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Company Unveils Highly-Anticipated Details Behind Solar Cell Component

BioSolar, Inc. surprised attendees at today's SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy in San Diego by revealing that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company's proprietary BioBacksheet(TM), a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar cells.

13 Aug 2008

SEMATECH Engineers and Resist Suppliers Demonstrate CAR Platforms that Support 22nm Half-Pitch

SEMATECH engineers, working closely with researchers from major resist suppliers, have demonstrated chemically amplified EUV resist (CAR) platforms that support 22 nm half-pitch resolution and are close to resolving sub-...

13 Aug 2008

Nanoemulsion Saving More Lives by Removing Current Vaccines' Drawbacks

Chronic hepatitis B infects 400 million people worldwide, many of them children. Even with three effective vaccines available, hepatitis B remains a stubborn, unrelenting health problem, especially in Africa and other de...

13 Aug 2008

Oxantium Leads Series B Investment in Advanced RF Device Maker

RF Nano Corporation(TM), the leader in carbon nanotube analog electronics announces that it has raised $8 Million in Series B venture capital to accelerate the development of its breakthrough technology. Washington D.C. ...

13 Aug 2008

MCP Technology Creates New Inorganic Molecules for Custom Applications

Applied NanoWorks, an inorganic materials development company, announces the availability of MCP Technology™ for research and development, joint development agreements and material manufacturing applications. The M...

13 Aug 2008

ZEOX Corporation Developed New Class of Surfactant Technology Based on Lipotrope

Mr. LuVerne E.W. Hogg, President and CEO of ZEOX Corporation, is very pleased to announce that the Company's subsidiary, ZEOX Performance Materials, LLC under the leadership of Chief Technology Officer, Dr. David Cha...

13 Aug 2008

BioForce Receives Equity Interest in Aspera under License Agreement

BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., a producer of integrated biological and mechanical systems for life science researchers at the micro and nano scales, today announced the completion of a transaction where it license...

13 Aug 2008

Breakthrough 3D IC Technology Enabling Low-Cost Memories and High-Performance Logic Products

In collaboration with the National NanoFab Center (NNFC) in Daejeon, Korea and Stanford NanoFab (SNF) in Palo Alto, CA, BeSang Inc., a semiconductor company based in Beaverton, OR, has successfully developed a breakthrou...

13 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Providing Great Benefit Along with Potential Risk

Emerging technologies -- such as nanotechnology and biotechnology -- provide great benefit along with potential risk. Should the consumer be worried about products in the marketplace that use these technologies? How do w...

13 Aug 2008

DoD Award Presented to UCSB Professor for Life-Saving Gauze Infused with Nanoparticles

UC Santa Barbara Chemistry Professor Galen Stucky has been honored for his role in the development of a blood-clotting gauze that is helping save soldiers who suffer severe, life-threatening injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan.

13 Aug 2008

Collaboration Will Facilitate Development of Innovations Including Nanotechnology

Mechanical engineers over the next two decades will be called upon to develop technologies that foster a cleaner, healthier, safer and sustainable global environment. According to the ASME report, 2028 Vision for Mechani...

13 Aug 2008

Surrey NanoSystems to Support Fundamental Research into Oxide Materials

Romania's National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP) has ordered an advanced sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems, to support fundamental research into oxide materials including piezoelectric and pyroelectric thin films, and photoelectrochemical cells to support the hydrogen economy.

From Surrey Nanosystems 13 Aug 2008

New Manufacturing Operations Manager from Veeco to Oversee CVD/First Nano Division

CVD Equipment Corporation, announced today that it has hired Gary Hudler as Manufacturing Operations Manager. Mr. Hudler's responsibilities include overseeing CVD/First Nano Division manufacturing, optimizing existin...

12 Aug 2008

Grant Provides Funding for IALR to Coordinate Nanotechnology-Themed Training for Teachers

The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) has received a $191,593 Congressionally-directed grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support professional development opportunities for area teachers in ...

12 Aug 2008

Brookhaven Lab Physicist the Recipient of 2008 Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal Award

Michael Creutz, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been chosen by the World Federation of Scientists (WFS) as the recipient of the 2008 Gian Carlo Wick Gold Medal Award, which is given annually to a theoretical physicist for outstanding contributions to particle physics.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 12 Aug 2008