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LiqTech Launches SiC Flat Sheet Membrane FSM Disc for Membrane Bioreactors

LiqTech International, Inc. ("LiqTech") is pleased to announce that the Company has launched a new state-of-the-art Silicon Carbide (SiC) Flat Sheet Membrane (FSM) disc for Membrane Bioreactors (MBR) and Moving Bed Bioreactors (MBBR) for wastewater treatment.

6 Mar 2013

WXIC to Optimize 65-nm, 300MM Wafer Production for GigaDevice's NOR Flash Products

WXIC (Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing), a leading 12-inch semiconductor manufacturing company in China, today announced a long-term supply agreement with GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc., a specialist in NOR Flash memory products.

6 Mar 2013

NanCogenics Co-Founder to Present at BioNanoMed International Conference

Officials at NanCogenics, Inc. announced today that Co-Founder Dr. Jim Klostergaard has been invited to present at the upcoming BioNanoMed 4th International Conference on Nanotechnology, Medicine and Biology, to be held March 13-15, in Krems, Austria.

6 Mar 2013

CNSE, SEFCU and SUNY Issue Final Call for 2013 New York Business Plan Competition

Supporting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s leadership in expanding educational opportunities that enhance New York’s innovation-enabled economy, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), together with Title Sponsors SEFCU and the State University of New York (SUNY), today issued a final call for students to compete in the 2013 New York Business Plan Competition, which features a major statewide expansion and $500,000 in total prizes, with the final round of competition to be held on April 26 at CNSE.

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 6 Mar 2013

EPFL Researchers Study Drug-Resistant Bacteria with Anasys AFM-IR system

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland are measuring the mechanical properties of proteins, cells and tissues. To date, AFM has been the main tool but is now complemented with the arrival of a nanoIR™ AFM-IR system from Anasys.

5 Mar 2013

Gold Nanogap Structure Helps Detect Ionic Mercury with High Sensitivity

A research group of WPI-MANA, including Dr. Chung Vu Hoang (Doctoral Research Fellow), Dr. Tadaaki Nagao (Group Leader of Nano-System Photonics Group), Dr. Masakazu Aono (Director-General of MANA), and others discovered that it is possible to detect diluted ionic mercury in water with more than 10 times higher sensitivity than with the conventional spectroscopy method.

5 Mar 2013

UMC's 40nm Logic Process Integrated with Spansion eCT Flash Memory Technology

Spansion Inc., a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, and United Microelectronics Corporation ("UMC"), today announced the joint development of a 40nm process that integrates UMC's 40nm LP logic process with Spansion® proprietary embedded Charge Trap (eCT)TM Flash memory technology. As part of this non-exclusive agreement, UMC is licensed to manufacture products based on this technology for Spansion.

From Infineon Technologies AG 5 Mar 2013

Primoceler Reports First Sale of New Laser-Based Welding Machine for MEMS

Microfabrication company Primoceler Inc. (http://www.primoceler.com) has finalized the first sale of its new laser-based welding machine for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). A company based in Europe purchased the machine, which produces an extremely small heat-affected zone (HAZ) during the hermetic sealing of sensitive or organic components, eliminating the risk of damaging those components.

5 Mar 2013

A Revolution in Observation at the Nanoscopic Scale

Attolight, EPFL’s spin-off, is looking towards the rising sun. While a Singapore based research institute has placed its first order, other sales are being approved in China and a contract with a Japanese distributor is under negotiation. Samuel Sonderreger is the CEO of this young company created in 2008, and he reveals to us the secrets of his entry into the Asian market.

5 Mar 2013

IU Nanoscience Researcher Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Indiana University Bloomington chemists Erin Carlson and Sara Skrabalak have been named Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced. They are among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers to receive the fellowships for 2013.

5 Mar 2013

NanoSight Launch New NS300 Platform For Fluorescence and Rheology Applications

The NS300 utilizes the latest version of NanoSight's particle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). This elegant new instrument offers all the unique benefits scientists have come to expect from NanoSight in an easy to use and compact format.

5 Mar 2013

$Jordan Valley's High-Resolution X-Ray Diffractometer Wins CS Industry Award$

Jordan Valley's High-Resolution X-Ray Diffractometer Wins CS Industry Award

Jordan Valley Semiconductor, a market leader of X-Ray metrology tools, announced today that its QC3™, a production worthy diffractometer for the compound semiconductor and LED industries, is the winner of CS Industry 2013 metrology, test and measurement award.

5 Mar 2013

Nano Labs Proposes Development of Nanoscale Biosensors to Identify Tuberculosis

Nano Labs Corp. is pleased to present industry with promising biological diagnostics test results obtained at macro-level, on a miniaturized tuberculosis biosensor platform.

5 Mar 2013

Engineered Bacteria Transforms Toxic Metal Ions into Useful Metallic Nanoparticles

Common garden plants are to be used to clean polluted land, with the extracted poisons being used to produce car parts and aid medical research.

5 Mar 2013

Rolith Reports Successful Installation of 2nd-Generation Nanostructuring Prototype Tool

Rolith, Inc., the leader in developing advanced nanostructured coatings and devices, today announces the successful installation of a 2nd-generation nanostructuring prototype tool built by SUSS MicroTec AG under exclusive license from Rolith, Inc. – the RML-2 tool.

5 Mar 2013