Nano Research: USA

BAY AREA TO GET UNIQUE X-RAY MICROSCOPY RESOURCE:

Nano Research: EU

Accord de coopération entre le CNRS et l'Institut national pour la science des matériaux japonais

Les nanosciences, les nanomatériaux et les nanotechnologies sont au cur de cet accord qui permettra de favoriser les échanges de chercheurs et d'informations scientifiques et techniques entre les deux pays. ...read the wave

Nano Debate:

Towards Molecular Nano Weapons in
China vs. U.S. “Unilateral Disarmament”
by Lev Navrozov

On March 5, 2004, the magazine “Howard Lovy’s NanoBot” reported that “a National Nanotechnology Initiative official tried, unsuccessfully, to uninvite Eric Drexler from a conference at the University of South Carolina on ‘imaging and imagining Nanotechnology.’”…read the wave

Nano Electronics: UK

Single-Molecule Logic Proposed

Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University College London in England have devised a scheme for designing logic circuits within individual molecules.

The scheme could eventually be used to produce small, fast computers and to store large amounts of data in very small spaces. The method could also be modified to make sensors for detecting individual molecules ...read the wave

NeoPhotonics, a developer of optical components using nano-materials-based processes, closed a second round of funding by raising more than $40 million from Oak Investment Partners and Institutional Venture Partners, who co-led the round, with participation from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ATA Ventures, Rockport Capital Partners, Harris & Harris Group, Ventana Global Capital, Linkmore Limited and Alps Information Technology Fund. It brings total funding in Neophotonics to $100 million….read the wave

NanoBusiness Alliance Co-Founder Presents Bush Administration With Cutting Edge Cornell Nanotech Project
–The World’s Smallest White House

Washington DC - No, it's not a new Hollywood blockbuster: Cornell University professors have made a White House 1/100,000 the size of the original to honor President Bush's recent signing of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act.

Cornell University alumnus and NanoBusiness Alliance Co-Founder Josh Wolfe will present a lucite encased paperweight containing a chip with a lithograph of The White House as a gift to Dr. John H. Marburger, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), at a meeting of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which Marburger also co-chairs...read the wave

Nano Products:

Nano-Hive version 1.0.0 for win32-x86 platforms is now available for download.

There's also been some progress at the website - a new Projects & Contribution section was added where you can learn about upcoming Nano-Hive projects like the grid-computing clients, Nano-Wars, how you can be involved with them, and other ways to contribute to Nano-Hive.

Lastly, Nano-Hive Corporate Services are now available, providing
· Corporate licensing alternatives for non-GPL users and integrators of Nano-Hive
· Service contracts
· Consulting and custom development

Visit www.nano-hive.org to learn more. Nano-Hive's open source development and distributions are hosted at ...read the wave

In the home, ultrasonic humidifiers are used to raise humidity, reduce static electricity and ease discomfort from the common cold or cough. In the lab, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using the devices to make complex nanocomposite materials that could prove useful as catalysts in applications ranging from refining petroleum to making pharmaceuticals. The procedure is both simple and efficient….read the wave

Author explains how diamonds could bring end to silicon era by Scott Foster

COOL CHIPS plc ON TARGET FOR COOLING POWER

Scientists at the company’s in-house research facility report that the devices, consisting of two wafer-like surfaces separated by a nanoscale gap, demonstrate work functions of 0.9 eV (electron volt) or better. …read the wave

Nano Medicine: India

Seizing the nano edge

It’s a project to turn science fiction into futuristic reality. At Velbionanotech, a little-known Bangalore-based company, researchers are working on pathbreaking projects that — if successful — might dramatically reduce the need for heart surgery or for kidney stone operations.

What’s the frontier technology Velbionanotech is developing? It’s working on designing nanochips which will deliver a drug exactly to the affected area in the body.
So, one project aims to develop a chip which when injected into the body will head towards the kidney and remove stones. Another — even more…read the move

Nano News: Russia courtesy of Nano News Net

Career in NanoScience and NanoBusiness for Russian Youth!

Russian Youth Science Society (www.mno.ru), Institute of Nanotechnology of International Conversion Fund (www.nanotech.ru), and Nanotech Information Services Ltd (www.nanobot.ru) invite students, graduates and young scientists to take part in research activities of ICF Institute of Nanotechnology. Institute staff has a lot of unique amazing opportunities:...read the wave

Nano Products: Russia courtesy of Nano News Net

Russian company to launch native nanoproduct: «RVS» repair and restoration composition.

With use of nanotechnology methods, Russian nanotechnology concern Nanoindustry (www.nanotech.ru) launched commercial unique repair and restoration composition, called RVS (Remontno-Vosstanovitelny Sostav).

