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Industrial Nanotech Targets Middle East Oil Markets

Industrial Nanotech has announced the signing of the Al Samah Company as its exclusive distributor in the United Arab Emirates, one of the world's largest oil producers. Al Samah Company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi...

15 Mar 2007

Nano Chemical Systems Introduces New Titanium Dioxide Automotive Protectants

Nano Chemical Systems has announced their latest entry into the $1 billion automotive appearance chemical category, TiO2, a "nano-enhanced" automotive protectant. Unlike other automotive protectants, TiO2 (tita...

15 Mar 2007

Micro Device With Human-Like Fingers Assembles Micromachines

Future microscopic-sized machines assembled with micrometer or nanometer-scale parts will need to be made with devices that use tiny, agile "fingers" that can grip, lift and do the assembly work in a controlled...

15 Mar 2007

New Drug Design - Acts as its Own Carrier!

The problem of efficiently delivering drugs, especially those that are hydrophobic or water-repellant, to tumors or other disease sites has long challenged scientists to develop innovative delivery systems that keep thes...

15 Mar 2007

Comparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss Effect for Bosons and Fermions

Fermions tend to avoid each other and cannot "travel" in close proximity. Demonstrated by a team at the Institut d'optique (CNRS/University Paris 11, Orsay-Palaiseau), this result is described in detail in ...

15 Mar 2007

Scientists Control Electron Dance in Semiconductor Nanostructure

Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to ...

15 Mar 2007

Former EPA Official Says Now is Time to Consider Nanotechnology Regulatory Questions

With hundreds of nanotechnology-enabled products already on the market and many more in the commercial pipeline, a new report by a former senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official urges policymakers to give g...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 15 Mar 2007

MIT Chemical Engineers Step Closer to Theranostics

MIT researchers have created an inexpensive method to screen for millions of different biomolecules (DNA, proteins, etc.) in a single sample--a technology that could make possible the development of low-cost clinical bed...

14 Mar 2007

Industrial Nanotech CEO to Give Technical Presentation in Beijing to Oil and Gas Industry

Industrial Nanotech has announced that its CEO, Stuart Burchill, has been invited to give a technical presentation about the company's nanotechnology based industrial coatings and their insulating and corrosion resis...

14 Mar 2007

IBN Releases Educational Nano-Bio Kits

The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) is arming teachers here with new tools to revitalize their teaching of science in the classrooms. IBN has launched a series of educational Kits to help secondary s...

14 Mar 2007

Azaya Therapeutics Awarded Patent for Novel Nanotechnology Platform

Azaya Therapeutics has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Azaya's novel PSL nanotechnology platform. The PSL technology allows for the consistent loading, sizing and stabilizing of ac...

14 Mar 2007

World's First Manufacturing Facility for Printed Semiconductor-Based Optoelectronic Sensors

Nanoident Technologies AG has announced it has opened the world's first manufacturing facility for the delivery of printed Semiconductor-based optoelectronics. The Nanoident Organic Fab (OFAB) GmbH, located in Linz, ...

14 Mar 2007

Breakthrough in Nano Spray Technology

EV Group (EVG) has announced a breakthrough achievement in new photoresist coating technology. With its new Nano Spray technology EVG has been able to demonstrate, for the first time, conformal coatings of vertical via w...

14 Mar 2007

Heated Nanoprobes Destroy Breast Cancer Cells

In experiments with laboratory mice that bear aggressive human breast cancers, UC Davis researchers have used hot nanoprobes to slow the growth of tumors -- without damage to surrounding healthy tissue. The researchers d...

14 Mar 2007

Scientists Fabricate Ultra-Thin Membranes

Researchers at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the University of Manchester have created the thinnest membranes possible: They consist of only a single layer of carbon atoms, called ...

14 Mar 2007