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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Select Heidelberg Laser Patterning System for Fabrication of Advanced Biomedical Applications

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a µPG101 table top maskless laser patterning system to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Maryland, USA. System will be used for prototyping and fabrication of ...

17 Dec 2008

France to Invest $480 Million in Research and Development in Nanotechnology

At the first European sessions on innovation, on Dec. 9 in Paris, the President of the French Republic and President of the European Council, Nicolas Sarkozy, announced the French government plans to double its research ...

17 Dec 2008

Novel MEMS-based Pedestrian Navigation System Help Keep Pedestrian Safe

VTI Technologies has announced a novel MEMS-based pedestrian navigation solution demonstrator. Making its debut at CES 2009, the small wearable device can track the position, speed and distance of a pedestrian. It relies...

17 Dec 2008

Printing Circuited Lattices of Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

17 Dec 2008

India Announce Further Investments into Development of Nanotechnology

Vice President Hamid Ansari today said that public funding for scientific and technological research and development should aim at enhancing public welfare and economic development.Inaugurating the second Bangalore Nano ...

17 Dec 2008

Dispute Over Insurance Policy on Nanotechnology

A while back, we received a call from a company that had developed a spray on insulation using nanotechnology. The company claimed it could dramatically reduce a company’s energy cost by using this spray on insulat...

16 Dec 2008

Exploring the Nanoworld Using Animation

Tiny self-assembling metal cubes dance across the screen in a video posted on the Web site of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. You could read a book — or at least several chapters — on the principles behind how these microcubes build themselves up from microscopic metallic sheets cut by lasers. Or you could watch a one-minute animated video that tells their fantastic story.

16 Dec 2008

The Bayer Group Continues Expansion of Research and Development Innovations

Bayer innovations provide solutions for the global challenges of the future / Pharmaceutical pipeline is well filled, with 50 projects currently in phases I to III of clinical testing.

From Covestro AG 16 Dec 2008

New Multi-layer Nanocoating Demonstrate High Integration Between Living Tissues and Implant

New multi-layer coating containing biological substances improves the reliability and durability of surgical implants. A Medical Engineering Research Group, based in the East of England, has won a Translational Research Award in Orthopaedics from the Medical Futures Innovation Awards 2008 (MFIA2008).

16 Dec 2008

Solar Cells Produce from Quantum Dots Demonstrate Increased Efficiency Compare to Existing Photovoltaic Panels

Solar cells made from a new class of materials, called quantum dots, could capture much more sunlight than existing photovoltaic panels. If produced in bulk, an upcoming generation of solar technology promises to be chea...

16 Dec 2008