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NanoViricides Participates in WHO Meeting On Dengue Therapeutics

NanoViricides, Inc., said that it participated in a meeting of international experts on Dengue Therapeutics held by the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), of the World Health Organiza...

From NanoViricides, Inc 20 Oct 2008

Spire and Shuttleworth to Complement XsunX TFPV Manufacturing System

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Spire Corporation and Shuttleworth Inc., who will provide components to complement the company's TFPV manufacturing ...

20 Oct 2008

Investigating the Microscopic Structure of Quantum Gases

Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible. Bose-Einstein condensates are small, ultracold gas clouds which, due to their low temperatures, can no longer be described in terms of traditional physics but must be described using the laws of quantum mechanics.

20 Oct 2008

Los Alamos National Laboratory and STI Laboratory Sign Material Transfer Agreement

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), a leading company in high temperature superconductor (HTS) materials and related technologies, and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announ...

From Los Alamos National Laboratory 20 Oct 2008

Microarray and Sequencing Data Analysis Now Available in a Single Package

Illumina, Inc. today introduced GenomeStudio Software, a primary analysis software program designed to analyze both microarray and sequencing data. For researchers, GenomeStudio Software enables the correlation of biological variation across multiple applications and graphical display of the results.

20 Oct 2008

Trinean Announces Closing of a 3.5 Million Euro Funding Round

Trinean NV announced the closure of a 3,5 million # round of financing. The round was co-lead by new investor Vesalius Biocapital and existing investor Capital-E. Trinean is a spin-off of the University of Ghent (Inte...

20 Oct 2008

EFSA Launches Public Consultation on Draft Opinion on Nanotechnology and Food and Feed Safety

EFSA is today launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion in relation to nanoscience and nanotechnologies and food and feed safety. Nanotechnologies involve the use of substances on a very small scale...

20 Oct 2008

LDK Solar to Supply Multicrystalline Solar Wafers to Helios Technology

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a seven-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Italy-based Helios Technology. Under the terms...

20 Oct 2008

Visualizing the Energy Gap in Semiconductor Materials

The special SESAM system, a high performance version of the LIBRA® 200 transmission electron microscope series from Carl Zeiss SMT, has been in use at the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF) for the past 10 months.

20 Oct 2008

Atomic Hydrogen Key to Low Energy CO2 to Fuel Transformation

Carbon Sciences, Inc. (CABN), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, today commented on the source of hydrogen and energy efficiency of its u...

20 Oct 2008

UT Dallas Professor Awarded for Groundbreaking Semiconductor Work

The American Physical Society has awarded a UT Dallas researcher one of the society's highest honors, recognizing Dr. Yves Chabal's development of methods to better understand processes that take place on the silicon surface that is literally the platform for the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry.

20 Oct 2008

Cambridge NanoTech Introduces ALD Systems for Research and Development

Today, Cambridge NanoTech, the leading supplier of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems for research and industry, announced the release of the first Savannah S300 system. The S300 builds on the success of the S100 and ...

20 Oct 2008

UWM Researcher Creates Smart Nanocoatings that Fortify Materials

Put steel under a powerful microscope, revealing its microstructure, and prepare to be surprised. Known for its strength, the metal will appear pitted and pocked."It is intrinsic to the material," says Carolyn Aita, a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). "A pit can begin to develop from a physiochemical defect in the steel itself."

20 Oct 2008

Kovio Announces Development of World's First Printed Silicon RFID Platform

Kovio, Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company, today announced the development of the world's first silicon ink-based RFID tag and the company's printed silicon RFID platform for item-level intelligence. T...

20 Oct 2008

SECTOR Technologies Announces Distribution Agreement with Varioscale

SECTOR Technologies has completed a distribution agreement with Varioscale Inc to assume responsibility for all Varioscale Products Sales within Europe. SECTOR Technologies is a young company that insures sales and suppo...

19 Oct 2008