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Azaya Therapeutics Awarded Patent for Novel Nanotechnology Platform

Azaya Therapeutics has been granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Azaya's novel PSL nanotechnology platform. The PSL technology allows for the consistent loading, sizing and stabilizing of ac...

14 Mar 2007

World's First Manufacturing Facility for Printed Semiconductor-Based Optoelectronic Sensors

Nanoident Technologies AG has announced it has opened the world's first manufacturing facility for the delivery of printed Semiconductor-based optoelectronics. The Nanoident Organic Fab (OFAB) GmbH, located in Linz, ...

14 Mar 2007

Sea Creatures Guide Sensor Design Created from a Microporous Silicon

The three-dimensional shells of tiny ocean creatures could provide the foundation for novel electronic devices, including gas sensors able to detect pollution faster and more efficiently than conventional devices. Usi...

14 Mar 2007

Nanotube-Based Probes for Electrochemical and Biochemical Sensing

Investigating the composition and behavior of microscale environments, including those within living cells, could become easier and more precise with nanoelectrodes being developed at the University of Illinois. &quo...

14 Mar 2007

Gold Nanorods Self-Assemble into Rings

Rod-shaped nanocrystals normally arrange themselves parallel to each other. Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas now report in the journal Angewandte Chemie completely unexpected behavior of nano-objects: the...

14 Mar 2007

Outstanding Women Well Represented in Nanotechnology in Australia

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Australia’s newest technology frontier is well-populated by outstanding women. Nanotechnology – the development of new products and processes based on ph...

8 Mar 2007

Applied Materials to Deliver World's First Gen 8.5 Thin Film Solar Production Line

Applied Materials has announced that it has been selected by Moser Baer India Limited to develop and install in New Delhi, India, the world’s first Generation (Gen) 8.5 Thin Film Solar Module Production Line. This ...

From Applied Materials Inc. 6 Mar 2007

Cambridge Scientists Produce Live Video Showing How Carbon Nanotubes Form

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoparticle Gene Therapy Approach for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders

UK HealthCare researcher David Yurek was recently awarded $66,000 by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) under the foundation’s Rapid Response Innovation Awards program. The goal of th...

6 Mar 2007

New Computer Modeling Could Aid Design of Nanomaterials

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, offering insights that could...

6 Mar 2007