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European Commission Looking for Consultants to Analyze Nano Projects

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a call for tenders for exploitation strategy and innovation consultants (ESIC) for nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production...

5 Jul 2007

Researchers Attempt to Develop a Standard Means for Tapping the Potential of Carbon Nanotubes

In a three-year project that researchers say could revolutionize the electronics industry, engineers at The University of Texas at Dallas are attempting to establish a standard means for tapping the potential of carbon n...

4 Jul 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Unite Metals and Plastics to Form Ultra Lightweight Composite

University of Virginia engineering professor Mool C. Gupta and his team have used carbon nanotubes to unite the virtues of plastics and metals in a new ultra-lightweight, conductive material that may revolutionize electr...

4 Jul 2007

nCoat Completes Acquisition of Metallic Ceramic Coatings

nCoat, Inc. announced that on Friday, June 29, 2007 it completed the acquisition of all the capital stock of MCC, Inc. (Metallic Ceramic Coatings or "MCCI"), doing business in the marketplace under the brand of...

4 Jul 2007

Unidym Establishes Technical Advisory Board

Unidym, the nanotechnology company that develops high-performance, cost-effective products for the electronics industry, and majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, today announced it has established...

3 Jul 2007

Australian Bio-Nanotech Form Looks to Raise US$18 Million

pSivida Limited, today announced that on June 29, 2007 it entered into definitive agreements to raise approximately US$18.0 million (A$21.3 million) in gross proceeds in a registered direct offering through the sale of i...

3 Jul 2007

Industrial Nanotech Provides Project Updates

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today important updates to a number of ongoing projects. “As Industrial Nanotech enters the third quarter of 2007, the company has m...

3 Jul 2007

Nanosoccer Match to Take Place at 2007 RoboCup

Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction? Not...

3 Jul 2007

Evidence to Show How Light Can be Used to Control Nanomachines

Physicists at the University of California at Berkeley have produced images that show how light can control some of the smallest possible machines. By shining ultraviolet laser light on tiny molecules of azobenzene adher...

3 Jul 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Could be Used to Create Artificial Muscles

The ability of carbon nanotubes to withstand repeated stress yet retain their structural and mechanical integrity is similar to the behavior of soft tissue, according to a new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute....

3 Jul 2007

Nanocatalyst Could Revolutionize Biodiesel Production

Line up 250 billion of Victor Lin’s nanospheres and you’ve traveled a meter. But those particles – and just the right chemistry filling the channels that run through them – could make a big differ...

3 Jul 2007

Nanosenors Updates Use of Biosensor for Detecting E.Coli and Salmonella

NanoSensors, Inc., a nanotechnology development company that is developing a biosensor device to detect e.coli and salmonella announced today an update regarding its product development timeline for its biosensor. The Co...

3 Jul 2007

Asylum Research Form Collaboration to Develop New AFM Cantilever Dynamics Techniques

Asylum Research, a premier manufacturer of atomic force microscopes (AFMs), has announced its collaboration with Professor Ricardo Garcia’s lab in the Institute of Microelectronics of Madrid to further develop new ...

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 3 Jul 2007

Malvern's Zetasizer Nano Particle Sizer with Flow-Mode Chromatography on Show at Protein Society Meeting

The new ‘chromatography flow-mode’ option for Malvern Panalytical’s market-leading Zetasizer Nano particle and molecular characterization system will be on display at the 21st Symposium of the Protein Society being h...

From Malvern Panalytical 2 Jul 2007

Linear Nanotube Arrays Could Result in New Electronic Devices

Despite the attractive electrical properties and physical features of single-walled carbon nanotubes, incorporating them into scalable integrated circuits has proven to be a challenge because of difficulties in manipulat...

2 Jul 2007