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NanoGram Corporation and Tokyo Electron Enter Thin-Film Photovoltaics Joint Development Agreement

NanoGram Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced products and solutions for optical, electronic and energy applications, announced today that it has extended its relationship with Tokyo Electron, Ltd. from strategic investor to technology and market development partner by entering into a joint development agreement.

12 Nov 2008

EPFL Announces the Creation of a Large World-Class Center of Neuroprostheses

EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) announces the creation of a large world-class center of neuroprostheses, in partnership with the Bertarelli Foundation and the Defitech Foundation. This Lausanne-...

12 Nov 2008

Nanomaterials for Building Safer Aircraft

The TECNALIA Technological Corporation is leading five projects within the VII Framework Programme with regard to the simulation of cement materials, nanomaterials for building safer aircraft, communications and mobility...

12 Nov 2008

Exploiting Unique Properties of Carbon Nanotubes to Create Cheap and Compact Memory Cell

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. And as hand-held devices - from mobile phones and cameras to music players and laptops - get more powerful, the race is on to develop memory formats that can satisfy the ever-gr...

12 Nov 2008

Nano-Scale Electromechanical Sensors Alerting us to Toxic Chemicals and Gases in the Air

Clemson physics professor Apparao Rao and his team are researching nano-scale cantilevers that have the potential to read and alert us to toxic chemicals or gases in the air. Put them into a small handheld device and the potential is there for real-time chemical alerts in battle, in industry, in health care and even at home.

12 Nov 2008

SUSS MicroTec Introduces the iVista LC High-Resolution Digital Microscope

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems, the premier supplier of wafer-level test solutions for semiconductor devices, today announced the iVista(TM) LC High-Resolution Digital Microscope. Its introduction is timed to meet the increasing need in failure-analysis labs for an advanced microscopy tool capable of delivering high-resolution digital images in conjunction with laser-cutting capabilities.

From SUSS MicroTec AG 11 Nov 2008

World Market for Electronic Chemicals Forecast to Reach $31.8 Billion in 2012

The highly complex, technology-intensive and diverse global electronics market, valued at several billions of dollars, is expected to post a strong average annual growth rate in the short-term. Growth will be influenced ...

From Global Industry Analysts 11 Nov 2008

New Study Finds Nanoporous Material Could Lead to New Dialysis Devices and Other Revolutionary Medical Implants

A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has made a breakthrough that could lead to new dialysis devices and a host of other revolutionary medical implants. The researchers have found that the unique ...

11 Nov 2008

Next Generation Nanotechnology Could Prove Vital to Reducing Coronary Artery Disease

A nanomatrix for stent coating designed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) mimics natural endothelium, the substance that lines blood vessels, and promises the potential to prevent post-operative tissue scaring along the blood vessel wall, greatly reducing the possibility of future thrombosis, or blockage at the stent site.

11 Nov 2008

EDI Working with Solar Industry Innovators to Develop Next-Generation Solar Panels

Extrusion Dies Industries, LLC (EDI) is working with solar industry innovators to help develop next-generation products that will enable solar-generated electricity to be cost-competitive with energy from fossil fuel-burning power plants, the company announced today at CPP Expo (Booth E-9414).

11 Nov 2008

World's First Clinical Trial of Drug-Eluting Stent Using RNA Therapeutic Agent to Treat Coronary Artery Disease

Global Therapeutics, a leading developer of innovative solutions for the cardiology market, today announced initiation of the world's first clinical trial of a drug eluting stent that uses an antisense RNA therapeuti...

11 Nov 2008

QIAGEN Introduces CE-marked Molecular Assay for the Cancer Biomarker K-ras

QIAGEN N.V. today announced the launch of a new test to determine mutations of the K-ras gene. The K-ras gene is mutated in between 35 percent and 45 percent of metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Studies have s...

11 Nov 2008

New 'Assassin Cells' May Cripple Well-Disguised Virus

Researchers from the UK and US have engineered a white blood cell that is able to recognise immune-system-evading HIV-1 strains. The team's new 'assassin cells' may cripple the well-disguised virus, possibly slowing or preventing the onset of AIDS in infected individuals.

11 Nov 2008

AKU2002C Debuts as Company's Next-Generation Digital MEMS Microphone

Akustica, Inc., maker of award-winning Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones, today introduced its latest generation of digital microphones that greatly improves...

11 Nov 2008

Selah Technologies CEO to Serve on Advisory Board of the Rutland Institute for Ethics

Selah Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that Michael Bolick, the company's founder and CEO, has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Robert J. Rutland Institute of Ethi...

11 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology News

NanoGram Corporation and Tokyo Electron Enter Thin-Film Photovoltaics Joint Development Agreement

EPFL Announces the Creation of a Large World-Class Center of Neuroprostheses

Nanomaterials for Building Safer Aircraft

Exploiting Unique Properties of Carbon Nanotubes to Create Cheap and Compact Memory Cell

Nano-Scale Electromechanical Sensors Alerting us to Toxic Chemicals and Gases in the Air

SUSS MicroTec Introduces the iVista LC High-Resolution Digital Microscope

World Market for Electronic Chemicals Forecast to Reach $31.8 Billion in 2012

New Study Finds Nanoporous Material Could Lead to New Dialysis Devices and Other Revolutionary Medical Implants

Next Generation Nanotechnology Could Prove Vital to Reducing Coronary Artery Disease

EDI Working with Solar Industry Innovators to Develop Next-Generation Solar Panels

World's First Clinical Trial of Drug-Eluting Stent Using RNA Therapeutic Agent to Treat Coronary Artery Disease

QIAGEN Introduces CE-marked Molecular Assay for the Cancer Biomarker K-ras

New 'Assassin Cells' May Cripple Well-Disguised Virus

AKU2002C Debuts as Company's Next-Generation Digital MEMS Microphone

Selah Technologies CEO to Serve on Advisory Board of the Rutland Institute for Ethics

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