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Nanotechnology Enables Harnessing of Photons for Solar Energy

The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity has taken a radically new turn, with the proposal of a “solar energy funnel” that takes advantage of materials under elastic strain.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26 Nov 2012

Controlling Light on Microchips Using Metamaterials

Using a combination of the new tools of metamaterials and transformation optics, engineers at Penn State University have developed designs for miniaturized optical devices that can be used in chip-based optical integrated circuits, the equivalent of the integrated electronic circuits that make possible computers and cell phones.

26 Nov 2012

Nano Labs’ New Nano Coating for Residential Housing Applications

Nano Labs Corp. is pleased to announce today the specifications, applications and overview of the NC2012, a proprietary patent-pending nano thermal insulation for the international residential housing construction market.

26 Nov 2012

New Book on Lipids in Nanotechnology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of AOCS Press's new book "Lipids in Nanotechnology" to their offering.

From Research and Markets 23 Nov 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Stocastic Resonance at Nanometric Level

A team of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin, co-ordinated by José Ignacio Pascual (current leader of the Nanoimagen team at CIC nanoGUNE), have developed a method that enables efficiently using the random movement of a molecule in order to make a macroscopic-scale lever oscillate. The research was published in Science.

23 Nov 2012

New Electron Microscopy Study Helps Understand Replication Mechanism of Flu Viruses

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a major advance in understanding how flu viruses replicate within infected cells. The researchers used cutting-edge molecular biology and electron-microscopy techniques to “see” one of influenza’s essential protein complexes in unprecedented detail. The images generated in the study show flu virus proteins in the act of self-replication, highlighting the virus’s vulnerabilities that are sure to be of interest to drug developers.

From The Scripps Research Institute 23 Nov 2012

New Report on Global Market for Flow Cytometry and Hematology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Future Horizons in the Global Hematology and Flow Cytometry Market: Supplier Shares and Sales Forecasts for 40 Tests by Country" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 23 Nov 2012

BASF's Dialog Forum Nano Publishes Report on Transparent Communication About Nanomaterials

BASF's Dialog Forum Nano is presenting its final report for the dialog phase 2011/2012 today, November 22, in Berlin.

From BASF 22 Nov 2012

CL4W Programme to Produce Platinum and Arsenic Nanoparticles as By-Products

A consortium of researchers led by WMG at the University of Warwick are to embark on a £3 million research programme called “Cleaning Land for Wealth” (CL4W), that will use a common class of flower to restore poisoned soils while at the same time producing perfectly sized and shaped nano sized platinum and arsenic nanoparticles for use in catalytic convertors, cancer treatments and a range of other applications.

22 Nov 2012

ENIAC JU Honors IMPROVE and LENS Projects for Nanotechnology Innovation

Two research projects with a combined budget approaching 70 million euro achieved significant advances in semiconductor manufacturing efficiency and have been recognized with the 2012 ENIAC JU INNOVATION AWARD at the European Nanoelectronics Forum.

22 Nov 2012

FUJIFILM Introduces Nanotechnology-Based LTO Ultrium 6 Data Cartridge

FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., a division of FUJIFILM Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of data storage media, today introduced its new LTO Ultrium 6 data cartridge. The Fujifilm LTO Ultrium 6 cartridge is the first in the world produced with Barium Ferrite magnetic particles using Fujifilm’s core NANOCUBIC technology. The LTO Ultrium 6 cartridge offers a super high compressed (2.5x) storage capacity of 6.25TB with a transfer rate of up to 400 megabytes per second.

22 Nov 2012

Micro Pyramids Capturing Living Cells

A field full of pyramids, but on a micro scale. Each of the pyramids hides a living cell. Thanks to 3D micro- and nano scale fabrication, promising new applications can be found. One of them is applying the micro pyramids for cell research: thanks to the open ‘walls’ of the pyramids, the cells interact. Scientists of the research institutes MESA+ and MIRA of the University of Twente in The Netherlands present this new technology and first applications in Small journal of the beginning of December.

22 Nov 2012

Novel Carbomorph Material for 3D Printing of Personal Electronics

Scientists are developing new materials which could one day allow people to print out custom-designed personal electronics such as games controllers which perfectly fit their hand shape.

22 Nov 2012

Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Arrays for Hazardous Chemical Detection

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of chemicals like pollutants, explosives or illegal drugs.

21 Nov 2012

Mentor Capital, Nanovega Ink LOI to Scale Up Nano-Scale Synthetic Antibodies Production

Mentor Capital, Inc. announced it has executed a Letter of Intent with Nanovega, Inc. for $6 million to fund the production scale up of its ultra-small synthetic antibodies. These nano-scale molecules are approximately one-tenth the size of most alternative cancer delivery bio-markers. The small size allows the nano-bodies to slip throughout solid tumors instead of piling up at the surface as is often currently encountered in cancer treatment.

21 Nov 2012