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Nano Dimension Technologies, Fortune 100 Company Collaborate for Studying Suitability of 3D-Printed Electronics Technology

Nano Dimension, a leading printing electronics company in the area of 3D printing, announced yesterday that Nano Dimension Technologies, a fully owned subsidiary of Nano Dimension, is collaborating with a Fortune 100 company to investigate the suitability of 3D printed electronics technology.

4 Aug 2015

Researchers Design DNA-Loaded Nanoparticles for Breaching Mucus Barrier in Lungs

Nanotechnology could one day provide an inhaled vehicle to deliver targeted therapeutic genes for those suffering from life-threatening lung disorders. Researchers may have discovered first gene delivery system that efficiently penetrates the hard-to-breach human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue.

4 Aug 2015

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Nano-C Announce Development and Launch of Fullerene Derivatives for OPV

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in the healthcare, life science and performance materials sectors, announced today, together with the US-based com...

4 Aug 2015

Transparent, Electrically Conductive Silver Nanowires as Electrode for Optoelectronics

A team of researchers headed by Prof. Silke Christiansen from the Institute of Nanoarchitectures for Energy Conversion at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has created a novel transparent electrode capable of high electrical conductivity for solar cells and other optoelectronic components with limited material. The electrode is made up of an irregular network of silver nanowires coated with aluminium-doped zinc oxide.

3 Aug 2015

Graphene-Boron Nitride Nanotube Hybrid Switches Could Revolutionize the World of Electronics

A team of researchers headed by Yoke Khin Yap, a Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked to create digital switches by integrating graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.

3 Aug 2015

Self-Organisation of Particles Leads to Hexagonal-Patterned 2D Nanohills

Nanoscale worlds sometimes resemble macroscale roller-coaster style hills, placed at the tip of a series of hexagons. Surprisingly, these nanohills stem from the self-organisation of particles - the very particles that have been eroded and subsequently redeposited following the bombardment of semi-conductors with ion beams.

3 Aug 2015

Protein Machines Could Generate Nonthermal Hydrodynamic Flows and Enhance Diffusive Motions of Particles

An international research group has demonstrated that protein machines, regardless of their specific functions, can collectively induce fluctuating hydrodynamic flows and substantially enhance the diffusive motions of particles in the cell.

3 Aug 2015

Diamond Nanocrystals Act as Temperature Sensors for Hyperlocalised Cancer Therapy

Precise targeting biological molecules, such as cancer cells, for treatment is a challenge, due to their sheer size. Now ,Taiwanese scientists have proposed an advanced solution, based on a novel combination of previously used techniques, which can potentially be applied to thermal cancer therapy.

3 Aug 2015

Unique Optical Magnetometer to Probe Magnetism at the Nanoscale

As the demand grows for ever smaller, smarter electronics, so does the demand for understanding materials’ behavior at ever smaller scales. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are building a unique optical magnetometer to probe magnetism at the nano- and mesoscale.

3 Aug 2015

Lab on a Chip Acoustofluidic Sputum Liquefaction Device for Safe Asthma and Tuberculosis Diagnostics

A device to mix liquids utilizing ultrasonics is the first and most difficult component in a miniaturized system for low-cost analysis of sputum from patients with pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis and asthma.

3 Aug 2015

Applying Kirigami Principles to Graphene Helps Create Nanoscale Devices

A research group has taken kirigami to the nanoscale by using graphene, single atom-thick sheets of hexagonally bonded carbon, as their template.

By Will Soutter 31 Jul 2015

High Precision Linear Motor Stage with Absolute Encoder and Ironless Motor

Motion and precision positioning systems expert PI (Physik Instrumente) has released a new member of the PIMag® family of precision positioning stages with magnetic direct drives.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 31 Jul 2015

UC Davis to Partner in New $610 Million Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation

UC Davis is a partner in new $610 million institute for photonics manufacturing innovation announced July 27 by Vice President Joe Biden at an event in Greece, N.Y.

31 Jul 2015

New Report on Global Life Science Microscopy Devices Market 2014 - 2020

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Life Science Microscopy Devices Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Volume, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.

31 Jul 2015

Sevion Enters Agreement with Malvern to Establish New Biopharmaceutical Applications Laboratory

Sevion Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company which discovers, develops and acquires next-generation biologics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases, has entered into an agreement with Malvern Instruments establishing a new biopharmaceutical applications laboratory in the heart of San Diego’s biotechnology cluster.

31 Jul 2015

Nanotechnology News

Nano Dimension Technologies, Fortune 100 Company Collaborate for Studying Suitability of 3D-Printed Electronics Technology

Researchers Design DNA-Loaded Nanoparticles for Breaching Mucus Barrier in Lungs

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Nano-C Announce Development and Launch of Fullerene Derivatives for OPV

Transparent, Electrically Conductive Silver Nanowires as Electrode for Optoelectronics

Graphene-Boron Nitride Nanotube Hybrid Switches Could Revolutionize the World of Electronics

Self-Organisation of Particles Leads to Hexagonal-Patterned 2D Nanohills

Protein Machines Could Generate Nonthermal Hydrodynamic Flows and Enhance Diffusive Motions of Particles

Diamond Nanocrystals Act as Temperature Sensors for Hyperlocalised Cancer Therapy

Unique Optical Magnetometer to Probe Magnetism at the Nanoscale

Lab on a Chip Acoustofluidic Sputum Liquefaction Device for Safe Asthma and Tuberculosis Diagnostics

Applying Kirigami Principles to Graphene Helps Create Nanoscale Devices

High Precision Linear Motor Stage with Absolute Encoder and Ironless Motor

UC Davis to Partner in New $610 Million Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation

New Report on Global Life Science Microscopy Devices Market 2014 - 2020

Sevion Enters Agreement with Malvern to Establish New Biopharmaceutical Applications Laboratory

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