This composition provides self-assembly of special nanoparticles to modified high-carbon ferrosilicate protective layer (MHPL) 1-15 micrometers thick over intensive friction areas of metallic surfaces....read the wave

Nano News: Russia courtesy of Nano News Net

Russian Competition of youth projects on domestic MNT development.

Nano News: Iran

NanoTech news from Iran.

Nano Electronics: Japan

Toshiba, Rambus Ink Serial Link Cell Deal

Together with methods for placing wires in arrays and multilayers, the technique promises to create complesystems at the nanoscale….read the wave

Nano products:

Nanotechnology is hot: For mundane products

The technology is now used to strengthen coatings, plastics, paints. By Harold Brubaker

Type of Buckyball Shown To Cause Brain Damage In Fish

Researchers have found that a type of buckyball—a carbon nanoparticle that shows promise for electronic, commercial and pharmaceutical uses — can cause significant brain damage in fish.

The small preliminary study, the first to demonstrate that nanoparticles can cause toxic effects in an aquatic species, could point to potential risks in people exposed to the particles, they say. The study was described today at the 227th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society
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Nano Products :

Composite Fibers With Carbon Nanotubes Offer Improved Properties

A new class of fibers Strong and versatile carbon nanotubes are finding new applications in improving conventional polymer-based fibers and films. For example, composite fibers made from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and polyacrylonitrile – a carbon fiber precursor – are stronger, stiffer and shrink less than standard fibers….read the wave

Buckyballs, a spherical form of carbon discovered in 1985 and an important material in the new field of nanotechnology, can cause extensive brain damage in fish, according to research presented yesterday at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif.

Eva Oberdörster, an environmental toxicologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said the buckyballs also altered the behavior of genes in liver cells of the juvenile largemouth bass she studied….read the wave

The first study to look at the health effects of microscopic, manufactured "nanoparticles" on aquatic animals has found troubling evidence that the molecules -- which scientists are starting to make for research and industry -- can trigger organ damage and other toxic effects.

At modest concentrations in aquarium water, the minuscule particles -- which are made of carbon atoms and are less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair -- triggered damaging…read the wave

Researchers from Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have built a simple molecular machine from DNA that can bind to and release single molecules of a specific type of protein.

The DNA hand can be made to select any of many types of proteins, and could eventually be used to construct materials or machines molecule-by-molecule.
The researchers used DNA branch migration, a method that allows a DNA nanostructure to switch…read the wave

In the pilot study, 90 Coriell CEPH DNA samples were genotyped using 130 TaqMan Assay-By-Design and Assay-On-Demand SNP detection assays. The SNP assays were transferred from microplates into the Living Chip using BioTrove's proprietary reformatting technology. A flat block cycler was used to perform PCR and assay results were detected using a slide scanner
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Why the feds fear nanobots

Nano Research: EU

Europe needs to close gap with United States in top level research

The report points out that the volume of basic research being carried out in Europe is similar to that of the United States, but that there is “probably a significant shortfall in overall quality and certainly a major shortfall in its overall impact”. This shortfall is “particularly noticeable in the standing of the highest quality research teams.”…read the wave

Nano Biz: USA

High-Tech Nanomanufacturing Facility Locates in Rural Virginia; Luna Innovations Nanomaterials Division Selects Danville

Discovered a few years ago, carbon nanofoam is the fifth known allotrope of carbon,the others being graphite, diamond, fullerene (e.g., C-60 molecules), and carbon nanotubes. The foam is, along with aerogel, one of the lightest known solid substances (with a density of ~2 mg/cm^3). But at this week's APS March Meeting in Montreal, physicists announced an even more interesting property: though made
entirely from carbon atoms that are normally considered nonmagnetic, the foam nevertheless can act like a ferromagnet....read the wave

The blades of this "nanograss" can be selectively electrified so as to move the drop from place to place or to cause it to lose its spherical shape and to wet the surface below. Lucent scientist ...read the wave

The European Commission has approved an Integrated Project (PACE) that will create the foundation for a new generation of embedded information technology using programmable, self- assembling artificial cells. The first workshop for PACE will take place in Venice, April 5-8, which is the site of the associated new European Center for Living Technology.

Life is all about real-world information processing, but the gap between computers and living systems is still formidable. The European Commission has approved an Integrated Project (PACE, total volume 8.5 M) that will create the foundation for a new generation of embedded information technology using programmable, self-assembling artificial cells. …read the wave

Software Tools: USA

Silicon Valley 101: Website provides tools to teach high-technology entrepreneurship

Called the STVP Educators Corner, the website is a creation of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), an entrepreneurship education and research center within the School of Engineering. It includes videotaped interviews with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Stanford course materials, case studies, and links to organizations, events and journals.

