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Growing Relationship with ITOCHU Strengthens Auto Opportunity and Opens Door to Solar, Wind Energy Storage Markets

Ener1, Inc. (NASDAQ:HEV), maker of advanced lithium-ion batteries, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ITOCHU Corporation, a highly diversified global trading company that leads the wo...

2 Feb 2009

Research Strategy Focusing on Innovative Solutions for Issues of Future

BASF's research units are its pulsating lifelines. The worldwide Verbund of creative thinkers is constantly producing new ideas and projects, driving forward the company even in economically difficult times. "Th...

2 Feb 2009

Researchers Fabricating Organic Semiconducting Materials With a Little Help from Supercritical CO2

Someday, moving a large, flat-screen TV across the country might be as simple as taking it off the wall, rolling it up and sliding it into a study tube. That's the vision of researchers Christopher Ober and George Malliaras at Cornell University, and Andrew Holmes at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who are fabricating organic semiconducting materials with a little help from supercritical carbon dioxide, or CO2.

2 Feb 2009

Frank Averdung Assumes Position of CEO of SUSS MicroTec

As announced today by SUSS MicroTec Frank Averdung will assume the position of Chief Executive Officer of SUSS MicroTec AG effective starting February 1, 2009. The Company's Supervisory Board appointed Mr. Averdung t...

From SUSS MicroTec AG 2 Feb 2009

Large-Sample AFM with 'Small-Sample' Resolution

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFMs) to the nanoscience community, announced today the release of its Dimension® Icon(TM) AFM. Building upon the world's most utilized large-sample AFM platform, the latest member of Veeco's Dimension product line delivers the highest resolution, best ease-of-use, and fastest time-to-results of any large-sample AFM on the market today.

2 Feb 2009

Samsung Develops World's Highest Density DRAM Chip using Nanotechnology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world's first fou...

30 Jan 2009

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

NEXX Systems Become Member of SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chip-makers, and NEXX Systems, Inc., a leading provider of process equipment for advanced wafer-level packaging applications, today announced that NEXX Systems has become a member of SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program located at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany.

29 Jan 2009

New Way of Making GaN Could Produce LEDs for a Tenth of Current Prices

A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% within five years. Gallium Nitride (GaN), a man-made semiconductor used to make LEDs (light emitting diodes), emits brilliant light but uses very little electricity. Until now high production costs have made GaN lighting too expensive for wide spread use in homes and offices.

28 Jan 2009