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Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Market Shares from 2009-2015

Research and Markets has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009-2015" to the...

From Research and Markets 21 Jan 2009

Elsevier Announces Acquisition of the Publishing Assets of William Andrew

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. ("William Andrew").

From Elsevier B.V 21 Jan 2009

Ultra Clean Technology Signs Global Supplier Agreement with FEI

Ultra Clean Technology (Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.) (NASDAQ:UCTT) and FEI Company (NASDAQ:FEIC) announced today they have signed a Global Supplier Agreement under which Ultra Clean will provide hosted manufacturing services in the FEI Hillsboro, Oregon, facility.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Phenom-World BV 21 Jan 2009

Stretchable Electronics that can be Wrapped Around Complex Shapes

Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function.

21 Jan 2009

Achievement Paves Way for Manufacturing Reliable Electronic Nanocircuits at the Nanoscale

After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

21 Jan 2009

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