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Graphene Market Projected to Grow Significantly in the Next 10 Years

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Graphene in Electronics and Energy: The Global Market to 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 29 Jan 2014

Waters Launches Nano- to Microscale UltraPerformance LC System Rated for 15,000 psi Operations

Waters Corporation today introduced the new Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® M-Class System, an industry-first nano- to microscale UltraPerformance LC® (UPLC®) system rated for 15,000 psi operation. Coupled to Waters mass spectrometers, the system delivers the sensitivity to quantify and to identify vanishingly small concentrations of key molecules.

29 Jan 2014

Santa Fe to Host Fifth Annual ‘Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience’ Public Event

Santa Fe is renowned for its culture and art; this March it will host an art show based on science. The fifth annual “Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience,” is a two-day public event celebrating new and fascinating ideas and images from the emerging fields of systems biology and nanoscience. The images on display demonstrate the beauty of life at a molecular level.

29 Jan 2014

New Stretchable, Transparent Electrical Conductor Developed at University of Houston

University of Houston researchers have developed a new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor, bringing the potential for a fully foldable cell phone or a flat-screen television that can be folded and carried under your arm closer to reality.

29 Jan 2014

X-FAB Partners with imec to Offer Multi-Project Wafer Runs through EUROPRACTICE IC Service

Analog/mixed-signal foundry group X-FAB Silicon Foundries today announced its collaboration with Belgian-based micro- and nanoelectronics research center imec to offer multi-project wafer runs through imec’s EUROPRACTICE IC Service for X-FAB’s 0.18 micrometer SOI HV process (XT018) and a junction-isolated HV process (XH018).

29 Jan 2014

Bacterial Spore Generator Could Provide a Steady Source of Green Electricity

A new type of electrical generator uses bacterial spores to harness the untapped power of evaporating water, according to research conducted at the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.

28 Jan 2014

Theoretically, One-Atom-Thick Boron Sheet is Possible

Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally that a boron-based competitor to graphene is a very real possibility.

28 Jan 2014

Pores in Swiss Cheese-Like MOFs Change Shape When Hit by Ultraviolet Light

The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny sponge to soak up a drug and deliver it directly to a tumor. Chemists at a manufacturing plant use another to trap and store unwanted gases.

28 Jan 2014

Dais Analytic to Form Company in China to Promote Aqualyte Nanomaterial Products

Dais Analytic Corporation, a nanotechnology materials and process company -- focused on commercializing its technology in the worldwide energy and water markets -- proudly announces a two-part transaction following its gains of establishing distribution in China in 2013. This long-term venture with an industrial entity in China is projected to have a positive impact on the current year's financial results.

From Dais Analytic Corporation 28 Jan 2014

NanoViricides New R&D Lab and cGMP Clinical Production Facility in Shelton Nearing Completion

NanoViricides, Inc. (the "Company") reported today that construction of the modern R&D Lab and cGMP Clinical Production facility in Shelton, CT, is nearing completion on schedule. The Company reports that the R&D lab section of the facility is nearing completion, slightly ahead of schedule. In addition, construction of the cGMP Clean Room Production Suite is expected to be completed in March, 2014, on schedule, and shortly thereafter, the project will enter facility testing and validation phase.

From NanoViricides, Inc 28 Jan 2014

Nanodiamond-Silk Structures Help Study Drug-Cell Reaction

Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique for biological imaging and drug delivery.

28 Jan 2014

IP Group's Agreement with The University of Manchester Now Includes Graphene Activity

IP Group plc ("IP Group" or "the Company" or "the Group"), the developer of intellectual property based businesses, is delighted to announce that it has extended its commercialisation agreement with The University of Manchester ("the University") through its technology transfer company, UMI3 Ltd, to include Proof-of-Principle (“PoP”) funding for graphene projects.

28 Jan 2014

Novel Method of Assembling ‘Building Blocks’ of Gold Nanoparticles for Delivery of Cancer Medications

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles as the vehicle to deliver cancer medications or cancer-identifying markers directly into cancerous tumors. The study, led by Warren Chan, Professor at the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering (IBBME) and the Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research (CCBR), appears in an article in Nature Nanotechnology this week.

28 Jan 2014

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Biomarkers Used to Target Specific Cancer Cell Receptors

Manhattan Scientifics executed an agreement to collaborate with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) to advance, demonstrate and validate a breakthrough technology developed by Edward R. Flynn, PhD, for the very early detection of cancer. Dr. Flynn is the founder and chief scientist of MHTX’s subsidiary, Senior Scientific LLC.

From Manhattan Scientifics Inc. 28 Jan 2014

Researchers Study Effects of Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Human Lung Cells

Nanoparticles are used in all kinds of applications — electronics, medicine, cosmetics, even environmental clean-ups. More than 2,800 commercially available applications are now based on nanoparticles, and by 2017, the field is expected to bring in nearly $50 billion worldwide.

28 Jan 2014

Nanotechnology News

Graphene Market Projected to Grow Significantly in the Next 10 Years

Waters Launches Nano- to Microscale UltraPerformance LC System Rated for 15,000 psi Operations

Santa Fe to Host Fifth Annual ‘Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience’ Public Event

New Stretchable, Transparent Electrical Conductor Developed at University of Houston

X-FAB Partners with imec to Offer Multi-Project Wafer Runs through EUROPRACTICE IC Service

Bacterial Spore Generator Could Provide a Steady Source of Green Electricity

Theoretically, One-Atom-Thick Boron Sheet is Possible

Pores in Swiss Cheese-Like MOFs Change Shape When Hit by Ultraviolet Light

Dais Analytic to Form Company in China to Promote Aqualyte Nanomaterial Products

NanoViricides New R&D Lab and cGMP Clinical Production Facility in Shelton Nearing Completion

Nanodiamond-Silk Structures Help Study Drug-Cell Reaction

IP Group's Agreement with The University of Manchester Now Includes Graphene Activity

Novel Method of Assembling ‘Building Blocks’ of Gold Nanoparticles for Delivery of Cancer Medications

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Biomarkers Used to Target Specific Cancer Cell Receptors

Researchers Study Effects of Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Human Lung Cells

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