BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ and CARSON CITY, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Vitusa Products, Inc. and US Global Nanospace, Inc. (OTC BB: USGA) have announced that Vitusa has acquired distribution rights for US Global Nanospace's NanoFilterCX Cigarette Filter Material. Vitusa is a leading supplier of additives to the filter and tobacco filter manufacturing industries and provides marketing and distribution for many major domestic and international producers through its offices and warehouses in New Jersey, Illinois and California. Vitusa is ISO 9002 certified and is the number one provider of Glycerine and the number two provider of Triacetin to the tobacco industry. Vitusa's customers include all the major tobacco manufacturers.

David Grande, president of Vitusa Products, Inc., said, "We have been working intimately with the tobacco industry over the past 24 years and over the past three years have worked with our customers to develop and integrate materials designed to reduce smoking risk and toxin transmission. The Institute of Medicine recently reported that
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A doctor duo from Trivandrum have developed a technique to map the DNA sequencing of human beings so as to predict their future tendencies and also help fight diseases.

Ajit Kumar and Arun Kumar, both genetic experts from the city's main state-run hospitals, have developed the "Nano Geneseq Chip", which analyses the entire future genetic proposition of a human at birth itself. In layman terms the computer can, to almost 100 percent accuracy, predict how a child will grow-right from its height, colour and other physical attributes to his eating habits and even romantic tendencies. Named 'NANOGENESEQ', the chip analyses the DNA samples of newborns, taken either from blood, spinal cord or saliva, effectively making a 'genetic horoscope' of the baby....read the wave

MUNICH, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SUSS MicroTec AG (FWB:SMH), a leading supplier of packaging lithography and test equipment for the microelectronics and nano device markets, has recently received orders for lithography systems and coat/bake/develop tracks at Taiwan based Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL). SPIL is one of the world's largest semiconductor packaging and testing companies. This new business represents additional follow-on 300mm business from this key customer. The order includes SUSS' MA300Plus 1X Full-Field Lithography systems (1XFFL) and ACS300Plus wafer-processing cluster, in support of 300mm production ramping at SPIL's advanced wafer bumping facility in Taiwan. The shipments include key elements of SUSS' recently introduced SupraYield technology. Installations will begin in Q2 2004.
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Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. En IMEC, een Belgisch laboratorium dat een van de grootste voor nanoelectronica en technologie in Europa is, hebben een overeenkomst getekend voor de gezamenlijke ontwikkeling van een gieterij-compatibel 0,13 micron CMOS procestechnologie. Het proces zal gebaseerd zijn op de 0,13 micron platformtechnologie van IMEC en zal gemodificeerd worden om te voldoen aan de eisen van klanten....read the wave

KULIM, Malaysia & LEUVEN, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2004--Silterra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research center based in Belgium, today announced that they have signed an agreement for a joint development project (JDP) with the intention of creating a foundry-compatible 0.13-micron CMOS process technology. The process will be based on IMEC's 0.13-micron platform technology and modified to meet the requirements of wafer foundry customers.
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Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) have announced the issue of a key production process patent for growing single-wall carbon nanotubes on supported catalyst. This patent (U.S. 6,692,717) provides CNI with a complete package of patent coverage for all process routes that are currently considered to have commercial scale-up potential for production of single-wall carbon nanotubes. This technology is part of the intellectual property developed by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Richard Smalley and licensed exclusively to CNI by Rice University in 2001.

"This recently-issued patent, in conjunction with the entire patent portfolio, provides CNI with an exceptional intellectual property position in all the process routes currently considered to be practical for commercial production," said Dr. Smalley, Chairman of CNI and University Professor at Rice University...read the wave.

The deadline to nominate a colleague to be considered for the prestigious Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology is Wednesday, June 30, 2004.

Established in honor of Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, two prizes, one for theory and one for experimental work, will be awarded. These prizes recognize researchers whose recent work have most advanced the achievement of Feynman's vision for nanotechnology: molecular manufacturing, defined as the construction of atomically-precise products through the use of molecular machine systems.

The Foresight Feynman prizes will be presented at the Feynman Prize Banquet....read the wave

AMES, Iowa – At the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, a basic research effort to enhance the properties of magnesium diboride, MgB2, superconductors by doping them with carbon atoms has doubled the magnetic field the material can withstand. The work may one day ease the expense associated with current superconducting materials that generate the intense magnetic fields required for such applications as magnetic resonance imaging for medical diagnostics, high-field magnets for research, and superconducting magnets for particle accelerators. The Basic Energy Sciences Office of the DOE’s Office of Science supports the fundamental research on MgB2 as part of an experimental effort on superconductivity and correlated systems at Ames Laboratory.
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Innovation Minister, John Brumby, today announced Victorian Government support for industry projects that will enable Australian business to experience the benefits of synchrotron science.

"As the Auditor-General confirms, the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria's biggest ever investment in R&D infrastructure, is running to plan, on budget and on time to start working for Australian science and industry in 2007," Mr Brumby said.

"The Victorian Government's new Industry Synchrotron Access (ISA) program will raise private sector awareness of the benefits of synchrotron based techniques in the lead up to the opening of this powerful new facility."

Globally, leading edge synchrotron science is enabling development of new products and processes. Victoria has...read the wave

By 2005, the new European Global Research Center will be home to 150 scientists and engineers, who will develop technology to support GE's future growth. Scientists at the center will conduct advanced research into enabling technologies for future products and services, working closely with the GE businesses to define the future technological needs of the company's European customers.

The center will focus on four main research areas:

-- Alternative energy generation technologies, particularly hydrogen, biomass and fuel cells;

-- Electrical systems for renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and water;

-- Specialized sensors for automotive, biological and harsh environment applications;

-- Advanced medical imaging technologies, such as ultrasound, high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and molecular imaging.
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General Electric (NYSE:GE) heeft officieel een nieuw European Global Research Center in Garching, vlakbij Munchen in Duitsland, geopend. CEO Jeff Immelt van GE opende het nieuwe technologiecentrum persoonlijk. De 'state-of-the-art' faciliteit van 10.000 vierkante meter is de laatste toevoeging aan de 4 miljard wereldwijde technologie-uitbreiding en -ontwikkeling van GE....read the wave

Space Elevators, previously an idea only in the domain of SciFi writers USA investors are now being asked to dig deep to get very high.

For more info check out this short RealPlayer movie about a Space Elevator using a nano-carbon ribbon...read the wave

Surface modification has earned an important role in the current technological world. Over the past three decades, surfaces and their coatings have improved the performance of, or protected new and existing products. Techniques usually include surface treatments, where the composition of mechanical properties are altered; or the deposition of thin films or coatings, where a different material is deposited to create a new surface. The deposition of thin films has earned an extremely important role in many kinds of industries. Ultra-thin films or nanofilms-materials that are measured in nanometers-are the next level in deposition and coating technology.

According to a soon-to-be-released report from...read the wave

Future Technology: UK

Soccer-Football Shirt Tells How Tired Players Are On The Pitch

Footballers ( Soccer players ) could benefit from a new hi-tech shirt that alerts managers to players’ heart rate and hydration levels.

The shirt, which has in-built pulse and sweat monitors was designed by UK Northumbria University student David Evans.

It uses ECG sensors to record the electrical activity of the heart and send signals to a computer on the team bench, alerting managers, coaches and physios to the player’s heart rate and highlighting any abnormal rhythms.

