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Periods of Rest Follow Concerted Proton Hopping

Protons, as positively charged hydrogen ions, move very rapidly in water from one water molecule to the next, which is why the conductivity of water is relatively high.

24 Jul 2013

Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE Platform with Nanometer Accuracy Adopted by PixArt Imaging

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification, today announced that PixArt Imaging Inc., a leading advanced digital imaging IC design company, has selected the company’s Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform for block-level characterization, full-circuit verification, and device noise analysis of their image sensor designs.

24 Jul 2013

Bristol’s ACCIS Awarded EPSRC Grant for Atoms to Applications Project in Composites Innovation

Three key technologies identified as part of the Government’s ‘eight great technologies’ to drive UK growth are to receive an £85 million investment for capital equipment.

24 Jul 2013

Integran’s Nanoplating Technology Applications Granted US Patent

Toronto-based Integran Technologies Inc. (Integran) today announced US 8,486,319 issued July 16, 2013 describing new applications for its nanoplating technology (Nanovate™ NP) for imprinting polymer surfaces to render them super-hydrophobic and/or self-cleaning.

24 Jul 2013

UMC Implements SuVolta’s DDC Technology in 28nm High-K/Metal Gate Process

United Microelectronics Corporationand SuVolta, Inc., today announced joint technology development of a 28nm process that integrates SuVolta’s Deeply Depleted Channel™ (DDC) transistor technology into UMC's 28nm High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) high-performance mobile (HPM) process.

24 Jul 2013

Immune Cell Surfaces Revealed at the Nano Scale

Scientists from The University of Manchester have revealed new images which provide the clearest picture yet of how white blood immune cells attack viral infections and tumours.

24 Jul 2013

Ultratech Laser Spike Annealing Technology Selected as Primary Tool for Global 450-mm Consortium

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography, laser-processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs), today announced that its laser spike annealing (LSA) technology has been selected as a primary 450-mm millisecond annealing tool for the Global 450-mm Consortium (G450C), headquartered at SUNY's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in Albany, NY.

24 Jul 2013

Lake Shore Launches New 12 Channel Temperature Monitor

Lake Shore announced today the release of its new Model 224 cryogenic temperature monitor. Expanding on its line of industry-leading precision instruments for reliable and repeatable temperature measurement, the Model 22...

From Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. 23 Jul 2013

NIST Use Anasys Nanoscale AFM-IR Imaging to Characterize Plasmonics

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how to make nanoscale measurements of critical properties of plasmonic nanomaterials.

23 Jul 2013

MagnaChip Enters Into SOI RF CMOS Technology Transfer Agreement with National Nano Fab Center

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation ("MagnaChip"), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and the National Nano Fab Center ("NNFC") have entered into an SOI RF CMOS technology transfer agreement which combines MagnaChip's specialty manufacturing expertise with NNFC's robust RF technology.

23 Jul 2013

Thin Film Nano-Coating Provider, HzO, to Demonstrate WaterBlock Technology

HzO, a leader in the field of thin film nano-coating for wearable technologies, will demonstrate its WaterBlock technology for commercial devices at the Wearable Technologies Conference 2013, held in San Francisco on July 22 and 23, and the Wearable Tech Expo, held in New York City on July 24 and 25.

23 Jul 2013

Electrically Driven Laser Devices Realized by Utilizing Carbon Dot-Supported Silver Nanoparticles

Considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices is reported today by researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea. The new plasmonic material, can be applied to both polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) and polymer solar cells (PSCs), with world-record high performance, through a simple and cheap process.

23 Jul 2013

Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly Switching Demonstrated Using Water Droplets Containing Magnetic Nanoparticles

This is the first time researchers have demonstrated reversible switching between static and dynamic self-assembly.

23 Jul 2013

Nanotechnology Researchers Develop Solar-Powered Sterilization System

Rice University nanotechnology researchers have unveiled a solar-powered sterilization system that could be a boon for more than 2.5 billion people who lack adequate sanitation. The “solar steam” sterilization system uses nanomaterials to convert as much as 80 percent of the energy in sunlight into germ-killing heat.

23 Jul 2013

Royal Society Honors Manchester Graphene Researchers

University of Manchester Nobel Laureates Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov have been awarded two of the Royal Society’s most significant honours.

23 Jul 2013

Nanotechnology News

Periods of Rest Follow Concerted Proton Hopping

Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE Platform with Nanometer Accuracy Adopted by PixArt Imaging

Bristol’s ACCIS Awarded EPSRC Grant for Atoms to Applications Project in Composites Innovation

Integran’s Nanoplating Technology Applications Granted US Patent

UMC Implements SuVolta’s DDC Technology in 28nm High-K/Metal Gate Process

Immune Cell Surfaces Revealed at the Nano Scale

Ultratech Laser Spike Annealing Technology Selected as Primary Tool for Global 450-mm Consortium

Lake Shore Launches New 12 Channel Temperature Monitor

NIST Use Anasys Nanoscale AFM-IR Imaging to Characterize Plasmonics

MagnaChip Enters Into SOI RF CMOS Technology Transfer Agreement with National Nano Fab Center

Thin Film Nano-Coating Provider, HzO, to Demonstrate WaterBlock Technology

Electrically Driven Laser Devices Realized by Utilizing Carbon Dot-Supported Silver Nanoparticles

Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly Switching Demonstrated Using Water Droplets Containing Magnetic Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology Researchers Develop Solar-Powered Sterilization System

Royal Society Honors Manchester Graphene Researchers

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