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Materials Challenge NanoScreen Sponsors PhD Project

Materials Challenge NanoScreen is sponsoring a PhD project with 180 kCHF in funding to address the modelling and simulation of solid inorganic particle behaviour in biological environments.

20 Mar 2015

ROHM Establishes Process for Piezoelectric MEMS Utilizing Thin-Film Piezoelectric Elements

ROHM has recently established a process for MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System, hereinafter ‘piezoelectric MEMS’) utilizing thin-film piezoelectric elements, and implemented the industry’s first* foundry business that integrates product design and manufacturing processes, from wafer pulling to mounting, in order to meet a variety of customer needs.

20 Mar 2015

Nano Carbon Places Order for AIXTRON’s AIX G5 WW Reactor for Graphene Production on Silicon Carbide

AIXTRON SE, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Nano Carbon (Poland) has ordered AIXTRON’s AIX G5 WW reactor for graphene production on silicon carbide. Nano Carbon owns a low-cost patented technique for epitaxial graphene that can be implemented on the AIXTRON system.

From AIXTRON SE 20 Mar 2015

Novel Fluorescence Microscopy Technique Shows Where Proteins are Produced

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and their international collaborators have developed a novel fluorescence microscopy technique that for the first time shows where and when proteins are produced. The technique allows researchers to directly observe individual messenger RNA molecules (mRNAs) as they are translated into proteins in living cells.

20 Mar 2015

Nanofabrication Facility at University of Alberta Expanded with ZEISS Electron and Helium Systems

ZEISS announces that it assisted University of Alberta enhance its open access micro and nano scale fabrication facility (nanoFAB) by providing ZEISS helium and electron systems.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 19 Mar 2015

Leica Microsystems Announces Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) System with Cryo Fixation and Fluorescence Capabilities

Leica Microsystems launches Leica EM Cryo CLEM, a system that facilitates correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM).

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 19 Mar 2015

Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic Solid Featuring an Si20 Dodecahedron

The discovery of the soccer ball-shaped C60 molecule in 1985 was a milestone for the development of nanotechnology. In parallel with the fast-blooming field of research into carbon fullerenes, researchers have spent a long time trying in vain to create structurally similar silicon cages.

19 Mar 2015

OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have demonstrated a more robust method for controlling single, micron-sized particles with light.

19 Mar 2015

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

As the precision, energy, and output of scientific instruments such as particle colliders, light sources, and microscopes increases, so does the volume and complexity of data generated.

19 Mar 2015

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

A research group led by Chengsi Pan and Tsuyoshi Takata at NIMS Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), and Kazunari Domen at The University of Tokyo newly developed a water-splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

19 Mar 2015

Coating Scaffold with Self-Assembling Nanofibers Decreases Inflammation

A new technique to create tissue-engineered bladders has been shown to decrease scarring and significantly increase tissue growth. The bladders are produced using scaffolds coated with anti-inflammatory peptides.

19 Mar 2015

AACR Annual Meeting: Three Abstracts on BIND Therapeutics’s Accurins to be Presented

BIND Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called Accurins, today announced the online availability of three abstracts that will be presented during the April 18-22 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

19 Mar 2015

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene - soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties.

19 Mar 2015

LamdaGen Opens Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan

LamdaGen Corporation, a nano-technology platform company that provides LSPR based plasmonic sensors and systems for In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD), announced the opening of a wholly-owned subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan Co., LTD. (LamdaGen Taiwan).

19 Mar 2015

Global Forecast Report on Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market

According to a new market research report "Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market by Product (Biochip, Implant Materials, Medical Textiles, Wound Dressing, Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices, Hearing Aid), Application (Therapeutic, Diagnostic, Research) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, the Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market is was valued at around $5 Billion in 2014 and expected to reach around $8.5 Billion by 2019 with a CAGR of around 11-12% during the forecast period 2014 - 2019.

19 Mar 2015

Nanotechnology News

Materials Challenge NanoScreen Sponsors PhD Project

ROHM Establishes Process for Piezoelectric MEMS Utilizing Thin-Film Piezoelectric Elements

Nano Carbon Places Order for AIXTRON’s AIX G5 WW Reactor for Graphene Production on Silicon Carbide

Novel Fluorescence Microscopy Technique Shows Where Proteins are Produced

Nanofabrication Facility at University of Alberta Expanded with ZEISS Electron and Helium Systems

Leica Microsystems Announces Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) System with Cryo Fixation and Fluorescence Capabilities

Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic Solid Featuring an Si20 Dodecahedron

OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

Coating Scaffold with Self-Assembling Nanofibers Decreases Inflammation

AACR Annual Meeting: Three Abstracts on BIND Therapeutics’s Accurins to be Presented

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

LamdaGen Opens Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan

Global Forecast Report on Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market

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