Emergency Filtration to Donate NanoMasks to International Committee of the Red Cross and CARE for Tsunami Relief Effort

 

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-Emergency Filtration Products Inc. (EFP) (OTCBB: EMFP) today announced that it is making an initial donation of 1,000 of its NanoMasks to the international relief agencies International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and CARE. This donation is being made to assist with the emergency response under way in countries affected by the recent disaster caused by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra Island, Indonesia, which sent massive tsunamis across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, and, which is resulting in a death toll that is estimated to reach more than 100,000.
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The incredible nanoworld

 

Measuring things is an important aspect of all disciplines because that is the only way we can compare the physical qualities of all, real world, objects.

The metric system is the normally used international standard for weights and measures. But, in the measurement of objects that are either very large or very small, it is an inadequate scale.

The Universe is the largest we know of, in terms of size. The distances involved are so vast that our earthly measurements dwindle into insignificance when applied to it. For instance, if the distance between the earth and a star were to be...read the wave

 

Hydrogen Infrastructure Catches-up to New York Commitment

 

Albany, New York [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Two Honda FCX fuel cell vehicles are being tested in the cold weather of up-state New York, but the technology is simply a novelty without the infrastructure to support it. Governor George E. Pataki has announced that the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is giving $1.4 million in State funding for two hydrogen-powered vehicle demonstration projects in Buffalo and Albany.
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How Nanotechnology Will Work

 

In the early 20th century, Henry Ford built a car manufacturing plant on a 2,000-acre tract of land along the Rouge River in Michigan. Built to mass-produce automobiles more efficiently, the Rouge housed the equipment for developing each phase of a car, including blast furnaces, a steel mill and a glass plant. More than 90 miles of railroad track and conveyor belts kept Ford's car assembly line running. The Rouge model was lauded as the most efficient method of production at a time when bigger meant better.

The size of Ford's assembly plant would look strange to those born and raised in the 21st century. In the next 50 years, machines will get increasingly smaller -- so small that thousands of these tiny machines would fit into the period at the end of this sentence...read the wave

 

 

 

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NanoHealth alliance gets federal funds

 

The Alliance for NanoHealth, a Houston-based nanotechnology research initiative, has been awarded $2.8 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop interdisciplinary research projects on various aspects of nanotechnology.

The $388 billion spending bill recently passed by Congress includes $7.4 million designated for the Alliance for NanoHealth, a coalition of six Houston-area research institutions

NASA funding in the spending bill includes $2 million earmarked for additional collaborative research projects among the...read the wave

 

Chip-Scale Magnetic Sensor Draws on Mini Clock Design

 

A low-power, magnetic sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 50 picoteslas—a million times weaker than the Earth's magnetic field—has been demonstrated by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Described in the Dec. 27 issue of Applied Physics Letters,* the device can be powered with batteries and is about 100 times smaller than current atom-based sensors with similar sensitivities, which typically weigh several kilograms (about 6 pounds).

The new magnetic sensor is based on the principles of...read the wave

 

Small wonders

 

ATOMS are the fundamental building blocks of matter, which means they are very small indeed. The world at the scale of atoms and molecules is difficult to describe and hard to imagine. It is so odd that it even has its own special branch of physics, called quantum mechanics, to explain the strange things that happen there. If you were to throw a tennis ball against a brick wall, you might be surprised if the ball passed cleanly through the wall and sailed out on the other side. Yet this is the kind of thing that happens at the quantum scale. At very small scales, the properties of a material, such as colour, magnetism and the ability to conduct electricity, also change in unexpected ways...read the wave

 

Tegal moves European headquarters to Dresden

 

Tegal Corp. has moved its European headquarters to Thiendorf, near Dresden, from Munich, Germany. The company is a designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of ICs and nanotechnology devices. According to Tegal, all European sales, service and support will be directed out of this new location. In addition, Tegal intends to expand its infrastructure there to support some assembly and test operations.

"Moving our European headquarters to Dresden and enhancing our technical capability there will allow us to provide the needed support for several nearby tier one manufacturers, said Michael Parodi, Tegal's chairman, president, CEO. In addition, the combination of outstanding technical resources, high-quality labor pool and investment incentives present in the state of Saxony make it a suitable location from which to serve all of Europe," Parodi added.

 

TSMC Ramping 90nm Volume Production

 

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said today its Nexsys 90nm process has ramped to several thousand 300mm wafers per month with volumes planned to accelerate throughout 2005.

The company said it would perform a major capacity expansion to aggressively ramp 90nm technology at two of its fabs, Fab 12 and Fab 14, for the process, which includes copper interconnect, low-k dielectrics and 300mm wafer capabilities...read the wave

 

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. and KRI, Inc. to Collaborate on Automotive Fuel Cell Hydrogen Sensor

 

AUSTIN, Texas, (PRIMEZONE) -- Austin, Texas-based Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (OTC BB:NNPP.OB - News), through its subsidiary, Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), today announced that it has entered into a research and development agreement with KRI, Inc. (KRI) to develop a hydrogen sensor for automotive fuel cell applications. KRI, Inc. is the research and development subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co. Ltd., the second largest gas utility company in Japan.

This subcontract is the result of a joint proposal submitted by KRI and ANI to NEDO, the New Energy Industrial Technology Development Organization established by the Japanese Government in 1980. NEDO launched a new...read the wave

 

Building Golden Nanobridges

 

Professor Ron Naaman and his research team in the Chemical Physics Department of the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot have developed a way to create nanotransistors that is the most suitable to date for large scale production and the development of a variety of industrial applications.

Their system involves the construction of carbon nanotube "bridges" spanning a silicon surface between two gold contacts. Tiny spoonfuls of phosphates, sugars and nucleotides were used to create unique strands of DNA programmed to form attachments with carbon nanotubes. Next, they used the same method to create another set of...read the wave

 

Q Chip seals deal with biotech firm

 

WELSH nanotechnology company Q Chip has signed a new research deal with one of the UK's biggest biotechnology firms.

Cardiff-based Q Chip has agreed the joint venture with FTSE techMark 100-listed Biocompatibles International, a medical device company which is focused on the treatment of cardiovascular disease, cancer and benign tumours.

The Welsh company possesses technology which enables the production of uniform particles at a molecular level.

It uses tiny capillaries etched in wafers to precisely create micro and nanoparticles...read the wave

 

Mega fear over something nano

 

If you believe the hype, the nanotechnology revolution will deliver a future of unprecedented material abundance for everyone, limitless energy, ecological sustainability, improved human health and performance, and smarter, cheaper and more efficient materials and products.

But there is another nanotechnological future that we are beginning to hear more about. This is one of toxic nanoparticle pollution, powerful new military equipment and weapons, ubiquitous surveillance devices, widening global inequities and the further concentration of corporate ownership and control across all industrial sectors.

Nanotechnology refers to a new range of...read the wave

 

Grey Goo's Sticky Mess

 

BBC Radio 4's Analysis: Grey Goo's Sticky Mess, will be broadcast on Thursday, 30 December, 2004 at 20:30 GMT.

The programme transcript will be available in the New Year.

What could happen when we tinker with matter at the tiniest level - nanotechnology - has got royalty and even eminent scientists worried.

But the technology that some fear could bring so-called "grey goo" also offers us huge opportunities in energy, electronics and biomedicine.

In this week's Analysis Natasha Loder asks if the potential of nanotechnology merits running risks with the unknown and how those exploiting it should be policed...read the wave

 

Hay fever remedies change tack

 

Well in advance of next spring's hay fever season, some interesting new additions have been made to the arsenal of weapons used to fight the allergic reaction.

