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Virginia Tech Professor Recognised for Thermoelectric Materials Research

Jeremiah T. Abiade, assistant professor in materials science and engineering and in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his research to increase the electrical output of thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices.

16 Jun 2009

Nanoparticles Could Someday Target and Destroy Tumors

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.

16 Jun 2009

MEMtronics Receives DARPA Development Contract

MEMtronics Corporation, privately-held company focused on the commercialization of RF micromachined switch technology, today announced it has received a development contract from the Defense Advance Research Projects Age...

From MEMtronics Corporation 16 Jun 2009

UK's National Measurement Institute Offers UK Businesses Independent Materials Advice Over the Phone

Materials companies now have somewhere to turn for instant measurement advice. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has launched a new materials hotline, GEMM (Gateway to Expertise in Materials Metrology), to give companies access to its materials expertise.

16 Jun 2009

Engineers Describe New Technique to Continue Scaling in HKMG Transistors

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the world's first truly global leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company, today described an innovative technology that could overcome one of the key hurdles to advancing high-k metal gate (HK...

From GlobalFoundries 16 Jun 2009

Fully Tested and Qualified Wafer-Level Lenses Use Reflow Compatible Materials to Streamline Production and Assembly of Camera Modules

Nemotek Technologie, manufactures customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today announced its Wafer-Level Optics (WLO) solutions are fully qualified and now available to customers. Producing thousands o...

16 Jun 2009

Company Delivers 10 Kilometers of Carbon Nanotube Yarn to Fortune 100 Aerospace Customer

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., today announced it has produced and delivered 10 kilometers of its CTex™ CNT yarn to one of its Fortune 100 aerospace customers.

From Huntsman International LLC 16 Jun 2009

Protein Structures Can Provide Keys to Understanding and Preventing Diseases of Catastrophic Proportions

In the rarified world of protein crystal hunters, Fluidigm's TOPAZ® system is the tool that has helped researchers solve the structures of proteins from the Ebola Virus and Avian Flu Influenza. Now Fluidigm is in...

From Standard BioTools 16 Jun 2009

Frost + Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) Solar Cells

Solar energy has been growing in importance as a green and non-polluting energy source. The global market potential remains significant with cost and affordability as the key barriers to adoption of solar energy being a viable energy source.

From Frost and Sullivan 16 Jun 2009

Innovation and Creativity in a Complex World

"The future path through cyberspace is filled with threats and opportunities, most of which cannot even be imagined today," says Gene Stephens, a member of the FBI Futures Working Group, the World Future Societ...

16 Jun 2009

3-D, Real-Time X-Ray Images May be Closer to Reality

Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes. In a paper ...

16 Jun 2009

Winner of the First Photonics21 Student Innovation Award Announced

PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the EU-Directorate Information Society and Media awarded Chassagneux the prize at the opening ceremony of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich on the 15 th June 2009.

15 Jun 2009

India's Nano Messiah Launches First Issue of Nano Digest

The one-stop source for information and news about Nano Technology - Nano Digest, an English monthly magazine hits the news stands. India's first magazine on Nanotechnology, Nano Digest is produced from Hyderabad. 'Nano Messiah', world's great scientist and Father of Indian Nanotechnology Prof. C.N.R. Rao just unveiled the inaugural edition.

15 Jun 2009

Project Will Enable Scientific Discoveries for the 21st Century

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 15 Jun 2009

New Paradigm of the Biocompatibility of Intravascular Devices

Robert S. Schwartz, MD, medical director of the Minnesota Cardiovascular Research Institute, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, will describe the new paradigm of the biocompatibility of intravascular devices during his keynote presentation at the leading conference on materials for medical devices.

15 Jun 2009