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Increased Efficiency in Solar Energy Generation with Nanostructured Thin Films

In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit nanostructures--materials engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Usi...

9 Jan 2008

Nanoshield Fund to Protect the Earth from Attacks by Nanoweapons

The Lifeboat Foundation has launched the NanoShield Fund which will be used to turn their NanoShield program into reality. LF International Spokesperson Philippe Van Nedervelde says, "While we won't be ...

8 Jan 2008

No Pain from Super Fine Ceramic Hybrid Microneedles

New polymerization technology may one day take the pain out of injections and blood draws. A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina and Laser Zentrum Hannover have recently used two-photon polymerization...

8 Jan 2008

Nanoparticles and Magnetism Used to Drive Cells to Targeted Sites in Blood Vessels

Scientists have used magnetic fields and tiny iron-bearing particles to drive healthy cells to targeted sites in blood vessels. The research, done in animals, may lead to a new method of delivering
cells and genes to repair injured or diseased organs in people.

8 Jan 2008

Three Dimensional Projected Images a Step Closer

3DIcon Corporation, a development-stage technology company, today announced that its primary research team at the University of Oklahoma (OU) has reached two critical milestones in the development of its CSpace™ (s...

8 Jan 2008

Energy Efficiency of Lighting gets £10m Research Investment Boost

Research and development into the integration and advancement of more energy efficient lighting, lasers and displays is set to be stimulated through a £10 million investment by the Technology Strategy Board. The...

8 Jan 2008

Veeco Introduce Automated 3-D Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its new InSight 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Platform.

8 Jan 2008

Flexure-Based Piezo Actuators for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Applications

Piezo specialist PI’s flexure-based piezo actuators such as the P-601 series provide up to 10 times larger travel ranges than classical piezo stack actuators a in low profile package, with virtually unlimited resol...

8 Jan 2008

Nature Nanotechnology Cover Features Work by Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and the NASA Glenn Research Center

An interdisciplinary team from the department of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and the NASA Glenn Research Center earned the Decem...

7 Jan 2008

Nanoparticle Gold Standard to be Developed by BBInternational and NIST

BBInternational’s gold nanoparticles have been selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the source for a series of certified reference materials for pre-clinical biomedical research....

7 Jan 2008

Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell set to Launch HydroPak Portable Power Product

Millennium Cell Inc. and Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies announced today the completion of a pre-production version of the HydroPak™ portable power generator that incorporates a unique water-activated cartridge syst...

4 Jan 2008

Conference to Focus on Nanotechnology Law and Commerce

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP will hold a forum called "Nanotechnology Law & Commerce: Business at One-Billionth of a Meter" on January 31 at Chadbourne's offices in New York....

4 Jan 2008

Multi Million Dollar Funding to Commercialise Nano Engineered Polymer Technology for Semiconductor, Solar Panel and Flat Panel Display Manufacturing

Braggone, the optoelectronics materials company, has received multi-million dollar funding from TEKES (The National Technology Agency of Finland) to commercialize their polymer materials for worldwide commercialization. ...

4 Jan 2008

Mazda Uses Nanotechnology to Develop Car Exhaust Catalyst that Substantially Reduces the Amount of Required Precious Metals like Platinum and Palladium

Mazda Motor Corporation has developed a world’s first catalyst for cars that uses single-nanotechnology to create a catalyst material structure which substantially reduces the amount of precious metals that are use...

4 Jan 2008

Aperiodic Crystals Phase Change Behaviour May Lead to Technological Advances in Devices from Computer Displays to Hard Drives

All of us break the rules from time to time - even crystals. "There are all sorts of rules about what crystals can do during phase transitions," said Mark D. Hollingsworth, associate professor of chemistry a...

4 Jan 2008

Nanotechnology News

Increased Efficiency in Solar Energy Generation with Nanostructured Thin Films

Nanoshield Fund to Protect the Earth from Attacks by Nanoweapons

No Pain from Super Fine Ceramic Hybrid Microneedles

Nanoparticles and Magnetism Used to Drive Cells to Targeted Sites in Blood Vessels

Three Dimensional Projected Images a Step Closer

Energy Efficiency of Lighting gets £10m Research Investment Boost

Veeco Introduce Automated 3-D Atomic Force Microscope

Flexure-Based Piezo Actuators for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Applications

Nature Nanotechnology Cover Features Work by Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and the NASA Glenn Research Center

Nanoparticle Gold Standard to be Developed by BBInternational and NIST

Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell set to Launch HydroPak Portable Power Product

Conference to Focus on Nanotechnology Law and Commerce

Multi Million Dollar Funding to Commercialise Nano Engineered Polymer Technology for Semiconductor, Solar Panel and Flat Panel Display Manufacturing

Mazda Uses Nanotechnology to Develop Car Exhaust Catalyst that Substantially Reduces the Amount of Required Precious Metals like Platinum and Palladium

Aperiodic Crystals Phase Change Behaviour May Lead to Technological Advances in Devices from Computer Displays to Hard Drives

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Custom Nanoparticles That Can Transport Drugs to the Heart

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Redux AFM: Expanding Access to Automated Nanoscale Imaging

Project Pursues Ultra Low-Cost, Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

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