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Chinese Premier Hails Development of Beijing Electron-Positron Collider

Premier Wen Jiabao has hailed China's 20 years of effort in developing the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC), and he urged the scientists involved to promote basic and emerging research and China's innovation capabilities.

From Chinese Academy of Sciences 5 Nov 2008

Tokyo Electron Unveils Dual Purpose 300mm Dicing Frame Prober

Tokyo Electron, Ltd. today unveiled the company's new 300mm Dicing Frame Prober, the WDF(TM) 12DP. Designed to address the increasing demand for probing of ultra thin and diced wafers, the system can also be used as a standard wafer prober.

5 Nov 2008

Battelle Hires New Business Director to Develop Innovative Nanotechnology

Battelle has hired Dr. Krishna Jonnalagadda as Director of Business Development, Nanotechnology. Among Jonnalagadda's innovative activities will be nanotechnology strategy development in collaboration with the national laboratories Battelle manages or co-manages.

5 Nov 2008

Technique Could Help Scientists and Companies Map Nanomaterials as They Grow

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a measurement technique that will help scientists and companies map nanomaterials as they grow. The discovery could help create superior nanotechnologies and lead to the development of more efficient solar panels and increased magnetic data storage.

5 Nov 2008

Using Nanoparticles to Treat Viral Hepatitis

Lipoxen PLC, a bio-pharmaceutical company specialising in the development of high value differentiated biologicals, vaccines and oncology drugs, announces today that it has entered into a research agreement with the Univ...

5 Nov 2008

Top Hydrogen-Absorbing Metal Alloy 60 Percent Lighter than Battery

Dutch-sponsored researcher Robin Gremaud has shown that an alloy of the metals magnesium, titanium and nickel is excellent at absorbing hydrogen. This light alloy brings us a step closer to the everyday use of hydrogen a...

5 Nov 2008

Semiconducting Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes Used for Efficient LEDs and Photovoltaic Devices

The Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanoscience) collaborates together with the University of Hamburg in the development of composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles an...

5 Nov 2008

Suniva Begins Production of High Efficiency Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Suniva Inc., a manufacturer of high value monocrystalline silicon solar cells, today announced that in less than 12 months after the initial planning it successfully began production of solar cells on its new 32MWp line in Norcross, Georgia.

5 Nov 2008

New Sequence Capture Algorithms Result in More Uniform Coverage

Roche NimbleGen in cooperation with the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas has launched an improved version of their Sequence Capture 385K Arrays, the groundbreaking technology...

5 Nov 2008

Arrowhead Providing Update on Majority Owned Nanomaterials Company

Arrowhead Research Corporation's Chief Executive Officer announces an update to stockholders on its majority owned subsidiary, Unidym. Unidym is Arrowhead’s most developed nanomaterials company and a premier...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 4 Nov 2008

Testing Validates Shock-Resistance Performance of New MEMS Component that Powers PicoP Engine

Microvision, Inc., a global leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and image capture products for mobile devices, today announced that it has received external validation of key shock-resistance suscepti...

4 Nov 2008

Global Drug Discovery Technologies Market to Exceed $57 Billion by 2012

Drug discovery has become an integral and ongoing element of every pharmaceutical company's business strategy. There are a number of new technologies that are increasingly being used to enhance pharmaceutical R+D. Th...

From Global Industry Analysts 4 Nov 2008

Two University of Delaware Professors Awarded Air Force Young Investigator Grants

Thomas H. Epps III, University of Delaware assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Erik Thostenson, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, are among just 39 scientists and engineers throughout the country selected to receive three-year research grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program. The 39 awards total $12.1 million.

4 Nov 2008

Physicists Perfected Technique for Controlling Oscillation of Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems

Physicists working at Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), the University of Alberta, and Norcada Inc. have perfected a technique for controlling the oscillation of NEMS. They can turn on and turn o...

4 Nov 2008

Almost Frictionless - Lubricants Made of Liquid Crystals Reduce Friction to Almost Zero

Lubricants in bearings and gear units ensure that not too much energy is lost through friction. Yet it still takes a certain percentage of the energy to compensate for friction losses. Lubricants made of liquid crystals could reduce friction to almost zero.

4 Nov 2008

Nanotechnology News

Chinese Premier Hails Development of Beijing Electron-Positron Collider

Tokyo Electron Unveils Dual Purpose 300mm Dicing Frame Prober

Battelle Hires New Business Director to Develop Innovative Nanotechnology

Technique Could Help Scientists and Companies Map Nanomaterials as They Grow

Using Nanoparticles to Treat Viral Hepatitis

Top Hydrogen-Absorbing Metal Alloy 60 Percent Lighter than Battery

Semiconducting Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes Used for Efficient LEDs and Photovoltaic Devices

Suniva Begins Production of High Efficiency Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells

New Sequence Capture Algorithms Result in More Uniform Coverage

Arrowhead Providing Update on Majority Owned Nanomaterials Company

Testing Validates Shock-Resistance Performance of New MEMS Component that Powers PicoP Engine

Global Drug Discovery Technologies Market to Exceed $57 Billion by 2012

Two University of Delaware Professors Awarded Air Force Young Investigator Grants

Physicists Perfected Technique for Controlling Oscillation of Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems

Almost Frictionless - Lubricants Made of Liquid Crystals Reduce Friction to Almost Zero

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