Silicon gel based strips are connected to the top of the players’ backs and react to sweat loss to monitor hydration levels, indicating when a player is fatigued or dehydrated and could need to be substituted.
...read the wave

Anyone interested in Nano Textiles should have a good think about this idea…. The Editor

Like a futuristic submarine, a newly designed nanomachine would thrust itself through fluid using an unusual type of propulsion. In the June Physical Review E a research team proposes a simple, sphere-and-rod device that swims by changing its length along only one dimension. Its simplicity may make it attractive to engineers, who could use the "swimmer" to move nano-cargo through liquid environments, such as water or a bloodstream....read the wave

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Florida will use $2.5 million in federal funds to develop a synthetic lubricant for aircraft and spacecraft.

RPI's portion of the five-year-award comes to $1 million. Researchers at the school's Nanotechnology Center will use the funds to develop a lubricant that remains effective on Earth and in outer space
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Applied NanoWorks Inc. has created nanoparticles of five materials and is setting its sights on potential clients in the semiconductor industry.

Four of those products, unveiled this week, are nano-abrasives made of aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide, cerium dioxide and zirconium dioxide.

"These four materials are our major entry," said Eric Burnett, president and CEO of year-old Applied NanoWorks in Watervliet.
Nano-abrasives are used in super-fine polishing processes in the semiconductor industry...read the wave

Nano Research: USA

Spire to Develop Terahertz Laser Technology

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terahertz laser structure to be achieved using nano-engineered gallium arsenide-based layers.

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) is developing nano-engineered gallium arsenide layers for fabrication of miniature terahertz lasers under an AFOSR-funded, $99,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) project. Spire's compact terahertz radiation source has broad application to instruments for defense against terrorism, and biological agent detection, as well as DNA structure identification and a number of medical diagnostics. Demonstrated success on this Phase I program can lead to a Phase II program of as much as $500,000.

Spire's quantum cascade laser device consists of hundreds of nanometer-thick gallium arsenide-based layers. The laser itself is to be the...read the wave

Future Technology: UK

Soccer-Football Shirt Tells How Tired Players Are On The Pitch

Footballers ( Soccer players ) could benefit from a new hi-tech shirt that alerts managers to players’ heart rate and hydration levels.

The shirt, which has in-built pulse and sweat monitors was designed by UK Northumbria University student David Evans.

It uses ECG sensors to record the electrical activity of the heart and send signals to a computer on the team bench, alerting managers, coaches and physios to the player’s heart rate and highlighting any abnormal rhythms.

Silicon gel based strips are connected to the top of the players’ backs and react to sweat loss to monitor hydration levels, indicating when a player is fatigued or dehydrated and could need to be substituted.
...read the wave

Anyone interested in Nano Textiles should have a good think about this idea…. The Editor

Nano Coatings: Germany

First Nano Additives of BYK-Chemie

On the Occasion of the Asia Pacific Coatings Show Held in Bangkok From June 3 - 4, 2004 BYK-Chemie Introduced the First Two Products Based on Nanotechnology to the Market

WESEL, Germany,PRNewswire/ -- The products named NANOBYK-3600 and NANOBYK-3601 have been developed to improve the scratch and wear resistance of (UV) coatings. NANOBYK-3600 is a water-based dispersion of nano- Alumina particles. At levels of 0.5% to 5% being applied to water-based (UV) coatings NANOBYK-3600 improves significantly the scratch resistance of those coatings. NANOBYK-3601 is a dispersion of nano-Alumina in Tripropylene Glycol Diacrylate (TPGDA) developed for 100% UV curable coatings. Again by adding 0.5% to 5% to the coating formulation mechanical properties of the coatings are improved significantly.

These products have been developed jointly by BYK-Chemie and Nanophase Technology Corporation (NTC). Following the equity investment of ALTANA Chemie end of March 2004 this is the first product launch based on the worldwide strategic alliance of the two companies. "We are pleased to announce the availability of the first nanotechnology products based on the knowledge and the capabilities of BYK-Chemie and NTC. Since there is more...read the wave

Tools of the Trade:

KLA-Tencor Introduces Atomic Force Line Monitoring Solution for 90-/65-nm
IC Production and Beyond

AF-LM 300 Enables Chipmakers to Support up to 100 Percent Lot Sampling In Production

SAN JOSE, Calif./PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC) have unveiled the AF-LM 300-the first true line monitoring solution for trench depth and surface planarity process control based on atomic force microscopy (AFM). Until now, traditional AFMs have lacked the throughput and reliability needed for many inline process monitoring applications. Delivering high reliability, unmatched ease of use and significantly increased throughput compared to traditional AFMs, the AF-LM 300 enables chipmakers to support up to 100 percent lot sampling on the production floor at the 90-nm and 65-nm nodes-providing tighter process monitoring, which in turn helps chipmakers produce better performing and higher yielding devices. Leading IC manufacturers like Infineon Technologies have installed the AF-LM 300 in their advanced fabs for evaluation, and KLA-Tencor has received multiple orders for the new system. ...read the wave

First International Nanotechnology Business Idea Competition Accepting Submissions

$75,000 Up for Grabs in “NANO Week” Event

Submissions are now being accepted for the mainly ( USA Based ) First International Nanotechnology Business Idea Competition in which the top 25 entries will compete in October for a total of USD 75,000 in prizes.

The competition which is being sponsored by InTICE ( Institute for Technology Innovation, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship) based at the Case Western Reserve University and the Nano-Network, a consortium of nanotechnology-scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers in Ohio USA.

For lots more info …read the wave

Vanderbilt Engineering to lead new
defense nanotechnology program

Nashville, Tenn. -- The Vanderbilt School of Engineering will lead a new $2.4 million multi-institutional nanotechnology program funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop radically improved electronics, sensors, energy-conversion devices and other critical defense systems.

"The goal of this cutting-edge research is to gain control of structures and devices at atomic and molecular levels and to learn to efficiently manufacture and use these devices," said Jimmy L. Davidson, principal investigator of the new program.

Davidson, professor of electrical engineering and professor of materials science and engineering, will coordinate the research efforts. In addition to Vanderbilt, the University of Kentucky, North Carolina State University, the University of Florida and the International Technology Center will participate in the program. ...read the wave

Nano Research: USA

Spire to Develop Terahertz Laser Technology

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terahertz laser structure to be achieved using nano-engineered gallium arsenide-based layers.

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) is developing nano-engineered gallium arsenide layers for fabrication of miniature terahertz lasers under an AFOSR-funded, $99,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) project. Spire's compact terahertz radiation source has broad application to instruments for defense against terrorism, and biological agent detection, as well as DNA structure identification and a number of medical diagnostics. Demonstrated success on this Phase I program can lead to a Phase II program of as much as $500,000.

Spire's quantum cascade laser device consists of hundreds of nanometer-thick gallium arsenide-based layers. The laser itself is to be the...read the wave

Applied NanoWorks Announces Pinnacle Nano-Oxides, high performance CMP abrasives

New alumina, silica, ceria and zirconia nano-oxides deliver
sub-10nm real particle sizes for CMP performance applications

WATERVLIET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Applied NanoWorks Announces Pinnacle Nano-Oxides, high performance CMP abrasives. New alumina, silica, ceria and zirconia nano-oxides deliver sub-10nm real particle sizes for CMP performance applications

Applied NanoWorks, Inc. have announced the immediate availability of PinnacleAF Nano-Oxides, a family of four oxide abrasives that deliver tight size distributions below 10nm in a water suspension.

