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New Fabrication Technique to Etch Carbon Nanotube Sensors

Carbon nanotubes offer a powerful new way to detect harmful gases in the environment. However, the methods typically used to build carbon nanotube sensors are hazardous and not suited for large-scale production.

9 Oct 2012

Altera Expands 28 nm Portfolio by Launching Arria V GZ Variant

Altera Corporation today announced it has expanded its 28 nm portfolio with the introduction of the Arria® V GZ variant, incorporating the company's industry-leading transceiver technology and delivering an overall core performance boost of more than two speed grades, or 30 percent.

9 Oct 2012

Nanomaterial Containing Liquorice Extract Can Sterilize and Protect Medical Implants

A new coating utilizing nanotechnology will allow surgeons to sterilize medical devices that contain biological components.

From Elsevier B.V 9 Oct 2012

Genetic Immunity Announces GMP Approval for its Production Facility of Nanomedicine Ingredients

Genetic Immunity is pleased to announce the GMP approval of its manufacturing facility. The development of the GMP manufacturing process and the facility was financed from a $4 million grant received from the Hungarian Office for Innovation and Technology.

9 Oct 2012

New Research Focuses on Using Nanoparticles to Treat Pediatric Sarcomas

Cameron Cohen, a 14-year-old iPhone applications creator and philanthropist, and his family recently donated $7,500 to fund pediatric cancer research at Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA.

From University of California, Los Angeles 9 Oct 2012

Novavax Begins Phase II Clinical Study of Nanoparticle-Based RSV Vaccine Candidate

Novavax today announced that enrollment has begun in a Phase 2 dose-ranging clinical trial of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate in women of childbearing age. The study is being conducted in collabor...

From Novavax Inc. 9 Oct 2012

Researchers Explore Reaction Mechanism of Lithium-Air Battery Using X-Ray Photoelectron Microscopy

Exactly what goes inside advanced lithium-air batteries as they charge and discharge has always been impossible to observe directly. Now, a new technique developed by MIT researchers promises to change that, allowing study of this electrochemical activity as it happens.

8 Oct 2012

Researchers Discover Tiniest and Fastest-Known RNA Switches

A University of Michigan biophysical chemist and his colleagues have discovered the smallest and fastest-known molecular switches made of RNA, the chemical cousin of DNA. The researchers say these rare, fleeting structures are prime targets for the development of new antiviral and antibiotic drugs.

8 Oct 2012

Domain Walls Can Change Geometry on Femtosecond Time Scale

Research success for the international research team including a fellow of the MAINZ Graduate School of Excellence

8 Oct 2012

Sequential Passivation and Reactive Ion Etching Employed to Produce 3D Photonic Crystals

In modern telecommunications, light carries digital information over kilometers within seconds. Adapted optical materials control the light signals. In the AFM journal, researchers from Berlin, Louvain, and from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology present a method to produce photonic crystals. Their optical properties are adjusted by structures of micrometer size.

6 Oct 2012

Cullen College's Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Zeolites

It's a perfect record for the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, where all six of its applicants have been granted prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards for 2012.

6 Oct 2012

ON Semiconductor, imec Collaborate to Develop GaN-on-Si Power Devices

ON Semiconductor, a premier global supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics, has joined the multi-partner, industrial research and development program at imec, a leading nanoelectronics research center, to collaborate on the development of next-generation Gallium Nitride (GaN) on Silicon (Si) power devices.

6 Oct 2012

Nanoprobe Inventor to Receive NJIT Overseers Award

Tonight NJIT Research Professor Reginald C. Farrow, PhD, who with his research team have discovered how to make nanoscale arrays of the world's smallest probe for investigating the electrical properties of individual living cells will receive the NJIT Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal.

5 Oct 2012

Mouse Genome Found to Consist of 10-nm Chromatin Fibres

Scientists in Canada and the United States have used three-dimensional imaging techniques to settle a long-standing debate about how DNA and structural proteins are packaged into chromatin fibres.

5 Oct 2012

ADI Introduces MEMS Accelerometer with Min/Max Offset Temperature Sensitivity

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, introduced today the industry’s first MEMS accelerometer with Min/Max offset sensitivity over the full temperature range.

From Analog Devices 5 Oct 2012

Nanotechnology News

New Fabrication Technique to Etch Carbon Nanotube Sensors

Altera Expands 28 nm Portfolio by Launching Arria V GZ Variant

Nanomaterial Containing Liquorice Extract Can Sterilize and Protect Medical Implants

Genetic Immunity Announces GMP Approval for its Production Facility of Nanomedicine Ingredients

New Research Focuses on Using Nanoparticles to Treat Pediatric Sarcomas

Novavax Begins Phase II Clinical Study of Nanoparticle-Based RSV Vaccine Candidate

Researchers Explore Reaction Mechanism of Lithium-Air Battery Using X-Ray Photoelectron Microscopy

Researchers Discover Tiniest and Fastest-Known RNA Switches

Domain Walls Can Change Geometry on Femtosecond Time Scale

Sequential Passivation and Reactive Ion Etching Employed to Produce 3D Photonic Crystals

Cullen College's Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Zeolites

ON Semiconductor, imec Collaborate to Develop GaN-on-Si Power Devices

Nanoprobe Inventor to Receive NJIT Overseers Award

Mouse Genome Found to Consist of 10-nm Chromatin Fibres

ADI Introduces MEMS Accelerometer with Min/Max Offset Temperature Sensitivity

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