Pills, masks and nasal sprays are the typical line of defense against the onslaught of cedar pollen. But now, thanks to Lion Corp. and Fumakilla Co., people have the option of spraying their coats instead of their noses and rubbing cream in their nostrils rather than popping pills...read the wave

 

Using Customized Nanoparticles,
UB Scientists Achieve Non-Viral Gene Delivery In Vitro and Track it in Real-Time

 

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A gene therapy method that doesn't rely on potentially toxic viruses as vectors may be growing closer as the result of in vitro research results reported by University at Buffalo scientists in the current online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The paper, which describes the successful uptake of a fluorescent gene by cells using novel nanoparticles developed as DNA carriers at UB, demonstrates that the nanoparticles ultimately may prove an efficient and desirable alternative vector to viruses.

Using confocal microscopy and fluorescent spectroscopy, the UB scientists tracked optically in real-time the process known as transfection, including the delivery of genes into cells, the uptake of genes by the nucleus and their expression...read the wave

 

Protective glass coating for centre

 

VISITORS need not worry about being exposed to harmful rays from the sun when browsing the merchandise at Samsung Digital Media Plaza in Bintang Walk (in front of Lot 10 Shopping Centre). It has just been coated with KristalBond, a liquid protective glass coating.

The glass coating is boldly called the earth's new ozone layer as, according to KristalBond general manager Tan Chee Yuen, it shields off 99% of harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays and 90% of infrared (IR) rays, thus reducing the bleaching effect of sunlight in the dome-like structure...read the wave

 

Vers les nanotechnologies dans l'espace ?

 

La NASA dépense chaque année environ 40 millions de dollars pour la recherche en nanotechnologies. Le Ames Research Center de la NASA, situé en Californie, travaille depuis plusieurs années sur d'éventuelles applications spatiales. Des éléments de démonstration utilisant des nanotubes de carbone ont déjà été mis au point, tels un capteur pouvant servir lors de missions de cosmochimie, ou un spectromètre à rayons X, susceptible de servir à l'exploration du sol martien à l'horizon 2010.

Lors d'un congrès sur les nanotechnologies sponsorisé par la NASA en 2004 avaient été identifiées six champs potentiels d'applications spatiales...read the wave

 

Climpse Into Tomorrow: Nanotech Metrology

 

The future of nanotech metrology is being shaped in advanced laboratories such as NIST's (Gaithersburg, Md.) Nanoelectronic Device Metrology Project, headed by Curt Richter. The project team is developing metrology to enable new nanotechnologies (such as silicon-based quantum devices, molecular electronics and organic thin-film transistors) to supplement or supplant conventional CMOS devices. Richter makes the point that by "metrology" NIST means measurement as opposed to industry, which views it as online process monitoring. Thus, much of NIST's "metrology" industry would call "analytical characterization," which is what is needed today to meet future device needs...read the wave

 

Rebuilding Things "Atom by Atom"

Nanoscience expert Chad Mirkin discusses the promise of supersmall materials, what breakthroughs are likely, and what's just hype

 

Chad Mirkin is a world leader in a field with potential that's near limitless: Nanotechnology. Governments, venture funds, and angel investors are pouring billions of dollars into the area, hoping that the ability to manipulate materials at the atomic level will produce revolutionary medicines, metals, and fuels.

Mirkin is director of Northwestern University's Institute for Nanotechnology, one of the field's research hot spots. He says while certain aspects of nano...read the wave

 

Nanotechnology boost for medical diagnosis

 

Don't tell Prince Charles, but scientists in the US have turned to nanotechnology in the fight against cancer. While HRH's worries over the science of the very small sparked headlines last year about the world being consumed by "grey goo", doctors at Harvard medical school have been injecting magnetic nanoparticles to track tumours.

The millions of miniature metal balls flood the body and concentrate in healthy lymph nodes. Using medical imaging equipment, the scientists then scan cancer patients for the particles to see if their nodes are normal or malignant, which show a different pattern. This tells the doctors how far the disease has spread and influences how it is treated...read the wave

 

Mega fear over something nano

 

If you believe the hype, the nanotechnology revolution will deliver a future of unprecedented material abundance for everyone, limitless energy, ecological sustainability, improved human health and performance, and smarter, cheaper and more efficient materials and products.

But there is another nanotechnological future that we are beginning to hear more about. This is one of toxic nanoparticle pollution, powerful new military equipment and weapons, ubiquitous surveillance devices, widening global inequities and the further concentration of corporate ownership and control across all industrial sectors.

Nanotechnology refers to a new range of...read the wave

 

Grey Goo's Sticky Mess

 

BBC Radio 4's Analysis: Grey Goo's Sticky Mess, will be broadcast on Thursday, 30 December, 2004 at 20:30 GMT.

The programme transcript will be available in the New Year.

What could happen when we tinker with matter at the tiniest level - nanotechnology - has got royalty and even eminent scientists worried.

But the technology that some fear could bring so-called "grey goo" also offers us huge opportunities in energy, electronics and biomedicine.

In this week's Analysis Natasha Loder asks if the potential of nanotechnology merits running risks with the unknown and how those exploiting it should be policed...read the wave

 

Hay fever remedies change tack

 

Well in advance of next spring's hay fever season, some interesting new additions have been made to the arsenal of weapons used to fight the allergic reaction.

Pills, masks and nasal sprays are the typical line of defense against the onslaught of cedar pollen. But now, thanks to Lion Corp. and Fumakilla Co., people have the option of spraying their coats instead of their noses and rubbing cream in their nostrils rather than popping pills...read the wave

 

Using Customized Nanoparticles,
UB Scientists Achieve Non-Viral Gene Delivery In Vitro and Track it in Real-Time

 

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A gene therapy method that doesn't rely on potentially toxic viruses as vectors may be growing closer as the result of in vitro research results reported by University at Buffalo scientists in the current online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The paper, which describes the successful uptake of a fluorescent gene by cells using novel nanoparticles developed as DNA carriers at UB, demonstrates that the nanoparticles ultimately may prove an efficient and desirable alternative vector to viruses.

Using confocal microscopy and fluorescent spectroscopy, the UB scientists tracked optically in real-time the process known as transfection, including the delivery of genes into cells, the uptake of genes by the nucleus and their expression...read the wave

 

Protective glass coating for centre

 

VISITORS need not worry about being exposed to harmful rays from the sun when browsing the merchandise at Samsung Digital Media Plaza in Bintang Walk (in front of Lot 10 Shopping Centre). It has just been coated with KristalBond, a liquid protective glass coating.

The glass coating is boldly called the earth's new ozone layer as, according to KristalBond general manager Tan Chee Yuen, it shields off 99% of harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays and 90% of infrared (IR) rays, thus reducing the bleaching effect of sunlight in the dome-like structure...read the wave

 

Vers les nanotechnologies dans l'espace ?

 

La NASA dépense chaque année environ 40 millions de dollars pour la recherche en nanotechnologies. Le Ames Research Center de la NASA, situé en Californie, travaille depuis plusieurs années sur d'éventuelles applications spatiales. Des éléments de démonstration utilisant des nanotubes de carbone ont déjà été mis au point, tels un capteur pouvant servir lors de missions de cosmochimie, ou un spectromètre à rayons X, susceptible de servir à l'exploration du sol martien à l'horizon 2010.

Lors d'un congrès sur les nanotechnologies sponsorisé par la NASA en 2004 avaient été identifiées six champs potentiels d'applications spatiales...read the wave

 

Climpse Into Tomorrow: Nanotech Metrology

 

The future of nanotech metrology is being shaped in advanced laboratories such as NIST's (Gaithersburg, Md.) Nanoelectronic Device Metrology Project, headed by Curt Richter. The project team is developing metrology to enable new nanotechnologies (such as silicon-based quantum devices, molecular electronics and organic thin-film transistors) to supplement or supplant conventional CMOS devices. Richter makes the point that by "metrology" NIST means measurement as opposed to industry, which views it as online process monitoring. Thus, much of NIST's "metrology" industry would call "analytical characterization," which is what is needed today to meet future device needs...read the wave

 

Rebuilding Things "Atom by Atom"

Nanoscience expert Chad Mirkin discusses the promise of supersmall materials, what breakthroughs are likely, and what's just hype

 

Chad Mirkin is a world leader in a field with potential that's near limitless: Nanotechnology. Governments, venture funds, and angel investors are pouring billions of dollars into the area, hoping that the ability to manipulate materials at the atomic level will produce revolutionary medicines, metals, and fuels.

