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UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute Partners With Abraxis BioScience

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA today announced a partnership with the integrated global biopharmaceutical company Abraxis BioScience Inc. to collaborate on nanobiotechnology research for the advancem...

27 Jul 2007

Hidden Order Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid

An international team, including scientists from the London Center for Nanotechnology, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" that extends over chains of 100 atoms in a ceramic without classical magneti...

27 Jul 2007

Nanotech Clay Used to Replace Soap to Stabilize Latex Emulsions

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of Chemistry have found a way of replacing the soap used to stabilize latex emulsion paints with nanotech sized clay armour that can create a much more hard weari...

27 Jul 2007

Molecular Electronics Improved by Doping

Often, things can be improved by a little “contamination.” Steel, for example, is iron with a bit of carbon mixed in. To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced in...

27 Jul 2007

Specialist XRD Software for Analysis of Semiconductor Epitaxial Layers

PANalytical’s new X’Pert Epitaxy and Smoothfit software version 4.2 allows the detailed analysis of semiconductor epitaxial layers using the company’s X’Pert PRO MRD and earlier high-resolution X-...

26 Jul 2007

Malvern Instruments Help Develop Nanoparticle Formulations for Paints and Coatings

The growing use of nanosized particles in the development of new products with enhanced functionality further increases the value of the Zetasizer Nano from Malvern Panalytical as an analytical tool for the paints and co...

From Malvern Panalytical 26 Jul 2007

Nanowires and Nanocrystals Lecture Examining Nanomaterials For Applications Like Faster Transistors and Smaller Nonvolatile Memory

Stanford University Materials Science and Engineering Department assistant professor Yi Cui has released a free online video lecture examining nanowires and nanocrystals. These nanowires and nanocrystals repr...

26 Jul 2007

Texas State Technical College Releases Recruiting Video

Engineering and manufacturing are the backbone of America's workforce and development. Texas State Technical College has programs to help develop the skills and knowledge needed to help with research and development,...

26 Jul 2007

Third-Order Nanotechnologies Develops Innovative Manufacturing Process

Third-Order Nanotechnologies, Inc. announced that it has developed an innovative process for manufacturing its electro-optic polymers. The process reduces the manufacturing process from five synthesis operations to two. ...

26 Jul 2007

New ECS Professor To Develop Smaller, More Powerful Devices At Nanoscale

A new arrival at the University of Southampton will work on making smaller, more powerful computers and mobile phones a reality when the new Mountbatten Building opens next year. Professor Hiroshi Mizuta, who has join...

26 Jul 2007

Worldwide Enthusiasm Intensifies for Nanotechnology Conference/Expo in Texas

Dr. Eitan Yudilevich, world-renowned in the areas of energy, water and the environment, is the latest international authority to present at nanoTX’07 Conference and Expo at the Dallas Convention Center October 3-4,...

26 Jul 2007

Nanopoint Wins International Design Excellence Award With cellTRAY™ For Cell Culturing and Nanotechnology

Nanopoint won its first design award in the international BusinessWeek/IDSA competition this month, with the innovative Nanopoint cellTRAY taking gold in the Medical and Scientific Products category. The annual intern...

From Nanopoint Inc. 26 Jul 2007

NanoWaste Needs Attention of EPA, Industry and Investors

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must make key decisions about how to apply the two major end-of-life statutes to nanotechnology waste in order to ensure adequate oversight for these technologies, concludes a ne...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 26 Jul 2007

Graphene Oxide Paper Could Spawn a New Class of Materials

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the discovery of paper revolutionized human communication. Now researchers at Northwestern University have fabricated a new type of paper that they hope will create a revolution of its own -- and ...

26 Jul 2007

FDA Nanotechnology Task Force Takes Positive Step Forward

According to Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Director David Rejeski, “Today, FDA took a step forward in fulfilling its responsibilities for nanotechnology oversight. If nanotechnology regulation was a baseball...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 26 Jul 2007