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Nanoparticles in New Chikungunya Virus Candidate Vaccine Mimic Immune-Stimulating Effects of Actual Virus Particles

The first human trial of a new vaccine developed using non-infectious virus-like particles (VLP) appears likely to offer protection against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne infection, according to a study published in The Lancet. Since its re-emergence in 2004, chikungunya virus has become a growing public-health threat that has affected millions of people in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and in recent months it has been spreading throughout the Americas.

18 Aug 2014

New MEMS WLP-Based Monolithic 3D Accelerometer from MEMSIC

MEMSIC, Inc., a leading MEMS sensing solution provider, announced today the availability of its MXC400xXC, the world's first monolithic 3D accelerometer, and also the first 3D accelerometer to utilize WLP technology.

From MEMSIC Inc. 18 Aug 2014

Global Nanocomposites Market Forecast to Grow at 17.69% CAGR

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Nanocomposites Market 2014-2018" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 18 Aug 2014

NSF Awards Grant to Study Environmental Impacts of Fullerene-Based Materials

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) and Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences are the recipients of a new research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the lifecycle environmental impacts of fullerene-based materials—a form of engineered nanomaterials used in solar cells, drug delivery systems and cosmetics.

18 Aug 2014

UV-Assisted Nanoimprint Moulding Used to Fabricate Polymer Slot Waveguide

Slot waveguide is a specific light-guiding structure with a property to enhance the optical field in a nanometer scale void of low refractive index (RI) material embedded between higher RI material rails. Typically, slot waveguides have been fabricated from high refractive index inorganic dielectrics or semiconductors, such as silicon or silicon nitride, and they operate in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength region.

18 Aug 2014

New Patent Filed for Advanced Materials Platform

Graphene NanoChem, the performance nanochemicals and advanced materials company, is pleased to announce it has filed a Malaysian patent application in relation to a unique method of making graphene nanocomposites by mult...

From Graphene NanoChem 14 Aug 2014

Nano Today Journal Records High Impact Factor

Singapore-based Nano Today journal has received a record high impact factor of 18.432 in 2013, up from 17.689 in 2012, according to the Journal Citation Reports® published by Thomson Reuters last month. The scientific journal is one of the highest impact publications across nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials science and chemistry.

14 Aug 2014

Researchers Grow Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Prespecified Structure

In future, it will be possible to specifically equip carbon nanotubes with properties which they need for electronic applications, for example. Researchers at Empa in Dübendorf/Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart have succeeded for the first time in growing single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with only a single, prespecified structure.

14 Aug 2014

Novel Project to Develop Tiny Flat Molecule Tapes

Dr. Wilhelm Auwärter and his team are working on a research project to develop tiny flat molecule tapes at the Department of Physics of Technische Universität München (TUM). These structures could find versatile applications. Via direct coupling on a silver surface, the scientists successfully formed dimers and short chains of porphine molecules without contaminating by-products.

14 Aug 2014

Nanostructured Metal Halide Coating Increases Lithium Battery Life

Cornell chemical engineers have achieved a breakthrough in the race to achieve safer, longer-lasting batteries to power the world’s automobiles, cell phones, computers and autonomous robots.

14 Aug 2014

Scientist Reviews Limiting Factors in Development of Computing Systems

From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry, commerce, entertainment and governance while shrinking to become ubiquitous handheld portals to the world.

14 Aug 2014

Covaris Debuts microTUBE LV for Next Generation Sequencing Applications

Covaris, Inc. announced the introduction of the patent-pending microTUBE LV, its latest product designed for low volume, high performance DNA Shearing for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) applications.

14 Aug 2014

NSF Grants CAREER Award for Research on Computational Models of Nanoscale Electrically Tunable Solid State Devices

Assistant Professor Maria Gracheva, Clarkson University Department of Physics, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to perform research on computational models of solid-state devices for biomolecular sensing and detection.

14 Aug 2014

Ion Beam Microscope Helps Analyze Nano-Sized Fragments of 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus

He looks almost Byzantine or Greek, gazing doe-eyed over the viewer’s left shoulder, his mouth forming a slight pout, like a star-struck lover or perhaps a fan of the races witnessing his favorite charioteer losing control of his horses.

14 Aug 2014

Forecast Report on Global Titanium Dioxide Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Titanium Dioxide Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 - 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 14 Aug 2014