Nano-abrasives are used in Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) processes for semiconductor integrated circuit manufacture. Smaller abrasive particle sizes enable the semiconductor industry to maintain quality control while shrinking the size of their chip designs in the drive to lower cost per computer chip.

"PinnacleAF Nano-Oxides establishes a new benchmark for slurry and pad production in the CMP market and is an important development for the newer chip fab technologies." said Eric Burnett, president & CEO of Applied NanoWorks. "These production results are actual particle sizes, not the primary particle sizes commonly quoted in the industry." ...read the wave

AuGRID Moves Forward With Nanomaterial Patent Implementation

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AuGRID Corporation (OTCBB:AGRD) continues to position itself in the trillion dollar nanomaterials market, as Byron Ziegler, Director of Research and Development, is scheduled to speak at the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement's conference in Washington, DC on July 27-28, 2004. The main topic of the conference will be "Lightweight Materials for Defense Engineering: Lighter, Stronger, and Faster Equipment for the Warfighter."

At the conference, Mr. Ziegler will be hosting a workshop explaining AuGRID's capabilities and expertise in manufacturing processes for lightweight materials. AuGRID's advanced technology creates numerous possibilities in the design of more effective protective gear. The new processes will allow for lighter-weight gear, in addition to increased performance in the areas of multi-hit durability, greater ballistic resistance, and the optimized use of structural materials....read the wave

Tiny iron supplement has chilling effect

A pinch of iron dramatically boosts the cooling performance of a material considered key to the development of magnetic refrigerators. The accomplishment, reported by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers in the June 24 issue of Nature, might move the promising technology closer to market and open the way to substantial energy and cost savings for homes and businesses.

By adding a small amount of iron (about 1 percent by volume), the NIST team enhanced the effective cooling capacity of the so-called "giant magnetocaloric effect" material by 15 to 30 percent. The result, writes materials scientist Virgil Provenzano and his NIST colleagues, "is a much-improved magnetic refrigerant for near-room-temperature applications."...read the wave

FEI Opens European NanoPort

FEI's New Product and Applications Center Is Designed to Advance Nanoscale Research and Development

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) today opened its enhanced Eindhoven campus and NanoPort(TM), a new, state-of-the-art product and applications center. In addition to being a product center where users can develop applications and assess technology prior to purchase, the NanoPort will provide a unique environment for bringing together the expertise of outside scientists and FEI developers for joint research and development projects such as the European Union's recently-announced Interaction Proteome project.

FEI, the leader in delivering tools for nanotech, focuses on delivering market-driven tools that enable progress in NanoResearch, NanoElectronics and NanoBiology where information on structures and devices ranging from less than 100 nm down to sub-Angstrom scale is now critical. The NanoPort will serve as a portal to nanoscale advancement and provide ...read the wave

FEI inaugura su NanoPort en Europa

El nuevo producto y el nuevo centro de aplicaciones de FEI está diseñado para avanzar en el desarrollo e investigación de la nanoescala ...read the wave

AuGRID's Director of R&D Unveils New Technology at Nanotubes & Nanofibres Convention

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AuGRID Corporation (OTCBB:AGRD) announces that Byron Ziegler, Director of R&D, will represent the company at the Nanotubes and Nanofibres Expo at the Brussels Marriott Hotel in Belgium on June 22-23, 2004. This annual conference has been held since 1991, and is sponsored by European Plastic News. The world's leaders in Nanoparticles gather at this forum to review and examine current state-of-the-art activities in nanotechnology. (www.nanotubesandfibres.com)

AuGRID is preparing to unveil a patent pending Nanoparticle Product which has a variety of practical applications. These could apply to many fields...read the wave

Successful Commercial Applications at the Nano Coating Days

Nanotechnology is already being successfully commercialized in numerous applications. These practical applications are the core topic of the Nano Coating Days, which will take place concurrently with the Nanofair, the international trade show for nanotechnology to be held in St.Gallen, Switzerland, from September 14-16, 2004.

The Swiss Association of Graduated Chemists FH (SVC) is organizing the first Nano Coating Days as part of the Nanofair 2004. Pedro Kaiser, member of the executive committee of the SVC and sales manager for Switzerland and Austria at Degussa (Schweiz) AG, expects much of this specialist event in the context of the Nanofair. "Renowned speakers from inside and outside Switzerland will impart impetus to the commercialization of nanotechnology," says Kaiser....read the wave

Nanotech starch may be cardboard's new glue

LANSING, Mich., - John Van Leeuwen, chief executive of EcoSynthetix Inc., was worried that his company's technology was too boring to interest attendees at last month's NanoBusiness conference in New York.

While the Lansing, Mich.-firm's product, EcoSphere cardboard adhesive, based on nanoparticles of starch, isn't exactly sexy; it is an intriguing illustration of how small tech can improve production of a low-tech cardboard box.

As Van Leeuwen explained, cardboard manufacturers currently use about four billion pounds of cornstarch adhesives a year to glue together the paper layers that make up corrugated containers. (Cardboard is actually composed of multiple sheets of thick, stiff paper). …read the wave

JMAR Initiates Table Top
X-Ray Microscope Development

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-JMAR Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: JMAR) is developing an innovative X-ray microscope (XRM) product line based on the Company's existing Collimated Plasma Lithography (CPL(TM)) X-ray source technology. This new product will enable 3D visualization of single cells and polymers at sub-50 nanometer resolution using X-ray tomography. JMAR has initiated this product development project as part of its drive to expand and diversify its customer base.

The X-ray microscope is an important complement to the transmission electron microscope, a market estimated at over $200 million per year. Currently, X-ray microscopy is carried out at several of the world's synchrotron facilities. The availability of an in-lab XRM, immediately accessible to researchers for cell, polymer and drug tomography, will greatly increase the use of this valuable imaging technique. ...read the wave

Nanostellar Secures $3 Million Funding; 3i Joins Seed Investors to Lead First Round of Financing

Startup's Products Will Enable Clean Energy and Clean Air with Cost-Reduced Nanocatalysts

Nanostellar Inc., an emerging developer of highly efficient platinum nano-composite catalyst solutions, announced today that it has raised $3 million in a first financing round to commercialize the company's proprietary nano-composite materials, created by Rational Design & Rapid Fabrication Technology, and used in clean energy applications. The company's products will replace platinum group materials with efficient, lower-cost nanocatalysts, initially for the vehicle catalytic converter market.

Founded in 2003, Nanostellar addresses a critical need in the catalytic marketplace: conventional technologies utilize platinum as the main catalyst to control automobile emissions and to generate clean energy power. Nanostellar's patent-pending platinum nano-composite material design technology dramatically reduces the
...read the wave

Wireless nanocrystals efficiently radiate visible light

Marriage of quantum well, quantum dots could produce white light

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

The experimental success, reported in the June 10 issue of Nature, efficiently causes nanocrystals to emit light when placed on top of a nearby energy source, eliminating the need to put wires directly on the nanocrystals.

The energy source is a so-called quantum well that emits energy at wavelengths most easily absorbable by the nanocrystals.

The efficiency of the energy transfer from the quantum well to the nanocrystals was...read the wave

New Scientist /--- CONTROVERSY over whether the fundamental constants of nature change with time has reignited. A new study is casting doubt on an earlier claim that a key constant varied as the universe evolved. The study looks at alpha, the fine-structure constant.

