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Advanced Diamond Technologies Closes Series C Round of Financing

Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), a Romeoville, Illinois-based company which converts natural gas into diamond, today announces the close of its Series C round of financing. The Series C round was $3.5 million a...

28 Jul 2009

World's Largest Database with Fully Identified Inorganic Crystal Structures

FIZ Karlsruhe offers ICSD, the world's largest database with fully identified inorganic crystal structures / evaluated data of unique quality / customized access options and new web presence with cutting-edge search ...

28 Jul 2009

Solterra Renewable Technologies Signs Worldwide Licensing Agreement with University of Arizona

Hague Corp.'s (OTC Bulletin Board: HGUE.OB), wholly owned subsidiary Solterra Renewable Technologies today announced an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with the University of Arizona for the patented, intelle...

27 Jul 2009

Oxford Scientists Create Transparent Form of Aluminium

Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Develop New Technique to Make Movie of Bacteria Infecting Living Host

Researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to make a movie of bacteria infecting their living host.

27 Jul 2009

IBM Fellow Recognized for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Magnetism

IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Magnetism award and the Louis Neel Medal for his pioneering work and fundamental contributions to the development of spintronic nano-materials and nano-devices for magnetic sensing, memory and logic devices.

27 Jul 2009

Revolutionizing Printing Technology through Nanotechnology

With nanoparticulate functional materials and innovative printing pro-cesses, researchers from BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Darmstadt Technical University are revolutionizing printing technology.

27 Jul 2009

BNC Signs Largest Contract to Date with Major Chemical Company

The specialist product development consultancy, Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) is pleased to announce that it has recently signed its largest contract to date with a major chemical company. BNC has secured this contract as a result of unique intellectual property developed at its partner institutions of Imperial College and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

From Bio Nano Consulting 27 Jul 2009

Nanodiamond-Insulin Clusters Hold Promise for Wound-Healing Applications

Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting infection...

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Combine Two Nanoparticles in One Tiny Package

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package.

27 Jul 2009