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Leader in Development of Nanotechnology-Enabled, UV Curable Advanced Materials Announces Award of its Seventh U.S. Patent

Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet curable advanced materials, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the company its seventh patent pertaining to its cleantech, environmentally friendly coatings.

18 Mar 2009

Nano Patch Extending Useful Life Of Aircraft

Scientists are developing a new technology for repairing aircraft by means of composite patches applied to both aluminium and to the new generation of compound materials aircraft. The goal of the project is to extend the...

18 Mar 2009

Applied Nanoscience to Present NanoFense Formulation at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Applied Nanoscience Inc. (ANI) (PINKSHEETS: APNN), a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, today announced that it has accepted an invitation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to presen...

From Applied Nanoscience Inc. 18 Mar 2009

New Lab-on-a-Chip Could Lead to Better Cancer Therapies

Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a method that could be used to help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighboring tissue, an "escape" that can spread the disease to other parts of the body.

18 Mar 2009

Noted Toxicologist to Make Keynote Presentation at International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry

Join your industry colleagues for the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, presented by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, June 23-26, 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. The...

18 Mar 2009

Unexpected Particle Whose Curious Characteristics may Reveal New Ways that Quarks can Combine to Form Matter

Scientists of the CDF experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced yesterday (March 17) that they have found evidence of an unexpected particle whose curious characteristics may reveal new ways that quarks can combine to form matter.

18 Mar 2009

High-Performing Photoconducting Material that Uses Zinc Oxide

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manu...

18 Mar 2009

AMD Beats Intel in 45 nm "Low Power" Server Test

A server configured with new AMD (NYSE: AMD) low power Opteron "Shanghai HE" processors used 13 to 21 percent less power while delivering better throughput when compared to a virtually identical server configur...

18 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology as the Next Advancement for Improving Water Treatment

Top executives from leading water companies, and investment and market research firms will join Mike Shapiro, Acting Assistant Administrator of the U.S. EPA's Office of Water, and Tommy Holmes, legislative director with the American Water Works Association, at the WATER EXECUTIVE Forum here March 30-31.

18 Mar 2009

nLIGHT Introduces New Highly Doped, Photodarkening Resistant Ytterbium Fibers

nLIGHT Corporation (nLIGHT) announced today the availability of new highly doped, photodarkening resistant ytterbium fibers with up to 60 percent (%) higher absorption at 920 nanometer (nm) and pump conversion efficienci...

18 Mar 2009

Applied Biosystems AB SCIEX QTRAP 5500 Mass Spectrometry System Earns Scientists' Choice Award

Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies (NASDAQ:LIFE), and its mass spectrometry joint-venture partner, MDS Analytical Technologies, a business unit of MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) (NYSE:MDZ), today announced that the AB SCIEX QTRAP® 5500 System, a unique, next-generation mass spectrometer, has received the Scientists' Choice Award for Best New Spectroscopy Product by SelectScience.net, a leading online resource for applied chemists, clinical chemists and life scientists.

18 Mar 2009

Quest PharmaTech Forms Strategic Alliance with IntelligentNano to Develop Nanotechnology-Based Next Generation SL052

Quest PharmaTech Inc. (TSX-V: QPT) ("Quest" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of cancer and dermatological conditions, today announc...

18 Mar 2009

HORIBA Scientific to Host Special Workshop on Fluorescence Instrumentation

To open access to the powerful tools of fluorescence, HORIBA Scientific is organizing a special workshop to be held in Prague, June 3-5. Not only will this give every researcher a chance to experience the start of the art in fluorescence instrumentation with hands-on sessions, but internationally known experts in the field will provide deep insight in the topics of current interest.

From HORIBA 18 Mar 2009

Wyatt Technology Publishes New Brochure to Support Launch of DynaPro NanoStar

Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in absolute macromolecular characterization instrumentation and software, has published a new brochure to support the launch of its new Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) instrument, the DynaPro NanoStar.

18 Mar 2009

Caesium Fountains More Accurate than "Normal" Atomic Clocks

Caesium fountains are more accurate than "normal" atomic caesium clocks, because in fountains the caesium atoms are cooled down with the aid of laser beams and come ever slower - from a rapid velocity at room temperature to a slow "creep pace" of a few centimetres per second at a temperature close to the absolute zero point.

18 Mar 2009