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Enduro Extends License Term for Integran’s Nanocrystalline Cobalt Electroplating Process

PTC Alliance’s subsidiary, Enduro Industries has extended its license exclusivity term for Nanovate CoP, a nanocrystalline cobalt electroplating process developed by Integran Technologies, in the US market for fluid power by five more years.

From Integran Technologies Inc. 10 May 2012

Canadian Student Develops Anti-Aging Compound Using Nano-Crystalline Cellulose

Janelle Tam, a student from the Waterloo Collegiate Institute, has won the first prize in the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada for her discovery of a disease-fighting, anti-oxidant compound utilizing nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).

10 May 2012

KIT Creates Pentamode Metamaterials Using New Nanostructuring Techniques

A team of researchers headed by Martin Wegener, a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has created a prototype of a pentamode metamaterial, a stable crystalline metafluid, paving the way to realize several 3D transformation acoustics ideas such as novel loudspeaker concepts, acoustic prisms and inaudibility cloaks.

10 May 2012

New Graphene Quilt Cooling Technique for High-Power Semiconductor Devices

A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.

From University of California at Riverside 10 May 2012

Researchers Improve Fluorescent Efficiency of Quantum Dots Using Formic Acid

A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.

10 May 2012

New Report Predicts Nanocrystals Will Outperform Nanocarriers in Drug Delivery

Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery: Global Market for Nanocrystals’ to its database.

From Research and Markets 10 May 2012

Applied Nanotech Holdings Unveils CNT-Reinforced Structural Adhesive

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc., a global leader in nanotechnology, is pleased to announce that it has unveiled the new product CNTstix™, an ultra-strong carbon-nanotube reinforced adhesive for structural applicati...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 8 May 2012

Call for Abstracts Opens for the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference in Madrid, September 2012

Madrid (Spain) will host the 13th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT 2012) from the 10th until the 14th of September 2012. This high-level scientific meeting aims to present a broad ...

8 May 2012

US Patent Office Grants Key Patent to NaturalNano

NaturalNano has declared the issuance of a key patent application by the US Patent & Trademark Office. The patent covers the utilization of the company’s proprietary Halloysite nanotubes as an essential reinforcing ingredient to improve the performance properties of polymeric composite materials such as nano-particle fillers.

8 May 2012