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Researchers Testing New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers are testing a new way to kill cancer cells selectively by attaching cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon tubes that heat up when exposed to near-infrared light. Biomedical scientists at UT Southwestern...

17 Jun 2008

XsunX Secures Key Material for High Efficiency Tandem Solar Cell Production

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has secured supply of Germane gas required for its thin film deposition process for the manufacture of solar panels. The Germane, manufactured by Voltaix, LLC, is a key material for production of high efficiency tandem solar cells. XsunX is refurbishing an existing 90,000 sq. ft. building, located in Wood Village, near Portland, Oregon, to house its new multi-megawatt integrated TFPV manufacturing operations.

16 Jun 2008

A Potential Hydrogen Storage Material

An international research team led by Swedish Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Uppsala University, has demonstrated an atomistic mechanism of hydrogen release in magnesium nanoparticles - a potential hydrogen storage material. Th...

16 Jun 2008

Nanoparticles Made from Pieces of Tumor Cells

Using nanoparticles made from pieces of tumor cells, investigators from Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, have developed a new type of anticancer agent that appears to stop tumor cell growth and proliferatio...

16 Jun 2008

Growing Use of Nanotechnology Spurs Research into Nanomaterials and Nanoparticle Risks

Potential risks from the use of nanomaterials will be explored by three Arizona State University engineering faculty in a project supported by a $400,000 grant from the U.S.Department of Energy Office of Biological and E...

16 Jun 2008

Nanotube Reinforced Material Produces Denser Bone Tissue

In the first study of its kind, bioengineers and bioscientists at Rice University and Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, have shown they can grow denser bone tissue by sprinkling stick-like nanoparticles throug...

16 Jun 2008

New Plant for Large Scale Production of Solar Panels

Today the launch of Skypoint Solar, Inc. was announced, a large-scale, solar panel manufacturing company, whose business model includes the creation of solar power parks for utility-scale electricity generation. The Comp...

16 Jun 2008

NanoExplorers from High Schools to Sepend Their Summer Learning About Nanotechnology

The UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute was launched in September 2001 and in the years since then has inspired more than 80 young minds to spend their summers studying nanotechnology. This year alone there a...

13 Jun 2008

Fairfax County Middle School Science Selects MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids to Teach School Students About Nanotechnology

Bourne Research LLC today announced that Fairfax County Middle School Science has selected the award-winning book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids, to provide background knowledge on nanotechnology for their middle scho...

12 Jun 2008

Quantum Dot Distribution Agreement Between Nanoco and KISCO

Nanoco Technologies and KISCO Ltd will be shaping the future together with the signing of a distribution agreement appointing KISCO as the exclusive Asian distributor of Nanoco’s advanced quantum dots materials

12 Jun 2008