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TI Introduces Nanopower Boost Charger with Integrated Step-Down Regulator

Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced five new next-generation power management integrated circuits that efficiently acquire and manage microwatts (uW) to milliwatts (mW) of power harvested from light, heat or mechanical energy sources. The bq25570, bq25505, TPS62740, TPS62737 and TPS62736 maintain the industry’s lowest levels of active quiescent current and enable battery-free operation to wireless sensor networks, monitoring systems, wearable medical devices, mobile accessories and other applications with limited access to power.

19 Nov 2013

Transparent Conductive Film and Glass Markets Forecast to Reach $6.3 Billion in 2024

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Transparent Conductive Films (TCF) 2014-2024: Forecasts, Markets, Technologies" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 19 Nov 2013

Sand 9 Launches TCMO-Based Precision MEMS Timing Product

Sand 9, Inc. today became the first micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) company to achieve the stringent low-noise, high-stability and harsh environmental requirements for precision timing in communications infrastructure, industrial and military applications.

19 Nov 2013

Graphene Nano-Mechanical System Creates FM Signals

A team of Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Mechanical Engineering Professor James Hone and Electrical Engineering Professor Kenneth Shepard, has taken advantage of graphene's special properties—its mechanical strength and electrical conduction—and created a nano-mechanical system that can create FM signals, in effect the world's smallest FM radio transmitter.

19 Nov 2013

Lab-on-a-Chip Device and Cell Phone Help Determine Concentration of HIV RNA Molecules

In developing nations, rural areas, and even one's own home, limited access to expensive equipment and trained medical professionals can impede the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Many qualitative tests that provide a simple "yes" or "no" answer (like an at-home pregnancy test) have been optimized for use in these resource-limited settings. But few quantitative tests—those able to measure the precise concentration of biomolecules, not just their presence or absence—can be done outside of a laboratory or clinical setting.

19 Nov 2013

Controlled Shape Nanoparticles Lead to Smaller, More Powerful, Energy Efficient Batteries

Batteries that power electric cars have problems. They take a long time to charge. The charge doesn’t hold long enough to drive long distances. They don’t allow drivers to quickly accelerate. They are big and bulky.

From University of California at Riverside 19 Nov 2013

Passage of DNA Detected With Graphene Nanoribbons

One of the methods used for examining the molecules in a liquid consists in passing the fluid through a nano-sized hole so as to detect their passage. EPFL researchers have found a way to improve this technique by using a material with unique properties: graphene.

18 Nov 2013

Nissan Chemical to Showcase HYPERTECH Nanoparticle Coating at C-TOUCH 2013 Shenzhen

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Kojiro Kinoshita) will exhibit at C-TOUCH 2013 Shenzhen, the 11th China (Shenzhen) International Touchscreen Exhibition, to showcase development products intended for use with smartphone and tablet PC touch panels.

From Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. 18 Nov 2013

Researchers Discover How Bacteria Construct ‘Nanomachines’ Outside the Cell

Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which bacteria build their surface propellers (flagella) – the long extensions that allow them to swim towards food and away from danger. The results, published this week in the journal Nature, demonstrate how the mechanism is powered by the subunits themselves as they link in a chain that is pulled to the flagellum tip.

18 Nov 2013

First Growth of Graphene Achieved on a Single-Crystal Silver Substrate

Graphene, a one-atom-thick carbon layer with extraordinary conductivity and strength, holds promise for a range of applications, but to realize its potential scientists must perfect techniques to tune its properties.

16 Nov 2013

Special ‘Oven’ and ‘Virtual Toothpick’ Help Create Thin Films Using Atomic Layer Deposition

Creating thin films using a rapidly evolving technology that promises to solve some of NASA's thorniest engineering challenges is a lot like baking a cake.

16 Nov 2013

Gold Nanoparticles Combined with siRNA Molecules Effective against Brain Cancer in Mice

Back in 2009 we cited promising work from Chad Mirkin (winner of the 2002 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in the Experimental category) that covering 13-nanometer gold nanoparticles with siRNA molecules enable the usually unstable and fragile molecules to enter tumor cells in culture and silence the tumor cell gene against which the siRNA molecules were targeted.

16 Nov 2013

Porous Silica Nanoparticle 'Envelopes' Loaded With Compounds to Treat Infertility

A way of using nanoparticles to investigate the mechanisms underlying 'mystery' cases of infertility has been developed by scientists at Oxford University.

16 Nov 2013

Flexible Electronic Circuit Boards Made Using Elastomeric Foams

Using foam substrates, EPFL scientists were able to make a flexible electronic circuit board. This discovery could lead to the creation of deformable and stretchable circuits.

16 Nov 2013

First Wave of Nanoparticles Clear a Path for the Second to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new technique for fighting deadly and hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer that uses two different types of nanoparticles, the first type clearing a path into tumor cells for the second, which delivers chemotherapy drugs.

From University of California, Los Angeles 16 Nov 2013

Nanotechnology News

TI Introduces Nanopower Boost Charger with Integrated Step-Down Regulator

Transparent Conductive Film and Glass Markets Forecast to Reach $6.3 Billion in 2024

Sand 9 Launches TCMO-Based Precision MEMS Timing Product

Graphene Nano-Mechanical System Creates FM Signals

Lab-on-a-Chip Device and Cell Phone Help Determine Concentration of HIV RNA Molecules

Controlled Shape Nanoparticles Lead to Smaller, More Powerful, Energy Efficient Batteries

Passage of DNA Detected With Graphene Nanoribbons

Nissan Chemical to Showcase HYPERTECH Nanoparticle Coating at C-TOUCH 2013 Shenzhen

Researchers Discover How Bacteria Construct ‘Nanomachines’ Outside the Cell

First Growth of Graphene Achieved on a Single-Crystal Silver Substrate

Special ‘Oven’ and ‘Virtual Toothpick’ Help Create Thin Films Using Atomic Layer Deposition

Gold Nanoparticles Combined with siRNA Molecules Effective against Brain Cancer in Mice

Porous Silica Nanoparticle 'Envelopes' Loaded With Compounds to Treat Infertility

Flexible Electronic Circuit Boards Made Using Elastomeric Foams

First Wave of Nanoparticles Clear a Path for the Second to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs

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