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Versatile Platform Offers Multiple Metrology Capabilities in a Single Tool

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology equipment, today announced the launch of its new Lynx(TM) metrology platform at SEMICON West 2008. The Lynx is the industry's fir...

16 Jul 2008

SurModics Licensed Lipid Nanoparticle Technology from PharmaSol

SurModics, Inc., a leading provider of surface modification and drug delivery technologies to the healthcare industry, announced today that its Brookwood Pharmaceuticals subsidiary has licensed lipid nanoparticle technol...

15 Jul 2008

Making Ultra-Small Pure Carbon Crystals from Buckyball Molecule

University of Surrey researchers have found a way to make ultra-small pure carbon crystals entirely formed from the spherical carbon 'buckyball' molecule known as C60. The method used involves mixing two liquids ...

15 Jul 2008

Principles Behind Stability and Electronic Properties of Tiny Gold Nanoclusters

A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold. The study, which confirms the "divide and protect" bonding structure, resulted from the work of researchers at four universities on two continents.

15 Jul 2008

The Ideal Candidates for the Next Generation of Nanoelectronics

Widely regarded as the wonder material of the 21st century, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration have been hailed as the ideal candidates for the next generation of N...

14 Jul 2008

Harnessing the Solar Spectrum using InN-Based Nanostructures

Magnolia Optical Technologies announced that it is collaborating with Dr. Roger Welser of the Kopin Corporation in developing indium nitride (InN)-based quantum dot solar cells for NASA and Defense applications. &ldqu...

12 Jul 2008

Three Additional Languages are Available on Nano Risk Framework

In an effort to expand the global accessibility of the Nano Risk Framework, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and DuPont have released translations of the Framework in three additional languages - Mandarin, French and Spanish. (The Framework executive summary also is available in Portuguese.)

11 Jul 2008