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Farfield Scientific Granted Five More Patents Related to Dual Polarisation Interferometry

Farfield Scientific Ltd is delighted to announce it has recently been granted five further international patents related to its proprietary Dual Polarisation Interferometry (DPI) technology. Farfield prides itself in its...

4 Sep 2007

Nanoparticles Aid Processing of PBT Plastics

Slim, elegant and casual it rests on its inclined legs. Its creator enjoys worldwide acclaim, its forerunners are design icons: the object of interest is the "Myto" cantilever chair – the brainchild of mu...

4 Sep 2007

Low Volume Cuvette Allows the Malvern Zetasizer Nano to Analyse Proteins

A new low volume disposable polystyrene cuvette for the Malvern Panalytical® Zetasizer Nano S and ZS particle characterization systems enables the size measurement of as little as 40 microlitres of sample. This is le...

From Malvern Panalytical 4 Sep 2007

New Electronics Design Centre to Benefit from Close Links to Nanotechnology

A new £5million Electronics Design Centre aimed at boosting the electronics design industry in Scotland will open at the University of Glasgow on 4 September 2007. The new Electronics Design Centre for Heteroge...

4 Sep 2007

Cysteine Lead Nanowires That Look Like Nano Dandelions Show New Way To Produce Ordered Nanostructures On A Large Scale At Room Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure

Under an electron microscope they look like dandelions. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Xiao-Fang Shen and Xiu-Ping Yan explain their nanoscopic bouquets: They consist of spread-out bundles of nanowires made of lead an...

4 Sep 2007

One Million Swiss Francs For Nanoscience

One of the four International Balzan Prizes 2007, which have a prize fund of CHF 1 million (EUR 610 thousand), is to be awarded for research in the area of nanoscience to Sumio Iijima, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan. ...

4 Sep 2007

COMS2007 Kicks Off With The Cream of The Nanotechnology World Converging on Melbourne, Australia

COMS is the leading international conference on the commercialisation of micro and nano technologies. For the first time this premier international event is being held in the Asia-Pacific region. In the case of COMS2007 ...

4 Sep 2007

$20.6 Million Financing For Plextronics

Plextronics, Inc. announced that it has completed a $20.6 million Series B financing. The round is led by Solvay North America Investments, LLC, a member of the Solvay Group, an international chemical and pharmaceutical ...

4 Sep 2007

Nanomagnetics Sponges To Clean and Conserve Precious Works of Art

Italian scientists are reporting a breakthrough technology for cleaning and conserving the wealth of priceless oil paintings, marble sculptures and other works of art in the many galleries in Italy. In the ACS&#39...

4 Sep 2007

IMEC to Hold 17th Annual Research review Meeting in Brussels

IMEC has announced that it will hold its 17th annual research review meeting (ARRM) on October 18 - 19, 2007. The ARRM will feature emerging applications and converging technologies, advanced semiconductor scaling, and p...

From IMEC 3 Sep 2007

Therapy for Brain Tumours Using Nanparticle Drug Delivery System Shows Promise

A nanoparticle drug delivery system designed for brain tumour therapy has shown promising tumour cell selectivity in a novel cell culture model devised by scientists at The University of Nottingham. The project, conducte...

3 Sep 2007

MEMS Producer Now Shipping More Than 100000 Units Per Week

SiTime Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of MEMS-based timing solutions, today announced that their SiT8002 and SiT1 oscillator families are shipping at a production rate of more than 100,000 units per wee...

3 Sep 2007

Nanotech Breakthrough From IBM Paves Way For Molecular Computing with Single Atom Data Storage Closer and Single Molecule Switching

IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules. Although still far from making t...

3 Sep 2007

NIST Finds Nanotube Optical Properties Are Better In Longer Nanotubes

If you want to exploit the ability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to absorb, fluoresce and scatter light, take the advice of a sandlot quarterback and “go long.” In the Aug. 29, 2007, issue of ...

3 Sep 2007

IBM Marks Two Decades In Nanotechnology With More Nanotechnology Breakthroughs

Twenty years after two IBM scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), which opened the world to individual atoms for the first time, scientists and engineers...

3 Sep 2007