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It was a small wedding. Very small. But big changes are coming from the marriage of medicine and nanotechnology, the new branch of science that deals with things a few millionths of an inch in size.

Think "tiny medicine," and you probably think "Fantastic Voyage," the 1966 movie (and Isaac Asimov book) about a minuscule medical crew submarining through a patient's circulatory system. In fact, some nanomedicine experts foresee a day when invisibly small robots will cruise through the body looking for signs of disease -- albeit without the added attraction of a neoprene-clad Raquel Welch...read the wave

 

(PRWEB) Specifically created for modern mobile phones with color display, camera, internet access, Bluetooth, games and enhanced multimedia functionalities, which require high energy, BatMax answers the battery life demands of the actual handsets and future 3G mobile phones market with high-speed data rate and video communication.

Old and new rechargeable batteries can benefit from BatMax and the product is compatible with all mobile phones.

BatMax is based on the IonXR, a new exclusively developed nanoceramic material...read the wave

 

The government has decided to evaluate the safety of materials produced using nanotechnology, a production method expected to become a core industrial technology in this century.

Under the plan, the effect of nanotech materials on human health and the environment will be examined to establish safety standards and new legislation dealing with the new materials, government sources said.

It is the first time for the government to examine the social influence of a new technology before it goes into practical use.

The decision was made in light of lessons learned from past controversies over new technologies, such as...read the wave

 

BERKELEY – University of California, Berkeley, physicists can now tune in to and hear normally inaudible quantum vibrations, called quantum whistles, enabling them to build very sensitive detectors of rotation or very precise gyroscopes.

A quantum whistle is a peculiar characteristic of supercold condensed fluids, in this case superfluid helium-4, which vibrate when you try to push them through a tiny hole. Richard Packard, professor of physics at UC Berkeley, and graduate student Emile Hoskinson knew that many other researchers had failed to produce a quantum whistle by pushing helium-4 through a tiny aperture, which must be no bigger than a few tens of nanometers across - the size of the smallest viruses and about 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair...read the wave

 

Research offers new opportunities in the fields of renewable energy, pollution control and in the chemical industry.

On January 28th 2005 Science features a paper by researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Haldor Topsøe A/S. The paper demonstrates that by applying the quantum theory you can calculate the performance of catalysts to be used in everything from cars to the future production of hydrogen.

So far the development of new catalysts have been based on very expensive experiments where you test a myriad of different substances. The research now published in Science forms a whole new scientific basis for the understanding of catalytic processes, and consequently for the development of new technology.
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LOWELL, MASS.—Sukant Tripathy, a brilliant chem-ist at the University of Massachusetts, gave a keynote speech at an academic conference in Hawaii just weeks before he was to launch a company that would produce cheap solar power and that would, he believed, forever change the energy industry. Not long after the speech, he went for a swim in the ocean and tragically drowned. Yet the work he left behind is now the foundation for one of today's hottest solar-energy startups, thanks to an entrepreneur named Howard Berke, who decided to commercialize Tripathy's work in 2001, the year after he died. The new company, named in the chemist's honor, is called Konarka after a Hindu sun temple...read the wave

 

LONDON — Scottish Enterprise is to provide funding of £730,000 to assist in development work on advanced silicon chip technology being carried out at University of Glasgow.

The Ultrafast Group at the University of Glasgow’s Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department includes work by Professor Iain Thayne, an supported by a major semiconductor manufacturer, to develop Gallium Arsenide MOSFETs, as a potential additional technology platform to silicon...read the wave

 

New Patents Strengthen Company's Competitive Advantage in Several Multi-Billion-Dollar Healthcare Markets

Biophan Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: BIPH), a developer of next-generation biomedical technology, has announced the issuance of two new patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that extend the Company's competitive edge in the marketplace for the rapidly emerging field of MRI safety and image compatibility for medical instruments and implanted devices. Michael Weiner, CEO of Biophan, made the announcement.

These newly-issued patents build on the base Biophan has already...read the wave

 

New investors include Siemens Venture Capital and Nanotech Partners (Mitsubishi's nanotechnology fund), with existing shareholders also putting in further funds.

Stuart Evans, ceo of Plastic Logic, said: "Following on from our recent announcements of progress in producing flexible displays and our joint development agreement with Siemens, we are delighted to close this first part of our next funding round...read the wave

 

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Magma Design Automation is about to leapfrog its competitors with the first IC design system aimed at 65 nanometers and below, according to Rajeev Madhavan, Magma CEO. At Magma's quarterly earnings conference call Thursday (Jan. 27), Madhavan offered a surprise preview of Cobra, an internal development effort that promises a number of technology breakthroughs.

Madhavan said that Cobra will include the first commercial statistical timing engine, the first "interconnect synthesis," a signoff-quality static timing engine, and a lightning-fast design rule checking (DRC) and layout-versus-schematic (LVS) tool. Cobra will give Magma as broad and full a product line as "traditional" EDA companies, Madhavan said...read the wave

 

Intertek ASG laboratory is the industrial partner in a joint research project with several of Europe's top academic nanotechnology research groups. The partnership has received approval for 2.3 million euros in funding from the EU Sixth Framework Programme, with Intertek ASG allocated 100,000 euros as part of the collaboration. Other partners include the University of Edinburgh (UK) and the Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam (NL).

