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Semiconducting Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes Used for Efficient LEDs and Photovoltaic Devices

The Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanoscience) collaborates together with the University of Hamburg in the development of composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles an...

5 Nov 2008

Arrowhead Providing Update on Majority Owned Nanomaterials Company

Arrowhead Research Corporation's Chief Executive Officer announces an update to stockholders on its majority owned subsidiary, Unidym. Unidym is Arrowhead’s most developed nanomaterials company and a premier...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 4 Nov 2008

Altogen Biosystems Launches Novel Nanoparticle-Based Transfection Reagent

Altogen Biosystems announced launch of novel Nanoparticle-based transfection reagent for use in laboratories and research facilities for animal testing. Transfection is one of the major laboratory methods used to introdu...

4 Nov 2008

Uniting Nanoparticle and Thin Film Drug Delivery Technologies

MonoSol Rx, the developers of PharmFilm(R) technology and a drug delivery company specializing in dissolving thin film pharmaceutical products, and Midatech Group Ltd, a world leader in the production and application of synthetically produced nanoparticles, announced today a partnership to develop new drug formulations combining biocompatible nanocells and PharmFilm delivery technologies.

4 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss ORION Helium-Ion-Microscope Receives Prestigious R+D 100 Award

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, was honored recently with a prestigious R+D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products i...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 4 Nov 2008

New Method to Measure How Strain Affects Thin Films of Silicon

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics. Silicon is the ind...

4 Nov 2008

NIMP Get Extended Capabilities for Nano-Structured Thin Film Deposition

Surrey NanoSystems will be extending the possibilities of research into thin film deposition following a sputtering tool order from the Low Dimensional Systems Laboratory of Romania's National Institute of Materials ...

4 Nov 2008

World Nanomagnetics Market Revenues to Reach $16.4 Billion by 2012

World Nanomagnetics market was an estimated US $7.6 billion in 2007 and revenues are projected to reach US$16.4 billion by the end of the year 2012. United States currently leads the global market accounting for an estim...

From Global Industry Analysts 3 Nov 2008

Nano Device Providing New Methods of Characterizing Torque-Generating Molecules and DNA Strands

Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire. This dev...

3 Nov 2008

Technology to Enable Low Cost Large-Scale Manufacture of More Efficient Solar Panels

Hague Corp, a publicly traded resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that on September 24, 2008 Hague signed a binding letter of intent to purchase all of the assets of Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. The agreement between Hague and Solterra requires Hague to fund Solterra a total of five million US dollars within sixty days of signing a final Asset Purchase Agreement.

From Solterra Renewable Technologies 1 Nov 2008