Alpha is crucial to the debate because it dictates the strength of the interaction between an electron and a photon, and governs a host of physical processes, from how the sun burns to the "inflation" of the universe immediately after the big bang. A changing alpha has implications for the constancy of the speed of light, and would revolutionise traditional physics. So it was headline news in 2001 when astronomer John Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reported that alpha's value - based on observations of how gas clouds absorbed light from quasars- was different 12 billion years ago from what it is today...read the wave

Bored To Death by Technology

The nanotech in Diamond Age made for a ripping yarn, and it played a crucial role in the plot of Virtual Light. Now lately, nanotech's gone mainstream. USA Today and Newsweek write about it. Venture capital companies invest in it. Pundits mouth off about the wonderful future that's in store. It's the Next Big Thing.

Or not.

For those who came late to the show, let me summarize it for you. At some point some person with lots of degrees got it in his head that molecule size robots were going to clean out the cholesterol from your USDA Choice-ridden innards, lower your taxes by reducing the cost of space exploration, and restore the polluted environment so we could pollute it with impunity. A bunch of people got interested, they held conferences, the military funded some stuff, and the thing went basically nowhere...read the wave

Intelligent ink: the world of Tiny-big

by John Shirley

...."The tiny becomes the gigantic; the vast is ultimately a function of the microscopic. One single-celled protozoan in the sea becomes two, then four, eventually billions -- and becomes a red tide, transforming large parts of the Gulf of Mexico to a morass of scarlet poison. A hurricane front, hundreds of miles across, sweeps mightily over that same sea elsewhere, carrying vast clouds of flood-rain in its juggernaut walls of wind -- but a hurricane is ultimately made up of individual molecules, sub-microscopically minute atmospheric particles interacting in gargantuan complexity, the sum of the parts becoming …Hurricane Andrew. And of course a simple spring-shower rain cloud -- a good thing, usually -- is made up of many individual raindrops." ...read the wave

Tiny iron supplement has chilling effect

A pinch of iron dramatically boosts the cooling performance of a material considered key to the development of magnetic refrigerators. The accomplishment, reported by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers in the June 24 issue of Nature, might move the promising technology closer to market and open the way to substantial energy and cost savings for homes and businesses.

By adding a small amount of iron (about 1 percent by volume), the NIST team enhanced the effective cooling capacity of the so-called "giant magnetocaloric effect" material by 15 to 30 percent. The result, writes materials scientist Virgil Provenzano and his NIST colleagues, "is a much-improved magnetic refrigerant for near-room-temperature applications."...read the wave

FEI Opens European NanoPort

FEI's New Product and Applications Center Is Designed to Advance Nanoscale Research and Development

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) today opened its enhanced Eindhoven campus and NanoPort(TM), a new, state-of-the-art product and applications center. In addition to being a product center where users can develop applications and assess technology prior to purchase, the NanoPort will provide a unique environment for bringing together the expertise of outside scientists and FEI developers for joint research and development projects such as the European Union's recently-announced Interaction Proteome project.

FEI, the leader in delivering tools for nanotech, focuses on delivering market-driven tools that enable progress in NanoResearch, NanoElectronics and NanoBiology where information on structures and devices ranging from less than 100 nm down to sub-Angstrom scale is now critical. The NanoPort will serve as a portal to nanoscale advancement and provide ...read the wave

FEI inaugura su NanoPort en Europa

El nuevo producto y el nuevo centro de aplicaciones de FEI está diseñado para avanzar en el desarrollo e investigación de la nanoescala ...read the wave

AuGRID's Director of R&D Unveils New Technology at Nanotubes & Nanofibres Convention

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AuGRID Corporation (OTCBB:AGRD) announces that Byron Ziegler, Director of R&D, will represent the company at the Nanotubes and Nanofibres Expo at the Brussels Marriott Hotel in Belgium on June 22-23, 2004. This annual conference has been held since 1991, and is sponsored by European Plastic News. The world's leaders in Nanoparticles gather at this forum to review and examine current state-of-the-art activities in nanotechnology. (www.nanotubesandfibres.com)

AuGRID is preparing to unveil a patent pending Nanoparticle Product which has a variety of practical applications. These could apply to many fields...read the wave

Successful Commercial Applications at the Nano Coating Days

Nanotechnology is already being successfully commercialized in numerous applications. These practical applications are the core topic of the Nano Coating Days, which will take place concurrently with the Nanofair, the international trade show for nanotechnology to be held in St.Gallen, Switzerland, from September 14-16, 2004.

The Swiss Association of Graduated Chemists FH (SVC) is organizing the first Nano Coating Days as part of the Nanofair 2004. Pedro Kaiser, member of the executive committee of the SVC and sales manager for Switzerland and Austria at Degussa (Schweiz) AG, expects much of this specialist event in the context of the Nanofair. "Renowned speakers from inside and outside Switzerland will impart impetus to the commercialization of nanotechnology," says Kaiser....read the wave

Nanotech starch may be cardboard's new glue

LANSING, Mich., - John Van Leeuwen, chief executive of EcoSynthetix Inc., was worried that his company's technology was too boring to interest attendees at last month's NanoBusiness conference in New York.

While the Lansing, Mich.-firm's product, EcoSphere cardboard adhesive, based on nanoparticles of starch, isn't exactly sexy; it is an intriguing illustration of how small tech can improve production of a low-tech cardboard box.

As Van Leeuwen explained, cardboard manufacturers currently use about four billion pounds of cornstarch adhesives a year to glue together the paper layers that make up corrugated containers. (Cardboard is actually composed of multiple sheets of thick, stiff paper). …read the wave

JMAR Initiates Table Top
X-Ray Microscope Development

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-JMAR Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: JMAR) is developing an innovative X-ray microscope (XRM) product line based on the Company's existing Collimated Plasma Lithography (CPL(TM)) X-ray source technology. This new product will enable 3D visualization of single cells and polymers at sub-50 nanometer resolution using X-ray tomography. JMAR has initiated this product development project as part of its drive to expand and diversify its customer base.

The X-ray microscope is an important complement to the transmission electron microscope, a market estimated at over $200 million per year. Currently, X-ray microscopy is carried out at several of the world's synchrotron facilities. The availability of an in-lab XRM, immediately accessible to researchers for cell, polymer and drug tomography, will greatly increase the use of this valuable imaging technique. ...read the wave

Nanostellar Secures $3 Million Funding; 3i Joins Seed Investors to Lead First Round of Financing

Startup's Products Will Enable Clean Energy and Clean Air with Cost-Reduced Nanocatalysts

Nanostellar Inc., an emerging developer of highly efficient platinum nano-composite catalyst solutions, announced today that it has raised $3 million in a first financing round to commercialize the company's proprietary nano-composite materials, created by Rational Design & Rapid Fabrication Technology, and used in clean energy applications. The company's products will replace platinum group materials with efficient, lower-cost nanocatalysts, initially for the vehicle catalytic converter market.

Founded in 2003, Nanostellar addresses a critical need in the catalytic marketplace: conventional technologies utilize platinum as the main catalyst to control automobile emissions and to generate clean energy power. Nanostellar's patent-pending platinum nano-composite material design technology dramatically reduces the
...read the wave

Wireless nanocrystals efficiently radiate visible light

Marriage of quantum well, quantum dots could produce white light

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

The experimental success, reported in the June 10 issue of Nature, efficiently causes nanocrystals to emit light when placed on top of a nearby energy source, eliminating the need to put wires directly on the nanocrystals.

