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Cima NanoTech Selected as a 2008 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum for Advancing the Field of Nanomaterials in Electronic Applications

The World Economic Forum today named 39 visionary companies as Technology Pioneers 2008. Cima NanoTech, Inc., based in St. Paul, Minnesota, has been selected as one of these Technology Pioneers for advancing the field of...

30 Nov 2007

Unidym founder Selected as a Visionary Technology Pioneer for 2008 by the World Economic Forum

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation (Nasdaq:ARWR), announced today that Unidym's founder, Professor George Gruner, has been selected as a visionary Technology Pioneer for 2008 ...

30 Nov 2007

Surrey Nanosystem Appoint US Distributor for Carbon Nanotube Growth Tools

Surrey NanoSystems has appointed Axiom Resources Technologies (AxR) as its US representative. The agreement provides local technical support throughout North America for the company's novel low-temperature carbon nan...

29 Nov 2007

WETSEM Capsule Technology Developer Quantomix Acquired by El-Mul Technologies

El-Mul Technologies, a leading manufacturer of particle detection and field emission components used in nanotechnology instruments, announced today that it has acquired QuantomiX, developer of the innovative WETSEM capsu...

28 Nov 2007

Nanowire Properties Tested, Results Point to Use as Oscillators in Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Nanosensors and Communications Devices

Nanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical “quality factor” at least 10 times higher than reported values for other nanoscale devices such as carbon nanotub...

28 Nov 2007

Model Made of Largest Cellular Particle Crystallised, This May Help to Engineer the Particles for Drug Delivery

Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have modeled the structure of the largest cellular particle ever crystallize...

28 Nov 2007

Nano 50 Award from NASA TechBriefs Goes to NanoDynamics

NanoDynamics Inc. has announced its receipt of a Nano 50™ product award from NASA TechBriefs. The award recognized achievements by the company and its subsidiary, MetaMateria Partners, in employing nanomaterials fo...

28 Nov 2007

Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced that the Department will invest $21.7 million in next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology to help accelerate the widespread use of advanced s...

27 Nov 2007

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III – the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Rese...

27 Nov 2007

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. $$IMAGE$$ The evaporator, still in use...

27 Nov 2007