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Nanoscale Protein Fibers Incubated with Curcumin Continue to Assemble to the Microscale

Researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering have broken new ground in the development of proteins that form specialized fibers used in medicine and nanotechnology.

24 Oct 2014

Electrostatic Charges Help View Internal Structures of Electronic Waves Trapped in Carbon Nanotubes

University of Oregon chemists have devised a way to see the internal structures of electronic waves trapped in carbon nanotubes by external electrostatic charges.

24 Oct 2014

Strobe Lighting Tracks Ultra-Fast Movement of Electrons Within Amino Acid Nanomolecules

Scientists from Queen’s University Belfast have been involved in a groundbreaking discovery in the area of experimental physics that has implications for understanding how radiotherapy kills cancer cells, among other things.

24 Oct 2014

Hybrid Diagnostic ‘Nanodecoder’ for Improvement of Cancer Treatment

Cancer diagnostics and treatment options could be drastically improved with the creation of a ‘designer’ nanodevice being developed by researchers from the UK, Italy, the US and Argentina.

24 Oct 2014

Book Review Offer: 5 New Nanotech Titles from Elsevier

Elsevier announced the publication of five new books in the area of Nanotechnology. If you would like to receive a review copy of any of these new books, please reply to me and we will arrange to send you a copy. Our pr...

From Elsevier B.V 23 Oct 2014

Springer and Tsinghua University Press Award Professor Charles M. Lieber of Harvard University Nano Research Award

Professor (Prof.) Charles M. Lieber – the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University – has been presented with the first-ever Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 21 Oct 2014

Aehr Test Systems to Debut FOX-1P Single Wafer Test System at 2014 ITC

Aehr Test Systems, a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, today announced that it is introducing the FOX-1P system, its next generation single wafer test system for high volume production and early failure rate (EFR) test, at the 2014 International Test Conference (ITC) taking place October 21-23 in Seattle, Washington at the Washington State Convention Center (Booth #515).

21 Oct 2014

Cadence Helps GUC Complete First Production Design on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus Process

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, and Global Unichip Corporation (GUC), the Flexible ASIC LeaderTM, today announced that GUC used the Cadence® Encounter® Digital Implementation System to tape out its first production high performance computation ASIC design on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process.

From Cadence Design Systems 21 Oct 2014

Gigaphoton Reaches Milestone in Continuous Operation of Prototype LPP EUV Light Source

Gigaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer, announced today that it has succeeded in achieving 3-hour continuous operation of its prototype LPP EUV light source at 50% duty cycle and 42-W output, equivalent to usage in a high-volume-manufacturing (HVM) environment.

21 Oct 2014

Harvard University Professor Receives Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award

Professor (Prof.) Charles M. Lieber – the Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University – has been presented with the first-ever Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award. Mr. Junfeng Zong, the President of Tsinghua University Press and Dr. Lu Ye, Managing Director and Editorial Director of Springer China, presented the award certification, while Profs. Hongjie Dai and Yadong Li, Editors-in-Chief of the journal Nano Research, jointly presented the award medal to Prof. Lieber.

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 21 Oct 2014

Samsung Electronics Mass Produces 20nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in memory technology, today announced that it is mass producing the industry’s most advanced 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 memory and 32-gigabyte (GB) module, both of which will be manufactured based on a new 20-nanometer (nm) process technology, for use in enterprise servers.

From Samsung Electronics 21 Oct 2014

Synopsys Debuts DesignWare STAR Memory System for Embedded Flash Product

Synopsys, Inc., a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today introduced the DesignWare® STAR Memory System® for Embedded Flash product, the industry's first integrated memory test and repair solution with test algorithms optimized for on-chip embedded flash memories.

From Synopsys, Inc. 21 Oct 2014

University of Zurich Biochemists Reveal Structure of Iron-Transport Protein

For the first time, the three dimensional structure of the protein that is essential for iron import into cells, has been elucidated. Biochemists of the University of Zurich have paved the way towards a better understanding of iron metabolism. The results also provide a basis for novel approaches to treat iron-related metabolic diseases.

21 Oct 2014

AzCIM Proposed Project Selected by Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium

The Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium (NBMC), an industry-academia partnership with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), has chosen a project proposed by the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, to receive research funding.

21 Oct 2014

Vision Analytical Opens New Lab for Particle Shape Analysis Services

Vision Analytical Inc, the developers of the Particle Insight particle size and shape analyzer, is pleased to announce the opening of their contract laboratory services, Vision Analytical Lab.

20 Oct 2014

Nanotechnology News

Nanoscale Protein Fibers Incubated with Curcumin Continue to Assemble to the Microscale

Electrostatic Charges Help View Internal Structures of Electronic Waves Trapped in Carbon Nanotubes

Strobe Lighting Tracks Ultra-Fast Movement of Electrons Within Amino Acid Nanomolecules

Hybrid Diagnostic ‘Nanodecoder’ for Improvement of Cancer Treatment

Book Review Offer: 5 New Nanotech Titles from Elsevier

Springer and Tsinghua University Press Award Professor Charles M. Lieber of Harvard University Nano Research Award

Aehr Test Systems to Debut FOX-1P Single Wafer Test System at 2014 ITC

Cadence Helps GUC Complete First Production Design on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET Plus Process

Gigaphoton Reaches Milestone in Continuous Operation of Prototype LPP EUV Light Source

Harvard University Professor Receives Tsinghua University Press-Springer Nano Research Award

Samsung Electronics Mass Produces 20nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM

Synopsys Debuts DesignWare STAR Memory System for Embedded Flash Product

University of Zurich Biochemists Reveal Structure of Iron-Transport Protein

AzCIM Proposed Project Selected by Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium

Vision Analytical Opens New Lab for Particle Shape Analysis Services

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