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CIMAV Develops Polymer-Based Nanocomposites Reinforced with Graphite Nanoplatelets for Solar Cells

The Center for Research in Advanced Materials (CIMAV), located in the Research and Technological Innovation Park (PIIT) in Monterrey, in the north of Mexico, has developed reinforced graphite nanoplatelets seeking to improve the performance of solar cell materials.

20 Nov 2014

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond FEC Plug-and-Play Solution Can Operate in High-Electric-Field Environments

On a quest to design an alternative to the two complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers from Euclid TechLabs and Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Nanoscale Materials have demonstrated a plug-and-play solution capable of operating in this high-electric-field environment with a high-quality electron beam.

20 Nov 2014

Novel Nanoparticles Can Simultaneously Perform MRI and Fluorescent Imaging in Living Animals

MIT chemists have developed new nanoparticles that can simultaneously perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescent imaging in living animals. Such particles could help scientists to track specific molecules produced in the body, monitor a tumor’s environment, or determine whether drugs have successfully reached their targets.

20 Nov 2014

Foreign Policy Magazine Honors Koch Institute Faculty Member as One of 100 Leading Global Thinkers

Koch Institute faculty member Sangeeta Bhatia has been selected as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 for her work in developing inexpensive and noninvasive diagnostics for the early detection of colon cancer.

20 Nov 2014

SCHOTT Offers HermeS Specialty Glass Wafers with TGV for MEMS Applications

SCHOTT, a global provider of specialty glasses and materials has expanded its product line with HermeS® wafers integrated with hermetically sealed, solid through glass vias (TGV) suitable for MEMS applications.

20 Nov 2014

Biochemists Create Large Nanoscale Protein Container

UCLA biochemists have created the largest-ever protein that self-assembles into a molecular “cage.” The research could lead to synthetic vaccines that protect people from the flu, HIV and other diseases.

19 Nov 2014

Plastic Logic Adopts Synopsys' IC Validator for Physical Verification of Organic Thin Film Transistor Technology

Synopsys, Inc., a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, and Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastic electronics, today announced that Plastic Logic has adopted Synopsys' IC Validator product for physical verification of Plastic Logic's proprietary organic thin film transistor technology.

From Synopsys, Inc. 19 Nov 2014

ON Semiconductor and ICs to Market RHBD ASICs Created using 110nm Process

ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficiency innovations, has entered into a licensing/development agreement with ICs LLC in order to bring application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to market which are resilient to radiation effects.

19 Nov 2014

Kyocera Develops Hybrid Cermet Materials with MEGACOAT NANO Multilayer Coating Technology

Kyocera Corporation announced that it has developed a new series of hybrid cermet materials offering a 50% improvement in abrasion resistance and fracture resistance over conventional materials used as industrial cutting-tool inserts.

19 Nov 2014

High-Risk, High-Impact Projects Receive Bose Grants

Solar cells made from coal, smart nanoparticles that work with bacteria to fight cancer, and an effort to enhance human cognition by stimulating brain waves are just a few examples of the high-risk, high-impact projects funded by the first round of Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

19 Nov 2014

Controlled Fusion of Semiconductor Quantum Dots Demonstrated Within Nanoreactor Cage

Imagine building a chemical reactor small enough to study nanoparticles a billionth of a meter across. A billion times smaller than a raindrop is the volume of an E. coli cell. And another million times smaller would be a reactor small enough to study isolated nanoparticles.

19 Nov 2014

Novel Method for Fabricating Moulded Liquid Polymer Derived Ceramic Precursor for Ceramic MEMS

Congratulations to Jonas Grossenbacher and co-authors who have a paper "On the micrometre precise mould filling fliquid polymer derived ceramic precursor for 300-um-thick high aspect ratio ceramic MEMS" recently published on Ceramics International.

19 Nov 2014

Scientists Create Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid Cathode for Cheap, Flexible, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Rice University scientists have invented a novel cathode that may make cheap, flexible dye-sensitized solar cells practical.

19 Nov 2014

Rudolph Receives Multi-System Orders for MetaPULSE G System to Measure Multilayer Films Simultaneously

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has received multi-system orders from several customers for its latest MetaPULSE® G metal metrology system in support of their mobile device components ramp.

From Onto Innovation 19 Nov 2014

New Method to Create and Control Spin Waves in Magnetic Materials

A team of New York University and University of Barcelona physicists has developed a method to control the movements occurring within magnetic materials, which are used to store and carry information. The breakthrough could simultaneously bolster information processing while reducing the energy necessary to do so.

19 Nov 2014

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CIMAV Develops Polymer-Based Nanocomposites Reinforced with Graphite Nanoplatelets for Solar Cells

Ultrananocrystalline Diamond FEC Plug-and-Play Solution Can Operate in High-Electric-Field Environments

Novel Nanoparticles Can Simultaneously Perform MRI and Fluorescent Imaging in Living Animals

Foreign Policy Magazine Honors Koch Institute Faculty Member as One of 100 Leading Global Thinkers

SCHOTT Offers HermeS Specialty Glass Wafers with TGV for MEMS Applications

Biochemists Create Large Nanoscale Protein Container

Plastic Logic Adopts Synopsys' IC Validator for Physical Verification of Organic Thin Film Transistor Technology

ON Semiconductor and ICs to Market RHBD ASICs Created using 110nm Process

Kyocera Develops Hybrid Cermet Materials with MEGACOAT NANO Multilayer Coating Technology

High-Risk, High-Impact Projects Receive Bose Grants

Controlled Fusion of Semiconductor Quantum Dots Demonstrated Within Nanoreactor Cage

Novel Method for Fabricating Moulded Liquid Polymer Derived Ceramic Precursor for Ceramic MEMS

Scientists Create Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid Cathode for Cheap, Flexible, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Rudolph Receives Multi-System Orders for MetaPULSE G System to Measure Multilayer Films Simultaneously

New Method to Create and Control Spin Waves in Magnetic Materials

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