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Amtech Receives Multi-Million Solar Orders from Two New Customers

Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsi...

From Amtech Systems 6 Jan 2009

Nanotechnology-Based Coating Reduces OEM Surface Scratching by Over 50 Percent

Nanotechnology can be described as the science of molecular engineering, and is currently changing the way many industries think of surface coatings. Imagine a scratch-free automotive finish, a barnacle-free boat hull, a self-cleaning aircraft or a wheel without brake-dust.

From Nanovere Technologies 6 Jan 2009

Deal Paves Way For Use of ALD Ultra High-K Insulators

ASM International N.V. (Nasdaq: ASMI; Euronext Exchange in Amsterdam: ASM) and SAFC Hitech(TM), a business segment within SAFC(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich(R) Group (Nasdaq: SIAL), today announced that they have ent...

6 Jan 2009

NCKU Professors Develop Cutting-Edge Rapid Prototyping Device

A prototype of a cutting-edge "three-dimensional printer", a Rapid Prototyping (RP) device, has been successfully developed by the group led by the Distinguished Professor Sen-Yung Lee of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) under the funding from the Technology Development Program for Academia (TDPA).

5 Jan 2009

Ensysce Biosciences Inc. Appoints New President and CEO

Ensysce Biosciences Inc. announced today the appointment of Dr. Lynn Kirkpatrick as President and CEO. Dr. Kirkpatrick has an extensive background in targeted small molecule cancer drug development, and has brought three...

5 Jan 2009

South Bend’s Legacy of Innovation Sparks Ignition Park

It has been a place where the City of South Bend has mounted Indiana’s most aggressive environmental restoration effort to remove decaying buildings of its rust-belt past, where the legacy of Studebaker Corp. haunt...

5 Jan 2009

University of Surrey Awarded Major Grant as Part of 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business'

The Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey has been awarded a major research grant by the energy giant E.ON based in Germany as part of their 'Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business'.

5 Jan 2009

Breakthrough in Nanowire Growth Control

Scientists in Sweden have discovered new ways to control the growth and structure of nanowires at the single-atom level. Their findings, which provide major insights into materials physics, have come out of the NODE (' Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics') project, funded with approximately EUR 9.5 million under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

5 Jan 2009

Conference to Explore New Synergies Between Established Disciplines such as Nanotechnology

The European Future Emerging Technologies (FET 09) conference is being organised by the Future and emerging technologies research scheme of the European Commission, the Czech Technical University and the Academy of Scien...

5 Jan 2009

Bruker Daltonics Installs maXis UHR-TOF Mass Spectrometer in Australasia

Bruker Daltonics and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) announced today the installation of the first maXis(TM) Ultra-High Resolution Time-Of-Flight (UHR-TOF) mass spectrometer in Australasia, thereby fu...

5 Jan 2009

Grant to Fund Development of New FACS Based on Microdroplet Technology

RainDance Technologies, Inc., a provider of innovative microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research, today announced that it has been selected to share in the first-ever round of cooperative researc...

5 Jan 2009

Electron Microscopy Leader Acquires the Assets of Intellection

FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced that it had acquired substantially all of the assets of Intellection Holdings Pty. Ltd. of Brisbane, Australia. Intellection's primary product is the QEMSCAN automated mineralogy system.

5 Jan 2009