The energy source is a so-called quantum well that emits energy at wavelengths most easily absorbable by the nanocrystals.

The efficiency of the energy transfer from the quantum well to the nanocrystals was...read the wave

New Scientist /--- CONTROVERSY over whether the fundamental constants of nature change with time has reignited. A new study is casting doubt on an earlier claim that a key constant varied as the universe evolved. The study looks at alpha, the fine-structure constant.

Alpha is crucial to the debate because it dictates the strength of the interaction between an electron and a photon, and governs a host of physical processes, from how the sun burns to the "inflation" of the universe immediately after the big bang. A changing alpha has implications for the constancy of the speed of light, and would revolutionise traditional physics. So it was headline news in 2001 when astronomer John Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reported that alpha's value - based on observations of how gas clouds absorbed light from quasars- was different 12 billion years ago from what it is today...read the wave

Bored To Death by Technology

The nanotech in Diamond Age made for a ripping yarn, and it played a crucial role in the plot of Virtual Light. Now lately, nanotech's gone mainstream. USA Today and Newsweek write about it. Venture capital companies invest in it. Pundits mouth off about the wonderful future that's in store. It's the Next Big Thing.

Or not.

For those who came late to the show, let me summarize it for you. At some point some person with lots of degrees got it in his head that molecule size robots were going to clean out the cholesterol from your USDA Choice-ridden innards, lower your taxes by reducing the cost of space exploration, and restore the polluted environment so we could pollute it with impunity. A bunch of people got interested, they held conferences, the military funded some stuff, and the thing went basically nowhere...read the wave

DNA carries the blueprint for all living things-and now it could also serve as the model for "dead" inorganic materials. However, the mechanism will be completely different from the usual "transcription" of the code by base pairs; instead, it is DNA's spatial structure that counts in this case. Japanese researchers have used the genetic molecule as a "scaffold" for the construction of tiny silicate rods and rings.

Looking at diatoms under a microscope is like looking into a bizarre microcosm: the skeletons of the tiny creatures consist of surprisingly precise silicate structures. Interest in such highly ordered inorganic nanostructures, which are considered to be potential catalysts or nanotech components, is strong; yet replication of these fossil structures has thus far seemed impossible. ...read the wave

Intelligent ink: the world of Tiny-big

by John Shirley

...."The tiny becomes the gigantic; the vast is ultimately a function of the microscopic. One single-celled protozoan in the sea becomes two, then four, eventually billions -- and becomes a red tide, transforming large parts of the Gulf of Mexico to a morass of scarlet poison. A hurricane front, hundreds of miles across, sweeps mightily over that same sea elsewhere, carrying vast clouds of flood-rain in its juggernaut walls of wind -- but a hurricane is ultimately made up of individual molecules, sub-microscopically minute atmospheric particles interacting in gargantuan complexity, the sum of the parts becoming …Hurricane Andrew. And of course a simple spring-shower rain cloud -- a good thing, usually -- is made up of many individual raindrops." ...read the wave

EnerTeck Corporation
Signs Non-Exclusive Distributor Agreement
with C & R Distributing, Inc.

STAFFORD, Texas, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EnerTeck Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCK) (the "Company") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, EnerTeck Chemical Corp. ("ECC") has entered into a distributor agreement with C & R Distributing, Inc. ("C&R") of El Paso, Texas.C&R has agreed to act as a non-exclusive marketing and distribution agent throughout the United States for ECC's EnerBurn(TM) diesel fuel specific combustion catalyst products.

Jim Singleton, C&R's vice president and chief operating officer says, "we have been using EnerBurn in our fleet for 24 months and have consistently achieved fuel savings in excess of 10%. Our first hand experience of the fuel savings derived from EnerBurn use in our fleet has compelled us to enter into this agreement to represent EnerBurn to other trucking companies." Singleton further commented, "with the price of diesel fuel at, or near record highs, the ability to save 10% on fuel consumption represents a significant value proposition to our industry."...read the wave

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Newswise — Current electronic technologies can’t create smaller computers and other devices because they are reaching physical limitations, so University of Arkansas scientists seek to harness an electron’s spin to create tiny machines with large memories. To do this, they have built a microscope that may allow them to be the first researchers to measure the properties of electron spin injection in conducting materials.

Paul Thibado, associate professor of physics, won a $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to measure the properties of a spin-based transistor using a customized, two-tip Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) system. This work builds on a previous NSF grant of $760,000, which was used to create the customized STM.

Electrons have spin in addition to charge, but in the past this property has been ...read the wave

NASA, LOCKHEED MARTIN FORM
NANOTECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP

The goal of the NASA/Lockheed Martin team is to conduct joint research and development projects to enhance scientific and commercial utilization of nanotechnology. Collaborative projects will include planning and designing information, electronic, biomedical and material technologies based on nanoscience.

"Nanotechnology will enable the building of lightweight, high-strength composites for future-generation spacecraft," said Meyya Meyyappan, director of the NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology.

"Nanoscience can be the key for designing new system capabilities.
Therefore, it is important for us to understand and leverage nanotechnology research to ensure that we continue to provide our customers with the best solutions to their needs," said Steve Winzer, Lockheed Martin nanotechnology engineer....read the wave

iCurie To Team UP with World's Largest CPU Cooler Supplier, AVC, To Manufacture its Patented Nano-Technology Cooling System

LONDON, PRNewswire/ -- iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. have announced a manufacturing partnership agreement with Taiwan-based AVC (Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.) the world's largest supplier of CPU (Computer Processing Units) cooling systems.

Pursuant to the confidential terms of the agreement, AVC, which has an equity stake in iCurie, will develop and install the production lines to manufacture iCurie's patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system on exclusive manufacturing rights for Taiwanese and Chinese markets and non-exclusive rights for other markets in coming months. The manufacturing lines will significantly expand iCurie's distribution capabilities, and enhance its ability to deliver its revolutionary cooling system into real market in a timely manner.

Last month, iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. announced that its patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system, had passed performance testing and ...read the wave

Wireless nanocrystals efficiently radiate visible light

Marriage of quantum well, quantum dots could produce white light

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wireless nanodevice that functions like a fluorescent light — but potentially far more efficiently — has been developed in a joint project between the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories.

The experimental success, reported in the June 10 issue of Nature, efficiently causes nanocrystals to emit light when placed on top of a nearby energy source, eliminating the need to put wires directly on the nanocrystals.

The energy source is a so-called quantum well that emits energy at wavelengths most easily absorbable by the nanocrystals.

The efficiency of the energy transfer from the quantum well to the nanocrystals was...read the wave

New Scientist /--- CONTROVERSY over whether the fundamental constants of nature change with time has reignited. A new study is casting doubt on an earlier claim that a key constant varied as the universe evolved. The study looks at alpha, the fine-structure constant.

Alpha is crucial to the debate because it dictates the strength of the interaction between an electron and a photon, and governs a host of physical processes, from how the sun burns to the "inflation" of the universe immediately after the big bang. A changing alpha has implications for the constancy of the speed of light, and would revolutionise traditional physics. So it was headline news in 2001 when astronomer John Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, reported that alpha's value - based on observations of how gas clouds absorbed light from quasars- was different 12 billion years ago from what it is today...read the wave

Bored To Death by Technology

The nanotech in Diamond Age made for a ripping yarn, and it played a crucial role in the plot of Virtual Light. Now lately, nanotech's gone mainstream. USA Today and Newsweek write about it. Venture capital companies invest in it. Pundits mouth off about the wonderful future that's in store. It's the Next Big Thing.