``Our goal is to teach students the skills they need to be entrepreneurial leaders both in new ventures and existing organizations,`` says STVP Executive Director Tina Seelig. ``It is not enough for…read the wave

The rotors are made in tiny molds and then loosed onto a liquid-air interface, where they are guided into place and set spinning by electromagnets positioned beneath the interface. By changing the magnet activity, the overlying rotors can be put into new arrangements for carrying out new a new job.The rotors are at the millimeter scale but can be made much smaller.
(see figure at http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/2004/212.htm )

Unlike conventional machines the rotor arrays have no fixed axles and are virtually friction free. (Grzybowski et al., Applied Physics Letters, 8 March 2004,

Contact Bartosz Grzybowski, grzybor@northwestern.edu
or George Whitesides gwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

No team competing in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's high-tech robot race last weekend in Southern California was able to claim the $1 million prize. A washingtonpost.com video crew tracked a team from Northern Virginia as it built, tested and -- finally -- launched a robotic vehicle in the DARPA race.
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L'axe principal de recherche de SPINTEC concerne les mémoires magnétiques à accès aléatoire (Magnetic Random Access Memory - MRAM). Ces mémoires du futur sont dotées de propriétés exceptionnelles : non volatiles, elles permettent la sauvegarde des données en absence d'alimentation. Plus rapides, plus denses et insensibles aux rayonnements ionisants, elles trouvent leurs premières applications dans le domaine des appareils nomades (assistants personnels, appareils photos, etc.). A moyen terme, elles pourraient remplacer les mémoires vives des ordinateurs et devenir une mémoire « universelle …read the wave

A rare opportunity to learn from world-class scientists about using nature as model for, and provider of, nano scale-up technology.

Biomimetics and molecular self-assembly are rightly attracting interest from many industries, with applications in electronics, energy, material sciences and medicine to name but a few. Learning from nature we can improve biocompatability, produce more complex electronic circuits, engineer material surfaces to have many different properties, efficiently harvest energy from natural light and provide locomotion and motility to nanoscale objects and mechanisms….read the wave

They are the most complex molecular machines built yet, consisting of a platform flanked by three rings that thread through three vertical rods.

The force of an acid-base reaction is used to power the "elevator". Experts say the force produced by the movement of the platform itself is larger than forces produced by previous 'nanoshuttles' - single rings that moved up and down a rod. The elevators could be used to tightly control chemical reactions, or as drug-delivery systems....read the wave

BERKELEY – A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered deep in an abandoned iron mine a microbe that produces willowy crystalline structures only nanometers across and longer than most man-made nanostructures.

The discovery of these microscopic crystals may open a broad new window to human understanding of biomineralization, the same process that produces bone, teeth and shell, some of nature's toughest and most intriguing biological materials….read the wave

De TU Delft gaat in het kader van een nieuwe onderzoekstrategie haar speerpunten ‘Nanotechnology’, ‘ICT’ en ‘Mechatronics and Microsystems’ versterken.

ULTRA-LOW FRICTION, WITHOUT LUBRICANTS

The dragging of a force microscope tip across the surface atoms of a sample (size regime of one-billionth meter) is not unlike the motion of underground tectonic blocks (size scale of tens of thousands of meters): in both cases the sideways motion…read the wave

What’s new in Cosmetic R&D

Nanoparticles, microcapsules and nanoemulsion technologies are the desired delivery systems for cosmeceuticals, color cosmetics and personal care products.

Europe is lacking in good nanotechnology infrastructure, thinks Ottilia Saxl

mPhase and Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs To Develop Next-Generation Nanotech Power Cell Batteries.

First-of-its kind "Smart Battery" technology will address power needs in defense, industrial and consumer electronics

EV Group Experiences Surge of Asia-based Orders For Nanotechnology Development

EV Group Selected for Its Technology Leadership of MEMS-based and Nanoimprint Lithography Equipment Applications

ITRI Selects SUSS MicroTec Bonder Package To Expand Its MEMS and Nanotechnology Program

Commercial Manufacturing Agreement AEA Technology QSA’s Auriga Medical™ to manufacture BrachySil™

Auriga Medical™ is the new brand name for products and services in nuclear medicine and radiation therapy within AEA Technology QSA, a subsidiary of AEA Technology plc (LSE:AAT.L).QSA is a world leader specializing in the supply of high quality and high performance radiation source products

Under the terms of the agreement...read the wave

The shortest time yet measured, and the most sensitive set of scales

Ultra-fast shocks scramble cells.
Powerful electrical pulses might zap tumours. By HELEN PEARSON

