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HelioVolt and NREL Wins R+D 100 Award for Work in Thin Film PV Systems

HelioVolt Corporation, a producer of highly-efficient thin film solar energy products, today announced that it has garnered an R&D 100 Award from Research & Development (R&D) Magazine for work performed in pa...

24 Jul 2008

Exhibition Envisages Future of Nanoparticles

New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 4 at the gallery @ calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.

24 Jul 2008

New Centre to Study Possible Health Effects of Human Exposure to Nanoparticles

The Health Protection Agency has set up a new centre to study the possible health effects of human exposure to nanoparticles. The National Nanotoxicology Research Centre (NNRC) is being developed at the Agency’s Ce...

24 Jul 2008

Patent Covers Three Main Methods of Associating Nanoparticles with Filter Media

Applied Nanoscience Inc., a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, today announced that it has been issued a patent in New Zealand for its core technology platform encompassing "Filtering Devices Incor...

24 Jul 2008

Transistors From Networks of Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays and an electronic skin to cover an entire aircraft to monitor crack formation.

24 Jul 2008

Carbon Nanotubes with Nanoscopic Paraffin Coating Form Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate the self-cleaning effect of the lotus blossom. A researc...

23 Jul 2008

CN Probes Executed Agreement with Leading MEMS Foundry

CN Probes, an emerging nanotech solutions provider, has executed an agreement with a leading MEMS Foundry (contract manufacturer). This agreement puts CN Probes closer to ramping up full-scale production and launch of CN...

23 Jul 2008

Former EPA Official Highlights Shortcomings of Current Federal Nanotechnology Oversight

Nanotechnology will significantly change virtually every facet of the way we live. The next president has the opportunity to shape these changes and to ensure that nanotechnology's benefits will be maximized and its ...

23 Jul 2008

New Manufacturing Center will Supplement Existing Operations for Display and Solar in US and Germany

Today, Applied Materials held a groundbreaking for an expansion project of its Tainan Manufacturing Center. This expansion, with a total investment estimated at around US$17 million, will increase the company's ability to meet the demand for both its AKT flat panel display equipment and SunFabTM Thin Film Solar manufacturing equipment. The new facility is expected to be completed by the middle of next year.

23 Jul 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Reduce Drug Delivery Time from Days to Hours

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a technique that has the potential to deliver cancer-fighting drugs to diseased areas within hours, as opposed to the two days it currently takes for existing...

23 Jul 2008