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Thin-Film Technology Poised to Take Significant Market Share

After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent technology. Thin-fil...

2 Jul 2008

New Grant Program to Promote the Use of AFMs

Veeco Instruments, a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community.

2 Jul 2008

ApNano Materials Announces Major Breakthrough in WS2 Nanotube Production for Bulletproof Vests

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a major breakthrough in the production of the company's unique, inorganic tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotubes in industrial quantities.

1 Jul 2008

BAE Systems to Co-Produce Nano-Sensor Technology Under Agreement with Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies

BAE Systems -- under an agreement with Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc., -- will co-produce nano-sensor technology that will leverage both companies' expertise for use in military, commercial, and homeland s...

1 Jul 2008

Sale of Nansulate HomeProtect Continues to Increase Exponentially Worldwide

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that sales of the Company's patented energy saving and mold resistant product for homes and buildings, Nansulate® HomeProtec...

1 Jul 2008

New Technique in Reading and Evaluating DNA or RNA Assays

A new method for reading DNA (or RNA) microarrays is based on measuring the electrostatic repulsion between silica microspheres and hybridized DNA. Surface areas containing double-stranded DNA (red) or single-stranded DNA (blue) can be easily distinguished from each other and from background areas by the naked eye. (Illustration Flavio Robles, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs)

1 Jul 2008

Unidym Launches Patent License Option Program

Unidym, Inc, a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that MDA Co., LTD of South Korea has purchased an option to negotiate a future intellectual property (IP) license to Unidym'...

1 Jul 2008

Nano-Proprietary Announces New Trading Symbol as Result of Company's Name Change

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. announced that that its new trading symbol, effective with the start of trading, tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1, 2008, will be APNT. The new symbol is required as a result of the change in the Company&#...

1 Jul 2008

Report Provides Analysis, Information and Key Players in Nanotechnology

"Nanomaterials and Markets" report provides detailed market analysis, commercial information and key players in nanotechnology. This report presents a clear picture of the scale of opportunity in nanotechno...

30 Jun 2008

Nanoselenium Cloth Capturing Mercury Vapor from Broken CFLs

With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished since they were introduced in the United States in 1979, reached nearly 300 million last year. Experts expect that figure to rise steeply by 2012, when a federal law requiring energy-efficient lighting goes into effect.

28 Jun 2008