Or not.

For those who came late to the show, let me summarize it for you. At some point some person with lots of degrees got it in his head that molecule size robots were going to clean out the cholesterol from your USDA Choice-ridden innards, lower your taxes by reducing the cost of space exploration, and restore the polluted environment so we could pollute it with impunity. A bunch of people got interested, they held conferences, the military funded some stuff, and the thing went basically nowhere...read the wave

DNA carries the blueprint for all living things-and now it could also serve as the model for "dead" inorganic materials. However, the mechanism will be completely different from the usual "transcription" of the code by base pairs; instead, it is DNA's spatial structure that counts in this case. Japanese researchers have used the genetic molecule as a "scaffold" for the construction of tiny silicate rods and rings.

Looking at diatoms under a microscope is like looking into a bizarre microcosm: the skeletons of the tiny creatures consist of surprisingly precise silicate structures. Interest in such highly ordered inorganic nanostructures, which are considered to be potential catalysts or nanotech components, is strong; yet replication of these fossil structures has thus far seemed impossible. ...read the wave

Intelligent ink: the world of Tiny-big

by John Shirley

...."The tiny becomes the gigantic; the vast is ultimately a function of the microscopic. One single-celled protozoan in the sea becomes two, then four, eventually billions -- and becomes a red tide, transforming large parts of the Gulf of Mexico to a morass of scarlet poison. A hurricane front, hundreds of miles across, sweeps mightily over that same sea elsewhere, carrying vast clouds of flood-rain in its juggernaut walls of wind -- but a hurricane is ultimately made up of individual molecules, sub-microscopically minute atmospheric particles interacting in gargantuan complexity, the sum of the parts becoming …Hurricane Andrew. And of course a simple spring-shower rain cloud -- a good thing, usually -- is made up of many individual raindrops." ...read the wave

Lux Research Announces Key
Strategic Hire

Leading nanotech research and advisory firm hires
Matthew Nordan as Vice President of Research

NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Lux Research, Inc., the world's premier research and advisory firm focusing on the business and economic impact of nanotechnology, have announced it hired Matthew Nordan as its Vice President of Research.

Matthew brings experience in building world-class research operations at Forrester Research, where he most recently ran the firm's North American project consulting business. Earlier, Matthew grew Forrester's operations in Europe from its headquarters in the Netherlands, where he launched and led research practices in three vertical industries and built Forrester's European consulting business. Matthew has been an invited guest on CNN and CNBC to
comment on emerging technology markets and has been widely cited in publications including The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. In addition, he has participated in developing public-sector technology strategy with organizations including the World Economic Forum and the European IT Observatory. Matthew is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research....read the wave

EnerTeck Corporation
Signs Non-Exclusive Distributor Agreement
with C & R Distributing, Inc.

STAFFORD, Texas, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EnerTeck Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ETCK) (the "Company") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, EnerTeck Chemical Corp. ("ECC") has entered into a distributor agreement with C & R Distributing, Inc. ("C&R") of El Paso, Texas.C&R has agreed to act as a non-exclusive marketing and distribution agent throughout the United States for ECC's EnerBurn(TM) diesel fuel specific combustion catalyst products.

Jim Singleton, C&R's vice president and chief operating officer says, "we have been using EnerBurn in our fleet for 24 months and have consistently achieved fuel savings in excess of 10%. Our first hand experience of the fuel savings derived from EnerBurn use in our fleet has compelled us to enter into this agreement to represent EnerBurn to other trucking companies." Singleton further commented, "with the price of diesel fuel at, or near record highs, the ability to save 10% on fuel consumption represents a significant value proposition to our industry."...read the wave

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Newswise — Current electronic technologies can’t create smaller computers and other devices because they are reaching physical limitations, so University of Arkansas scientists seek to harness an electron’s spin to create tiny machines with large memories. To do this, they have built a microscope that may allow them to be the first researchers to measure the properties of electron spin injection in conducting materials.

Paul Thibado, associate professor of physics, won a $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to measure the properties of a spin-based transistor using a customized, two-tip Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) system. This work builds on a previous NSF grant of $760,000, which was used to create the customized STM.

Electrons have spin in addition to charge, but in the past this property has been ...read the wave

NASA, LOCKHEED MARTIN FORM
NANOTECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP

The goal of the NASA/Lockheed Martin team is to conduct joint research and development projects to enhance scientific and commercial utilization of nanotechnology. Collaborative projects will include planning and designing information, electronic, biomedical and material technologies based on nanoscience.

"Nanotechnology will enable the building of lightweight, high-strength composites for future-generation spacecraft," said Meyya Meyyappan, director of the NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology.

"Nanoscience can be the key for designing new system capabilities.
Therefore, it is important for us to understand and leverage nanotechnology research to ensure that we continue to provide our customers with the best solutions to their needs," said Steve Winzer, Lockheed Martin nanotechnology engineer....read the wave

iCurie To Team UP with World's Largest CPU Cooler Supplier, AVC, To Manufacture its Patented Nano-Technology Cooling System

LONDON, PRNewswire/ -- iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. have announced a manufacturing partnership agreement with Taiwan-based AVC (Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.) the world's largest supplier of CPU (Computer Processing Units) cooling systems.

Pursuant to the confidential terms of the agreement, AVC, which has an equity stake in iCurie, will develop and install the production lines to manufacture iCurie's patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system on exclusive manufacturing rights for Taiwanese and Chinese markets and non-exclusive rights for other markets in coming months. The manufacturing lines will significantly expand iCurie's distribution capabilities, and enhance its ability to deliver its revolutionary cooling system into real market in a timely manner.

Last month, iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. announced that its patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system, had passed performance testing and ...read the wave

Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors

A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug.

The technologies, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, would not only find cancers in their earliest stages before they can do damage or spread, but also deliver a small amount of a drug targeted directly at tumors, which would cause little or no side effects....read the wave

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.
Receives Grant From the
U.S. National Science Foundation

Company to Develop Nano-Structured Electrodes
for Next Generation Super Capacitors

RENO, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTI), a company engaged in developing high performance materials and life sciences products using its pigment and nanomaterials technology platforms, have announced that it was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 1, 2004. Under terms of the grant award, Altair will initially receive $100,000 for work to be completed within six months of the July 1, 2004, effective date. The grant is in support of a project entitled "SBIR Phase I: Carbon-Coated Nano-Structured Electrodes for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Ultra Capacitors." ...read the wave

Applied NanoTech and SouthWest NanoTechnologies Partner to Optimize
Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
for Flat Panel Display Screens

AUSTIN, TX & NORMAN, OK – Austin, Texas based Applied Nanotech, Inc.(“ANI”), a subsidiary of Nano-Proprietary (OTC BB: NNPP), and SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc.(“SWeNT”) a technology spin-off of from the University of Oklahoma and ConocoPhillips based in Norman, Oklahoma, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership. Through the
partnership, ANI is authorized to use the high quality single wall carbon nanotubes (CNT) produced bySWeNT and is also authorized to represent SWeNT on a non-exclusive basis in Asia.

This representation comes as a natural extension of the relationships that ANI has established with majormanufacturers in Japan.
...read the wave

Nanoshells cancer treatment proves
effective in first animal test

Laser treatments eradicate all tumors from mice in trial

HOUSTON, -- A revolutionary new form of cancer therapy in development at Rice University and its licensee, Nanospectra Biosciences Inc., has proven effective at eradicating tumors in laboratory animals during the first phase of animal testing.