Mirkin is director of Northwestern University's Institute for Nanotechnology, one of the field's research hot spots. He says while certain aspects of nano...read the wave

 

Nanotechnology boost for medical diagnosis

 

Don't tell Prince Charles, but scientists in the US have turned to nanotechnology in the fight against cancer. While HRH's worries over the science of the very small sparked headlines last year about the world being consumed by "grey goo", doctors at Harvard medical school have been injecting magnetic nanoparticles to track tumours.

The millions of miniature metal balls flood the body and concentrate in healthy lymph nodes. Using medical imaging equipment, the scientists then scan cancer patients for the particles to see if their nodes are normal or malignant, which show a different pattern. This tells the doctors how far the disease has spread and influences how it is treated...read the wave

 

Predicting your cancer risk & Creating
3-D pictures of cancer spread

 

Finding lymph node metastases in cancer

In a paper published in the premier open-access medical journal PloS Medicine this month, Mukesh Harisinghani and Ralph Weissleder describe a technique that could begin to make the staging of cancer both more accurate and less invasive. Correct staging of cancers is one of the most important parts of the work up of patients for both prediction of outcome and determination of the most appropriate treatment. But at the moment many staging techniques either require surgery or are not sufficiently accurate.

The authors used extremely small magnetic particles (called nanoparticles) that homed to lymph nodes, and then...read the wave

 

Israeli nano-lubricant could mean no more oil changes

 

Imagine buying a new car and driving it for 10 years without once taking it for an oil-and-lube job. The engine won't even have a dipstick to check the oil. That's what the future holds if Rehovot-based ApNano Materials succeeds in marketing NanoLub.

NanoLub is the world's first synthetic lubricant to be based on spherical inorganic nanoparticles. As with other lubricants, its job is to reduce wear and friction between moving objects (like engine parts), enabling longer operation and higher efficiency. NanoLub dramatically outperforms every known commercial solid lubricant marketed today...read the wave

 

Technion invests $750,000 in holographic storage co Matteris

Matteris is developing a holographic storage system that raises information storage capacity more than 1,000-fold.

 

Matteris is developing a holographic storage system for storing greater volumes of information than currently possible. The product is designed to save large and small enterprises money, and will later be adapted for home use.

Holographic storage is an innovative optical method for information storage, which exploits a material's volume and not just its surface, enabling the storage of 1,000 times more information than other storage systems. Matteris has developed an innovative material for holographic information storage, based on innovative nanotechnology materials know-how...read the wave

 

UK helps engineering students think small in nanotechnology

 

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Some undergraduate students at the University of Kentucky are learning about nanotechnology in a new certificate program.

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of particles that are as small as one-eighty-thousandth the width of a human hair. It's a field that is already having huge implications in science and engineering.

"So much research is going on around this field," said Pinar Menguc, a professor of mechanical engineering at UK, "but the concepts required to understand nanotechnology are not taught in the mainstream curriculum."

Menguc said in 10 years, nanotechnology will be completely integrated into engineering courses, but in the meantime, UK students needed a chance to get ahead...read the wave

 

Just How Old Can He Go?

 

Ray Kurzweil began his dinner with a pill. "A starch blocker," he explained, "one of my 250 supplements a day."

The risk of encountering starchy food seemed slight indeed at the vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan he had selected, where the fare was heavy with kale, seaweed, tofu, steamed broccoli and bean sprouts. But Mr. Kurzweil, a renowned inventor and computer scientist, has strong views on dietary matters.

His regimen for longevity is not everyone's cup of tea (preferably green tea, Mr. Kurzweil advises, which contains extra antioxidants to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer). And most people would scoff at his notion that emerging trends in medicine, biotechnology and nanotechnology open a realistic path to...read the wave

 

NanoDynamics announces Asian deal

 

A Buffalo company that specializes in thinking small has finalized a distribution agreement that will take it into the Japanese and Korean markets.

NanoDynamics Inc. announced Monday that its nano- and micron-sized metal powders will be marketed in Japan and Korea by Kanematsu-KGK, a Japanese distributor of advanced materials and machine tools...read the wave

 

MIT cheers his malaria fight, cell by tiny cell

 

Mumbai, On the world map of medicine’s war against malaria, an engineer with roots in IIT Chennai is cutting new headway from a lab at MIT, Massachusetts.

His first love is not biology, but non-living materials and structures at the nano scale: 1/80,000th the breadth of a human hair.

Subra Suresh (48), head of MIT’s department of materials science and engineering since 2000, has manoeuvred engineering tools that probe mechanical properties of materials, to provide new quantitative insights into how malaria affects human red blood cells...read the wave

 

Iranian NanoTechnology Newsletter # 74

 

Creating a sticky situation

 

If humans ever gain the ability to crawl up walls like geckos, you can bet that it might have something to do with nanotechnology research.

Creating an artificial version of the tiny fibers on geckos' toes is just one research project among many at Nanosys in Palo Alto. Even if the product, dubbed ``nano fur,'' doesn't pan out in consumer products such as sneakers for walking up walls, Nanosys believes the technology will be an important tool for molecular researchers.

Founded in 2001, Nanosys is creating...read the wave

 

Molecular Motors

 

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology closed his visionary 1959 talk on the potential of nanotechnology, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," by offering a prize to the first person "who makes a motor which can be controlled from the outside and, not counting the lead-in wires, is only a 1/64 th-inch cube." That's half the thickness of a credit card.

What Feynman didn't realize at the time, and couldn't have known, was that he was already in possession of trillions of devices far smaller and more powerful than he imagined. To utter this challenge and to...read the wave

 

UCSB scientists build nanoscale 'jigsaw' puzzles made of RNA

Germany recognised as European leader in nanotechnology

 

Germany has been recognised as a European leader in nanotechnology.

Currently, more than half of Europe’s nanotechnology companies are from Germany and of all the patent applications from across the world, German researchers are only beaten by the Americans in terms of quantity.

“We’ve made huge progress in the past six years,” said Ulrich Kasparick, Parliamentary Secretary of State for Education and Research (BMBF)...read the wave

 

Nanotechnologies : la France dope la science du petit

 

Le ministre délégué à la Recherche, François d’Aubert, s'est rendu au CEA Grenoble pour présenter le programme "Nanosciences-Nanotechnologies", l’un des programmes thématiques de la future Agence nationale de la recherche dans lequel le CEA sera fortement engagé.

Le programme Nanosciences-Nanotechnologies sera coordonné par l’Agence nationale de la recherche, pour une durée de trois ans. Il sera mis en œuvre dans le cadre d’un réseau d’innovation technologique, le Réseau national en nanosciences et en nanotechnologies (R3N)...read the wave

 

France provides 210 million euro for nanotechnologies

 

France will increase its funding for nanosciences and nanotechnologies from 30 million to 70 million euro over three years, the country's Research Minister, François d'Aubert, has announced.

Speaking at the launch of France's new National Research Agency, which will officially start operating in January, Mr d'Aubert explained that every effort possible would be made to maintain France's position as a world leader in nanotechnologies.

'A market of several hundred billion euro will open up to French enterprises by 2010, on condition that we know how to anticipate this technological revolution, prepare the discoveries upstream and transform the trials downstream, by making all the actors in this field work in perfect synergy,' said Mr d'Aubert...read the wave

 

Results of nanotechnology survey highlight wants and needs of Europe's scientists

 

The results of an online survey on 'a European strategy for nanotechnology' illustrate the areas that Europe's researchers consider should be a priority. Respondents overwhelmingly called for more European funding, new infrastructure, further nanotechnology education and training, increased international cooperation and a dialogue with society. The survey was conducted by Nanoforum, a thematic network funded under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), in collaboration with the European Commission.

