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Georgia State University Creates Center for Nano-Optics

The Center for Nano-Optics, a research center whose focus on the science of developing tools and instruments as small as 1,000 times thinner than a human hair could lead to major breakthroughs in technology and biomedicine, has been created at Georgia State University.

13 Dec 2013

New Review of Photonic, Phononic and Phoxonics Research Published in Advanced Materials

Strategies to manipulate light and sound go back to the first spherical glass bead and the pounding of the first hollow log. But their full potential is only just becoming apparent, according to a review by materials scientists at Rice University and their colleagues.

13 Dec 2013

Mathematician Awarded START Prize for Project on ‘Partial-Differential-Equations Models for Nanotechnology’

Clemens Heitzinger, assistant professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, has recently been awarded the prestigious START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.

13 Dec 2013

FlexTech Alliance Forms Users Groups for Wearable Electronics and Disposable Electronics

From toys and games, freshness sensors, body media, and medical devices to applications in outer space and high speed communications, flexible and printed electronics are changing the ways companies develop advanced products and packages to better serve their customers and gain a competitive advantage.

13 Dec 2013

Innovative One-Step Method to Grow High-Quality Graphene on Silicon

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Professor Loh Kian Ping, who heads the Department of Chemistry at the NUS Faculty of Science, has successfully developed an innovative one-step method to grow and transfer high-quality graphene on silicon and other stiff substrates, opening up opportunities for graphene to be used in high-value applications that are currently not technologically feasible.

13 Dec 2013

Behavior can be Predicted in Thin Films Made of Relaxor Materials

New research at the University of Arkansas shows that behavior can be predicted and understood in thin films made of materials called relaxors, which can be used in electronic devices.

13 Dec 2013

Nanomedicine Company, BIND Therapeutics, Amends Collaboration Agreement with Amgen

BIND Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called Accurins™, announced today that it has amended its development and commercialization collaboration agreement with Amgen Inc. to extend the period during which Amgen may exercise its option by six months.

13 Dec 2013

Consortium of 29-Partners Mobilize to Define What Is or Isn’t a Nanomaterial

A 29-partner consortium of top European RTD performers, metrology institutes, and nanomaterials and instrument manufacturers, gathered at a launch meeting in Wageningen, NL, last month to begin the mobilisation of the critical mass of expertise required to establish the measurement tools and scientific data that help to implement the EU recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial.

13 Dec 2013

Global Advanced Functional Material Market Expected to Generate Revenue of $1,13,881.9 Million by 2018

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the Global Advanced Functional Material Market - Includes Forecasts to 2018" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 13 Dec 2013

Public Private-Partnership to Advance Development of Commercial Cellulosic Nanomaterial Production Facility

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a public private-partnership to rapidly advance the development of the first U.S. commercial facility producing cellulosic nanomaterial, a wood fiber broken down to the nanoscale. The partnership is between the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) and the U.S. Forest Service.

13 Dec 2013

Optofluidics Launch NanoTweezer Nanoparticle Manipulation and Analysis System

Optofluidics today announced the availability of a novel nanoparticle analysis and manipulation system called the NanoTweezer. The new system captures, manipulates, and analyzes individual nanoscale objects in high numbers including proteins aggregates, viruses, bacteria, and inorganic nanoparticles.

From Optofluidics Incorporated 12 Dec 2013

New DNA-Based Anti-Counterfeiting Platform for Textiles and Apparel

Applied DNA Sciences, (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, announced today the rollout of SigNature T, a new security platform specifically for textiles and apparel.

12 Dec 2013

Integral Molecular Generates Potent Antibody Antagonists Targeting P2X3 Ion Channel

Integral Molecular, a leader in membrane protein antibody discovery, announces that it has successfully generated potent antibody antagonists targeting the P2X3 ion channel using the MPS Discovery EngineTM, its proprietary strategy for antibody elicitation and optimization, in conjunction with Crystal Bioscience’s proprietary GEM technology for isolating unique monoclonal antibodies from immunized chickens.

12 Dec 2013

New Report on Innovations in Encapsulation Technologies for Printed Electronics

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Innovations in Encapsulation Technologies for Printed Electronics (Technical Insights)

12 Dec 2013

Lab on a Chip Publishes Paper on Cell Force Measurements in 3D Microfabricated Environments

Congratulations to Mattia Marelli and co-authors for their cover page paper "Cell force measurements in 3D microfabricated environments based on compliant cantilevers" published in Lab on a Chip.

12 Dec 2013

Nanotechnology News

Georgia State University Creates Center for Nano-Optics

New Review of Photonic, Phononic and Phoxonics Research Published in Advanced Materials

Mathematician Awarded START Prize for Project on ‘Partial-Differential-Equations Models for Nanotechnology’

FlexTech Alliance Forms Users Groups for Wearable Electronics and Disposable Electronics

Innovative One-Step Method to Grow High-Quality Graphene on Silicon

Behavior can be Predicted in Thin Films Made of Relaxor Materials

Nanomedicine Company, BIND Therapeutics, Amends Collaboration Agreement with Amgen

Consortium of 29-Partners Mobilize to Define What Is or Isn’t a Nanomaterial

Global Advanced Functional Material Market Expected to Generate Revenue of $1,13,881.9 Million by 2018

Public Private-Partnership to Advance Development of Commercial Cellulosic Nanomaterial Production Facility

Optofluidics Launch NanoTweezer Nanoparticle Manipulation and Analysis System

New DNA-Based Anti-Counterfeiting Platform for Textiles and Apparel

Integral Molecular Generates Potent Antibody Antagonists Targeting P2X3 Ion Channel

New Report on Innovations in Encapsulation Technologies for Printed Electronics

Lab on a Chip Publishes Paper on Cell Force Measurements in 3D Microfabricated Environments

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