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New Manufacturing Center will Supplement Existing Operations for Display and Solar in US and Germany

Today, Applied Materials held a groundbreaking for an expansion project of its Tainan Manufacturing Center. This expansion, with a total investment estimated at around US$17 million, will increase the company's ability to meet the demand for both its AKT flat panel display equipment and SunFabTM Thin Film Solar manufacturing equipment. The new facility is expected to be completed by the middle of next year.

23 Jul 2008

Titanium Compound Added to Engine Oil Creates Wear-Resistant Nanoscale Layer

Titanium, a protean element with applications from pigments to aerospace alloys, could get a new role as an environmentally friendly additive for automotive oil, thanks to work by materials scientists from Afton Chemical Corporation (Richmond, Va.) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

23 Jul 2008

Company Presents Breakthrough Smart Nanobattery Technology at Summit

mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced that Dr. Fred Allen, President and CEO of its AlwaysReady Inc. subsidiary, presented the company's breakthrough Smart Nanobattery technology at the Nano Renewable Energy Summ...

23 Jul 2008

NanoXCT Creates Multiple Views of Rock Samples

Ingrain, the Houston-based rock physics company, will provide geoscientists exquisite insight into the base properties of reservoir rock samples with its recent acquisition of a revolutionary NanoXCT imaging device. ...

23 Jul 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Reduce Drug Delivery Time from Days to Hours

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a technique that has the potential to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to diseased areas within hours, as opposed to the two days it currently takes for existing...

23 Jul 2008

Enable IPC Corp to Jointly Develop Ultracapacitors

Marking a major milestone with the first commercial use of its breakthrough ultracapacitor nanotechnology, Enable IPC Corp., a leading company for turning technologies into products and successfully bringing them to mark...

23 Jul 2008

Graphene is the Strongest Material Ever Measured

Research scientists at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest material ever measured.

23 Jul 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Develop Lightweight Materials

The polymer researchers at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht (Germany) expected about 30 scientists to attend the kick-off meeting of the new EU project HARCANA (High Aspect Ratio for Carbon-based Nanocomposites). N...

23 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology Soon Allow People to Clean Their Blood Plasma

Nanotechnology will soon allow people to have their blood plasma cleaned relatively inexpensively, the head of Russia's Nanotechnology Corporation told his American partners during a visit to the United States. L...

23 Jul 2008

API Nanotronics Corp Receives Two 2008 NanoBriefs Nano 50 Awards

API Nanotronics Corp., a leading supplier of electronic components and nanotechnology research and development to the defense and communications sectors, today announced it received two of the 2008 NanoBriefs® Nano 5...

From Spectrum Control 23 Jul 2008

Adding Nanoparticles to Improve Energy Efficiency of Chillers

Adding just the right dash of nanoparticles to standard mixes of lubricants and refrigerants could yield the equivalent of an energy-saving chill pill for factories, hospitals, ships, and others with large cooling systems, suggest the latest results from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research that is pursuing promising formulations.

23 Jul 2008