Over 90 per cent of respondents agreed that...read the wave

 

New products loom on nanotech horizons

Coming soon: 'Smart' dust, light bulbs that last forever

 

Beyond the cutting edge products being created with nanotechnology, just beyond the horizon, lies even more technology that’s not quite available. These are the kinds of products that researchers are working on that may change our lives two, three, five years down the line. And these products are so small you need extremely powerful electron and tunneling microscopes just to see them.

The list includes atmospheric sensors no bigger than specks of dust and a light bulb that never burns out...read the wave

 

Taking a look back from 2020

 

Commentary--With this column, Peter Cochrane and silicon.com are pleased to announce the winners of our competition for the best 'Uncommon Sense' idea.

The first-prize winner is Ian McNairn, an IT professional, trained biologist and serious photographer living in Buckinghamshire, England. He's been reading Peter's columns on silicon.com for over two years...read the wave

 

US expert calls for more joint efforts with Indian scientists

 

THOUGH the United States prefers better ties with Pakistan when it comes to international diplomacy, it’s Indian brains that the Americans praise in the context of science and technology. Eminent scientist Dr Thomas Weber, representing the US-based National Science Foundation (NSF), on Sunday called for further collaboration between Indian and American scientists in the edge cutting research areas of nanoscience.

Speaking at a three-day Indo-US workshop on ‘Collaborations and Networking in Materials for 2020’ at the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Dr Weber acknowledged the contribution of Indian scientists in advanced research...read the wave

 

Exploring the Next Wave in Optics

 

A Sterling company called 4Wave is trying to turn its nanotechnology materials into big things in the optical component market.

"We're in the business of developing materials that are created one atomic layer at a time," said Trey Middleton, vice president of business development for 4Wave. The company's technology, called biased target deposition, is used to create optical films for 4Wave's main product: a multi-filter chip. The chip is the heart of a multiplexer, a device that filters the light used in high-speed fiber optic cables to transmit the zeroes and ones of computer language...read the wave

 

DNA may hold key to information
processing and data storage

 

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--The DNA molecule--nature's premier data storage material--may hold the key for the information technology industry as it faces demands for more compact data processing and storage circuitry. A team led by Richard Kiehl, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, has used DNA's ability to assemble itself into predetermined patterns to construct a synthetic DNA scaffolding with regular, closely spaced docking sites that can direct the assembly of circuits for processing or storing data. The scaffolding has the potential to self-assemble components 1,000 times as densely as the best information processing circuitry and 100 times the best data storage circuitry now in the pipeline...read the wave

 

Nanotubes probably safe, Nobel winner says

 

Will nanotubes be the next asbestos and cause massive health problems? Probably not, says Richard Smalley, the Nobel Prize winner who discovered fullerene carbon, the carbon used in nanotubes. But scientists, health officials and others who work closely with the thin carbon coils will need to demonstrate extreme caution, he says.

Carbon nanotubes have emerged as a miracle material that could revolutionize a number of industries. Questions about their...read the wave

 

Nanosat in Space

 

Kourou, French Guiana, December 18, 2004 - Arianespace has successfully launched the Helios IIA observation satellite for the French, Belgian and Spanish ministries of defense.

Following a flight lasting 60 minutes and 8 seconds, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle accurately injected Helios IIA into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. The mission also deployed six auxiliary payloads: four Essaim micro-satellites and two other small spacecraft, Parasol and Nanosat...read the wave

 

Outcome of the Open Consultation on the European Strategy for Nanotechnology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

Nanoforum is a thematic network funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme (Growth programme, contract number G5RT-CT-2002-05084). The contents of this report are the responsibility of the authors.

The content of this report is based on information collected in a survey and supplied to Nanoforum in good faith by external sources believed to be accurate. No responsibility is assumed by Nanoforum for errors, inaccuracies or omissions...read the wave

 

Nanotechnologie en Europa
Resultaten van de Opiniepeiling door Nanoforum en de Europese Commissie

 

Nanoforum presenteerde vandaag de resultaten van de enquête over nanotechnologie in Europa aan. Bijna 750 mensen namen de moeite de online enquête op www.nanoforum.org in te vullen of e-mailden de Europese Commissie. Er is brede steun voor de “geïntegreerde en verantwoordelijke” strategie van de Europese Commissie, zoals voorgesteld in de Communicatie “Naar een Europese strategie voor nanotechnologie”, van mei j.l. Veel mensen benadrukten de noodzaak van een investeringsimpuls in Europees onderzoek en innovatie, om de internationale concurrentie bij te blijven. Tegelijkertijd moet zo snel mogelijk onderzoek gedaan worden naar mogelijke gezondheids en milieurisico’s en naar maatschappelijke aspecten. De Europese Commissie gebruikt de resultaten van de opiniepeiling voor het ontwikkelen van een Actieplan voor nanotechnologie...read the wave

 

Future Technology : Byelorussia

Liposomes with filling

 

Byelorussian scientists are developing their own, very promising option of drug formulation to fight against tuberculosis. Initial tests on animals have proved that it is possible to significantly increase therapy efficiency and to reduce side effects. The so-called liposomes - tiny lipidic corpuscles "filled with" drug substance - allow to achieve this goal.

Byelorussian scientists have learned to synthesize new antituberculosis antibiotic drug formulation - liposomal rifampicin. Tests on laboratory animals have brought out clearly that the liposomal preparation is twice as efficacious as ordinary rifampicin. The point is that the researchers suggest that antibiotic should not be used by itself, but enclosed into lipidic containers - liposomes...read the wave

This news is brought to you courtesy of Science News Agency "InformNauka" (Moscow)

 

Interested in considerations about intelligent nanosystems ?

 

Here is an (hypothetical) example:

An "intelligent" nanoparticle unit could imitate a neural network. It could be a simple mixture of a few nanoparticles N and o:

N o N o N
o N o N o
N o N o N
o N o N o

N: Its state fluctuates. A neuron - a cell of the neural network.
o: Particle with memory properties. Represents the kind of connection between N-cells

The goal is to create a desired
- physical!
- chemical!
- mechanical (could be important for a NANOFACTORY!)
- or information-processing
behaviour of the "intelligent" nanoparticle unit - by a simple "evolution" process.

Such "intelligent" nanoparticle unit is organised a way that it is always able to create the correct conditions at the correct time and at the correct place, depending on the instantaneous values of certain ambient conditions.

For example: The intelligent nanoparticle unit could learn to do something (e.g. to rotate) when a specific local(!) event happens.

Contact Carsten Zander and …read the wave

 

NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has launched the Nano Teaming Site

 

The NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has launched the Nano Teaming Site ( https://nano.nci.nih.gov/teaming/ ) to serve the growing need within research community to identify potential areas of collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and sectors.

The Nano Teaming Site contains information on investigators interested in nanotechnology and its application to reducing suffering and death due to cancer. The site is a user-driven database to enable researchers to explore partnering opportunities with other participating researchers with various areas of expertise.

Each participant creates a simple profile that contains contact information, affiliation and specific area(s) of expertise. Investigators can then search for other researchers with specific areas of expertise in particular organizations, identifying collaborative opportunities across the various disciplines participating in cancer nanotechnology research and development.

As information is gathered, the Nano Teaming Site will be a valuable tool for the cancer research community by facilitating the initial interfaces among investigators across multiple disciplines and sectors.

The Nano Teaming Site is posted on the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer website at http://nano.cancer.gov

Stem cells transplanted to female foetus

 

AlphaGalileo --- A Swedish case where a certain type of stem cells has been transplanted to a foetus with a serious disease, was made public today. The results suggest that fetal mesenchymal stem cells may be a valuable source for transplantation and cell therapies.

A female foetus with multiple intrauterine fractures, diagnosed as severe osteogenesis imperfecta, was transplanted with HLA-mismatched mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the 32nd week of gestation. At 35 weeks, the baby girl was delivered by caesarean section. At nine months of age patient lymphocyte
proliferation against donor MSCs was not observed in co-culture, indicating that the patient was not immunised against the allogeneic cells...read the wave

 

Tiny technology from Israel could give world a big boost

 

In 1959, physicist, bongo player and lothario Richard Feynman asked why scientists couldn’t engrave the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin.

