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SVTC Technologies Announces Expansion of Analytical Services Capabilities

SVTC Technologies, a leading independent company providing development and commercialization services for silicon-based technologies, today announced an expansion of its Analytical Services capabilities to encompass mark...

From SVTC Technologies 9 Mar 2009

Company to Develop Thin Film Version of BioBacksheet Due to Growing Interest From Thin Film Solar Manufacturers

BioSolar, Inc. (OTCBB:BSRC), developer of a breakthrough technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources that reduce the cost of photovoltaic solar modules, today announced its plan to expand the company's BioBacksheet™ technology to accommodate copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) and cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film modules.

From BioSolar 9 Mar 2009

AECOM Environment and UCSB Collaborating on New Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative

AECOM Environment and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) are collaborating on the new Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative (SNI) at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. AECOM Environment is the global environmental practice of AECOM, and a leader in environmental health and safety solutions.

9 Mar 2009

Arkema Appoints Hubron as Distributor of Graphistrength Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Products

In 2006, Arkema inaugurated Europe's first plant capable of producing some 20 tonnes per year of multiwall carbon nanotubes, and has built a broad product portfolio for the polymer industry to include the elastomeric, thermoplastic, thermosetting, coating and adhesive sectors.

From Arkema 7 Mar 2009

World's Most Advanced Electron Microscopes for Nanotechnology Research

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.

7 Mar 2009

Particle Measuring Systems Introduces A World Class Particle Sampling System

Particle Measuring Systems announced this week the introduction of the Nano-ID™, a world class particle sampling system providing the capability to selectively size and capture a wide range of ultra-fine and nanopa...

6 Mar 2009

New Way to Greatly Increase Luminescence Efficiency of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical imaging and ot...

6 Mar 2009

Diamond Biosensor for Specific Sequence of DNA with Ultra-high Sensitivity

Hiroshi Uetsuka and Nianjun Yang, the Diamond Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have fabricated vertically aligned nanowire structure with 10 nm lateral spacing on conductive diamond surfaces, and succeeded in highly sensitive detection of DNA (2 pM) using an electrochemical sensor with the nanowire-structured diamond electrodes.

6 Mar 2009

Alnylam Publishes In Vivo Research on Systemic Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced the publication of new data in the journal Molecular Therapy by Alnylam scientists and collaborators from the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

6 Mar 2009

Scientist-Entrepreneurs Honored at Inventors Reception

An antibody with the potential to stop breast cancer in its path. A nanoparticle that can address a side effect of the treatment that hemophiliacs cannot live without. A "quantum dot" with the potential to trea...

6 Mar 2009