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Electro Scientific Industries Purchased All IP Rights and Certain Components from XSiL

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that it has purchased all intellectual property (IP) righ...

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 12 May 2009

Northwest Arkansas Home to the State's Only Nanomanufacturing Facility

Duralor LLC, a Springdale-based producer of high-performance coatings and coating processes for cutting tools and machine-wear parts, announced that it will open a production and R+D site May 29.

12 May 2009

NanoBusiness Alliance and Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance announces Keynote Lineup for Nano Renewable Energy Summit

The NanoBusiness Alliance, the world's leading nanotechnology trade association, and the Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance today announced the keynote lineup for the 2nd annual Nano Renewable Energy Summit, which will...

12 May 2009

Nanotechnology Scientists Win Microgravity Research Competition

When a spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in the future, its cargo will include a small box containing a nano-fluidics experiment designed by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

12 May 2009

Simpler, Less Expensive Design Could Make Precision Particle Therapy Available to More Patients

As part of an effort to make high-precision particle cancer therapy accessible to more patients, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a simpler, less-expensive gantry design for delivering tumor-killing particle beams.

12 May 2009

AIST Concludes MOUs on Research Cooperation with 6 US National Laboratories

On the occasion of the visit to USA of Minister Toshihiro Nikai, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), concluded MOUs with 5 research organizations of the US Department of Energy, and with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the US Department of Commerce at Washington, D.C on May 4, 2009.

12 May 2009

Semiconductor Metrology/Inspection Equipment Market Outperforms Front-End Wafer Processing Equipment Market

The Semiconductor Metrology/Inspection Equipment market finally outperformed the rest of the overall semiconductor front-end wafer processing equipment market for the first time in three years, according to the report &q...

12 May 2009

West Virginia University Sponsors Free Nanotechnology Day Camp for Rising Seventh and Eighth Graders

Rising seventh and eighth graders in the local region will have an opportunity to examine evidence like a crime scene investigator, launch a rocket and much more if they participate in the free Summer Science Day Camp at...

12 May 2009

Samsung Electronics Announces Shipment of 32-GB moviNAND Memory Card utilizing Advanced 30-nm Process Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced shipment of its 32-Gigabyte (GB) moviNAND™, the highest density embedded memory card utilizing advanced 30-n...

11 May 2009

Nanoparticles Could be Reduced to the Point Where they Exist in Blurred Boundary Between a 2-D and 1-D Phase

Professor CHOE Sug-bong from Seoul National University found that nano-size particles could be reduced to the point where they exist in a blurred boundary between a two-dimensional and one-dimensional phase.

11 May 2009

Nano Terra's Surface Engineering Capabilities Used to Develop Advanced Aerospace Material and Applications

Nano Terra announced today a partnership with Honeywell Aerospace to develop functional surfaces for a variety of aerospace applications.

11 May 2009

Thermo Fisher Introduces Next Generation Ion Trap and Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched two new mass spectrometers, the Thermo Scientific LTQ Velos and LTQ Orbitrap Velos systems at ACHEMA 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany, from May...

11 May 2009

Center Focuses on Exploiting Physical Properties of Nanomaterials to More Efficiently Convert Solar Energy into Electric Power

Solar- and nuclear-energy technology advancements from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) could help the nation in its quest to capture viable sources of alternative energy, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department ...

11 May 2009

Nanotechnology Research May Have Come up with Explanation as to Where and How North Sea Oil Clings to Underground Rocks

It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities in the surrounding rock or is stuck to the walls of the underground cavity and cannot be accessed by the techniques currently used in the oil industry.

11 May 2009

Tunable Fluidic Micro Lenses Can Focus and Direct Light at Will to Count Cells or Create On-Chip Optical Tweezers

Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to a team of Penn State engineers. They may also provide imaging in medical devices, eliminating the necessity and discomfort of moving the tip of a probe.

11 May 2009

Nanotechnology News

Electro Scientific Industries Purchased All IP Rights and Certain Components from XSiL

Northwest Arkansas Home to the State's Only Nanomanufacturing Facility

NanoBusiness Alliance and Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance announces Keynote Lineup for Nano Renewable Energy Summit

Nanotechnology Scientists Win Microgravity Research Competition

Simpler, Less Expensive Design Could Make Precision Particle Therapy Available to More Patients

AIST Concludes MOUs on Research Cooperation with 6 US National Laboratories

Semiconductor Metrology/Inspection Equipment Market Outperforms Front-End Wafer Processing Equipment Market

West Virginia University Sponsors Free Nanotechnology Day Camp for Rising Seventh and Eighth Graders

Samsung Electronics Announces Shipment of 32-GB moviNAND Memory Card utilizing Advanced 30-nm Process Technology

Nanoparticles Could be Reduced to the Point Where they Exist in Blurred Boundary Between a 2-D and 1-D Phase

Nano Terra's Surface Engineering Capabilities Used to Develop Advanced Aerospace Material and Applications

Thermo Fisher Introduces Next Generation Ion Trap and Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers

Center Focuses on Exploiting Physical Properties of Nanomaterials to More Efficiently Convert Solar Energy into Electric Power

Nanotechnology Research May Have Come up with Explanation as to Where and How North Sea Oil Clings to Underground Rocks

Tunable Fluidic Micro Lenses Can Focus and Direct Light at Will to Count Cells or Create On-Chip Optical Tweezers

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