Professor Uri Sivan’s response: Kid stuff.

The chief of nanotechnology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology has progressed way beyond pinheads, instead crafting a transistor utilizing gold, bacterial DNA and a wire one-thousandth the width of the hair in your comb.

It isn’t that he’s created the world’s smallest transistor, admitted Sivan, in town this week for an international scientific conference in San Francisco. Others have built smaller. But Sivan and his team have created the world’s first transistor that, in essence, built itself...read the wave

 

Test tube transistor devised via molecular lithography

 

Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology have developed what the university claims is a "transistor in a test tube", built via sequence-specific molecular lithography.

In a paper presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) this week, the Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa) claimed to have developed a field-effect transistor via a test tube -- with typical spacing between junctions as small as 10-nm. The functional element in the FET is a semiconducting signal wall carbon nanotube...read the wave

 

A material to save life and limb

FSU developing armor for troops' arms and legs

 

James Thagard held up the black plate - a square of what looked like plastic, created in a lab at Florida State University - and turned it.

The front bore a small entry hole. The back was marred by a misshapen lump the width of a golf ball.

Caught somewhere in the half-inch between was a 9 mm bullet.

It had hit with bone-breaking force but not penetrated.

That could eventually be good news for...read the wave

 

 

 

Outcome of the Open Consultation on the European Strategy for Nanotechnology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

Nanoforum is a thematic network funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme (Growth programme, contract number G5RT-CT-2002-05084). The contents of this report are the responsibility of the authors.

The content of this report is based on information collected in a survey and supplied to Nanoforum in good faith by external sources believed to be accurate. No responsibility is assumed by Nanoforum for errors, inaccuracies or omissions...read the wave

 

Nanotechnologie en Europa
Resultaten van de Opiniepeiling door Nanoforum en de Europese Commissie

 

Nanoforum presenteerde vandaag de resultaten van de enquête over nanotechnologie in Europa aan. Bijna 750 mensen namen de moeite de online enquête op www.nanoforum.org in te vullen of e-mailden de Europese Commissie. Er is brede steun voor de “geïntegreerde en verantwoordelijke” strategie van de Europese Commissie, zoals voorgesteld in de Communicatie “Naar een Europese strategie voor nanotechnologie”, van mei j.l. Veel mensen benadrukten de noodzaak van een investeringsimpuls in Europees onderzoek en innovatie, om de internationale concurrentie bij te blijven. Tegelijkertijd moet zo snel mogelijk onderzoek gedaan worden naar mogelijke gezondheids en milieurisico’s en naar maatschappelijke aspecten. De Europese Commissie gebruikt de resultaten van de opiniepeiling voor het ontwikkelen van een Actieplan voor nanotechnologie...read the wave

 

Future Technology : Byelorussia

Liposomes with filling

 

Byelorussian scientists are developing their own, very promising option of drug formulation to fight against tuberculosis. Initial tests on animals have proved that it is possible to significantly increase therapy efficiency and to reduce side effects. The so-called liposomes - tiny lipidic corpuscles "filled with" drug substance - allow to achieve this goal.

Byelorussian scientists have learned to synthesize new antituberculosis antibiotic drug formulation - liposomal rifampicin. Tests on laboratory animals have brought out clearly that the liposomal preparation is twice as efficacious as ordinary rifampicin. The point is that the researchers suggest that antibiotic should not be used by itself, but enclosed into lipidic containers - liposomes...read the wave

This news is brought to you courtesy of Science News Agency "InformNauka" (Moscow)

 

Interested in considerations about intelligent nanosystems ?

 

Here is an (hypothetical) example:

An "intelligent" nanoparticle unit could imitate a neural network. It could be a simple mixture of a few nanoparticles N and o:

N o N o N
o N o N o
N o N o N
o N o N o

N: Its state fluctuates. A neuron - a cell of the neural network.
o: Particle with memory properties. Represents the kind of connection between N-cells

The goal is to create a desired
- physical!
- chemical!
- mechanical (could be important for a NANOFACTORY!)
- or information-processing
behaviour of the "intelligent" nanoparticle unit - by a simple "evolution" process.

Such "intelligent" nanoparticle unit is organised a way that it is always able to create the correct conditions at the correct time and at the correct place, depending on the instantaneous values of certain ambient conditions.

For example: The intelligent nanoparticle unit could learn to do something (e.g. to rotate) when a specific local(!) event happens.

Contact Carsten Zander and …read the wave

 

NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has launched the Nano Teaming Site

 

The NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer has launched the Nano Teaming Site ( https://nano.nci.nih.gov/teaming/ ) to serve the growing need within research community to identify potential areas of collaboration across disciplines, organizations, and sectors.

The Nano Teaming Site contains information on investigators interested in nanotechnology and its application to reducing suffering and death due to cancer. The site is a user-driven database to enable researchers to explore partnering opportunities with other participating researchers with various areas of expertise.

Each participant creates a simple profile that contains contact information, affiliation and specific area(s) of expertise. Investigators can then search for other researchers with specific areas of expertise in particular organizations, identifying collaborative opportunities across the various disciplines participating in cancer nanotechnology research and development.

As information is gathered, the Nano Teaming Site will be a valuable tool for the cancer research community by facilitating the initial interfaces among investigators across multiple disciplines and sectors.

The Nano Teaming Site is posted on the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer website at http://nano.cancer.gov

Stem cells transplanted to female foetus

 

AlphaGalileo --- A Swedish case where a certain type of stem cells has been transplanted to a foetus with a serious disease, was made public today. The results suggest that fetal mesenchymal stem cells may be a valuable source for transplantation and cell therapies.

A female foetus with multiple intrauterine fractures, diagnosed as severe osteogenesis imperfecta, was transplanted with HLA-mismatched mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the 32nd week of gestation. At 35 weeks, the baby girl was delivered by caesarean section. At nine months of age patient lymphocyte
proliferation against donor MSCs was not observed in co-culture, indicating that the patient was not immunised against the allogeneic cells...read the wave

 

Tiny technology from Israel could give world a big boost

 

In 1959, physicist, bongo player and lothario Richard Feynman asked why scientists couldn’t engrave the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin.

Professor Uri Sivan’s response: Kid stuff.

The chief of nanotechnology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology has progressed way beyond pinheads, instead crafting a transistor utilizing gold, bacterial DNA and a wire one-thousandth the width of the hair in your comb.

It isn’t that he’s created the world’s smallest transistor, admitted Sivan, in town this week for an international scientific conference in San Francisco. Others have built smaller. But Sivan and his team have created the world’s first transistor that, in essence, built itself...read the wave

 

Test tube transistor devised via molecular lithography

 

Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology have developed what the university claims is a "transistor in a test tube", built via sequence-specific molecular lithography.

In a paper presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) this week, the Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa) claimed to have developed a field-effect transistor via a test tube -- with typical spacing between junctions as small as 10-nm. The functional element in the FET is a semiconducting signal wall carbon nanotube...read the wave

 

A material to save life and limb

FSU developing armor for troops' arms and legs

 

James Thagard held up the black plate - a square of what looked like plastic, created in a lab at Florida State University - and turned it.

The front bore a small entry hole. The back was marred by a misshapen lump the width of a golf ball.

Caught somewhere in the half-inch between was a 9 mm bullet.

It had hit with bone-breaking force but not penetrated.

