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The Use of Microencapsulation Technology in a Novel Self-Warming Hand and Body Lotion

Microencapsulation isn't a new technology, but it's always finding new applications. Familiar uses include the scratch-and-sniff perfume ads in magazines, certain time-release pharmaceuticals, and (perhaps mostly...

17 Dec 2008

3D Nano-Porous Optical Biosensor Receives Most Innovative Product (MIP) Award

Silicon Kinetics SKi Pro is the world's first 3D label-free platform for biomolecular interaction analysis in proteomics research, biomarker and drug discovery, vaccine development as well as quality control in drug manufacturing.

17 Dec 2008

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Select Heidelberg Laser Patterning System for Fabrication of Advanced Biomedical Applications

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a µPG101 table top maskless laser patterning system to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Maryland, USA. System will be used for prototyping and fabrication of ...

17 Dec 2008

France to Invest $480 Million in Research and Development in Nanotechnology

At the first European sessions on innovation, on Dec. 9 in Paris, the President of the French Republic and President of the European Council, Nicolas Sarkozy, announced the French government plans to double its research ...

17 Dec 2008

Novel MEMS-based Pedestrian Navigation System Help Keep Pedestrian Safe

VTI Technologies has announced a novel MEMS-based pedestrian navigation solution demonstrator. Making its debut at CES 2009, the small wearable device can track the position, speed and distance of a pedestrian. It relies...

17 Dec 2008

Printing Circuited Lattices of Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

17 Dec 2008

Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest Functional SRAM Cell

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers (μm...

17 Dec 2008

ALICE Advanced Particle Accelerator Fires Beam at 11 Million Electron Volts

UK scientists have successfully demonstrated energy recovery on the ALICE advanced particle accelerator design, potentially paving the way for new accelerators using a fraction of the energy required under conventional methods.

17 Dec 2008

New "Super-Resolution" Fluorescence Microscopy Technique Reveal Features of Cells at 20-30 nanometers (nm)

Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitud...

17 Dec 2008

CIRM Awards Grant for Cell Culture Chip (C2C) to Accelerate Stem Cell Research

California’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, has awarded Fluidigm Corporation and Stemgent, Inc. a grant to develop a cell culture chip (C2C) and support system that will hel...

17 Dec 2008

India Announce Further Investments into Development of Nanotechnology

Vice President Hamid Ansari today said that public funding for scientific and technological research and development should aim at enhancing public welfare and economic development.Inaugurating the second Bangalore Nano ...

17 Dec 2008

New Joint Research on Development of Graphene-based Composite Material

BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of high...

16 Dec 2008

Dispute Over Insurance Policy on Nanotechnology

A while back, we received a call from a company that had developed a spray on insulation using nanotechnology. The company claimed it could dramatically reduce a company’s energy cost by using this spray on insulat...

16 Dec 2008

Exploring the Nanoworld Using Animation

Tiny self-assembling metal cubes dance across the screen in a video posted on the Web site of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. You could read a book — or at least several chapters — on the principles behind how these microcubes build themselves up from microscopic metallic sheets cut by lasers. Or you could watch a one-minute animated video that tells their fantastic story.

16 Dec 2008

First Nontoxic Method for Biodegrading Carbon Nanotubes

University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegrading carbon nanotubes, a finding that could help diminish the environmental and health concerns that mar the otherwise br...

16 Dec 2008