U.S. Semiconductor Industry Expands Multi-Million Dollar University Research Program for Future Technologies; UCLA to Lead Newest Research Focus Center on Nanoscale Materials

"SIA has been a strong advocate for increased funding for research in physical sciences and engineering, particularly as technological advances become more difficult as we approach the physical limits of our current chip making processes," said George Scalise, Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) President. "If our society is to continue to enjoy the productivity enhancements and consumer benefits from information technology, Congress needs to add $20 million in funding for fiscal year 2005 to match the industry's $20 million contribution for this university research program."...read the wave

Plastic Logic takes leadership role in €24Mn EU project on plastic electronics for RFID

Nano News: In German

Synchrotronstrahlung enthüllt "Strickmuster" ultradünner Schichten

Texas ranks fifth for nanotech, microsystems

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 13 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies. The Company has 13,798,845 common shares outstanding.

More Biz:

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP SELLS INTEREST IN NANOGRAM DEVICES CORPORATION

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. announced today that, along with the rest of the shareholders in privately owned Nanogram Devices Corporation, it has sold its interest in that company to Wilson GreatBatch Technologies, Inc. Harris & Harris Group owned approximately a five percent fully diluted interest in Nanogram
Devices Corporation, which it purchased in early 2003, for a total of $813,210, and which it valued at cost in the most recent valuation of its portfolio, as of December 31, 2003. Harris & Harris Group will receive gross proceeds of approximately $2,750,000 in the sale.

Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 13 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies. The Company has 13,798,845 common shares outstanding.
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Antenna Group Signs Nanosys, Expands Nanotech Practice

"We chose Antenna Group to represent Nanosys because they have a solid grasp of the nanotechnology industry and are experienced advocates for entrepreneurial companies like ours," said Stephen Empedocles, Ph D, Nanosys co-founder and director of business development.

"Nanosys is a powerhouse of respected scientific and business talent...read the wave

NanoBio® Corporation Announces FDA Approval for
Phase II Clinical Trials for Herpes Labialis Treatment

The Phase II trials are scheduled to begin in March and will confirm the safety, efficacy and dose ranging of the product. The six-month trial will enroll two hundred and eighty-six patients at twenty clinical study sites in the United States. Mary Flack MD, NanoBio's VP for Regulatory & Clinical Affairs states, “This is an important step in the development of NanoBio's product. It demonstrates that the formulation, manufacturing and animal testing of our product to date are acceptable and we are free to proceed with clinical testing.” ...read the wave

Special issue of the Bulletin of Science, Technology
and Society on Nanotechnology

and Zaheer Baber who holds the Canadian Research Chair in Science, Technology, and Social change in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Saskatchewan.

This issue is just coming off the presses. Contact Sage Publishing for more details. For a quick overview of all the items covered … read the wave

Nanotechnology industry grows, but will profits follow?
Area businesses, universities hop on board fledgling industry.

BY EMILY KUMLER

More than 15 companies within a 250-mile radius of Chicago are developing nanotech products, and research is moving ahead at universities around the Midwest, including Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

The applications of nanotechnology, the science of tiny bits, seem limitless
…read the wave

Researchers Try to Reverse Molecular Transistor Failures
By Steve Bush

DETECTION AT A DISTANCE FOR MORE SENSITIVE MRI

Pines, a pioneering NMR researcher, is Faculty Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. The latest details of the new technique, known as remote detection, are reported by Pines, postdoctoral fellow Song-I Han, and doctoral candidate Juliette A. Seeley in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

Remote detection depends on physically separating the two basic steps of NMR, signal encoding and detection -- normally carried out in the same instrument -- in order to customize each step for the best results.

Using laser-polarized xenon gas as the medium for "remembering" the encoded information and carrying it to the remote detection site, Pines and his group have achieved orders-of-magnitude improvement in MRI image resolution, plus manifold increases in NMR sensitivity....read the wave

1st Israeli National Nanotechnology Conference

The first Israeli National Nanotechnology Conference, sponsored by the Ha'Aretz Focus group, will be held in Tel Aviv on 22 March 2004.

The inaugural conference will focus on technology transfer and commercialization of efforts being made now in Israel.