That could eventually be good news for...read the wave

 

Scientists at Infineon Technologies Build the World`s Smallest Non-Volatile Flash Memory Cell

 

Munich, Germany – In a research breakthrough that has broken records in the semiconductor industry, scientists at Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) have built the world’s smallest non-volatile flash memory cell. The new memory cell is measuring a mere 20 nanometers – approximately 5,000 times thinner than a human hair. Given that all manufacturing-related challenges - including that of the lithography - can be resolved, the new development would make nonvolatile memory chips with a capacity of 32 Gbit possible within a few years. That is eight times the capacity of what is currently available on the market...read the wave

 

Wissenschaftler enträtseln Quanteneigenschaften exotischer Materialien

 

Deutsch-amerikanisches Forscherteam beobachtet erstmals sprunghafte Änderung des "Fermivolumens" in einem quantenkritischen Material

Eine der wesentlichen Aufgaben moderner Materialforschung besteht in der Aufklärung der elektronischen Eigenschaften neuartiger Substanzen. Denn hiervon verspricht man sich Fortschritte in der Informationsverarbeitung (kleinere und schnellere Rechner), in der Messtechnik oder der Energieumwandlung. Doch bei der Suche nach Materialien mit radikal neuen elektronischen Eigenschaften stoßen Forscher auch auf experimentelle Befunde, die in den gängigen Physiklehrbüchern nicht erklärt werden. Experimentalphysiker des Max-Planck-Instituts für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe in Dresden sowie Theoretiker der Rice University und der Rutgers University (beide USA) haben jetzt eine neue Erklärung geliefert, auf welche Weise Quanteneffekte zu einigen der seltsamen elektronischen Eigenschaften führen, die man in der Materialklasse der "Schwere-Fermionen-Metalle" beobachtet hat (Nature, 16. Dezember 2004)...read the wave

 

LCD as a molecular magnifying glass

 

AlphaGalileo --- Dutch researcher Johan Hoogboom has developed a technique for making LCDs (liquid crystal displays) without the need for cleanrooms. This technique is simpler and cheaper than current methods and is based entirely upon the self-ordering of molecules on a surface. Furthermore, the chemist has shown that these LCDs can be used to make DNA visible to the naked eye.

Hoogboom constructed a surface that can align liquid-crystal molecules. For this he designed and produced an aromatic chemical compound. When this was applied to the surface used for the manufacture of LCDs, the molecules automatically organised themselves into a regular pattern. These surfaces could then align liquid crystals, which is a requirement for the construction of LCDs...read the wave

 

UAlbany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Awards First Ph.D. Degrees in Nanoscale Science

 

Albany, NY - December 16, 2004 - The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany - State University of New York, the first college devoted to the study of nanoscale scientific concepts, today announced that it has awarded the world's first Ph.D. degrees in nanoscience. Drs. Spyridon Skordas and Wanxue Zeng received their degrees during the UAlbany December Graduation Ceremony.

Nanotechnology is a cross-disciplinary scientific platform that involves manipulating matter at the atomic scale and holds great promise for innovation in such fields as chip making, fuel cell development, drug delivery and sensor technology. Skordas's Ph.D. dissertation examined metal organic chemical vapor deposition of aluminum oxide ultra-thin films for advanced transistor applications. Zeng explored plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition of atomically controlled refractory thin films. Both dissertations target applications in nanoscale devices for emerging generations of computer nanochips...read the wave

 

The future's bright for diamond dust

 

Expensive, bulky TV screens could be a thing of the past thanks to a collaboration between the University of Bristol and Advance Nanotech announced today to develop new display technology made from diamond dust.

Advance Nanotech, a US-based company that acquires and commercializes nanotechnology applications worldwide, has committed £1 million to a two year multidisciplinary project combining the University's nanotechnology expertise in the fields of chemistry and physics. It opens up the possibility of cheaper and more power efficient flat panel displays, for use in wide screen digital TVs and many other applications...read the wave

 

Smart Dust Advances in Russia

 

Smart Dust is going to be something really special. But not just yet. Like a toddler learning to walk by “furniture cruising,” staggering wobbly from stationary object to object, Smart Dust is looking for its sea legs.

The birth of Smart Dust potential was based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and the journey toward full-on Distributed-Sensing Smart Dust—which is the goal for final evolution of this technology--will be a long and arduous one.

First thorny issues such as cost (perhaps the most important early consideration); industry and platform standardization (which are in the throes of coming together right now); infrastructure (the crucial chip, semiconductor and hardware development), connectivity (How will these motes communicate with each other and what’s the best base station in the future? Bluetooth? Wi-Fi? WiMax? Or some other, as yet undiscovered communications technology?); software (getting the necessary programs and applications right); and responding to the needs of the marketplace are all very critical areas...read the wave

 

Intermec Introduces Revolutionary New EXCELerate Bar Code Laser Scanning Technology

 

Intermec Technologies Corp., a pioneer in automatic data collection, today introduced a revolutionary new bar code laser scanning technology that is more compact and reliable and offers longer product life than current bar code laser scan engines. The new EXCELerate(TM) bar code laser scan engine, based on a technology known as Micro Electro Mechanical System or MEMS, is the result of five years of development collaboration with a leading European research institution.

MEMS devices are manufactured using silicon semiconductor batch fabrication techniques similar to those used for integrated circuits, resulting in new levels of functionality, reliability and sophistication that can be placed on a small silicon chip. MEMS technology produces a...read the wave

 

TAIWAN TO INJECT LARGE FUNDS INTO NANOTECHNOLOGY PROJECTS: VP

 

Taipei, Dec. 15 (CNA) The Taiwan authorities are planning to spend NT$21.5 billion (US$663.27 million) over six years on a national project to develop the nanotechnology and relevant industries, Vice President Annette Lu said Thursday. Addressing the 2004 Taiwan Chemical Technology Forum at the Taipei International Convention Center, Lu said the goal of the project is to create an output value of NT$300 billion in the nanotechnology industry by 2008, with more than 800 companies in the business, while by 2012, the output will expand to NT$1 trillion, with over 1,500 companies in the sector...read the wave

 

Nano News : India

21st century is the age of polymers

 

[Technology India]: Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 15 : Just as the 20th century was called the age of semi-conductors, the 21st century would belong to polymers, according to US scientist and Nobel prize winner Alan G MacDiarmid.

Synthesis of electronic polymers and nano-science has led to a new era in electronics with the invention of "throwaway" plastic chips and nano-fibres smaller than the human hair, Dr MacDiarmid said in his keynote address at an international conference on 'polymers for advanced technologies', organised by the Society for Polymer Science, India...read the wave

 

Smart textiles offer wearable solutions using Nanotechnology

 

Did you hear of a shirt that reads your body parameters and sends information to a remote computer through a wireless communication system?

Have you watched leading athletes perform better on the tracks due to smart fabrics they wear?

This is the wonder of Nano technology! The new age technology that optimises performance and provides smart solutions for the future.

Nano Technology means configuring molecules to change in size and properties for enhancement as in the case of smart fabrics...read the wave

 

Researchers Use Saliva to Detect Head and Neck Cancer

 

Newswise — In one of the first studies using the RNA in saliva to detect cancer, researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center were able to differentiate head and neck cancer patients from a group of healthy subjects based on biomarkers found in their spittle. The study provides a first proof of principle that may result in new diagnostic and early detection tools and will lead to further studies using saliva to detect other cancers.

Published in the Dec. 15, 2004, issue of the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Cancer Research, the study used four RNA biomarkers to detect the presence of head and neck cancer with 91 percent sensitivity and accuracy, said Dr. David Wong, professor and chairman of Oral Biology and Medicine, director of the UCLA School of Dentistry, Dental Research Institute, and a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher...read the wave

 

NASA NANOTECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE MICROELECTRONICS

 

NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley, and Nanoconduction, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., are launching a new partnership to advance scientific and commercial utilization of NASA's innovative nanotechnology research by developing better cooling systems for microelectronics.

Nanotechnology is the ability to control or manipulate matter on the atomic scale, making it possible to create structures, devices and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their small size, approximately 1/10,000th the diameter of a human hair.

