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Enable IPC's CTO Discusses Nanoporous Insulating Materials for Ultracapacitor at ECS

Enable IPC Corp., a leading company for turning technologies into products and successfully bringing them to market, today announced that Kevin Leonard, CTO of the company’s SolRayo LLC subsidiary, will be one of t...

15 Oct 2008

SEMATECH Engineers Report Resist and Mask Progress

SEMATECH engineers and the industry at large have made significant advances in moving forward the infrastructure that will prepare extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) for cost-effective manufacturing, according to pap...

15 Oct 2008

Veeco Instruments Establishes Endowed Chair at UC Santa Barbara

The Veeco Chair will support the work of an eminent scholar in the College of Engineering or the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences who develops or uses scanning probe microscopy to advance nanoscale characterization in their field. Veeco will also donate a scanning probe microscope system to support the chairholder's work.

From Veeco 15 Oct 2008

Jellyfish Research Unearthed Possible Key for Halting Onset and Progression of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Decades of research into the chemistry behind the colorful luminescent glow of jellyfish have resulted in several major advances in the field of biotechnology and recently earned three research scientists a 2008 Nobel Pr...

15 Oct 2008

University of Utah Announces Establishment of Nano Institute of Utah

Officials at the University of Utah announced today the establishment of the Nano Institute of Utah, representing a significant and decisive step in the state's quest to bring together the university's and the st...

15 Oct 2008

Houston Technology Center's ETC Installs New Leadership

The Houston Technology Center's (HTC) Emerging Technology Council (ETC), which has been helping technology entrepreneurs connect to resources that enable success and growth since 2006, has a new leadership team heade...

15 Oct 2008

Electrovaya Partners with Tata Motors and Miljo to Launch Battery Production in Norway

Electrovaya today announced it is partnering with Tata Motors and Miljo Grenland/Innovasjon to manufacture batteries and electric cars in Norway, beginning 2009, using Electrovaya's proprietary and award winning Lithium Ion SuperPolymer® battery technology.

15 Oct 2008

Smart Fabrics and Intelligent Textiles

Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles - material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics - is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the sector's toughest challenges. Clothes t...

15 Oct 2008

MEMS Industry Group to Host MEMS Executive Congress

Micralyne The MEMS Executive Congress is a one-of-a-kind event that draws together business leaders from a broad spectrum of industries (automotive, consumer goods, industrial, medical, telecom, and more). The Congress p...

15 Oct 2008

Novel Nanoparticles Being Tested Have Researchers Seeing Stars

Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to demonstrate that gold nanostars exhibit optical qualities that make them superior for chemical and biological sensing and imaging.

15 Oct 2008

Buckypapers Clarify Optical and Electrical Behavior of Nanotubes

Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes-sorted by centrifuge for length-materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some of the most precise measurements yet of the concentrations at which delicate mats of nanotubes become transparent, conducting sheets.

15 Oct 2008

PANalytical Launches Axios FAST, the Fastest X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Available

The launch of the new Axios FAST simultaneous XRF system is another landmark achievement for leading X-ray analysis company PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands). Advanced, rapid, and easy to use, the Axios FAST is synonymous with the highest levels of accuracy and precision, excellent detection limits, high throughput and maximum uptime.

15 Oct 2008