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UCL School of Pharmacy Use Evactron Plasma Technology for SEM Chamber Cleaning

XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, reports that a leading UK university's School of Pharmacy is using an Evactron® cleaning system on the chamber in their electron microscope.

From XEI Scientific 9 Apr 2013

NanoSight's Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Used for Cancer Research at Trinity College Dublin

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the development of future diagnostic and theranostic solutions for early diagnosis, drug delivery and treatment of cancer at the School of Medicine and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

9 Apr 2013

JPK Instruments Announce NanoBioVIEWS Symposium on Optical Tweezers in Life Science Applications

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, are happy to announce that registration is now open for the fifth international symposium on the applications of optical tweezers and related technologies in the life sciences.

From Bruker BioAFM 9 Apr 2013

Penn State Teams Up with Dow Chemical to Advance Flexible Electronics

Penn State's interest in flexible and printed electronics is not just theoretical. In October 2011, the University announced a multi-year research project with Dow Chemical Corporation. The project received $1 million in its first year, and will continue for at least five years.

From Dow Chemical Company 9 Apr 2013

Flexible Electronics Show Promise to Advance Many Applications

Nearly everyone knows what the inside of a computer or a mobile phone looks like: A stiff circuit board, usually green, crammed with chips, resistors, capacitors and sockets, interconnected by a suburban sprawl of printed wiring.

9 Apr 2013

BfArM Permits MagForce to Begin Post-Marketing Study in Glioblastoma with NanoTherm Therapy

MagForce AG / MagForce AG Receives BfArM Approval to Start the Post-Marketing Study in Glioblastoma with NanoTherm® Therapy.

From MagForce Nanotechnologies AG 9 Apr 2013

Silex Microsystems, BroadPak Announce Availability of Silicon Interposer Solution in High-Volume Manufacturing

Silex Microsystems, the world's largest pure-play MEMS foundry, and BroadPak, a leading provider of ultra-high performance 2.5D silicon interposer and 3D integration technologies, today announced the immediate availability of their jointly developed silicon interposer solution in high-volume manufacturing.

From Silex MicroSystems 9 Apr 2013

Discovery of Circulating Nano-Sized Extracellular Vesicles Helps Advance Brain Cancer Diagnosis

The recent discovery of circulating "nano-sized extracellular vesicles" (EVs) carrying proteins and nucleic acids derived from brain tumors may lead to exciting new avenues for brain cancer diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment, according to a special article in the April issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

9 Apr 2013

Ill-Conceived Cuts Could Set Back Progress in Nanotechnology

Cuts in federal funding of nanotechnology research threaten to slow progress toward some of the field's greatest promises, including commercialization of sustainable new energy sources that do not contribute to global warming, an international authority in the field cautioned here today.

From American Chemical Society 9 Apr 2013

TSMC, Cadence to Develop Design Infrastructure for 16-nm FinFET Technology

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced an ongoing multi-year agreement with TSMC to develop the design infrastructure for 16-nanometer FinFET technology, targeting advanced node designs for mobile, networking, servers and FPGA applications.

From Cadence Design Systems 9 Apr 2013

Researchers Seek Ways to Synthesize Shape-Specific Nanoparticles

Controlling the shapes of nanometer-sized catalytic and electrocatalytic particles made from noble metals such as platinum and palladium may be more complicated than previously thought.

From Georgia Institute of Technology 9 Apr 2013

New Method to Evaluate Toxicity of Nanoparticles

Earlier efforts to determine the health and environmental effects of the nanoparticles that are finding use in hundreds of consumer products may have produced misleading results by embracing traditional toxicology tests that do not take into account the unique properties of bits of material so small that 100,000 could fit in the period at the end of this sentence.

From American Chemical Society 9 Apr 2013

Micro & Nano Letters Journal Receives Two New Co-Editors-In-Chief

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has today announced the appointment of two new co-editors-in-chief for its Micro & Nano Letters journal. Professor Peter Dobson, specialising in the area of nano-scale science and Professor Gwo-Bin Vincent Lee specialising in micro-scale science, bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this rapid publication online journal.

8 Apr 2013

Nanowire Solar Cells Demonstrate Better Efficiency than Silicon for Energy Production

Capture up to 12 times more light to produce more energy? Nanowires do just that and surpass expectations on solar energy production.

8 Apr 2013

Scientists Make Progress in Producing Fully Functional Nanocellulose for Biofuels

Genes from the family of bacteria that produce vinegar, Kombucha tea and nata de coco have become stars in a project — which scientists today said has reached an advanced stage — that would turn algae into solar-powered factories for producing the "wonder material" nanocellulose.

From American Chemical Society 8 Apr 2013

Nanotechnology News

UCL School of Pharmacy Use Evactron Plasma Technology for SEM Chamber Cleaning

NanoSight's Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Used for Cancer Research at Trinity College Dublin

JPK Instruments Announce NanoBioVIEWS Symposium on Optical Tweezers in Life Science Applications

Penn State Teams Up with Dow Chemical to Advance Flexible Electronics

Flexible Electronics Show Promise to Advance Many Applications

BfArM Permits MagForce to Begin Post-Marketing Study in Glioblastoma with NanoTherm Therapy

Silex Microsystems, BroadPak Announce Availability of Silicon Interposer Solution in High-Volume Manufacturing

Discovery of Circulating Nano-Sized Extracellular Vesicles Helps Advance Brain Cancer Diagnosis

Ill-Conceived Cuts Could Set Back Progress in Nanotechnology

TSMC, Cadence to Develop Design Infrastructure for 16-nm FinFET Technology

Researchers Seek Ways to Synthesize Shape-Specific Nanoparticles

New Method to Evaluate Toxicity of Nanoparticles

Micro & Nano Letters Journal Receives Two New Co-Editors-In-Chief

Nanowire Solar Cells Demonstrate Better Efficiency than Silicon for Energy Production

Scientists Make Progress in Producing Fully Functional Nanocellulose for Biofuels

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