Program and registration details can be found at these links:...read the wave

Extrem fein, dabei unglaublich stark: Garn aus Nanoröhrchen

Forscher überwinden Hürden auf dem Weg zu neuem Nanowerkstoff

Extrem haltbare Kevlar-Fasern bekommen Konkurrenz. Nanoröhrchen aus Kohlenstoff können theoretisch ein Vielfaches an Belastung aushalten und bisher unerreicht weit gespannte Brücken oder bessere, schusssichere Westen ermöglichen. Britischen Forschern von der Cambridge University gelang nun ein weiterer Schritt auf dem langen Weg, auch in der Praxis die nur wenige Millionstel Millimeter dicken Röhrchen zu nutzbaren Fasern zu winden. Über ihr Verfahren berichten sie in einer Online-Veröffentlichung der Fachzeitschrift Science
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Biotech Israel 2004 - More Int'l Then Ever; Biotechnology Companies from 12 Countries and More Than 90 Israeli Companies Confirm Participation in ''Biotech 2004''

Nanobiodefense: Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Challenges Wednesday, March 24th

Dr. Calvin Shipbaugh
Physical Scientist
RAND Corporation

Todd Krueger
General Partner

RTK Group Where: The offices of Pillsbury Winthrop 2475 Hanover Street,
Palo Alto, CA (just off Page Mill Road)

When: 6:00PM - 9:00pm Light dinner, networking: 6PM Program begins: 7PM

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Nano What? Survey Shows Most People in the Dark

Bell Labs Scientists Discover Technique to Control Fluids Using Specially Fabricated Silicon 'Nanograss'

Important New European Patent “Derivatized BioSilicon™”

European Patent 1 175 233 B1 encompasses the use of certain forms of derivatized porous silicon as a biomaterial. These modified forms of BioSilicon™ significantly broaden its utility by enabling a variety of chemical ligands or protein entities to be attached to the surface. In particular, larger protein molecules such as monoclonal antibodies can be tightly adhered to the BioSilicon™ surface.

Such antibody molecules can then be used in a diagnostic capacity enabling the BioSilicon™ to selectively measure particular hormones or mediators that are prognostic or diagnostic for disease....read the wave

Clean and green

S.J. FIRM GETS DOWN TO EARTH WITH NANOTECHNOLOGY: DEVISING AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY DISINFECTANT
By Dean Takahashi

But a small San Jose company has something more down to earth in mind. EnviroSystems uses nanotechnology -- designing objects molecule by molecule on the scale of nanometers, or a billionth of a meter -- to make super-strong but environmentally benign chemicals. The company says it has designed a disinfectant that eliminates the toughest germs and viruses without harming people or the environment….read the wave

Arrowhead Research Corporation to Form New Nanotech Subsidiary

PASADENA, Calif., -- Arrowhead Research
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ARWR) announced today that it has entered
into an agreement to form a new majority-owned subsidiary to commercialize an
ultrathin crystal film (nanofilm) technology that has been developed by Dr.
Harry A. Atwater and his research group at the California Institute of
Technology. The agreement between Arrowhead Research Corporation, Dr. Atwater, and Caltech provides for the grant of a fully-paid exclusive license to the
new company to utilize the technology for commercial application.

The technology is expected to provide advancements in semiconductor
technology, in which device active region optical and electrical properties
can be optimally engineered independently of the underlying substrate's
thermal, dielectric and mechanical properties. The technology enables
fabrication of high-quality single crystal semiconductor (e.g., InP, Ge, GaAs)
and oxide (e.g., BaTiO(3), LiNbO(3), PMNPT) nanometer thickness films as
surface layers transferred onto low-cost substrates (Si, Sapphire, glass) and
would enable superior device/system performance at lower cost in applications
such as photonics/ULSI electronics integration, light-emitting diode and laser
arrays, HBTs for wireless communications and high efficiency solar cells.

Arrowhead has also agreed to sponsor research at Caltech under the
direction of Dr. Atwater to exploit a new ferroelectric film synthesis
technique recently developed by the Atwater group to make nanoscale
piezoelectric devices suitable for integration into microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) on silicon substrates. . ...read the wave

Making big money from small technology

JAMES C. HSIAO AND KENNETH FONG

James C. Hsiao is co-founder and chairman of Inframat, 74 Batterson Park Road, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, USA.
Kenneth Fong is chairman of Kenson Ventures, 695 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.

100-metre nanotube thread pulled from furnace
A thread of carbon nanotubes more than 100 metres long has been pulled from a fiery furnace. The previous record holder was a mere 30 centimetres long.

Holograms to sort, steer nanotubes, cells
By Charles Choi

Method produces uniform, self-assembled nanocells

Current bulk methods for producing nanocells called liposomes---a type of artificial cell---produce particles in a wide range of sizes. The sizes must be sorted and filtered before being used for drug delivery, since dosage depends critically on size.

The new NIST method uses micrometer-size channels etched into a device to produce self-assembled liposomes of specific sizes from as large as about 240 nanometers (nm) to as small as about 100 nm. A stream of natural fats (lipids) dissolved in alcohol is directed at an intersection of two channels that looks like a micro version of a four-way stop. A water-based liquid containing medicines or other substances is sent toward the lipid stream from two opposing directions. Rather than mixing with the water, the lipids surround it, forming self-assembled nanocells.

