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Patent Represents Cornerstone of Midatech's Nanotechnology IP Portfolio and Position

Midatech Group, a world leader in the production and application of synthetically produced nanoparticles, has received a US grant on its proprietary patent application (US09,622253), protecting the Company’s novel ...

5 Aug 2008

Testing Device Generates Great Interest in Nanofiber Industry

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has developed a novel testing device for understanding the tensile properties of single nanofibers. In addition to the ability to test a single nanofiber, the technology allows...

5 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes.

2 Aug 2008

New Nanomaterial Making Plastic Stiffer, Lighter and Stronger

A Michigan State University researcher and his students have developed a nanomaterial that makes plastic stiffer, lighter and stronger and could result in more fuel-efficient airplanes and cars as well as more durable medical and sports equipment.

1 Aug 2008

Nanoscale Lithium Iron Phosphate Holds Key to Tomorrow's Electric Car Batteries

Why does lithium iron phosphate, a candidate for use in future lithium batteries, conduct electricity despite being an insulating material? Chemists at CNRS, working in collaboration with a team from CEA-Liten, have shed light on this paradox.

1 Aug 2008

Graphene-Derived Nanomaterials Show Promise as Next Generation Atomically Thin Transistors

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphe...

31 Jul 2008

Graphene Nanoribbons Hold Enormous Promise as Nanoscale Devices

Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, phy...

31 Jul 2008

Cabot Microelectronics Patent Infringement Litigation Against DA Nano

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries to the semiconductor industry, today announced that on July 25, 2008, the United States...

31 Jul 2008

NIST to Use SWeNT Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes for Standard Reference Material

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will use SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.'s SWeNT® SG65 single-wall carbon nanotubes, manufactured by the CoMoCAT® process, as the starting material fo...

31 Jul 2008

Ondine Acquires License for the Human Therapeutic Use of Gold-Nanoparticle Photosensitizer

Ondine Biopharma Corporation, a medical technology company developing photodisinfection-based products, today announced that it has acquired an exclusive license for the human therapeutic use of a gold-nanoparticle photo...

31 Jul 2008