The noninvasive cancer treatment uses a combination of harmless, near-infrared light and benign, gold nanoshells to destroy tumors with heat. The treatment does not affect healthy tissue.

"We are extremely encouraged by the results of these first animal tests," said Jennifer West, professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering. "These results confirm that nanoshells are effective agents for the photothermal treatment of in vivo tumors."
...read the wave

NASA, LOCKHEED MARTIN FORM
NANOTECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP

The goal of the NASA/Lockheed Martin team is to conduct joint research and development projects to enhance scientific and commercial utilization of nanotechnology. Collaborative projects will include planning and designing information, electronic, biomedical and material technologies based on nanoscience.

"Nanotechnology will enable the building of lightweight, high-strength composites for future-generation spacecraft," said Meyya Meyyappan, director of the NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology.

"Nanoscience can be the key for designing new system capabilities.
Therefore, it is important for us to understand and leverage nanotechnology research to ensure that we continue to provide our customers with the best solutions to their needs," said Steve Winzer, Lockheed Martin nanotechnology engineer....read the wave

iCurie To Team UP with World's Largest CPU Cooler Supplier, AVC, To Manufacture its Patented Nano-Technology Cooling System

LONDON, PRNewswire/ -- iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. have announced a manufacturing partnership agreement with Taiwan-based AVC (Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.) the world's largest supplier of CPU (Computer Processing Units) cooling systems.

Pursuant to the confidential terms of the agreement, AVC, which has an equity stake in iCurie, will develop and install the production lines to manufacture iCurie's patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system on exclusive manufacturing rights for Taiwanese and Chinese markets and non-exclusive rights for other markets in coming months. The manufacturing lines will significantly expand iCurie's distribution capabilities, and enhance its ability to deliver its revolutionary cooling system into real market in a timely manner.

Last month, iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd. announced that its patented iCurie Cooled(TM) nano-technology cooling system, had passed performance testing and ...read the wave

Nano Killers Aim at Mini Tumors

A company called Kereos is developing a pair of nanotechnologies to identify tumors that measure just 1 mm in diameter, then kill them with a tiny but precise amount of a chemotherapy drug.

The technologies, if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, would not only find cancers in their earliest stages before they can do damage or spread, but also deliver a small amount of a drug targeted directly at tumors, which would cause little or no side effects....read the wave

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.
Receives Grant From the
U.S. National Science Foundation

Company to Develop Nano-Structured Electrodes
for Next Generation Super Capacitors

RENO, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTI), a company engaged in developing high performance materials and life sciences products using its pigment and nanomaterials technology platforms, have announced that it was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 1, 2004. Under terms of the grant award, Altair will initially receive $100,000 for work to be completed within six months of the July 1, 2004, effective date. The grant is in support of a project entitled "SBIR Phase I: Carbon-Coated Nano-Structured Electrodes for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Ultra Capacitors." ...read the wave

CRN and Students Team Up
to Tackle Nanotechnology Issues

NEW YORK - The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) has announced a program of research projects in a joint collaboration between CRN, instructors, and students. The program is targeted at undergraduate and graduate students, though advanced secondary school students also may be able to participate.

Mike Treder, Executive Director of CRN, says, “We need to study the numerous urgent issues raised by advanced nanotechnology, but to cover the full spectrum of topics is much more than one organization can do without assistance.”

Under supervision of an instructor, students will...read the wave

Applied NanoTech and SouthWest NanoTechnologies Partner to Optimize
Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
for Flat Panel Display Screens

AUSTIN, TX & NORMAN, OK – Austin, Texas based Applied Nanotech, Inc.(“ANI”), a subsidiary of Nano-Proprietary (OTC BB: NNPP), and SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc.(“SWeNT”) a technology spin-off of from the University of Oklahoma and ConocoPhillips based in Norman, Oklahoma, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership. Through the
partnership, ANI is authorized to use the high quality single wall carbon nanotubes (CNT) produced bySWeNT and is also authorized to represent SWeNT on a non-exclusive basis in Asia.

This representation comes as a natural extension of the relationships that ANI has established with majormanufacturers in Japan.
...read the wave

Kerry Remarks in Denver, Colorado

.... we need to invest in science and new technologies that may help cure diseases, start great new industries and deepen our understanding of the world in which we live. That's why I will increase our funding to the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and other important agencies and initiatives that promote crucial research. These advances have the opportunity to do so much good in the world and new technologies like nanotechnology and clean energy have the potential to transform the American economy. Nationally, Colorado ranks 8th in the total number of nanotech firms....read the wave

Nanoshells cancer treatment proves
effective in first animal test

Laser treatments eradicate all tumors from mice in trial

HOUSTON, -- A revolutionary new form of cancer therapy in development at Rice University and its licensee, Nanospectra Biosciences Inc., has proven effective at eradicating tumors in laboratory animals during the first phase of animal testing.

The noninvasive cancer treatment uses a combination of harmless, near-infrared light and benign, gold nanoshells to destroy tumors with heat. The treatment does not affect healthy tissue.

"We are extremely encouraged by the results of these first animal tests," said Jennifer West, professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering. "These results confirm that nanoshells are effective agents for the photothermal treatment of in vivo tumors."
...read the wave

NVE Granted Patent on MRAM Innovation;
Spin Momentum Memory Cells
Could Allow Ultra-Dense MRAM

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2004--NVE Corporation (Nasdaq:NVEC) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the company a patent for an innovative type of MRAM. Patent number 6,744,086, entitled "Current Switched Magnetoresistive Memory Cell," was granted in June and concerns spin-momentum magnetic memory cells. The patent also relates to thermally-assisted spin-momentum writing.

A recent paper by researchers from both the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Cornell University and NVE reported that spin momentum produces spin orientation using less current than present methods. The invention therefore has the potential to...read the wave

American Superconductor Announces DARPA Contract to Develop Ultra-High Performance Second Generation HTS Wire
for Military Applications

Company's nanotechnology-enabled 2G wire to be optimized
for advanced warfare and weapons systems

WESTBOROUGH, Mass./PRNewswire/ -- American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC) , a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that it has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop ultra-high performance second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire for advanced military applications including electronic warfare and electric weapons systems. The ultra-high performance wire will be based on the application of novel materials science technologies using AMSC nanotechnology-enabled 2G HTS wire as a platform (see http://www.amsuper.com/html/products/library/2g_white_paper_-_march_2004.pdf). AMSC expects the contract will yield a total of $3.1 million of revenue over the next three years....read the wave

AMETEK Acquires Taylor Hobson Holdings Limited; Acquisition Expands AMETEK's High-End Analytical Instrument Platform

PAOLI, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) have announced the acquisition of Taylor Hobson Holdings Limited ('Taylor Hobson'), a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation for a variety of markets, including optics, semiconductors, hard disk drives and nanotechnology research. Taylor Hobson was acquired from funds advised by Permira for a purchase price of approximately GBP 51 million. With its headquarters in Leicester, England, Taylor Hobson has expected 2004 sales of approximately GBP 38 million.

