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Nanotechnology has the Potential to Reshape the Food Packaging Industry

Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in food packaging, raise new safety evaluation challenges for regulators and industry, according to a report released today by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

25 Jun 2008

Big Step Towards Quantum Computer

Post Doc Henrik Ingerslev Jørgensen from the Nano-Science Center, located at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, has come an important step closer to the quantum computer. The journal Nature Ph...

25 Jun 2008

IBM and ETH Zurich Announces Partnership in Nanotechnology

IBM and ETH Zurich, a premiere European science and engineering university, today announced the formation of a partnership in the field of nanotechnology. As part of this collaboration, a new nanotechnology laborator...

25 Jun 2008

Cambridge NanoTech Signs Agreements to Sell and Service ALD Equipments in Asia

Cambridge NanoTech, the world leader in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment for research and industry, today announced that it has signed agreements with Start Science of Beijing, China and CORREMAX International of ...

25 Jun 2008

White Paper Outlines Challenges in Manufacturing High-Purity Ceramic Powders on a Nanoscale

SACHEM has published a white paper titled "Avanta AC"! Advanced Ceramics Solutions as Enablers for Advanced Ceramic Nanopowders" online. This white paper outlines the challenges in manufacturing high-purity ceramic powders on a nanometer scale , as well as the advantages of SACHEM's new line of products.

25 Jun 2008

Innovative Kiyo3x Delivers CD Uniformity of 1 nm Across the Wafer

Lam Research Corporation, a major supplier of semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and services, today introduced the 2300 Versys Kiyo3x conductor etch series.

25 Jun 2008

NanoBio Named One of The Top Biotechnology Companies of 2008

NanoBio Corp. announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceBiotech "Fierce 15" list, designating NanoBio as one of the top biotechnology companies of 2008. The editors of FierceBiotech evaluate...

25 Jun 2008

Novel Microscopy Tool Provides Highest Resolution for Hard X-Rays

The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the world's most powerful x-ray microscopes. ...

25 Jun 2008

Orders Highlight Increasing Interest in Nanocrystalline Diamond Films

Gaining momentum from recent orders and installations, sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, today announced two new orders for its Model 650 hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HFCVD) diamond reactor.

25 Jun 2008

Research Team Advances Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Renewable Energy Solutions

QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, electrode devices, and related technologies and systems for portable power and clean-energy applications, today announced the acquisition of West C...

25 Jun 2008

Nano-Scissors Performing Extremely Precise Surgery

Mechanical engineering Assistant Professor Adela Ben-Yakar at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a laser "microscalpel" that destroys a single cell while leaving nearby cells intact, which could improve the precision of surgeries for cancer, epilepsy and other diseases.

25 Jun 2008