come to mind when thinking about Harry Potter and his cloak is ... invisibility. Researchers in Spain have developed a device that makes objects invisible under a certain kind of light. Calle...

27 Jul 2009

ARM and Cadence Collaborate to Enable New Generation of Physical IP for IBM 45nm SOI Process

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global electronic design innovation, announced today that they have validated a new generation of ASIC libraries from ARM using the Cadence® Encounter® D...

From Cadence Design Systems 27 Jul 2009

Strasbaugh Receives Multi-Million Dollar Order for its New STB P300 CMP System.

Strasbaugh (OTC Bulletin Board: STRB) announced today that it has received a multi-million dollar order for its new STB P300 CMP system. The order follows the recent introduction of the product at Semicon West 2009. The ...

27 Jul 2009

A Step Toward Lithium Fuel Cell Using Recyclable Lithium

Haoshen Zhou the Energy Interface Technology Group, the Energy Technology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Yonggang Wang have developed a new-type lithium-air cell with large-capacity based on new structure.

27 Jul 2009