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Nanotechnology Company Awarded $1.5 Million Development Contract from U.S. Army

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving component products and performance materials, today announced it has been awarded a $1.5 million development contract from the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center in ...

From Huntsman International LLC 6 Aug 2008

Researchers at UCSB Reaches Milestone in Experimental Quantum Mechanics

In a paper published in the July 17 issue of the journal Nature, UCSB physicists Max Hofheinz, John Martinis, and Andrew Cleland documented how they used a superconducting electronic circuit known as a Josephson phase qubit, developed in Martinis's lab, to controllably pump microwave photons, one at a time, into a superconducting microwave resonator.

6 Aug 2008

CombiMatrix Receives Contract from DARPA to Initiate Program Using Microarray Technology

CombiMatrix Corporation announced today that it has received a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to initiate a new program utilizing its array technology and ElectraSense(r) reader. ...

From Invitae Corporation 6 Aug 2008

Saladax Biomedical Signs Agreement with Karolinska University Hospital to Supply Nanoparticle-Based Immunoassay

Saladax Biomedical, Inc. has signed an agreement with Karolinska University Hospital to supply the novel 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) Personalized Chemotherapy Management (PCM™) reagent kits. The test provides oncologists...

6 Aug 2008

Japanese-German Nanotechnology Business Forum a Huge Success

With over 300 participants from Japan, the Japanese-German Micro/Nano Business Forum at the Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS on July 30 in Tokyo was a huge success.

6 Aug 2008

Harvard and Oxford Nanopore Announces Agreement to Progress Nanopore Science

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd today announced an agreement to progress nanopore science by integrating Harvard discoveries with technology in development a...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 6 Aug 2008

New KITA-Spectroscopy Allows Real-Time Observation How Proteins and Water Interact

For the first time, chemists of Prof. Martina Havenith's and Prof. Martin Gruebele's group have "picturised" the spectacle of protein folding in water by THz spectroscopy. Recently, new developed KITA-spectroscopy (Kinetic Terahertz Absorption Spectroscopy) was applied to protein folding with a resolution of one picture per millisecond and combined with other biophysical methods, such as X-ray diffraction (SAXS), fluorescence and CD spectroscopy.

5 Aug 2008

Scientists from Europe and Canada are Studying Tiny Gold Nanoparticles

Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms.

5 Aug 2008

UK NanoFinance Event to Address Current Business Climate in Nanotechnology Market

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), the UK’s primary knowledge-based network for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced that the first UK NanoFinance event will take place on Thursday 25th S...

5 Aug 2008

Zetasizer Nano from Malvern an Essential Tool for Optimising Water Treatment

The Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Panalytical has become an essential tool at a water treatment production facility in the US.

From Malvern Panalytical 5 Aug 2008

New Research into How Interactions Between Oil and Water Work

When oil and water are poured together they meet each other head-on to form a strong and rigid boundary between each other, says new research into how interactions between oil and water work, out this week in Physical Re...

5 Aug 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Improve Performance of Solar Cell

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Scientists Developed Process for Cleaning a Transmission Electron Microscope

A process for cleaning a transmission electron microscope without disassembling has been developed. Contaminants in the electron microscope are removed, and 100% performance is demonstrated. The accuracy and reliability of analyzing organic and polymeric materials at the nanometer level are improved.

5 Aug 2008

2008 Simon Memorial Prize Awarded to Key Members of NEC's Nano Electronics Research Lab

NEC Corporation announced today that Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai, key members of NEC's Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, have been jointly awarded with the 2008 Simon Memorial Prize for their contributi...

5 Aug 2008

Study Answers Key Questions About Role of Particle Shape and Size in Nanomedicine

A team of researchers led by Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Stephanie Gratton, a graduate student in DeSimone's lab, have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.

5 Aug 2008