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UK-Based Oxford Nanopore Technologies Raises £40 Million in New Funding

Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd, the UK-based technology company specialising in nanopore-based electronic molecular analysis systems, has raised £40 million in new funding through a private placement of ordinary shares. The investment was received from new and existing investors in the US, UK and mainland Europe. New investors include Odey Asset Management.

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 10 Oct 2013

Nano Labs and Nanotex Partner to Accelerate Commercialized Development of Nano-Scale Magnetic Particles

Nano Labs Corp. is pleased to announce today the Company has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Soluciones Nanotecnologicas, S.L., (Nanotex(R)) Spain to launch an Industrial Applications Development Program (IADP) to design and develop new industrial applications suitable for commercialization of “nano scale magnetic particles.”

10 Oct 2013

Nanoropes of Carbyne, if Manufactured, Would be Stronger than Graphene

Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk.

10 Oct 2013

NanoKTN Releases Latest Version of UK Nanotechnology Directory

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK’s primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has published the latest version of its UK Nanotechnology Directory. Now in its fourth edition, the guidebook features over 450 organisations active in micro and nanotechnologies and the associated supply chains in the UK, and is available for free to anyone working within the MNT industry.

10 Oct 2013

Rhenium-Based Complex Trapped Inside Zeolite Can Warn About Dangerous Fumes

Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents.

8 Oct 2013

OU to Acquire Veeco’s New GENxplor R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy System

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that the University of Oklahoma (OU) will receive the first shipment of Veeco’s new GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) System early in the fourth quarter. The GENxplor is a fully integrated deposition system that creates high quality epitaxial layers on substrates up to 3” in diameter and is ideal for cutting edge research on a wide variety of materials including GaAs, nitrides, and oxides.

From Veeco 7 Oct 2013

Veeco’s GENxplor R&D MBE Systems Acquired by University of Nottingham for Optoelectronic Research

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, purchased two GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Systems for its School of Physics and Astronomy. The systems will enable the growth of high quality, large area layers of graphene and boron nitride for advanced electronic and optoelectronic applications.

From Veeco 7 Oct 2013

Harvard's Wyss Institute Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop DNA-Based Microscopy Method

A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has been awarded a special $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an inexpensive and easy-to-use new microscopy method to simultaneously spot many tiny components of cells.

5 Oct 2013

New Technique Can Map 3D Distribution of Nano-Properties of Objects

Scientists have developed a new kind of ‘X-ray vision’ that is able to peer inside an object and map the three-dimensional distribution of its nano-properties in real time.

5 Oct 2013

University of Pennsylvania Dedicates Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

The University of Pennsylvania will officially open the region’s premier facility for advanced research, education, and innovative public/private partnerships in nanotechnology on October 4. The 78,000 square-foot Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology will serve as the University’s focal point for groundbreaking work in the emerging field of nanotechnology, which involves the manipulation of matter on an atomic and molecular scale.

4 Oct 2013