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IND Allows Sol-Gel to Initiate Phase II Studies with DER45-EV Gel in Rosacea Patients

Sol-Gel Technologies announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged receipt of Sol-Gel's Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for DER45-EV Gel for the topical treatment of ros...

11 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Professor Receives Prestigious Award from European Research Council

Prof. Luisa De Cola from the Department of Interface Physics at Münster University has received an especially prestigious award from the European Research Council (ERC) - the highly distinguished "Advanced Researcher Grant" for 2009.

11 Nov 2009

Experiments with Tiny Diamond Cutting Tool Reveal How Different Materials Respond to Micro-Machining

Xin Ding at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) of A*STAR and co-workers* have improved our understanding of some of the main technical challenges in micro-machining through experiments with a micrometer-sized diamond cutting tool.

10 Nov 2009

High-Resolution Patterns for Miniaturizing Devices can be Achieved Using Modified Fabrication Materials

Zong and co-workers mixed metallic nanoparticles into commercially available resists to make them semimetallic; this enabled the resists to be patterned at a much higher resolution than achieved previously.

10 Nov 2009

Nitrogen Atom-Directed Ortho-Lithiation Aids Preparation of Anti-HIV Drug

Nitrogen heterocycles-chemical compounds formed from a ring of carbon atoms into which nitrogen atoms have been incorporated-are one of the most important classes of organic molecules, and are ubiquitous in both natural and man-made molecules.

10 Nov 2009

The First Material Technology to Enhance the Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, introduces STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture), the first material technology to enhance the safety of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

10 Nov 2009

Engineers Determine Why Transistors Made of Organic Crystals Don't Perform Well

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined why some transistors made of organic crystals don't perform well, yielding ideas about how to make them work better.

10 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology Professor Wins 2009 SES Young Investigator Award

Nanomaterials expert Nikhil Koratkar, professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer, has won the 2009 SES Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Division of Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructures.

10 Nov 2009

Safe Work Australia Council Releases Research Reports on Engineered Nanomaterials

Chair of the Safe Work Australia Council, Mr Tom Phillips AM, today announced the release of two research reports on engineered nanomaterials. These reports were published as part of the Nanotechnology Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program, which is managed by Safe Work Australia for the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.

10 Nov 2009

The Search for Nanoscale Materials that Superconduct

Clemson University is part of a five-year $3 million Air Force Office of Scientific Research award, along with the University of Texas at Dallas and Yale University, to search for nanoscale materials that superconduct to...

10 Nov 2009