Controlling flow rates in the microchannels produces nanocells of specific sizes. Faster flows produce smaller cells. Medicine-filled liposomes made in nanosizes should allow for more accurate drug delivery. In particular, liposomes have been studied for years as a way to concentrate the effectiveness of cancer chemotherapy while minimizing harmful.

Nanotube Ropes Spun in One Step

USA forcieren Nanotechnologie Insgesamt 4,7 Mrd. Dollar für Forschung in den nächsten fünf Jahren

DARPA's Wild Kingdom

Weaponized bees, robotic rats, sleepless soldiers; does Mother Nature stand a chance in the face of the Pentagon's new science? By Nick Turse

Researchers Create Terahertz Magnetism from Non-magnetic Materials

THE MAGIC OF FLOW - Université Laval engineer captures prestigious Canadian research prize

Today the Université Laval polymer engineering professor is still mixing materials, devoted to understanding their basic properties and their potential- and still creating gasps of surprise. The latest high-tech trick he's working on? Turning a lump of clay into a transparent, ultra-light, bullet-proof
material.

Dr. Bousmina is a specialist in discovering the way in which ….read the wave

Oregon prof: Wires beat tubes in nano world
By R. Colin Johnson

Samsung joins chip technology alliance at Fishkill
By David Lammers

100-metre nanotube thread pulled from furnace
A thread of carbon nanotubes more than 100 metres long has been pulled from a fiery furnace. The previous record holder was a mere 30 centimetres long.

Holograms to sort, steer nanotubes, cells
By Charles Choi

Method produces uniform, self-assembled nanocells

Current bulk methods for producing nanocells called liposomes---a type of artificial cell---produce particles in a wide range of sizes. The sizes must be sorted and filtered before being used for drug delivery, since dosage depends critically on size.

The new NIST method uses micrometer-size channels etched into a device to produce self-assembled liposomes of specific sizes from as large as about 240 nanometers (nm) to as small as about 100 nm. A stream of natural fats (lipids) dissolved in alcohol is directed at an intersection of two channels that looks like a micro version of a four-way stop. A water-based liquid containing medicines or other substances is sent toward the lipid stream from two opposing directions. Rather than mixing with the water, the lipids surround it, forming self-assembled nanocells.

Controlling flow rates in the microchannels produces nanocells of specific sizes. Faster flows produce smaller cells. Medicine-filled liposomes made in nanosizes should allow for more accurate drug delivery. In particular, liposomes have been studied for years as a way to concentrate the effectiveness of cancer chemotherapy while minimizing harmful.

Nanotube Ropes Spun in One Step

USA forcieren Nanotechnologie Insgesamt 4,7 Mrd. Dollar für Forschung in den nächsten fünf Jahren

DARPA's Wild Kingdom

Weaponized bees, robotic rats, sleepless soldiers; does Mother Nature stand a chance in the face of the Pentagon's new science? By Nick Turse

Researchers Create Terahertz Magnetism from Non-magnetic Materials

THE MAGIC OF FLOW - Université Laval engineer captures prestigious Canadian research prize

Today the Université Laval polymer engineering professor is still mixing materials, devoted to understanding their basic properties and their potential- and still creating gasps of surprise. The latest high-tech trick he's working on? Turning a lump of clay into a transparent, ultra-light, bullet-proof
material.

Dr. Bousmina is a specialist in discovering the way in which ….read the wave

Oregon prof: Wires beat tubes in nano world
By R. Colin Johnson

Samsung joins chip technology alliance at Fishkill
By David Lammers

Dr Martin Naughton contributes €5million to support Nanoscience Research in Trinity College Dublin

"Trinity has recently built up a critical mass of world-class expertise in nanoscience by establishing our Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN). Over the last few years we have attracted a number of superb people in the area, who have been externally assessed as one of the best groups in the world.” said Dr. Hegarty....read the wave

Mo6 ANNOUNCES COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY OF THE MoSIx-6 NANOMATERIAL

Provides the First Viable Alternative to Carbon Nanotubes

"One of the biggest challenges in nanotechnology is the synthesis of pure,
monodispersed nanotubes or nanowires with identical structure and -ideally - with tuneable physical or functional properties," said dr.Dragan Mihailovic, chief scientist of Mo6, "but the prototype material -carbon nanotubes - stops short of fulfilling this goal, partly because it is difficult to synthesise them in a way that produces identical nanotubes in bulk."

