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Cleanfield Energy Receives Grant to Further Nanowire Photovoltaics Research

Cleanfield Energy Corp a subsidiary of Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. announces that its project partner, McMaster University, has been awarded a Collaborative Research and Development grant from the Natural Sciences...

6 Sep 2008

Visualizing Individual Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Surfaces

For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the "bigger is better" rule isn't the case for those interested in exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) into harmless carbon dioxide at room temperatures.

6 Sep 2008

Harvard Researchers Awarded Grant to Further Develop Electronic Sequencing in Nanopores

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $6.5 (over 4 years) grant to a team of Harvard University researchers to further develop electronic sequenc...

6 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology and Industry Set to Meet at Top Industry Event

With more than 60 specialist presentations and a comprehensive exhibition, MiNaT will attract specialist visitors from many areas of industry from 7th to 9th October. The trade fair for precision engineering, ultra preci...

5 Sep 2008

Leading Manufacturer of Solar Wafers Signs Contract with Japan- Based Sumitomo Corp

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, announced today that it has signed an eight-year contract with Japan- based Sumitomo Corporation, one of the leading trading and investment houses in Japan to ...

5 Sep 2008

Nanofair 2009 Brings Together Science and Industry in Dresden

Nanotechnology is certainly one of the future-looking technology and research fields of the 21st century. The international Nanofair 2009 conference on May 26th and 27th in Dresden (Germany) will for the seventh time be bringing together experts from industry and science for an interdisciplinary exchange of information.

5 Sep 2008

Leading Microfluidics and Nanotechnology Development Company to Present at MEDI 2008

Leading microfluidics and nanotechnology development company mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced that it will be presenting a paper titled "Wetting the Surface from Self Cleaning Leaves to Energy Storage Devic...

5 Sep 2008

Russia Believes Israel Could Become Strategic Partner in Nanotechnology

Russia believes that Israel could become a strategic partner in developing nanotechnology projects, the general director of the Russian Rosnanotech state corporation said on Thursday. "Israel is one of the globa...

5 Sep 2008

Implementing Recommendations of FDA Nanotechnology Task Force Report

The Food + Drug Administration (FDA) issued in July 2007 its Nanotechnology Task Force Report. This report acknowledged that nanoscale materials potentially could be used in most product types regulated by the agency and...

5 Sep 2008

Bilayer Clusters of Atoms Less Than a Nanometer in Dimension Found to be Responsible for Vital Oxidation Reaction

Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses - money, medals, jewelry and more - gold's potential as a catalyst lay hid...

5 Sep 2008

NXP Semiconductor Adopts Azuro's PowerCentric CTS and Optimization Solution

Azuro, Inc. a provider of advanced clock implementation tools for nanometer chip design, today announced that NXP Semiconductor has adopted Azuro's PowerCentric(TM) clock-tree synthesis (CTS) and optimization solutio...

5 Sep 2008

Presto's In-Silicon Analysis Services Now Available on the 300mm Probe Station from Micromanipulator

Presto Engineering, Inc., a provider of product engineering services to the semiconductor industry, announced today that it has established a collaborative business development alliance with the Micromanipulator Company,...

5 Sep 2008

Implantable Devices Made from Biodegradable Metals

Dozens of engineers and doctors from universities and industries around the world will collaborate on a five-year, $18.5 million project announced Sept. 4 to develop implantable devices made from biodegradable metals. Th...

5 Sep 2008

Navy Contract Aims for Real-Time Laboratory-Quality Capabilities in Rugged Battlefield Instrument

Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc. has received a $900,000, 3-year contract from the Department of the Navy to apply its optoacoustic technology to the real-time detection of blood borne pathogens and biological warfare ...

5 Sep 2008

Smart NanoBattery Technology Published in New Bionanotechnology Book

Leading microfludics and nanotechnology development company mPhase Technologies, Inc., today announced that it has published a chapter and contributed its images for the cover in a new hardcover book released this month from CRC Press, called, "Bionanotechnology: Global Prospects."

5 Sep 2008