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FDA Clears Nanosphere’s C.difficile Test

Nanosphere, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of advanced molecular diagnostics systems, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance permitting marketing of its C.difficile test on the automated sample-to-result Verigene® System.

11 Dec 2012

Engineered Nanomaterial Can Help Regulate Chloride Levels in Nerve Cells

A nanomaterial engineered by researchers at Duke can help regulate chloride levels in nerve cells that contribute to chronic pain, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.

11 Dec 2012

New Data on Proton Interior Spatial Structure

Physicists from NCBJ in Œwierk and École Polytechnique (EP) in Paris have theoretically analysed some specific case of electron-proton collisions to help to design an experiment that could deliver new data on proton interior spatial structure.

11 Dec 2012

Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre Researchers Use JPK Instruments for AFM and Single-Cell Force Spectroscopy

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research studies of Dr Rikke Meyer who is looking into biofilm formation from bacteria using atomic force microscopy, AFM, and single-cell force spectroscopy.

From Bruker BioAFM 11 Dec 2012

Indium Gallium Arsenide Compound Transistor Challenges Silicon’s Crown

Silicon’s crown is under threat: The semiconductor’s days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest transistor ever to be built from a rival material, indium gallium arsenide.

10 Dec 2012

Nano Light-Focusing Device May Have Potential Applications in Computing, Imaging

As technology advances, it tends to shrink. From cell phones to laptops—powered by increasingly faster and tinier processors—everything is getting thinner and sleeker. And now light beams are getting smaller, too.

10 Dec 2012

Wanxiang to Acquire Nanophosphate Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Producer

A123 Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate® lithium iron phosphate batteries and systems, today announced that it has reached agreement on the terms of an asset purchase agreement with Wanxiang America Corporation (“Wanxiang”) through which Wanxiang would acquire substantially all of A123’s assets for $256.6 million.

10 Dec 2012

Nano Labs to Patent Nanotechnology-Based Process to Produce Industrial Diamonds

Nano Labs Corp. is pleased to announce today that it will be moving forward to patent and commercialize the process of producing industrial diamonds using the Company's proprietary nanotechnology.

10 Dec 2012

Small Molecules Modeled After Natural Protein Help Develop New Anticoagulant Drug

Virginia Tech researchers have discovered a potential way to create a new kind of anticoagulant drug commonly called a blood thinner.

7 Dec 2012

MIG Exhibits MEMS Keynote and Conference Track at 2013 International CES

MEMS Industry Group (MIG), a global industry organization with more than 150 member-companies and partners, today announced a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) conference track at the 2013 International CES.

7 Dec 2012

O-Pal Personal Oxygenator’s Nano-Size Oxygen Bubbles Improve Beverage Flavor

Privately held research and development laboratory Separation Design Group, LLC (SDGroup) has developed the world's smallest oxygen machine. The O-Pal Personal Beverage Oxygenator is a handheld appliance that extract...

7 Dec 2012

Nanotechnology Company Liquipel Announces New Technology and Branding Licenses

Liquipel LLC, the sole owner and licensor of Liquipel, today announced new technology and branding licenses in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The new licenses are the latest announcements in Liquipel's global expansion initiative.

7 Dec 2012

Innovative Technique to Fabricate Nanomaterials

A new method for creating very thin layers of materials at the atomic scale, reported in the latest issue of the journal Science, could “unlock an important new technology” for creating nanomaterials, according to nanomaterials expert Dr. Jay A. Switzer of Missouri University of Science and Technology in the journal.

7 Dec 2012

Duke University Team Develops Novel Metamaterial

Microscopic metallic cubes could unleash the enormous potential of metamaterials to absorb light, leading to more efficient and cost-effective large-area absorbers for sensors or solar cells, Duke University researchers have found.

From Duke University - Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics 7 Dec 2012

New Microscopy Tool to Explore Solar-to-Electric Energy Conversion

If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for examining those objects. Information about nanoscale chemistry and interactions with light—the atomic-microscopy equivalent to color—is tantalizingly out of reach to all but the most persistent researchers.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 7 Dec 2012