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Market for Nanotechnology in Wireless Handsets to reach $15 billion by 2012

As nanotechnology aids in improving the performance of wireless handsets, the market for nanotech-enabled wireless components is expected to grow rapidly.

20 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Enabled Sensors to Guide Bat Inspired Robot Spy Plane

A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.

14 Mar 2008

New Microscope Design Allows Nanoparticles to be Tracked in Three Dimensions

Heart of the orthogonal tracking microscope system developed at NIST is this nanoparticle solution sample well etched in silicon. Careful orientation of the silicon crystal makes it possible to chemically etch angled sides in the well so smooth they act as mirrors. In this configuration, four side views of a nanoparticle floating in solution (left) are reflected up. A microscope above the well sees the real particle (center, right) and four reflections that show the particle's vertical position.

11 Mar 2008

Spintronics Pioneer Honored at Harvard Birthday Party

What might be Harvard’s oddest birthday party unfolded last over Feb. 29 and March 1. In a lecture hall at Maxwell Dworkin, 50 physicists gathered to share the latest research in spintronics, an emerging branch of their science concerned with the quantum spin states of electrons, and to honor one-time Soviet scientist Emmanuel I. Rashba who turned 80 last October.

10 Mar 2008

Environmentally Safe and Friendly Nanoparticles to be Launched into Solar Cells, Nanotechnology Based Lighting and Security Devices

Voxtel is set to announce its entry into the business of manufacturing
“green” semiconductor and metal-oxide nanocrystals for a wide variety customer applications, including:
photovoltaic solar cells, electro-luminescent lighting, anti-counterfeiting taggants, and security
inks.

7 Mar 2008

Fluorescent Nanoparticles Image Tumor Marker in Animals

Since 2004 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three new-generation anticancer therapies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a protein that is greatly overexpressed on certain types of tum...

4 Mar 2008

Solid State Lighting Device Based on Quantum Dots Launched

The world’s biggest nanotechnology event saw Nanoco unveil a solid state lighting device based on its cadmium free quantum dots CFQDTM and also showcase latest developments in the area of CIGS nano particles. CIGS ...

3 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Director Delivers Visionary Presentation on the Future Impact of Nanotechnology on Energy, Lighting, Transportion, Meta Materials, Carbon Nanotubes plus Health and Safety

Dr. Clayton Teague, the director of the US National Nanotechnology Inititive was warmly welcomed to the ICONN2008 event in Melbourne Australia where he delivered the plenary lecture outlining the current and future state of play for nanotechnology

26 Feb 2008

Patent Awarded for Synthesis of Quantum Dot Nanostructures

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules, cells, and wafers worldwide, today announced that it has been awarded United States P...

14 Feb 2008

Nano Sized Drums are the Worlds Smallest Drumkit and Point to New Knowledge in Worlds of Mathematics, Quantum Physics and Microelectronics

Using a tunneling scanning microscope researchers moved individual carbon monoxide molecules on a copper surface to build tiny walls only one-molecule high and shaped them into nine-sided enclosures that could resonate like drums

11 Feb 2008