Nanotechnology News

RSS

Semiconductor Wafer Reclamation Turns Waste into Solar Energy

IBM has announced an innovative new semiconductor wafer reclamation process pioneered at its Burlington, Vermont manufacturing facility. The new process uses a specialized pattern removal technique to repurpose sc...

31 Oct 2007

Self Selection and Evolution in the Nano World

The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions whi...

31 Oct 2007

Cell Tractor Beam Could Be Used to Manipulate Tiny Things on Chips

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other ob...

31 Oct 2007

World's Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip May Prompt New Methods for High Speed Wireless Data Transfer

UC San Diego electrical engineers have developed the world’s most complex “phased array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. This DARPA-funded advance is expected to find its way into U.S. de...

31 Oct 2007

Wireless Sensors use MEMS to Monitor Bearings in Jet Aircraft Engines

Researchers at Purdue University, working with the U.S. Air Force, have developed tiny wireless sensors resilient enough to survive the harsh conditions inside jet engines to detect when critical bearings are close to fa...

31 Oct 2007

AZoNano Editor Claims Nobel Peace Prize for Nanotechnology

The latest news review podcast has been released by AZoNano. This weeks podcast looks at how nanoscale robots are helping to save lives, how really small technology is helping people to fight obesity and how carbon nanot...

31 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology tp Revolutionize Natural Gas Industry

Nanotechnology could revolutionize the natural gas industry across the whole lifecycle from extraction to pollution reduction or be an enormous missed opportunity, claim two industry experts writing in Inderscience's...

31 Oct 2007

Nanoscale UV Absorbance Detector Scoops R+D Award

In recognition of the development of its innovative ActiPix D100 miniature UV-visible absorbance detector, Paraytec Ltd was presented with a prestigious R&D 100 Award at the 45th Annual Awards ceremony held in Chicag...

31 Oct 2007

IBM Vice President to Present Keynote at Livingston Nanotechnology Conference

Axiom Capital Management and Scott Livingston today announced that the third annual Axiom Capital Management "Livingston Nanotechnology Conference" will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Bernard Meyerson, I...

30 Oct 2007

Companies From USA and Japan Invest in French Nanotechnology

More and more companies from the USA and Japan are investing and launching partnerships in France to take advantage of its cutting-edge nanotechnology expertise. Minalogic, in Grenoble, is among the fast-growing high-tec...

30 Oct 2007

Radiactive Microspheres Treat Liver Cancer

Placing tiny radioactive spheres directly into the liver through its blood supply halted growth of tumors that had spread to the organ in 71 percent of patients tested in a small clinical trial, researchers from Mayo Cli...

30 Oct 2007

SEMATECH Advances Infrastructure for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL)

SEMATECH engineers have made significant advances in moving forward the infrastructure that will prepare extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) for cost-effective manufacturing, according to papers being presented here a...

30 Oct 2007

Helium Ion Microscope from Carl Zeiss Wins Wall Street Journal 'Technology Innovations Award'

Dr. Nicholas P. Economou and Bill Ward from Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts, recently received the Wall Street Journal “Technology Innovation Award” 2007. The award was presented in the category ...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Oct 2007

Detailed 3D Look at Beta Blocker Drug Molecular Target, the Beta2-Adrenergic Receptor

More than 40 years after beta blockers were first used clinically, scientists can finally get a detailed, three-dimensional look at the drugs’ molecular target - the beta2-adrenergic receptor. This receptor hails f...

30 Oct 2007

Researchers Nationwide Team up to Control Optical Energy at Nanoscale Levels

The University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The Nanoscale Inter...

30 Oct 2007