Carbon nanotubes are extremely efficient at the transfer of heat, and are especially useful because of their small size, light weight, and mechanical strength...read the wave

 

Tear off a sheet of solar cells

Pliable solar panels that can be stuck to fabrics promise
a go-anywhere electricity supply

 

IMAGINE wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day so campers can have light all night. Or a roll-out plastic sheet you can place on a car's rear window shelf to power a child's DVD player.

Such applications could soon become a reality thanks to a light, flexible solar panel that's a little thicker than photographic film and can easily be applied to everyday fabrics. The thin, bendy solar panels, which could be on the market within three years, are the fruit of a three-nation European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar (H-AS)...read the wave

 

NANONEX DELIVERS VERSATILE NANOIMPRINT TOOL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

 

Nanonex Corp., the world-leading developer and manufacturer of nanoimprint lithography solutions, recently announced the delivery of their NX-2000, Universal Nanoimprintor, to The Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS). The nanoimprintor has been installed in a newly renovated nanotechnology lab at the LPS, a unique and world-renowned research institution associated with the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. The machine will be utilized by a multidisciplinary team of scientists in the pursuit of both fundamental and applied research directed toward the development of state-of-the-art, advanced nanoscale devices.

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a breakthrough method of...read the wave

 

Nanotech makes big strides in life sciences

Tiny drug delivery systems show big potential

 

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials at the molecular level to create products -- even entire industries -- that do not exist today. In this new field, an electron microscope may be a researcher's most important tool -- revolutionizing healthcare, biotechnology, textiles, electronics.

Innovation at the microscopic and molecular scale has long been the stuff of science fiction, promising developments so far out there most people assume they won't live to see them in everyday products...read the wave

 

Nanotechnology Products Help Kids 'Lick' Flu Symptoms

 

CLEVELAND -- Put the Well Kids Zone line of products on your next shopping list. The holidays are fast approaching, but along with the season of good cheer, sleigh bells and snowmen comes the season of winter colds and influenza. Children suffer an average of six to eight colds a year, and this year in particular threatens to be an especially bad flu season, as the United States faces a dangerous flu vaccine shortage leaving thousands vulnerable to this year’s strain. To help combat this year’s winter ailments, Improvita is introducing the Well Kids Zone, a product line designed specifically for children...read the wave

 

Why nanotechnology's the future of IT

 

Just imagine hard drive capable of holding 1000 times as much data than those used in computers today. No, this is not something straight out of any science fiction. It is the future of electronics and computing supported by nanotechnology.

The advances in nanosciences may one day shrink modern day desktop PCs to the size of wrist watches. It's not just the size that is going to matter, the nano-revolution is going to give a big boost to power sources, chip technology and semi-conductors...read the wave

 

Nanotech Yields Deformable Diffraction Grating

Nanotechnology uses perturbations in the optical near-field to significantly influence the optical far-field response.

 

Nanotechnology has captured the imagination of the general public, with many foreseeing the field enabling everything from miraculous medical cures to ingenious smart materials. Of late, however, a healthy level of skepticism about nanotechnology’s real-world promise has been steadily gaining momentum. In the midst of this cautiously skeptical environment now appears a device that does, indeed, seem to be enabled by its inherent nanoscale nature and successfully exploits it.

Dustin Carr along with fellow researchers at Sandia National Laboratories...read the wave

 

Single Magnet Molecules attracting Computer Scientists

 

Computer technologists are always looking out for a way to squeeze more data on a ever shrinking data storage devices or a way to speed up the processing of information. Developments in material science usually benefit computer scientists as they get new toys to play with. Nanotechnology is already buzz word in this field of research. But it seems like computer scientists are now having something more exciting to talk about; the “Single Molecule Magnet” (SMM).

Usually collective behavior of...read the wave

 

'Nano-needle' operates on cell

 

Scientists have performed a delicate surgical operation on a single living cell, using a needle that is just a few billionths of a metre wide.
They claim the procedure could be used to manipulate embryonic stem cells intended for use in medical treatment.

This "nano-needle" was used together with an atomic force microscope (AFM) to penetrate the membrane of a cell to a depth of one or two micrometre...read the wave

 

Nano Research : Canada + France

Advances in understanding of the complexity of living cells: Molecular motors, tubes and adhesives, when a physicist meets a biologist…

 

AlphaGalileo--One of the Institut Curie’s great originalities, the interface between physics and cell biology, is a fertile terrain for discoveries. Dialogue between researchers of different backgrounds drives creativity, as witnessed by the rise in the number of Institut Curie publications on research work that melds physics and biology.

In collaboration with Canadian physicists, biologists of the (CNRS) group headed by Hélène Feracci have developed a model that cast light on intercellular adhesion. At the same time, the physicists of Patricia Bassereau’s (CNRS) team have worked with Institut Curie biologists and theoretical physicists to discover how communication works within cells...read the wave

 

Nano Medicine : USA

Team engineers cell-deforming technique
to help understand malaria

 

Subra Suresh has spent the last two decades studying the mechanical properties of engineered materials from the atomic to the structural scale. So, until recently, the head of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering never thought he'd be a player in the hunt for cures to malaria and pancreatic cancer.

It turns out, however, that Suresh's expertise in nanotechnology is quite applicable to biology and medicine. With colleagues in engineering, science and medicine at MIT, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the universities of Heidelberg and Ulm in Germany, he has adapted state-of-the-art tools for the study of the mechanical properties of materials to the study of living cells...read the wave

 

Method May Help Scientists Connect the Quantum Dots

 

Newswise — Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla have developed a new kind of laser writing: one that shrinks “text” to the size of atoms, then embeds the text into a writing surface as light as air. But with this process, the “ink” is a semiconductor that could write a new chapter in the field of micro-computing.

Basing their work on photolithography, a technique commonly used by microchip makers to print circuitry on silicon wafers, the UMR researchers zapped isolated spots of a silica gel with a laser. In the process, they discovered that they could create tiny semiconducting materials known as quantum dots, which could lead to new advances in electronics, computing and materials science...read the wave

New microscope boost for nanotechnology research.

 

A powerful new microscope, currently available only in three universities in Europe and the USA, will position Britain as a leading centre for nanomaterials, researchers announce today.

The ultra-high performance analytical electron microscope (AEM) will support research programmes at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), an interdisciplinary collaboration between Imperial College London and University College London.

It will provide researchers with extremely high resolution imaging capabilities at resolutions of 0.14 nanometers. The AEM can also analyse...read the wave

 

Tools of the Trade : Austria

EV Group launches a step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography system for industrial fabrication of nanoscale devices

 

SCHÄRDING, Austria - Dec. 14, 2004 - EV Group (EVG), a leading manufacturer of MEMS, nano and semiconductor wafer-processing equipment, said today it will install a fully automated, ultra-violet step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) system at AMO GmbH (AMO) in Germany.

UV-NIL is a next-generation lithography technology and a contender to succeed optical lithography for the 32-nm node, according to the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS). Applications include integrated photonic devices, nanoelectronics, life sciences, patterned media and next-generation memories...read the wave

 

Nano Biz : Canada

Nanotechnology: Quebec in a Leadership Position of a Market Forecast at Several Billion Dollars

 

MONTREAL, CNW Telbec/ - "Canadian leader in nanotechnology,
Quebec can even lay claim to belonging to the international avant-garde, alongside American, European and Asian giants." This statement is from Jean Gaulin, renowned industrialist and chairman of the board of directors of NanoQuébec, a non-profit organization committed to the development and commercial application of nanotechnology. He delivered this message at the organization's press conference, attended by federal and provincial ministers, representatives of the Montreal Metropolitan Community as well as members of industry and academia...read the wave

 

Nano Medicine : USA

Nanotech's medical payoff is coming

 

Chances are, you've heard the term nanotechnology being thrown around as "the next big thing" in science and technology. Chances are also good that you still have no idea what it is.

So why is it such a big deal, and when will we see it?