In an apparent breakthrough...read the wave

DOPING BUCKYBALLS WITH ATOMS, ONE AT A TIME
Researchers Tune the Electronic Properties of Individual C60 Molecules

By adding potassium atoms to familiar soccer-ball-shaped "buckyballs," Crommie and his coworkers can increase the electric charge on each C60 molecule; individual potassium atoms are either attached or removed from a C60 molecule using the tip of an STM. The method demonstrates that the electronic properties of an individual molecular structure can be reversibly tuned with atomic precision. ...read the wave

Delftse nanowetenschappers in prestigieuze club van top-instituten

Can nanotech keep chipmaking up to speed?
By John G. Spooner

Nanotechnology, the science of building products out of components that are less than 100 nanometers in size, could help companies continue their tradition of minting generations of speedier, less-costly chips every two years, according to one influential industry observer. …read the wave

Researchers Split on Nanotechnology Future
By JUSTIN POPE

BOSTON - Show us the profits, the skeptics shout. Nanotechnology will amount to nanoprofits, they worry as they tick off a list of technologies from artificial intelligence to virtual reality that looked cool in the lab but have foundered commercially.

Such voices were all but drowned out this week at Nanotech 2004, the industry's largest conference.
And why not? The economy is rebounding, investors are interested and last year President Bush signed a bill to invest nearly $3.7 billion for nanotech research in the coming years. …read the wave

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Commercialization Expertise Leads to Second Phase of NASA SBIR Funding

The Phase 2 NASA SBIR contract will provide SWeNT a total of $600,000 over two years to expand its nanotube development program producing highly durable, extremely light, enabling materials for aerospace applications. The contract will assist SWeNT in upholding its strong commitment to the Single Walled Carbon Nanotube industry and its customers by continuing to expand the company and its discoveries...read the wave

Small World

Scientists aren't the only ones who can play around with atoms or hear the sounds cells make if you touch them. Now you can, too. As this ScienCentral News video reports, one nanotechnologist has come up with a way you can see and hear what that invisible world is like....read the wave

Little Things Could Mean a Lot
By Mark Baard

Complex machines that are nanometers in length are far off in the future. But simple materials on the nano scale are already finding their way into sensors and tools for food and medical applications.
Nestlé believes that researchers may soon be able to use nanotechnology to make artificial noses and mouths for tasting foods, and to make packaging that prevents microbial growth….read the wave

Nano-Tex Inks Deal With Domestic Workwear, Sportswear, Cotton Leader Avondale Mills

Nanotech could become as influential as the Internet, says a leading venture capitalist

Warren Packard, a venture capitalist from Silicon Valley firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, said that even though the fledgling industry may be at a stage equivalent to Earth's primordial soup, that won't keep him and others from moving in to stake their claim.

Nanotechnology is the science of building products out of components that measure less than one-billionth of a meter….read the wave

Nano- und Mikrotechnologie erhalten einen deutlichen Einfluss auf die regionalen Arbeitsmärkte

Effects of nanotechnology on the environment.
Update from the UK Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering working group on nanotechnology

The use of nanotechnology to create new types of miniature sensors, pollutant filters and fuel cell catalysts could benefit the environment, according to evidence, published today (11 March 2004), that is being considered by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering working group on nanotechnology.

However, the testimony from industry and academic experts and regulators suggests there is still uncertainty about the impact of releasing nanoparticles into the environment….read the wave

'God particle' may have been seen.

By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff

A scientist says one of the most sought after particles in physics - the Higgs boson - may have been found, but the evidence is still relatively weak. Peter Renton, of the University of Oxford, says the particle may have been detected by researchers at an atom-smashing facility in Switzerland …read the wave

MULTILEVEL MOLECULAR MEMORY.

A USC/NASA-Ames collaboration has taken a step in the direction of such a chemical memory by producing a memory cell with three different controllable bit states, with a total of 8 (2 raised to the 3rd power) distinct levels. This multilevel molecular memory unit works by charging or discharging "molecular wires" consisting of molecules (attached to an underlying nanowire) into different chemically reduced or oxidized (redox) states.

(See the figure at http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/2004/213.htm )

The information stored in the unit can be read back out by sampling the resistance of the nanowire; the attached redox molecules act, in effect, as chemical gates for controlling the number of electrons in the nanowire. In tests so far the data written this way has survived for as long as 600 hours, compared to retention times of a few hours for one-bit-per-cell molecular memories.

The researchers (contact Chongwu Zhou, USC, chongwuz@usc.edu. 213 740 4708) are attempting to make more extended memory chips using the new principle. Data density rates as high as 40 Gbits/cm^2 are expected. (Li et al., Applied Physics Letters, cover story in the 15 March 2004 issue;)

MICROFLUIDIC MACHINES

(see figure at http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/2004/212.htm ).

