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Unidym Signs Joint Development Agreement for Printable Conductors with Interphases’ Thin-Film Solar Cells

Arrowhead Research Corporation announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, Unidym, Inc., has signed a joint development agreement with InterPhases Research, a developer of novel thin-film solar cell technology. The joi...

3 Aug 2007

A Step Toward Advanced Sensors and Communications

Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise labor...

3 Aug 2007

Conductive Nanowires Created Using Self-assembly on Silicon Chips

A team of researchers from the National Research Council and the University of Albert at the National Institute for Nanotechnology(NINT) have demonstrated an innovative technique for producing very small conductive nano-...

3 Aug 2007

Porphyrin Electron Transfer Reactions Observed At The Molecular Level

Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas su...

3 Aug 2007

Nanowire-Based Microbattery to be Showcased at nanoTX'07

The demand for portable power is skyrocketing as consumer electronics become more sophisticated and multi-functional, but current battery chemistries provide a limited amount of power. Dramatic gains by Enable IPC Corpor...

3 Aug 2007

TEM Control and Image Acquisition Software Available as Open Source Code from FEI

FEI and The Scripps Institute have announced that the Leginon™ software system, an advanced solution for automated control and image acquisition from a transmission electron microscope (TEM), will now be available ...

3 Aug 2007

CNS-UCSB To Host Conference On Occupational Health and Safety in Nanotech Labs and Industries

The National Science Foundation’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS-UCSB), housed at UC Santa Barbara, will host a major conference on health and safety in laboratories and industrial workplaces employing n...

2 Aug 2007

Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead

In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the or...

2 Aug 2007

The Perfect Summer Combination: Beer and Physics

John Page is a leading expert on the use of multiply scattered acoustic waves to study changes in physical systems and the movement of particles through a medium — in this case, bubbles in a glass of beer. He direc...

2 Aug 2007

Department of Defense Awards $1.6 Million for Implantable Biochip Research

The Department of Defense has awarded $1.6 million to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable biochip that could relay vital health informa...

2 Aug 2007

Spintronics, The New Horizon For Electronics

Spintronics has the potential to have as profound an impact on electronics as the development of the transistor had 50 years ago. This exciting and challenging area of nanotechnology will come under the international ...

2 Aug 2007

Nanotechnology Team Discovers How To Turn a Magnet On and Off

An international research team, led by scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), has found a way to switch a material’s magnetic properties from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ and back aga...

2 Aug 2007

Nanoethics Anthology Tackles Full Range of Nanotechnology Issues Facing Society

The Nanoethics Group today announced that it has released a collection of papers that is the first to address both urgent and distant issues related to nanotechnology’s impact on society. Published by John Wiley &a...

2 Aug 2007

Callibration Services for Nanotechnology Metrology Instruments from CEMMNT

The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT) has expanded its measurement, characterisation and design capabilities for industry to provide extensive calibration and test services throug...

2 Aug 2007

Carbon Nanohorns Make Efficient Hydrogen Fuel Storage Units

Hydrogen is a promising alternative to fossil fuels, but the main problem is to encourage its development by finding efficient means of storing it. An international team, co-ordinated by CSIC researcher Javier Bermejo, a...

2 Aug 2007