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Nanogen Investigates Alternatives to its Merger with Elitech Group

Nanogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGEN), developer of in vitro diagnostic products, today announced that it has received permission to investigate alternatives to its announced merger with the Elitech Group. Nanogen requested an...

From Nanogen 21 Jan 2009

Improving Electron Microscopy Samples using New Nanofabricated Membrane Technology

Using the first commercial application of a nanofabricated membrane technology, SiMPore Inc. has developed sample supports for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) that are among the world's thinnest-only 5 to 15 n...

21 Jan 2009

Nanion Again Nominated for Prestigious Innovation Award

Nanion is again nominated for a prestigious innovation award, due its impressive product portfolio of automated patch clamp systems. More than 350 companies competed in this year's Innovation Award and Nanion is fina...

From Nanion Technologies GmbH 21 Jan 2009

Researchers "Tune" Graphene's Properties by Growing it on Different Surfaces

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.

21 Jan 2009

Nanoradio AB Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

Nanoradio AB, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe ...

21 Jan 2009

Former FDA Deputy Commissioner Joins CombiMatrix Board of Directors

CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) today announced that former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, has joined the company's Board of Directors. During his term at the FD...

From Invitae Corporation 21 Jan 2009

Delivering Spin-Polarized Electrons Virtually on Demand

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where ...

21 Jan 2009

Final Acceptance Test Certification Awarded for Applied Materials' SunFab Thin Film Line

Moser Baer, the global technology company, today announced that its photovoltaic subsidiary is ready for production of thin film photovoltaic modules at its manufacturing plant in Greater Noida. This follows final acceptance test (FAT) certification of Moser Baer Photovoltaic's SunFab™ Thin Film Line supplied by Applied Materials, Inc., the California-based nanomanufacturing technology solutions provider.

From Applied Materials Inc. 21 Jan 2009

RHK Releases New Software for SPM Nanotechnology Research

RHK announces the release of XPMPro™ 2.0 software. XPMPro provides real-time data acquisition, analysis, and image processing for SPM nanotechnology research. Everyday, in university and government labs around the ...

21 Jan 2009

Electric Current Through Atoms and Molecules

The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That's how physicist Marius Trouwborst from the University of Groningen sums up the results of his PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules. 'The ultimate aim of nanotechnology is to use molecules for electronics', he says. 'That aim has now come a step closer.'

21 Jan 2009

Green Earth Technologies Reaches 1,000,000 Milestone

Green Earth Technologies is pleased to announced that they have now shipped over one million units of "G"-Branded products which are all biodegradable, renewable, recyclable and environmentally safe. GET produc...

21 Jan 2009

Pioneering Battery Expert Joins EnerDel as CTO

One of the auto industry's leading experts on advanced hybrid and electric vehicle power systems has joined U.S. lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel as the company's new Chief Technology Officer.

20 Jan 2009

Unique Solution to Provide Fast and Efficient Impurity Analysis of Solid Metals

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has developed a unique solution to provide fast and efficient impurity analysis of solid metals, including steels, platinum group metals, gold and other...

20 Jan 2009

Strict Editorial Policy Guarantees Quality of SciTopics

Elsevier today announced the launch of SciTopics, a free online expert-generated knowledge sharing service for the research community to quickly offer scientific, technical and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects....

20 Jan 2009

Optics Balzers Produces Advanced Patterned Coating Solutions for OEM Applications

As a manufacturer of components with a longstanding reputation for advanced optical coatings, Optics Balzers AG continues to supply customers with high quality coated optical components in many markets including; Sensors + Imaging, Automotive, Biophotonics, and Advanced Lighting.

20 Jan 2009