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Carbon Nanotube-Based Transparent Conductors Making a Quiet Comeback in Asia

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Transparent Conductor Markets 2014-2021

11 Sep 2014

Nanofiber Eye Drop Holds Promise for Treatment of Glaucoma

Northwestern Medicine® scientists have discovered a novel cause of glaucoma in an animal model, and related to their findings, are now developing an eye drop aimed at curing the disease. They believe their findings will be important to human glaucoma.

11 Sep 2014

Antibody-Studded Iron Nanoparticles Help Treat Heart Attack Damage

Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute infused antibody-studded iron nanoparticles into the bloodstream to treat heart attack damage. The combined nanoparticle enabled precise localization of the body's own stem cells to the injured heart muscle.

11 Sep 2014

3D Ptychography Helps Peer into Layer Structure of Coated Tandem Solar Cell

The sharp X-ray vision of DESY's research light source PETRA III paves the way for a new technique to produce cheap, flexible and versatile double solar cells.

11 Sep 2014

Indium Corporation Announces New EZ-Pour™ Gallium Trichloride

Indium Corporation announces the release of a revolutionary new product called EZ-Pour™ Gallium Trichloride (GaCl3). Gallium trichloride is a unique material that is sometimes difficult to use because it is a solid at room temperature and transfer from one container to the next requires heating.

From Indium Corporation 10 Sep 2014

JPK Reports on the Use of the NanoTracker Optical Tweezers System at the University of Leiden to Study the Organisation of Genomic DNA

Dr Rosalie Driessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, a part of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. She is studying the organization and dynamics of bacterial chromatin having received her doctorate from the University for her thesis entitled “The architects of crenarchaeal chromatin.”

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Sep 2014

SUNY CNSE / SUNYIT Named as SUNY Polytechnic Institute

The State University of New York Board of Trustees today voted unanimously to approve SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) as the new name for the recently merged SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE)/SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT).

10 Sep 2014

Innovative Micro Technology MEMS Foundry Signs MoU with CIT-China

Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. (IMT), the largest pure-play Micro-Electro-Mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry in the US, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China R&D Center for Internet of Things based in Wuxi, China (CIT-China).

From Atomica Corp. 10 Sep 2014

Senesco Technologies Changes Name to Sevion Therapeutics

Senesco Technologies, Inc., a clinical-stage company which discovers, develops and acquires next-generation biologics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases, announced today a corporate rebranding under which the Company will change its name to Sevion Therapeutics, Inc.

10 Sep 2014

SRC Honors MIT and Stanford Professors for Nanoscale Chip-Related Research

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, has recognized professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University with distinguished awards for chip-related research and education. The awards were presented Sept. 8 at SRC’s annual TECHCON conference in Austin, Texas.

10 Sep 2014

Researchers Present Paper on Resistless Nanofabrication by Stencil Lithography

Congratulations to Oscar Vazquez-Mena, Shenqi Xie and Guillermo Villanueva who co-authored a review paper about stencil lithography "Resistless nanofabrication by stencil lithography: A review" recently published on Microelectronic Engineering.

10 Sep 2014

NanoViricides Reports Further Progress in Development of Anti-Ebola Drug Program

NanoViricides, Inc., a nanomedicine company developing anti-viral drugs, reported further progress in its anti-Ebola drug development program. The Company has designed novel anti-Ebola broad-spectrum drug candidates that are expected to continue to work in spite of mutations, and has commenced synthesis of the same.

From NanoViricides, Inc 10 Sep 2014

Ommaditias' Nanonipples Complicate Analysis of Common Fly’s Compound Eyes

In our vain human struggle to kill flies, our hands and swatters often come up lacking. This is due to no fault of our own, but rather to flies' compound eyes. Arranged in a hexagonal, convex pattern, compound eyes consist of hundreds of optical units called ommatidia, which together bestow upon flies a nearly 360-degree field of vision.

10 Sep 2014

Inventor of Miniaturized Technologies to Improve Human Health Wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, biomedical engineer and professor at MIT, is the recipient of the 2014 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Bhatia is recognized for designing and commercializing miniaturized technologies with applications to improve human health.

10 Sep 2014