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Global Organic Electronics Market is Set to Reach $34 Billion by 2015

Also called Plastic Electronics, Organic electronic deals with organic polymers or plastics that are conductive in nature. These polymers are called 'organic', as they are made from carbon-based molecules. This i...

From Global Industry Analysts 13 Apr 2009

Innovation Opens Door to a Wide Range of Applications in Photonics

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will.

13 Apr 2009

Congress Showcases Latest Scientific Updates and Current Industry Standards in Drug Discovery

BIT Life Sciences and Organizing Committee is organizing the 7th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology (IDDST) as part of their dedication to offer professionals in drug discovery field a...

13 Apr 2009

Visualizing and Exploring Findings as Highly Accurate Simulations

Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of data that represent the results of their calculations.

13 Apr 2009

Nanotechnology - A Thriving Area of Research and Development in 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "global market for nanoscale technologies". This 828 page report provides the most comprehensive global market assessment yet of industrial application...

From Research and Markets 12 Apr 2009

New Way to Manufacture One of the Important Building Blocks of Nanotechnology

McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA. A team of research...

12 Apr 2009

Scientists Examine the Effect of Synthetic Nanoparticles

Cerium oxide is a ceramic nano-abrasive. Scientists have now examined, under conditions close to reality, what happens when it is breathed in and deposited on the lung surface. Initially, the result was rather reassuring.

12 Apr 2009

Bill Now Sets the Legal Course for the KIT Merger

With today's passing of the bill for the "Act on the KIT Merger", the cabinet of the state of Baden-Württemberg has set the course for the legislation procedure to establish the KIT. After a hearing th...

12 Apr 2009

Mini Protein Chains Good Candidates as Anti-Bacterial Coating for Implants

Annually, 50 to 100 million people worldwide receive surgical implants. Some 1 to 7% of the patients suffer serious complications due to bacterial infection; therefore, prevention of such implant-associated infections is a high priority.

12 Apr 2009

Event Discusses Nanoscience for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery

Students and faculty are encouraged to submit posters for the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology third annual symposium Monday, May 18, 2009 at the School of Medicine.

11 Apr 2009

Metal Hydride Particle Bringing Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality

Purdue Researchers have developed a critical part of a hydrogen storage system for cars that makes it possible to fill up a vehicle's fuel tank within five minutes with enough hydrogen to drive 300 miles.

11 Apr 2009

Novel Nanoparticle-Based Biopharmaceutical Company Announces New President and CEO

Cerulean Pharma Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on novel, intelligently designed, nanoparticle-based drugs, announced today that Oliver S. Fetzer has been named as President and Chief Executive Officer. He has ...

From Cerulean Pharma 11 Apr 2009

Electron Microscopy Sciences Announces Availability of APTech LaB6 and CeB6 Cathodes

The Applied Physics Technologies (APTech) lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) and cerium hexaboride (CeB6or CeBix) cathodes are now available through Electron Microscopy Sciences. Both LaB6 and CeBix cathodes are ideal for many ...

10 Apr 2009

World's First Three-in-One Spectrometer for Carbon Nanotubes

Applied NanoFluorescence, company that constructs and sells state-of-the-art optical instruments to detect, quantify, and characterize carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in bulk samples, is pleased to announce the world's first three-in-one spectrometer for carbon nanotubes.

From Applied NanoFluorescence LLC 10 Apr 2009

Innovative Approach to Removing or Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Products Sold in California

Cal/EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) today announced the selection of 27 members to the state's new Green Ribbon Science Panel, an advisory panel created for California's Green Chemistry program, an in...

10 Apr 2009