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Work Marks a Step Forward into Studying Very Fast Dynamical Processes in Water

Water's unrivaled omnipresence and the crucial role it plays in life drives scientists' to understand every detail of its unusual underlying properties on the microscopic scale. Bernd Winter and colleagues, from ...

9 Sep 2008

Balancing Important Benefits of Nanoscale Silver Against Environmental Risks

Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research prioriti...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 9 Sep 2008

Semicon Taiwan Introduces XBC300 Production Wafer Bonder for the CIS Market

At this year's Semicon Taiwan, from September 9 to 11 in Taipei, SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry, introduces the XBC300 Production Wafer Bonder for the C...

9 Sep 2008

Altair Nanotechnologies Developed Unique Lithium Titanate Battery for U.S. Navy

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., a leading provider of advanced nanomaterials technology used in power and energy systems and other applications, today announced that it has completed the 500th full depth cycle of a unique ...

From Altair Nanotechnologies 9 Sep 2008

SSL Secures Marketing Rights to VivaGel Coated Condom

Starpharma Holdings Limited today announced that a full licence agreement has been signed with SSL International plc (LSE:SSL) in relation to the VivaGel® coated condom. SSL manufactures and sells Durex® condoms,...

9 Sep 2008

Methode Announces New Conductive Ink with Silver Nano-Particles

Methode Development Company, a business unit of Methode Electronics, Inc., announces a new conductive ink formulated for thermal inkjet systems. Methode's new water-based ink is called product #9101 and is highly con...

9 Sep 2008

Shift in Enzyme's Function Expands Toolbox for Engineering Biofuels and Other Oil Products

If your experiment doesn't go the way you expect, take a closer look - something even more interesting may have happened. That strategy has led scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory to discover a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.

9 Sep 2008

EUREKA Program Funds Innovative Research on Neural Nanomachines

ASU can now shout the classic exclamation of discovery - "Eureka!" - twice. Fueled by a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health called the EUREKA program, two ASU teams have received million-doll...

9 Sep 2008

Promising Pre-Clinical Data Treating Liver Cancer Using siRNA

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that one of its collaborators, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has presented promising pre-clinical data treating liver cancer using small interfering RNA (siRNA) ...

9 Sep 2008

Exciting Advances in the Ability to Work at the Atomic Level to be Unveiled at nanotxUSA'08

Among the more dramatic tools to be demonstrated during International Nanotechnology Week at the Hyatt Regency Dallas convention hotel October 2-3 is by InsituTec Inc, a Nano-Tool company commercializing an innovative pl...

9 Sep 2008

Using Neutron-Computed Tomography Techniques, Scientist Measure in-Situ Water Content

The McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center (MNRC) in Sacramento, CA was developed by the U.S. Air Force to detect corrosion and defects in aircraft structure using an imaging technique called neutron radiography. This techni...

9 Sep 2008

Superlattice Power Successfully Produced High Purity Nano Cathode Material

Superlattice Power, Inc., emerging leader in the development and marketing of the next generation of lithium-powered batteries worldwide, proudly announces its North Carolina production facility has successfully produced...

9 Sep 2008

When It Comes to Polarization, Both Size and Location Matter

How small is too small to be useful? Researchers at North Carolina State University have done nanoscale analysis on ferroelectric thin films – materials that are used in electronic devices from computer memories to...

9 Sep 2008

New Area of Fullerene Chemistry Important to the New Field of Nano-Electronics

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of molecular semiconductors and quantum computing applications. Dorn plays with th...

9 Sep 2008

Findings Throw a Monkey Wrench in the Machinery of Future Nanoelectronics

Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the University of Maryland in...

9 Sep 2008