The partnership represents not only several leading nanotech research groups, but provides a strong analytical network, useful for technology transfer from academia to industry. The nanoscience research project will begin in April, 2005. Interek ASG operates a laboratory offering nanoscale analytical testing...read the wave

 

100 years after Einstein’s landmark work on Brownian motion, physicists have discovered a new concept of temperature that could be the key to explaining how ice and snow particles flow during an avalanche, and could also lead to a better way of handling tablets in the pharmaceutical industry. This research is reported today in a special Einstein Year issue of the New Journal of Physics (www.njp.org) published jointly by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).

Everything from powdery snow to desert sands, from salt to corn flakes are granular materials. Physicists have known for many years that granular materials have many perplexing properties that make them behave at times like solids, liquids, and even gases. This new research reveals for the first time how to measure a concept called “granular temperature” – that could be the key to explaining how they behave.
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A simple, chemical way to attach electrical contacts to molecular-scale electronic components has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The recently patented* method attaches a layer of copper on the ends of delicate molecular components to avoid damage to the components that commonly occurs with conventional techniques.

Molecular electronics--designing carbon-based molecules to act as...read the wave

 

Carbon nanotubes---a hot nanotechnology with many potential uses---may find one of its quickest applications in the next generation of standards for optical power measurements, which are essential for laser systems used in manufacturing, medicine, communications, lithography, space-based sensors and other technologies.

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVE Corporation (NASDAQ:NVEC) have announced that it has been awarded a contract for approximately $520,000 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop next-generation spin-dependent tunneling (SDT) junctions.

The two-year contract was awarded under DARPA's Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) program, which funds cooperative projects between businesses and research institutions. Under the contract, NVE will optimize.
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TRONIC'S Microsystems, an innovative manufacturer of MEMS-based custom components for high value-added applications, today announced it has opened a North American office to address the need for high-performance, reliable MEMS devices using its proven and stable MEMS processes. TRONIC'S has retained MEMS industry veteran Ariel Cao to serve as its North American director of business development.

Establishing a U.S. presence is part of the TRONIC'S strategy to...read the wave

 

Speed professor Robert Cohn and a study team explore many ways to make near-atomic-sized nanotechnology devices. Cohn’s team recently found a novel way to make bridge-like structures of 50-nanometer polymer wires suspended on pillars (below).

Recent news about the possible development by other nations of nuclear and chemically armed ballistic missiles has put American missile defense back in the spotlight. To keep America’s missile defenses up to date, the U.S. Army is looking for help from nanotechnology researchers at the University of Louisville.

Nanotechnology refers to near-atomic-scale wires, tubes and other materials that have a wide range of...read the wave

 

LEUVEN, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics and nanotechnology research institute, has announced that Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., the world's leading information and communications technologies (ICT) company, has become the first long-term strategic partner within IMEC's M4 (Multi-Mode Multi-Media) research program, which focuses on the mobile terminal for the future ubiquitous network era. Under this agreement, Samsung and IMEC intend to develop key technologies for its future portable communication products.

Future generation mobile terminals will start to...read the wave

 

A Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) project has developed new generation prosthetics and artificial limbs that use controlling computer devices.

The MOL SWITCH project has built a single-molecule DNA sequencing device, together with a molecular magnetic switch, which combines a biological motor and a moving magnetic bead. By linking the biological and silicon microelectronics worlds, the partners in the project have been able to move artificial limbs by changing the mechanisms of interface between computers and humans.

'The MOL SWITCH Project is one of the most successful research projects.
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Tokyo (JCNN) - An industry-academia alliance initiated by Kyoto University, Pioneer (TSE: 6773), Mitsubishi Chemical (TSE: 4010), and Rohm (TSE: 6963)has developed two flexible display components: an organic light emitting transistor (OLET) and a flexible transparent substrate with a low thermal expansion coefficient.

The OLET has an electroluminescence (EL) light emitting function built into an organic transistor. An active-matrix display, comprised of the OLETs, requires a substantially fewer number of components than conventional organic EL displays, since it has both driver transistors and light emitting devices embedded. The latest OLET has a gate voltage control capability to control the amount of EL emission, just as conventional OLETs control drain current by gate voltage.

The substrate, called Bionano Fiber Composite, uses a transparent nano fiber less than 100nm in diameter for a filler to achieve a parallel light transmittance of more than 85%. It also has about 1/30 the thermal expansion coefficient of silicon crystal, equivalent to that of quartz glass, and yet has a coefficient of elasticity higher than glass and about the same as aramid fiber.

The alliance will work on the commercialization of the devices, aiming to applications including mobile device displays, e-books, and e-posters.

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At the III International Symposium on Advanced Therapy for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease, held in Madrid, the biotechnological company, Progenika, presented a DNA-chip the purpose of which is the optimisation of the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and Ulcerous Colitis).

The project developing the biochip, known as the IBDChip, was carried out with.
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Check out this TV interview with Adriano Cavalcanti we received this week.
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25 january 2005

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UPTON, NY -- Those seeking to design more efficient catalysts for the production of hydrogen and the control of air pollutants might do well