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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

U.S. Public's Perception of Nanotechnology is Up for Grabs

"The U.S. public's perception of nanotechnology is up for grabs. It could divide along the lines of nuclear power, global warming and other contentious environmental issues absent a major public education and en...

14 Mar 2007

Sea Creatures Guide Sensor Design Created from a Microporous Silicon

The three-dimensional shells of tiny ocean creatures could provide the foundation for novel electronic devices, including gas sensors able to detect pollution faster and more efficiently than conventional devices. Usi...

14 Mar 2007

Johns Hopkins Researchers Create Tiny Analyzer to Study Depletions of Plasma in the Ionosphere

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., in conjunction with scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force Academy, have developed a tiny a...

14 Mar 2007

Nanotube-Based Probes for Electrochemical and Biochemical Sensing

Investigating the composition and behavior of microscale environments, including those within living cells, could become easier and more precise with nanoelectrodes being developed at the University of Illinois. &quo...

14 Mar 2007

Gold Nanorods Self-Assemble into Rings

Rod-shaped nanocrystals normally arrange themselves parallel to each other. Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas now report in the journal Angewandte Chemie completely unexpected behavior of nano-objects: the...

14 Mar 2007

Single-Photon Server

Every time you switch on a light bulb, 10 to the power of 15 (a million times a billion) visible photons, the elementary particles of light, are illuminating the room in every second. If that is too many for you, light a...

14 Mar 2007

Unique Nanoscale Topography Created Through OsseoSpeed Surface Modification

When the fluoride modified OsseoSpeed implant was launched in 2004 it was based on solid pre-clinical and clinical documentation and in order to fully understand and utilize the full potential of OsseoSpeed, Astra Tech h...

14 Mar 2007

NanoSensors Receives Test Units of E.coli and Salmonella Biosensor

NanoSensors has announced that it has received 85 units of the disposable housing unit and 10 units of the data acquisition unit from its third-party manufacturers. These units will be used for independent third-party te...

From Nanosensors 14 Mar 2007

Boston Micromachines to Build Largest Ever MEMS Deformable Mirror

Boston Micromachines Corporation has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the UCO/Lick Observatory, headquartered at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, to develop the largest MEMS deformable mirr...

14 Mar 2007

Veeco's BioScope II AFM Aids Cell Biology Researchers at University of Pennsylvania

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today announced that its new BioScope(TM) II Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is aiding in advanced biophysics research at the Univ...

13 Mar 2007