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Malaysian Government's High-Tech Emphasis Creates Opportunities for its Automation and Electronics Industry

In its pursuit of a 'knowledge economy,' the Malaysian government has formulated numerous policies to attract private and foreign investments in the automation and electronics industry. The Third Industrial Maste...

3 Aug 2007

AZoNano, The Number 1 Destination For Nanotechnology on the Web Launches Nanotechnology News Review Podcast

AZoNano, the comprehensive on-line nanotechnology resource, has been further strengthed as the number one desintation on the web for all things related to nanotechnology with the launch of a nanotechnology news review po...

3 Aug 2007

High-Dynamics XYZ Piezo Positioning Stage Scans Faster and More Accurately

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications, offers a new 3-axis nanopositioning ...

3 Aug 2007

DOMINO, a New Consortium For The Manufacture of Nanoparticle Dispersions

The practical application of nano technology in the process sectors and their client industries relies heavily on the ability to incorporate nanoparticles into products in a fully dispersed and stable state, whilst still...

3 Aug 2007

Dramatic Portable Power Advances to be Showcased at nanoTX’07

The demand for portable power is skyrocketing as consumer electronics become more sophisticated and multi-functional, but current battery chemistries provide a limited amount of power. Dramatic gains by Enable IPC ...

3 Aug 2007

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Puts Tighter Focus On OLED Business

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of opto-semiconductors, will be exiting the production of passive matrix displays based on organic LEDs (OLEDs) at the end of the year. The compan...

3 Aug 2007

Unidym Signs Joint Development Agreement for Printable Conductors with Interphases’ Thin-Film Solar Cells

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, Inc., has signed a joint development agreement with InterPhases Research, a developer of novel thin-film solar cell technology. The joi...

3 Aug 2007

A Step Toward Advanced Sensors and Communications

Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise labor...

3 Aug 2007

Conductive Nanowires Created Using Self-assembly on Silicon Chips

A team of researchers from the National Research Council and the University of Albert at the National Institute for Nanotechnology(NINT) have demonstrated an innovative technique for producing very small conductive nano-...

3 Aug 2007

Porphyrin Electron Transfer Reactions Observed At The Molecular Level

Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas su...

3 Aug 2007

Nanowire-Based Microbattery to be Showcased at nanoTX'07

3 Aug 2007

TEM Control and Image Acquisition Software Available as Open Source Code from FEI

FEI and The Scripps Institute have announced that the Leginon™ software system, an advanced solution for automated control and image acquisition from a transmission electron microscope (TEM), will now be available ...

3 Aug 2007

CNS-UCSB To Host Conference On Occupational Health and Safety in Nanotech Labs and Industries

The National Science Foundation’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-UCSB), housed at UC Santa Barbara, will host a major conference on health and safety in laboratories and industrial workplaces employing n...

2 Aug 2007

Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead

In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the or...

2 Aug 2007

The Perfect Summer Combination: Beer and Physics

John Page is a leading expert on the use of multiply scattered acoustic waves to study changes in physical systems and the movement of particles through a medium — in this case, bubbles in a glass of beer. He direc...

2 Aug 2007