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Report Identifies Trends and Opportunities in CIGS Photovoltaic Materials

There will be setbacks but according to a just-published report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based here, CIGS -- a photovoltaic material technology made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium -- will fulfill it...

29 Jan 2009

Creating Large-Scale Graphene Films using Water Lilies as Inspiration

In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. But in order to construct new materials and devices, researchers first ...

29 Jan 2009

World's Leading Nanomanufacturing Technology Solutions Provider Urges Quick Action on President Obama's Reinvestment Plan

Applied Materials, the world's leading nanomanufacturing technology solutions provider, announced that its president and CEO Mike Splinter met with President Obama and CEOs of several of America's largest compani...

28 Jan 2009

NanoDynamics Win Contract to Develop SOFC System for UAV

NanoDynamics, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, NanoDynamics Energy, has received a one-year, $1.78 million grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop an innovative solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system tha...

28 Jan 2009

Tegal Receives Order for DRIE 3200 Multi-Module Cluster Tool from High Volume Manufacturer of MEMS Sensors

Tegal Corporation (Nasdaq:TGAL), a leading designer and manufacturer of DRIE, plasma etch, and deposition systems used in the production of MEMS, power semiconductor, and optoelectronic devices, announced today that the Company received an order for a Tegal DRIE 3200 multi-module cluster tool from a high volume manufacturer of MEMS sensors.

From Collabrx, Inc. 27 Jan 2009

University of California President Appointes Paul Alivisatos Interim Director of Berkeley Laboratory

University of California President Mark G. Yudof today (Jan. 22) appointed Paul Alivisatos interim director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the university. Alivisatos will replace Steve Chu, former director of the laboratory, who was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Energy on Jan. 21.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 27 Jan 2009

Bayer MaterialScience Begins Construction of New Facility for Carbon Nanotube Production

Bayer MaterialScience has begun work on the construction of a new facility for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in Chempark Leverkusen. The new plant will have a capacity of 200 tons/year, making it the largest of its kind in the world. The company is to invest around EUR 22 million in the planning, development and construction of the plant, which will create 20 new jobs.

From Covestro AG 26 Jan 2009

New Catalyst Could Make Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells Feasible

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible.

25 Jan 2009

Enable IPC Corporation Releases Timeline of Progress on its Technologies

Enable IPC Corporation (Pink Sheets: EIPC) today released a timeline of progress on its technologies. The information, hosted on the company's website, details the progress made to date on its two breakthrough techno...

22 Jan 2009

Scientists Discover New Way to Produce Hydrogen using Aluminum Atoms

Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important because they demonstrate that it is the geometries of these aluminum clusters, rather than solely their electronic properties, that govern the proximity of the clusters' exposed active sites.

22 Jan 2009