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Nanogen Awarded Patents for Biomarkers Associated with Diabetes, Alzheimers Disease

Nanogen has been issued four patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventions related to diabetes and Alzheimers disease biomarkers. The current patents are the most recent in a series describing biomarkers...

6 Mar 2007

Applied Materials to Deliver World's First Gen 8.5 Thin Film Solar Production Line

Applied Materials has announced that it has been selected by Moser Baer India Limited to develop and install in New Delhi, India, the world’s first Generation (Gen) 8.5 Thin Film Solar Module Production Line. This ...

From Applied Materials Inc. 6 Mar 2007

Cambridge Scientists Produce Live Video Showing How Carbon Nanotubes Form

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

TeraVicta Technologies Announces MEMS Product Roadmap

TeraVicta Technologies has announced a product roadmap which extends the reach of this exciting new technology. Leveraging its proven switch technology, TeraVicta is introducing three new product lines: the first brings ...

6 Mar 2007

Ice Sheet Phenomenon and Self-Assembling Nanostructures

A study reported in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they meet, rather than riding over or under each other, and discusses the implications for other phenomena from plate tecto...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoparticle Gene Therapy Approach for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders

UK HealthCare researcher David Yurek was recently awarded $66,000 by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) under the foundation’s Rapid Response Innovation Awards program. The goal of th...

6 Mar 2007

FEI Demonstrates Table-Top Scanning Electron Microscope for Advancing Science Education

FEI demonstrated the world's first tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) designed specifically for education on Capitol Hill last week. The Phenom-Ed provides magnification up to 20,000x -- far beyond the range...

6 Mar 2007

New Super-Thin Technology

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs. Physicists at The Univers...

6 Mar 2007

New Computer Modeling Could Aid Design of Nanomaterials

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, offering insights that could...

6 Mar 2007

New Class of Nanomaterials Could Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells, Brighter LEDs

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating ...

6 Mar 2007

Nanostripes and Superconductivity Gridlock

Superconductivity -- the conduction of electricity with zero resistance -- sometimes can, it seems, become stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." A possible explanation why is offered by new research a...

6 Mar 2007

Live Video Footage of Carbon Nanotube Formation Produced by Cambridge University

6 Mar 2007

Nanoscale Switch Elements from Self-Assembled Monolayers on Silver

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that works like lightning - except for the speed. Their proof-of-concept experiments repo...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoparticle Films May Lead to Artificial Retina

The world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Mi...

6 Mar 2007

A Uniaxial BioMEMS Device for Quantitative Force-Displacement Measurements

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cell-stretcher that can measure the mechanical properties of a living cell, such as its abili...

6 Mar 2007