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The Sixty-Four-Thousand-Dollar Question: How Signals are Transmitted Across Cell Membrane

Bacteria can occur almost anywhere on earth and exist under the most varying conditions. If these tiny, microscopic organisms are to survive in these environments, they need to be able to rapidly detect changes in their ...

15 Jan 2009

Roth + Rau and Innovalight Complete Installation of World's First Silicon-Ink Based Solar Cell Pilot Production

Roth + Rau AG and Innovalight have completed the installation of the world's first silicon-ink based solar cell production line. This first pilot manufacturing line has been built and installed at Innovalight, in Sun...

15 Jan 2009

HORIBA's SA-9600 Brings Exceptional Confidence to Surface Area and Pore Volume Analysis

HORIBA's breakthrough SA-9600 surface area technology brings exceptional convenience and confidence to surface area and pore volume analysis. Now you can perform single-point surface area, multi-point surface area and total pore volume measurements with push-button ease.

From HORIBA 15 Jan 2009

Novel Synthetic Nanoparticle Developed for Noninvasive Imaging of Angiogenesis

Adah Almutairi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, is first author of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

14 Jan 2009

Discovery Allows Development of New Scale Inhibitors and Other Materials

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are now whittling away at the established theory, which is unable to explain numerous phenomena. The researchers investigated the crystallization of calcium carbonate, known commonly as chalk, and found that stable nanoclusters form in water with a small quantity of dissolved calcium carbonate - not how it was assumed to happen in the past.

14 Jan 2009

Removing Lead from Blood Using Magnetic Nanoparticles

Lead is one of the most dangerous heavy metals and is especially toxic to children. Safe and effective detoxification processes are needed. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, a Korean team led by Won Seok Han and Jong Hwa Jung has developed a new, highly promising approach. It is based on a fluorescence receptor that selectively and strongly binds to lead ions.

14 Jan 2009

Leading Developer of Nano Catalyst Materials Files Patent for Energy-Efficient Water Desalination

QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, high-performance electrode systems, and related process chemistries for portable power and clean-tech applications, today filed for a U.S. patent on a water purification process that serves as a more energy-efficient alternative to desalination methods now commonly used to help meet growing water needs around the world.

14 Jan 2009

Making Metamaterials Work Over Wide Bandwidths

At a recent conference, researchers at Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. disclosed the approach to making metamaterials work over wide bandwidths. Metamaterials, close-packed grids of conducting 'resonators', offer the unusual ability of bending light or other electromagnetic waves in the opposite direction of conventional lenses, and other odd properties.

14 Jan 2009

Dudek and Catalyx Nanotech Teaming to Produce Nanomaterials From Landfill Gas

CATALYX NANOTECH, INC., is teaming with Dudek to pursue low-cost, "green" high-grade graphite and hydrogen production with no by-products using a patented technology. Catalyx Nanotech, a privately funded compan...

14 Jan 2009

Data Demonstrates New Formulations Provide Significant Pharmacological Responses in Preclinical Models

ACCESS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACCP) provided an update today on its Cobalamin(TM) oral drug delivery product development programs. The proprietary Cobalamin(TM) technology utilizes the body's natu...

14 Jan 2009

Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Markets Anticipate to Reach $9 Billion by 2015

Electronics.ca Publications, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "Worldwide Nanotechnology Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Market Shares ...

14 Jan 2009

NanoVector Hires VP of R+D for Nanotechnology Cancer Therapeutics

NanoVector, Inc. announced today that Paul M. Steed, Ph.D. has joined the company as its Vice President of Research and Development. Dr. Steed has 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical R + D, including 10 at Ciba/Nova...

14 Jan 2009

Japanese Police Selects Bruker's Mass Spectrometers for Exact Mass Analysis

Bruker Daltonics announced today that it has signed a contract with the Japanese National Police Agency (NPA) for the supply of 51 units of its state-of-the-art ESI-TOF system, micrOTOF-II focus. The contract with a value of more than $12 million USD includes micrOTOF-II systems to be installed in each of the NPA's Prefecture forensic laboratories, as well as HPLC and CE systems, providing a complete analysis package.

14 Jan 2009

XsunX Enters Sales Contract to Supply ASI-120 Thin Film Solar Modules

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX, XSNXE), a solar technology company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar manufacturing facilities in Oregon, announced today that it has...

14 Jan 2009

Examination of the Principles and Applications of Emulsion Polymerization

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Principles and Applications of Emulsion Polymerization" to their offering. This book provides a comprehensive ref...

14 Jan 2009