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Science Summer Institute Providing Students Insight into Nanotechnology

Twenty-five middle-school students from the Capital Region will spend their summer vacation immersed in nanotechnology as they attend the first-ever Excelsior Scholars Nanoscale Science Summer Institute, a partnership be...

2 Jul 2008

Thin-Film Technology Poised to Take Significant Market Share

After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent technology. Thin-fil...

2 Jul 2008

Angiogenesis Inhibitor Formulated Through Nanotechnology Shows Promising Anticancer Results

The first oral, broad-spectrum angiogenesis inhibitor, specially formulated through nanotechnology, shows promising anticancer results in mice, report researchers from Children's Hospital Boston. Findings were published online on June 29 by the journal Nature Biotechnology.

2 Jul 2008

Researchers from ORNL Received Recognition in Nanotechnology

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced materials indu...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Jul 2008

The Few Remaining Unsolved Problems of Quantum Mechanics

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.

2 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology to Help Diagnose, Treat and Monitor Cancer

Speakers from MIT and other institutions described the promise of nanotechnology to help diagnose, treat and monitor cancer at the annual symposium hosted by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT on Friday, June 27.

2 Jul 2008

New Grant Program to Promote the Use of AFMs

Veeco Instruments, a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community.

2 Jul 2008

Semiconductor Industry Rates SUSS MicroTec Very Highly

SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry has been ranked again among the best suppliers in the 2008 VLSI Research 10 BEST Customer Satisfaction Awards. Customers rate...

2 Jul 2008

Researchers Develop Technique for Generating Atom Clusters

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a whole new branch of chemistry.

1 Jul 2008

Another Reason Why Nanoparticles are Attractive Potential Biomedical Sensors

The ability to use genetic material to assemble nanoscopic particles of gold could be an important step toward creating tiny "spies" that will be able to infiltrate individual cells and report back in real time...

1 Jul 2008

ApNano Materials Announces Major Breakthrough in WS2 Nanotube Production for Bulletproof Vests

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a major breakthrough in the production of the company's unique, inorganic tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotubes in industrial quantities.

1 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology - Latest Weapon in Fighting Cancer

A novel technique for reducing tumors in rats-using nano-sized, oil-based emulsions may be the latest weapon in fighting cancer. The technique, part of the burgeoning field of nutraceuticals, involves creating nanoemu...

1 Jul 2008

BAE Systems to Co-Produce Nano-Sensor Technology Under Agreement with Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies

BAE Systems -- under an agreement with Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc., -- will co-produce nano-sensor technology that will leverage both companies' expertise for use in military, commercial, and homeland s...

1 Jul 2008

Professor Awarded Grant to Conduct Nanoparticle Cancer Research

A biomedical engineering assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute grant to conduct nanoparticle cancer research. ...

1 Jul 2008

Ascent Solar to Develop Thin-Film Multijunction PV for US Air Force

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state-of-the-art, thin-film photovoltaic materials, announced today that the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected Ascent Solar for a Broad Agency Announcement award to develop high-performance thin-film multijunction photovoltaics (PV) based on Ascent Solar's flexible monolithically integrated CIGS technology.

1 Jul 2008