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Company Developing its Communications and Nanotechnology Capabilities

Ambit Corporation announced today that it received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent Office for its US patent application No. 20050200536, entitled "Personal Communication Device Connectivity Arrangement&quot...

14 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology Center Planned to Spur Energy Innovation and Job Creation

The Nano World Headquarters (NWHQ), located in the Houston, Texas region, will serve as the leading global center for scientific nanotechnology collaboration and as an accelerator for start-up companies. The initiative -...

14 Mar 2009

Oxford Instruments Wins Award for Best Technology Company 2008

Oxford Instruments plc has won the award for Best Technology Company 2008 at the annual PLC Awards. The Awards, presented last night at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London, are sponsored by Price Waterhouse Coopers, The Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange and reward excellence amongst the smaller companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange.

14 Mar 2009

Project Turning to Nanotechnology to Dramatically Ramp Up Efficiency of Solar Cells

A new EU-funded project is turning to nanotechnology in a bid to dramatically ramp up the efficiency of solar cells. Called ROD-SOL ('All-inorganic nano-rod based thin-film solar cells on glass').

14 Mar 2009

Applied Materials Named to Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine's 10th Annual List of "100 Best Corporate Citizens"

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it was named to Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine's 10th annual list of "100 Best Corporate Citizens." This marks the seventh year the company has ranked...

From Applied Materials Inc. 14 Mar 2009

Experiments Exclude Significant Fraction of Higgs Territory

The territory where the Higgs boson may be found continues to shrink. The latest analysis of data from the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab now excludes a significant fraction of the allowed Higgs mass range established by earlier measurements.

13 Mar 2009

Replacing Platinum with Stainless Steel in Hydrogen Generating Microbial Electrolysis Cells

Platinum is highly desired in jewelry and as a catalyst, but in both cases it is expensive. Now, Penn State researchers have found a way to replace the platinum catalyst in their hydrogen generating microbial electrolysi...

13 Mar 2009

Electrochemical Technique Follows Motion of Microparticles in Space and Time

These processes may also play a role in infections. Following a swimming bacterium without influencing its motion is difficult. Nanotechnology researchers are also interested in determining the motion of nanoparticles, which would be useful for the development of nanomotors, for example.

13 Mar 2009

Nano Discovery May Lead to New Strategies for Industrial Catalysts

The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis.

13 Mar 2009

Experimental Unit Allows Researchers to Conduct Ion Beam Experiments for Materials

Three new experimental units for conducting materials research are being inaugurated today at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt. The units have been set up alongside the GSI's accelerator i...

13 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology - Ingredients for More Reliable Power

Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source. Such advances are among aims of research ...

13 Mar 2009

Nanocups Lighting the Way Toward Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.

13 Mar 2009

World's Leading Nanoprobe Supplier Earns ISO 9001:2008 Certification

MultiProbe Inc., the world's leading supplier of nanoprobing tools to the semiconductor industry, has embraced the high quality standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Follo...

13 Mar 2009

Report Analyzes Worldwide Markets for Microscopes in Millions of US$

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. World Microscopes Market report analyzes the worldwide markets for Microscopes in Millions of US$. The specific product segme...

13 Mar 2009

New Quantum Theory Describes Magnetism in Multiferroic Materials More Realistically than Earlier Theories

Scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako, the University of Tokyo and Sungkyunkwan University in Korea have developed a quantum theory that explains how temperature and quantum fluctuations-a direct consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle-affect the properties of materials called multiferroics.

12 Mar 2009