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Carbon Design Innovations Receive Funding to Develop Carbon Nanotube Devices

Carbon Design Innovations, Inc. (C|D|I) today announced that they have raised $400,000 in Series A funding from a group of private investors led by Vance Nau, company CEO. C|D|I has developed a patent pending process for...

From Carbon Design Innovations 15 Jun 2009

Scientists Discover 'Magnetic Superatom'

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.

15 Jun 2009

Comparing Emerging NanoTechnology Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures in Asbestos Litigation Losses

New Study Compares Emerging Nanomaterial Risk Concerns With Disclosure Failures That Preceded Billions of Dollars in Asbestos Litigation Losses; Reform Roadmap for FASB, SEC to be Laid Out. Are companies and investor...

15 Jun 2009

New Light-Emitting Transistor Setting New Record

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

15 Jun 2009

New Material Could One Day Provide Dramatically Faster, More Efficient Computer Chips

Move over, silicon-it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

15 Jun 2009

Scientists Create a Material that Does Not Expand when Heated

By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does no...

15 Jun 2009

Lighting the Way to Advances in Environmental Clean Up and Nanotechnology

Science fact surpasses science fiction at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron's 12th Annual Users' Meeting Thursday, June 18 at the Radisson Hotel in Saskatoon. Conference participants will hear about som...

15 Jun 2009

Fluidigm Introduces New Integrated Fluidic Circuit

Today Fluidigm introduced a new integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) - called the Access Array -- specifically designed to support high-throughput re-sequencing, targeted enrichment, sample barcoding, and library preparation...

From Standard BioTools 15 Jun 2009

Bayer MaterialScience Signs Technology and Patent License Agreement with Add-Vision

Bayer MaterialScience AG signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Scotts Valley, California. The agreement grants Bayer MaterialScience and its affiliates certain rights to manufacture and sell flexible polymer organic light-emitting diode (P-OLED) displays using Add-Vision's technology and intellectual property (IP) portfolio.

From Covestro AG 15 Jun 2009

New Way to Precisely Control the Fabrication of Stretchable Electronics

A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT. Stretchable electronics, which...

15 Jun 2009

Engineers Identify What Causes Concrete to Gradually Deform

MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth - concrete - to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastruc...

15 Jun 2009

Industrial Nanotech Enters Commercial, Industrial and Residential Roofing Markets

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

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 15 Jun 2009

Expanded Testing under a Material Transfer Agreement with a Pharma Company

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therap, reported today that testing of its topical eye drops drug candidate has begun at two different, independent facilities.

From NanoViricides, Inc 15 Jun 2009

Experts Showcase New Research Results in Advanced Gate Stack, High Mobility Channels, and 3D Interconnect TSVs

SEMATECH, the global consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, has continued leadership in developing, screening, and characterizing new materials, tools, and processes that enable CMOS scaling and emerging tech...

15 Jun 2009

Module's Size and Efficiency Make It A Breakthrough for Photovoltaics

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. announced that the company has manufactured a monolithically interconnected 5 meter long flexible light weight module on a polyimide substrate.

15 Jun 2009