The rotors are at the millimeter scale but can be made much smaller. Unlike conventional
machines the rotor arrays have no fixed axles and are virtually friction free. (Grzybowski et al., Applied Physics Letters,

Contact Bartosz Grzybowski, grzybor@northwestern.edu
or George Whitesides, ugwhitesides@gmwgroup.harvard.edu

Rock 'n' Roll Down the Tubes Metal-filled fullerenes are "hopping" inside of carbon nanotubes

TSMC delivers 90nm chip to Qualcomm

The previous year’s audit opinion from Sprouse & Anderson, L.L.P., was a qualified opinion that expressed doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The Company had received similar qualified opinions related to its ability to continue as a going concern from its independent auditors for each year from 1995 through 2002. The 2003 unqualified opinion and the related financial statements are included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-KSB, which was filed yesterday, March 9, 2004.

“We are pleased that our improved financial condition enabled our independent auditors to remove their qualification related to potential uncertainty about our ability to continue operations,” said Marc Eller, CEO of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. “We believe this unqualified opinion will be a significant positive as we negotiate development and license agreements,” continued Mr. Eller....read the wave

Applied Materials and Soitec Collaborate to Develop Advanced Germanium-on-Insulator Substrates for 45nm and Beyond

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & BERNIN, France--Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) and Soitec announced a strategic agreement to jointly develop advanced germanium-on-insulator (GeOI) and other related critical Ge-based processes designed to significantly enhance transistor performance at the 45nm and beyond technology nodes. The companies will combine the power of Soitec's Smart Cut(TM) technology and engineered substrate expertise with the advanced epitaxial deposition capabilities of the Applied Centura(R) RP Epi system to speed the development and production of these future generation substrates....read the wave

nPoint, Inc. Receives '2004 MIT Club of Wisconsin Technology Award' for Contributions to State Economy

Award Recognizes Achievements That Have Boosted the State's Status in the Field of Nanotechnology

MADISON, Wis.,USA, -- nPoint, Inc., the global leader in ultra-precision motion devices and controllers for nanoscale research and manufacturing, has been recognized by the MIT Club of Wisconsin for major contributions to Wisconsin's economy through technological change. nPoint will be recognized with the small company of the year award at the annual "2004 MIT Club of Wisconsin Technology Awards" on March 11, 2004.

The MIT Club of Wisconsin consists of alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who live in the state.nPoint designs and manufactures basic tools to facilitate the imaging, measurement and manipulation of structures at the sub-molecular level. These tools are being used in a broad range of applications wherever controlled motion at the nanometer scale is required. nPoint was founded by Dr. Max Lagally, Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Materials Science and Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"We are honored to be recognized by the MIT Club of Wisconsin as a new company with the capability of providing economic and technological growth within the state," said Dr. Lagally. "nPoint nanopositioners are an enabling technology for the world's next industrial revolution, that of nanotechnology."

The MIT Club of Wisconsin gives three awards each year -- one to a large company, one to a small company, and one to a scientist. The recognition awards are given to those that have boosted the state's status in the technological fields. nPoint is this year's recipient of the small company award.

Other recipients include: Quad Tech International for the large company category, and Dr. James Dumesic, Professor of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin, for the individual scientist category. nPoint will be presented the award during a banquet being held on March 11, 2004, at the Rotunda in Waukesha, WI. …read the wave

Philips and IMEC Sign New Agreement to Develop Semiconductor Processes in Support of Philips' Core Business

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) (AEX:PHI) and IMEC, one of the world's leading independent research centers in nanoelectronics, signed an agreement that extends Philips' access to IMEC's advanced research facilities and expertise until the end of 2008. This new agreement, which closely follows Philips' decision last year to become a core partner in IMEC's sub-45nm CMOS research program, will allow Philips through its Philips Research Leuven organization to further extend joint research with IMEC of specialized semiconductor processes, as well as to engage in joint research and development of advanced CMOS technologies in preparation of continued process development with Philips' Crolles2 Alliance partners. ...read the wave

Film Promises Terabit Storage

Nanotech: 2003 Was A Banner Year
Josh Wolfe, Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report

First International Workshop on
Nano & Bio-Electronics Packaging
March 22-23, 2004 • Atlanta, Georgia, USA

First International Workshop on Nano and Bio-electronics Packaging: March 22-23, 2004.

This two-day event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta hotel (GrandAtlanta.Hyatt.com) and offers a wealth of keynote presentations and technical sessions focusing on: NanoBio-Packaging, Nano Photonics, Nano Manufacturing, Nano Imprint, NEMS, Nano Fluidics,and Nano Packaging Materials
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Nanotechnology firm Polaron to float