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MicroCHIPS Receives Equity Investment from Leading Pharmaceutical Company

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...

4 Apr 2007

Molecular Imprints Secures $8.5M in Additional Funding

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...

4 Apr 2007

Delft University Scientists Predict How Nanostructuring Affects Performance of Li-ion Batteries

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 ...

4 Apr 2007

Special House Walls Containing Nano Polymer Particles

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 ...

4 Apr 2007

Huge Expansion Seen in Nanoporous Crystalline Materials

Scientists all over the world are participating in the quest of new materials with properties suitable for the environmentally friendly and economically feasible separation, recovery, and reuse of vapours and greenhouse ...

4 Apr 2007

Liquid-State-Field-Effect Transistors Promise Improvements for "Lab on a Chip" Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today's - and tomorrow's - sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control microdrops of liquid on a surface. This effect, called elect...

4 Apr 2007

Predicting The Performance of Nanobatteries

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 i...

3 Apr 2007

Nanoporous Hybrid Materials Undergo Massive Reversible Swelling

3 Apr 2007

Technique Creates Metal Memory

Crumpled kitchen foil that lays flat for reuse. Bent bumpers that straighten overnight. Dents in car doors that disappear when heated with a hairdryer. These and other physical feats may become possible with a technique ...

2 Apr 2007

Cooling Carbon Nanotubes

As the electronics industry continues to churn out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New research published ...

2 Apr 2007

Bubble Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Nanobubbles

Using a microscope and some extreme 'snapshot' photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have u...

2 Apr 2007

Nanostructured Membranes Adopt Properties of Guest Molecules

Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a nanostructured membrane that incorporates DNA base pairs in order to impart molecular recognition and binding ability to the synthetic material. This ...

2 Apr 2007

Simple Technique for Cleaving Proteins into Convenient Pieces for Analysis

Chemists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Arizona State University have proposed an elegantly simple technique for cleaving proteins into convenient pieces for analysis. The prototype sa...

2 Apr 2007

Composition and Density of Nanoscale Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate in Cement

Using a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has shed new light on one of mankind's older constructio...

2 Apr 2007

European Nanobiocom Project Aims to Develop Intelligenet Bone Replacement Materials

More than half a million people in the European Union and a million in the United States suffer from disorders in or serious defects of some part of their bone structure. Operations involving grafts or implants, required...

2 Apr 2007