Nanotechnology is all around you already. Your computer hard drive, the coated fabrics of stain-resistant shirts, fast-absorbing sunscreens, and the bulb-less, LED traffic signals on your streets; they are all examples of the technological breakthrough of the future at work in the present...read the wave

 

Tools of the Trade : USA

CombiMatrix and Nanotech Partner NDC Achieve Milestone with Delivery of Prototype Nanomaterials Discovery Workstation

 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX) (NASDAQ:ACTG) have announced that the CombiMatrix group and its partner, Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation (NDC), achieved a milestone with the delivery of a prototype workstation for the combinatorial discovery and development of new nanomaterials.

CombiMatrix and NDC have a strategic alliance to discover and develop new nanomaterials, nanotechnology tools and associated intellectual property. CombiMatrix has licensed its semiconductor microarray technology exclusively to NDC for use in NDC's combinatorial nanomaterials discovery efforts for applications that include fuel cell catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries, and electro-optic materials for telecommunications and displays...read the wave

 

Nano Electronics : Germany

Infineon Scales DRAM Trench Technology to 70nm

 

Infineon Technologies and Nanya Technology have created a 70nm process technology for future 300mm DRAM production based on deep trench cells.

The technology came out of joint development work by the two companies under the Infineon Nanya Trench Alliance covering 90nm and 70nm DRAM development, and was partially supported by the EPRE fund of the European Community and funding of the State Saxony of the Federal Republic of Germany...read the wave

 

Nano Biz : USA

Tegal Awarded Key Patent for New Magnetron Sputter Source;

New Sputter Source Represents Break Through in Target Efficiency -- Provides Significant Cost Savings to Chip Manufacturers

 

PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tegal Corporation (Nasdaq:TGAL) have announced that it has been granted United States Patent, No. 6,783,638 for the Flat Magnetron sputter source. The invention provides for the use of a greater percentage of the material from the sputter target than in existing conventional physical vapor deposition ("PVD") systems. Direct benefits of the novel design include lowering material cost, enhancing sputtering rate, and increasing deposition system availability. System uptime and availability is a key variable in semiconductor chip manufacturers' actual cost of system ownership...read the wave

 

Nano Products : Global

NanoDynamics to Introduce Next Generation Golf Ball Technology at PGA Merchandise Show

 

NanoDynamics, a leading nanotechnology organization and manufacturer of superior nanomaterials, announced today that it will introduce its revolutionary new golf ball, the NDMX, at the 2005 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida. Frankly Golf will showcase the NDMX golf ball as a Frankly Innovation in the Frankly Golf booth # 3815 from January 27-30, 2005.

The NDMX golf ball incorporates NanoDynamics' patented NDMX technology, which is designed to improve performance by focusing on the physics of a golf ball's rotation and enhancing energy transfer between the club head and golf ball...read the wave

 

Nano Research : USA

Researchers control chemical reactions
one molecule at a time

UCR researchers' findings advance techniques toward
development of nanoscale electronics

 

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside showed that L. P. Hammett's 1937 prediction of the strength of different acids is directly transferable to the activation of individual molecules on metal surfaces using the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) as a nanoscale actuator.

Hammett's original prediction is a cornerstone of physical organic chemistry, which laid the foundation for many quantitative structure activity relationships that are now widely used in fields such as drug design and environmental toxicology...read the wave

 

Nano Research : Canada + France

Advances in understanding of the complexity of living cells: Molecular motors, tubes and adhesives, when a physicist meets a biologist…

 

AlphaGalileo--One of the Institut Curie’s great originalities, the interface between physics and cell biology, is a fertile terrain for discoveries. Dialogue between researchers of different backgrounds drives creativity, as witnessed by the rise in the number of Institut Curie publications on research work that melds physics and biology.

In collaboration with Canadian physicists, biologists of the (CNRS) group headed by Hélène Feracci have developed a model that cast light on intercellular adhesion. At the same time, the physicists of Patricia Bassereau’s (CNRS) team have worked with Institut Curie biologists and theoretical physicists to discover how communication works within cells...read the wave

 

Nano Medicine : USA

Team engineers cell-deforming technique
to help understand malaria

 

Subra Suresh has spent the last two decades studying the mechanical properties of engineered materials from the atomic to the structural scale. So, until recently, the head of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering never thought he'd be a player in the hunt for cures to malaria and pancreatic cancer.

It turns out, however, that Suresh's expertise in nanotechnology is quite applicable to biology and medicine. With colleagues in engineering, science and medicine at MIT, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the universities of Heidelberg and Ulm in Germany, he has adapted state-of-the-art tools for the study of the mechanical properties of materials to the study of living cells...read the wave

 

Method May Help Scientists Connect the Quantum Dots

 

Newswise — Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla have developed a new kind of laser writing: one that shrinks “text” to the size of atoms, then embeds the text into a writing surface as light as air. But with this process, the “ink” is a semiconductor that could write a new chapter in the field of micro-computing.

Basing their work on photolithography, a technique commonly used by microchip makers to print circuitry on silicon wafers, the UMR researchers zapped isolated spots of a silica gel with a laser. In the process, they discovered that they could create tiny semiconducting materials known as quantum dots, which could lead to new advances in electronics, computing and materials science...read the wave

New microscope boost for nanotechnology research.

 

A powerful new microscope, currently available only in three universities in Europe and the USA, will position Britain as a leading centre for nanomaterials, researchers announce today.

The ultra-high performance analytical electron microscope (AEM) will support research programmes at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), an interdisciplinary collaboration between Imperial College London and University College London.

It will provide researchers with extremely high resolution imaging capabilities at resolutions of 0.14 nanometers. The AEM can also analyse...read the wave

 

Tools of the Trade : Austria

EV Group launches a step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography system for industrial fabrication of nanoscale devices

 

SCHÄRDING, Austria - Dec. 14, 2004 - EV Group (EVG), a leading manufacturer of MEMS, nano and semiconductor wafer-processing equipment, said today it will install a fully automated, ultra-violet step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) system at AMO GmbH (AMO) in Germany.

UV-NIL is a next-generation lithography technology and a contender to succeed optical lithography for the 32-nm node, according to the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS). Applications include integrated photonic devices, nanoelectronics, life sciences, patterned media and next-generation memories...read the wave

 

Nano Biz : Canada

Nanotechnology: Quebec in a Leadership Position of a Market Forecast at Several Billion Dollars

 

MONTREAL, CNW Telbec/ - "Canadian leader in nanotechnology,
Quebec can even lay claim to belonging to the international avant-garde, alongside American, European and Asian giants." This statement is from Jean Gaulin, renowned industrialist and chairman of the board of directors of NanoQuébec, a non-profit organization committed to the development and commercial application of nanotechnology. He delivered this message at the organization's press conference, attended by federal and provincial ministers, representatives of the Montreal Metropolitan Community as well as members of industry and academia...read the wave

 

Nano Medicine : USA

Nanotech's medical payoff is coming

 

Chances are, you've heard the term nanotechnology being thrown around as "the next big thing" in science and technology. Chances are also good that you still have no idea what it is.

So why is it such a big deal, and when will we see it?

Nanotechnology is all around you already. Your computer hard drive, the coated fabrics of stain-resistant shirts, fast-absorbing sunscreens, and the bulb-less, LED traffic signals on your streets; they are all examples of the technological breakthrough of the future at work in the present...read the wave

 

Tools of the Trade : USA

CombiMatrix and Nanotech Partner NDC Achieve Milestone with Delivery of Prototype Nanomaterials Discovery Workstation

 

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ:CBMX) (NASDAQ:ACTG) have announced that the CombiMatrix group and its partner, Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation (NDC), achieved a milestone with the delivery of a prototype workstation for the combinatorial discovery and development of new nanomaterials.

CombiMatrix and NDC have a strategic alliance to discover and develop new nanomaterials, nanotechnology tools and associated intellectual property. CombiMatrix has licensed its semiconductor microarray technology exclusively to NDC for use in NDC's combinatorial nanomaterials discovery efforts for applications that include fuel cell catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries, and electro-optic materials for telecommunications and displays...read the wave