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Nanoco Leads the way in Taking Cutting Edge Research to the Marketplace as Commercial Products

Nanoco Technologies is unique in the nanomaterials market as a company that manufacture large quantities of quantum dots and partner major R&D and blue-chip industrial organisations in the development of quantum dot ...

12 Dec 2007

IMEC Increases Performance of High-K Metal Gate Planar CMOS and FinFETs

At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates targeting the 32nm...

From IMEC 12 Dec 2007

Nanotechnology Driven Future Scenarios Released by Center for Responsible Nanotechnology

The nonprofit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) has released a series of scenarios depicting various versions of a near-future world into which transformative manufacturing concepts may emerge. Across eight sep...

12 Dec 2007

NaturalNano's Halloysite Nanotubes Fragrance Loading Capability Validated by One of the World's Leading Personal Care and Household Product Companies

NaturalNano, Inc., a developer of advanced nanomaterials and additive technologies, received third-party validation from one of the world’s leading personal care and household product companies of NaturalNano&rsquo...

12 Dec 2007

Microscopic Simulation of Explosives and the Molecular Process of Detonation

U.S. troops blew up enemy bridges with explosives in World War II to slow the advance of supplies or enemy forces. In modern times, patrollers use explosives at ski resorts to purposely create avalanches so the runs are ...

12 Dec 2007

Silicon Nanophotonics Milestones Reported by IBM

Several extraordinary recent achievements place the field of microresonators at the frontier of modern photonics. In the Dec. 10 issue of Optics Express, papers explore advanced silicon modulators in the nanoscale, &quot...

12 Dec 2007

Researchers Solve Riddle of How Proton Exchange Membranes in Fuel Cells Work

Fuel-cell cars are reaching commercial viability in today’s increasingly eco-conscious society, but despite their promise, even scientists have struggled to explain just how the fuel-cell’s central component ...

12 Dec 2007

Innovative SIMS-on-a-Flange Tool Now Available from Hiden Analytical

Hiden Analytical announce the introduction of a complete, compact SIMS facility conveniently mounted on a single UHV Conflat-type flange. The new system, aptly named SIMS-on-a-Flange, allows users to quickly install a co...

From Hiden Analytical 11 Dec 2007

NanoString Technologies Launches the Early Access Program for the nCounter Analysis System for Digital Gene Expression

NanoString Technologies today announced the launch of the Early Access Program for the nCounter Analysis System for digital gene expression. NanoString has shipped a system to the first Early Access customer, Professor E...

From Nanostring Technologies 11 Dec 2007

Nanogen Reaches Milestone in Work to Combat Influenza

Nanogen, Inc., developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it has delivered the second phase milestone requirements, including the point-of-care prototype device to detect influenza viruses rapidly in...

From Nanogen 11 Dec 2007

Computer Chip Manufacturing Alliance Leads to Smaller, Faster, More Power Efficient 32 Nanometer Semiconductors

IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- have announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ...

11 Dec 2007

Scientists Discover Reason for Photonic Crystal Fibre Spectrum Broadening Supercontinuum Behaviour

Photonic crystal fibre’s ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article in the leading science journa...

11 Dec 2007

Using Light to Sort Individual Cells

Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light. The system, which can s...

11 Dec 2007

Protecting and Making Nuclear Reactors Safe with Carbon Fibers

Carbon fibers that are only one-tenth the size of a human hair, but three times stronger than steel, may hold up to the intense heat and radiation of next generation nuclear power generators, providing a safety mechanism...

11 Dec 2007

Nanotechnology That Sees Carbon Nanotubes Seeking and Destroying Anthrax may be Used for Cancer Treatment and Antibacterial Coatings

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new way to seek out specific proteins, including dangerous proteins such as anthrax toxin, and render them harmless using nothing but light. The technique ...

11 Dec 2007