Plextronics, a world leader in developing and delivering active layer technology for electronic devices, announced it has been awarded a $340,500 grant from the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center (the Ce...
Drexel University College of Engineering researchers have successfully developed carbon nanotube-tipped pipettes that could become key to cell biology in-situ DNA sequencing and organelle-targeted drug delivery.
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Biomedical engineers are constantly coming up with ways to repair the human body, replacing defective and worn out parts with plastic, titanium, and ceramic substitutes - but the body does not always accept such substitu...
Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber: spider silk is unsurpassed in its expandability, resistance to tearing, and toughness. Spider silk would be an ideal material for a large variety of medical and technical...
Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibr...
The new ultra-low noise E-536 driver / controller, together with the P-363 PicoCube®, provide significantly higher resolution and positional stability than previous multi-axis scanning systems.
The E-536 can be c...
Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University...
During the JEC Composites Show, taking place from April 3rd to April 5th in Paris, Bayer MaterialScience, one of the world's leading producers of polymers and high-performance plastics and Nanoledge, the European lea...
DSM Somos has introduced DMX-SL™ 100 - the industry’s first stereolithography (SL) resin targeted for high durability applications and a significant new chemistry platform for direct manufacturing development...
The CAS Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) and STMicroelectronics, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, announced, on 28 March, their cooperation on the development and commercial exploitation...
Civil engineers by tradition are concerned with the big picture, but some are refocusing their vision, zooming in to solve minute problems we can't see with the naked eye, like tiny fractures in polymers, silicon or ...
MicroCHIPS, Inc., a developer of innovative drug delivery and biosensing devices, has announced a $13.4 million dollar round of investment funding led by Novartis Venture Fund. Reinhard Ambros, Global Head of Novartis Ve...
Molecular Imprints has announced it has secured $8.5 million in venture debt financing from BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. This furthers MII’s commitment to deliver its proprietary Step-and-Flash Imprint Lithograp...
Researchers at Delft University of Technology can predict how nanostructuring - the extreme reduction of structure - will affect the performance of Li-ion batteries. The nanostructuring of battery materials is likely to ...
Leeds NanoManufacturing Institute (NMI) will play a crucial role in the Euro 9.5 million European Union-funded project by developing special walls for the house that contain nano polymer particles - these will turn into ...
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