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NexPlanar to Start New CMP Pad Manufaturing Unit in Hillsboro

Semiconductor CMP pad technology company NexPlanar will open a new manufacturing facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, by the end of the year for increased production of their technology.

20 Dec 2010

Brown Scientists Find Sound Waves Can Cut Single Walled Nanotubes

A pipefitter knows how to make an exact cut on a metal rod. But it's far harder to imagine getting a precise cut on a carbon nanotube, with a diameter 1/50,000th the thickness of a human hair.

20 Dec 2010

Jochen Feldmann’s Nano-Based Project Receives ERC Grant

The LMU professors Patrick Cramer (Director of LMU’s Genzentrum), Jochen Feldmann (Chair of Photonics and Optoelectronics) and Theodor Hänsch (Chair of Experimental Physics and Director of the Max Planck Insti...

20 Dec 2010

Resolving Whether Electron Transport in Nanostructures Follows Classical or Quantum Mechanical Behavior

Understanding the transport of electrons in nanostructures and biological molecules is crucial to understanding properties such as electrical conductivity or the biochemical behavior of molecules. However, determining wh...

17 Dec 2010

Innovative Nanosensor for Measuring Ultra-Low Concentrations of NO2

Imec and Holst Centre have developed an innovative sensor for measuring ultra-low concentrations of NO2. Such sensors are important for applications that monitor environmental pollution resulting from traffic, and in general, from all combustion motors.

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Two Powerful Anticancer Agents in One Polymer Nanoparticle Producing Substantial Boost in Destroying Tumors

The standard approach to cancer therapy today is to mix and match chemotherapy drugs in order to attack tumors in multiple ways. Now, two separate teams of investigators have demonstrated that using nanoparticles to deli...

17 Dec 2010

Tracking Delivery of Therapeutic Nanoparticle to Breast Tumor

Researchers at Rice University, collaborating with investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine, have used two different types of imaging technologies to track the delivery of a therapeutic nanoparticle to breast tumo...

17 Dec 2010

Research Team Creates "Nanobioconjugate" Drug to Target Brain Tumors

Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With ...

17 Dec 2010

Geometrical Confinement of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in Nanoporous Particles Enhances T1 Contrast

A porous, disk-shaped "nest" for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of cancer if the results of research led by investigators at Rice University are any in...

17 Dec 2010

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop First Injectable Hydrogel with Variable Stiffness

Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed the first injectable hydrogel system with variable stiffness that can control cell proliferation and differentiation in a two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) cell culture environment.

17 Dec 2010

Nanomaterials News

NexPlanar to Start New CMP Pad Manufaturing Unit in Hillsboro

Brown Scientists Find Sound Waves Can Cut Single Walled Nanotubes

Jochen Feldmann’s Nano-Based Project Receives ERC Grant

Resolving Whether Electron Transport in Nanostructures Follows Classical or Quantum Mechanical Behavior

Innovative Nanosensor for Measuring Ultra-Low Concentrations of NO2

Two Powerful Anticancer Agents in One Polymer Nanoparticle Producing Substantial Boost in Destroying Tumors

Tracking Delivery of Therapeutic Nanoparticle to Breast Tumor

Research Team Creates "Nanobioconjugate" Drug to Target Brain Tumors

Geometrical Confinement of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in Nanoporous Particles Enhances T1 Contrast

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop First Injectable Hydrogel with Variable Stiffness

Novel Semiconductor Born from Graphene and Glass

3D SiOx-Embedded Porous Carbon Nanofiber Hosts for Dendrite-Free Lithium Batteries

Novel Liquid Crystal Process Unlocks High-Purity Carbon Nanotubes for Motor Applications

Rapid Biomimetic Nanovaccine for Personalized Cancer Therapy

Biodegradable Polymers for Targeted Body Heating

PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

Breaking Barriers in Thin-Film Deposition with ATLANT 3D’s DALP Technology

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