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Cleaning Solutions for 45nm Wafers

Potential solutions are starting to emerge for preparing wafers for manufacturing at and beyond the 45 nm technology generation, technologists indicated at a recent industry meeting organized by SEMATECH. The 2007 Sur...

21 May 2007

New Method Allows a Self-Assembled Molecular Nanolayer to Become a Powerful Nanoglue

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don't normally stick together. The team's adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could imp...

18 May 2007

Chemists Use Nanotechnology to Penetrate Plant Cell Walls

A team of Iowa State University plant scientists and materials chemists have successfully used nanotechnology to penetrate plant cell walls and simultaneously deliver a gene and a chemical that triggers its expression wi...

18 May 2007

Official Opening of Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials

U.S. Congressman Timothy Bishop and Patricia Dehmer, DOE’s Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, will officially open Brookhaven Lab’s new Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), one of ...

18 May 2007

Penn Physicists Create Low-Density Aerogels Made from Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density aerogels made from carbon nanotubes, CNTs, that are capable of supporting 8,000 times their own weight. The new material also combines the strength a...

18 May 2007

Veeco Ship Surface Profiler to Photovoltaic Module Manufacturer

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading supplier of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today announced the sale and shipment of its new Dektak(R) 150 Surface Profiler to PrimeStar Solar, an emerging manufacturer of ...

18 May 2007

Nanotechnology Delivers Targeted Drug to Plant Cells

17 May 2007

Nanoglue Bonds Materials That Don't Normally Stick

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don’t normally stick together. The team’s adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could...

17 May 2007

Consumer Products Using Nanotechnology Double, from 212 to 475

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufactur...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 16 May 2007

Applied Materials Makes Gains in Strain Engineering for Faster Transistors

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced the Applied Producer® Celera™ PECVD(1), a significant advancement in strain engineering technology that achieves the stress levels required for manufacturing faster trans...

From Applied Materials Inc. 16 May 2007