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NIOSH Offers Guidance for Worker Medical Screening and Hazard Surveillance Pertaining to Engineered Nanoparticles

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) today issued interim guidance for medical screening and hazard surveillance for workers potentially exposed to engineered nanoparticles. The NIOSH rec...

From NIOSH 20 Feb 2009

Scientists Discover Magnetic Nanoparticles that Shrink When Heated

Materials typically expand when they are heated, which is why the concrete slabs in sidewalks can buckle on a hot day. Now, Kenichi Kato of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima and colleagues at Saga University and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have identified several materials that defy this common rule of thumb.

19 Feb 2009

Integran Technologies to Develop In-Field Repair Process Using Nanocrystalline Metals

Integran Technologies Inc., a world leader in the development and commercialization of advanced metallurgical nano-technologies, has announced today that it has entered into a collaborative research agreement with TransC...

19 Feb 2009

Nanotechnology and the Food Industry - The Pros and Cons of Nanofoods

Nanotechnology has the potential to improve the foods we eat, making them tastier, healthier and more nutritious. Yet little is known about how nanoparticles behave in the body, or what kind of toxic effects they could have.

19 Feb 2009

Specialist in Thin Film Thermoelectrics Introduces World's First Thermoharvester-Driven Wireless Sensor Node

Micropelt GmbH, Freiburg, Germany-based specialist in thin film thermoelectrics, announces immediate commercial availability of the world's first thermo-powered wireless sensor system, the TE-Power NODE.

19 Feb 2009

New Technique May Revolutionize Microelectronic Storage and Photovoltaics

Like many creative but essentially conservative scientists, Tom Russell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in more than 30 years of polymer science research, would rarely use the term "truly transformative&...

19 Feb 2009

CVD Equipment Corporation Introduces EasyTube Systems for Solar and Energy

CVD Equipment Corporation (Nasdaq: CVV) announces the introduction of a family of EasyTube™ Systems with a focus on Quality Control and Research & Development for next generation process development in the Sola...

From CVD Equipment Corporation 19 Feb 2009

Innovative Method of Self-Assembling Nanoscale Elements Open Doors to Dramatic Improvements in Data Storage Capacity

An innovative and easily implemented technique in which nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces could soon open doors to dramatic improvements in the data storage capacity of electronic media, according to scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst).

19 Feb 2009

Duralor Perfected Cubic Boron Nitride Composite Coatings for Metal Cutting Tools

Following seven years of intensive research and development, Duralor has perfected cubic boron nitride (cBN) composite coatings for metal cutting tools and is now marketing those coatings as TuffTek® to tool makers. ...

19 Feb 2009

Atomic-Sized One-Stop Shop for Nanoelectronics

University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically important devices as high-density memory devices and - most importantly - transistors and computer processors.

19 Feb 2009