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Agilent Technologies’ New High-Performance Beamsplitters Deliver Precision Beam Control for Demanding Optical Applications

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that its new family of high-performance thin-film beamsplitters designed to provide precision beam control is now available. Agilent offers polarizing, non-polarizing and wavelen...

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 23 Feb 2007

Webcast on Understanding and Preventing Work-Related Injuries and Illness from Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

The earliest and most extensive exposures to engineered nanoparticles are most likely to occur in the workplace. In fact, such exposures are already occurring. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Healt...

23 Feb 2007

National Nanoengineering Panel To Develop Nano Guidelines

The board of the College of Mechanical Engineers in Australia is to form a National Panel on Nanoengineering. The Panel will be working with the objective of providing a national focus for nanoengineering practice wit...

22 Feb 2007

Toshiba Plug Loophole in Security of Quantum Cryptography

Toshiba has announced that it has developed two new technologies to realize ‘unconditionally secure’ quantum key distribution (QKD). To achieve this, Toshiba has overcome a potential security loophole in curr...

22 Feb 2007

Focused Ion Beam Creates Microscopic Poem

Researchers have inscribed a microscopic poem that would fit many times onto the sharp tip of a needle, using some of the world’s most advanced nanotechnology equipment. A team from the Cardiff University Manufact...

22 Feb 2007

Industrial Nanotech to Supply Nansulate to Military Complex in Slovenia

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. has announced that its distributor, MARMO d.o.o., has been awarded a contract to supply Nansulate®, Industrial Nanotech’s proprietary protective coating, for the renovation of a milita...

22 Feb 2007

Capitalizing on Nanotechnology Intellectual Property

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Video Leadership Seminars: Capitalizing on Nanotechnology Intellectual Property with Chinh Pham of Greenberg Traurig, LLP to their offering The goal of this Video Le...

22 Feb 2007

Ireland Starts Constructon of it's First Purpose-Built Nanoscience Research Institute

The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mr. Micheál Martin, TD announced the commencement of construction of Ireland’s first purpose-built nanoscience research institute, The Centre for Research on ...

22 Feb 2007

STMicroelectronics Announces New Accelerometer

STMicroelectronics has announced a new power- and cost-optimized solution extending its family of ultra-compact ‘low-g’ linear accelerometers. The tiny, low-power MEMS device provides precise acceleration val...

From STMicroelectronics 22 Feb 2007

Merck and Nano Terra Form Nanotechnology Alliance

Merck KGaA has announced an alliance with Nano Terra LLC. Under the agreement, Nano Terra will develop solutions with Merck to create new physical properties in specialty chemicals, currently manufactured and sold by Mer...

From Nano-Terra 22 Feb 2007

Green Chemistry Can Help Achieve Sustainable Nanotechnology

The safest possible future for advancing nanotechnology in a sustainable world can be reached by using green chemistry, says James E. Hutchison, a professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon. "Around the w...

22 Feb 2007

mPhase Goes "YouTube'd"

mPhase Technologies will post a video demonstration of its ultra-sensitive sensor magnetometer on the popular YouTube web site later this week. The video is the second video production the company has produced to help in...

From MyPebble 22 Feb 2007

Nano-Porous Fibre Technology Wins Royal Society Award

New technology that could drastically reduce the amount of pollution emitted by a range of industrial processes has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society. The technology traps carbon dioxide (CO2) and ot...

22 Feb 2007

New Simple Electrochemical Process for Direct Patterning of Metallic Interconnects

Creating high-resolution metallic interconnects is an essential part of the fabrication of microchips and other nanoscale devices. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple and...

22 Feb 2007

Biologically Inspired Sensors to Augment Sonar, Vision System in Submarines

To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at ...

22 Feb 2007