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SMI Opens Application Lab Facilities for MOCVD Growth of ZnO Based Films

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) announces today that it has opened its application lab facilities for the MOCVD growth of ZnO based films for transparent contact work as used with LEDs and photovoltaics, as well as ZnO films for transparent and power transistors.

18 Jan 2009

Research and Markets Announces Availability of Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "4th Annual Lithium Mobile Power 2008 - Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies for Mobile Applications Conference Documentation" report to its offerings....

From Research and Markets 17 Jan 2009

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Potential Leaders in Materials Sciences in 2009

Do you have a tough question related to the materials sciences? Information Specialist, Rosa Raskin, advises that to increase profits, you need cutting-edge information. Whether you are a company executive, materials ...

17 Jan 2009

Nanoshel Launches Blog Called "Research Center"

Nanoshel has launched its blog, which has been named as "research center". It will contain latest updates from the company, researches going on around the world and other hot topics related to nanotechnology.

17 Jan 2009

Plasmonic Nanoswitch Paving Way for New Computers

The ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research te...

16 Jan 2009

Leading Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Developer Announces Financial Restructuring Plan

Raymor Industries Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RAR), a leading developer and producer of single-walled carbon nanotubes, nanomaterials and advanced materials, announces it has received from its principal financial institution a Notice to Enforce a Security under the article 244(1) of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

16 Jan 2009

Breakthrough SOFC by Placing Micro Fuel Cell Directly on Silicon Chip

SiEnergy Systems, LLC has developed a breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) by placing a micro fuel cell directly on a silicon chip, an advance that will revolutionize the way people use power. These "Silicon En...

16 Jan 2009

DOE Gives Approval for Second Target Station for Spallation Neutron Source

The U.S. Department of Energy has given its initial approval to begin plans for a second target station for the Spallation Neutron Source, expanding what is already the world's most powerful pulsed neutron scattering...

16 Jan 2009

NanoBusiness Alliance Commends House Reintroduction of Nanotechnology Bill

NanoBusiness Alliance Executive Chairman Sean Murdock today commended House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN), Ranking Member Ralph Hall (R-TX), and their cosponsors for introducing the Nationa...

From Nanobusiness Alliance 16 Jan 2009

Professor Sir Michael Pepper Appointed Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics at UCL

Professor Sir Michael Pepper has been appointed to the Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics at UCL (University College of London) where he will work on joint projects between the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. His research will focus on semiconductors, nanostructures, fundamental terahertz technologies and their applications.

16 Jan 2009

Polymer Nanoparticle for Oral Anticancer Drug Delivery

One of the problems that cancer patients face is that many of the most potent anticancer therapies can be administered only by injection, which means that cancer patients must travel to receive their medication. But than...

16 Jan 2009

Biodegradable Nanoprobe Images New Blood Vessel Growth

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels, plays a critical role in several chronic human diseases, including metastatic cancer. In fact, several new anticancer therapies are designed to starve tumors by shutting down angiogenesis, but the lack of a good assay for quantifying angiogenesis in the body has hampered the development of effective antiangiogenesis therapies.

16 Jan 2009

Researchers Develop Microfluidic Devices that Capture and Analyze Cancer Cells

One of the grand goals in nanotechnology is to develop a single microfluidic device that integrates all of the components needed to perform polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based nucleic acid analyses. Experts predict tha...

16 Jan 2009

Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe Devoted to Studying Matter at the Atomic Scale

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

Toxin-Nanoparticle Combo Inhibits Brain Cancer Invasion

Working with a nanoparticle designed to target and image glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, investigators at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that these same nanoparticles inhibit tumor cell invasion...

16 Jan 2009