"We are very excited about our acquisition of Taylor Hobson," comments AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frank S. Hermance. "This is a highly differentiated business, focusing on the most complex and critical measurements for its customers.
...read the wave

INTEL and NANOTECH Sign Agreement for 200MM Manufacturing Process and Equipment

Nanotech Corporation and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement whereby Intel will provide manufacturing process technology and equipment for first phase of Nanotech’s proposed wafer fabrication facility in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

Hong Kong (PRWEB) June 19, 2004 -- Nanotech Corporation and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement whereby Intel will provide manufacturing process technology and equipment for first phase of Nanotech’s proposed wafer fabrication facility in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The agreement includes a license and technology transfer of Intel’s 0.35 micron and 0.25 micron CMOS process technology. It also includes the transfer of a line of matching 200 mm equipment to run the process and appropriate training for Nanotech’s manufacturing staff. Under terms of the agreement Intel will provide equipment to run up to 15 thousand wafer starts per month. ...read the wave

Nanocyl S.A. Receives 2004 Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2004--In a recent study, World Carbon Nanotubes Market, Frost & Sullivan highlighted Nanocyl S.A. as an emerging company with a great vision. Nanocyl has been enabling an emerging technology while making sure that it grows with the technology, overcoming numerous hurdles that confront a small company.

Nanocyl specializes in the production and functionalization of nanotubes, enabling it to integrate carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into polymers, metals, and biomaterials. Intellectual property (IP) is a valuable asset in a promising technology area such as CNT and Nanocyl is fully aware of this. With 2004 being declared primarily an IP year, Nanocyl is set to significantly increase its already impressive IP portfolio.

Based in Belgium, Nanocyl is a young spin-off company formed from Prof. Janos.B. Nagy's laboratory at the University of Namur in February 2002. Nanocyl's product portfolio offers a complete range of CNTs ranging from single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) to double-walled (DWNTs) and multi-walled nanotubes (MWNTs) and functionalized nanotubes to its research clients...read the wave

Nano Education: USA

DARPA FUNDS NEW PHOTONIC
RESEARCH CENTER AT ILLINOIS

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a photonic research center to develop ultra-fast light sources for high-speed signal processing and optical communications systems. The grant will provide $6.2 million in funding over four years.

The Hyper-Uniform Nanophotonic Technology Center is directed by Norman K.Y. Cheng, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a researcher at the university's micro and nanoelectronics laboratory. Illinois is the lead university for the center. Partner institutions are Columbia University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

"The HUNT Center's mission is to develop critical technologies - including hyper-uniform nanophotonic fabrication methods, high-performance quantum dot arrays and ultra-fast lasers - for optoelectronic interconnects," Cheng said....read the wave

"RATIONAL" MECCANO

G.G. Kuvshinov, D.G. Kuvshinov, A.M. Glushenkov, Boreskov

Institute of Catalysis, Northern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

It seems, everything is known about carbon. However, there also exists nanofibrous carbon. This particular carbon has recently been often used as a catalyst and electrode material, and also as a splendid adsorbent. Therefore, it can also be used for detrimental impurities refinement, and it can be added to diverse polymers to improve their characteristics.

Nanofibrous carbon is interesting by itself: it consists of carbon fibres of 3 to 500 nm in diameter. These fibres can form " cylinders" (which make almost finished polymeric nanotubes), or a system of cones stowed one into the other at a certain angle to the fibre axis, or simply "wrapping package" – this is driven by the type of applied catalyst and conditions for getting this promising material....read the wave

THE NANOPOWDER CONSISTING
OF IDENTICAL PARTICLES

Yu. A. Birukov, Director
Research Educational Center for Innovation Techniques

High-quality nanopowders made of refractory ceramics are a rare and very expensive material. All known methods of their manufacturing face the same problems - scanty quantities, extensive variety of particle sizes and expensive production. Researchers from the town of Tomsk have invented and manufactured a device to produce a choice selection of particles – all particles are equal to the required size and inexpensive. The project has been funded by two foundations – the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Foundation for Promotion of Small-Scale Enterprises Development in Scientific and Technological Area.

Researchers of the Tomsk State University jointly with their colleagues from the MIPOR research-and-production association have designed a device and ...read the wave

Nanoshells cancer treatment proves
effective in first animal test

Laser treatments eradicate all tumors from mice in trial

HOUSTON, -- A revolutionary new form of cancer therapy in development at Rice University and its licensee, Nanospectra Biosciences Inc., has proven effective at eradicating tumors in laboratory animals during the first phase of animal testing.

The noninvasive cancer treatment uses a combination of harmless, near-infrared light and benign, gold nanoshells to destroy tumors with heat. The treatment does not affect healthy tissue.

"We are extremely encouraged by the results of these first animal tests," said Jennifer West, professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering. "These results confirm that nanoshells are effective agents for the photothermal treatment of in vivo tumors."
...read the wave

NVE Granted Patent on MRAM Innovation;
Spin Momentum Memory Cells
Could Allow Ultra-Dense MRAM

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2004--NVE Corporation (Nasdaq:NVEC) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the company a patent for an innovative type of MRAM. Patent number 6,744,086, entitled "Current Switched Magnetoresistive Memory Cell," was granted in June and concerns spin-momentum magnetic memory cells. The patent also relates to thermally-assisted spin-momentum writing.

A recent paper by researchers from both the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at Cornell University and NVE reported that spin momentum produces spin orientation using less current than present methods. The invention therefore has the potential to...read the wave

American Superconductor Announces DARPA Contract to Develop Ultra-High Performance Second Generation HTS Wire
for Military Applications

Company's nanotechnology-enabled 2G wire to be optimized
for advanced warfare and weapons systems

WESTBOROUGH, Mass./PRNewswire/ -- American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC) , a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that it has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop ultra-high performance second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire for advanced military applications including electronic warfare and electric weapons systems. The ultra-high performance wire will be based on the application of novel materials science technologies using AMSC nanotechnology-enabled 2G HTS wire as a platform (see http://www.amsuper.com/html/products/library/2g_white_paper_-_march_2004.pdf). AMSC expects the contract will yield a total of $3.1 million of revenue over the next three years....read the wave

AMETEK Acquires Taylor Hobson Holdings Limited; Acquisition Expands AMETEK's High-End Analytical Instrument Platform

PAOLI, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE:AME) have announced the acquisition of Taylor Hobson Holdings Limited ('Taylor Hobson'), a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation for a variety of markets, including optics, semiconductors, hard disk drives and nanotechnology research. Taylor Hobson was acquired from funds advised by Permira for a purchase price of approximately GBP 51 million. With its headquarters in Leicester, England, Taylor Hobson has expected 2004 sales of approximately GBP 38 million.

"We are very excited about our acquisition of Taylor Hobson," comments AMETEK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frank S. Hermance. "This is a highly differentiated business, focusing on the most complex and critical measurements for its customers.
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INTEL and NANOTECH Sign Agreement for 200MM Manufacturing Process and Equipment

Nanotech Corporation and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement whereby Intel will provide manufacturing process technology and equipment for first phase of Nanotech’s proposed wafer fabrication facility in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

Hong Kong (PRWEB) June 19, 2004 -- Nanotech Corporation and Intel Corporation today announced an agreement whereby Intel will provide manufacturing process technology and equipment for first phase of Nanotech’s proposed wafer fabrication facility in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The agreement includes a license and technology transfer of Intel’s 0.35 micron and 0.25 micron CMOS process technology. It also includes the transfer of a line of matching 200 mm equipment to run the process and appropriate training for Nanotech’s manufacturing staff. Under terms of the agreement Intel will provide equipment to run up to 15 thousand wafer starts per month. ...read the wave