Konarka and ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to develop solar steel roof, facades and other construction elements for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in Germany.

Using the coating analysis software, the Orbis provides simultaneous multi-layer film thickness and composition analyses for metal, oxide, nitride and carbide coatings as well as coatings that contain elements within the observable range of the Orbis system from Sodium to Berkelium.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) yestertoday announced awards for three Materials Interdisciplinary Research Teams (MIRT) and nine Centers of Excellence in Materials Research and Innovation, also known as Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC). The awards resulted from the 2011 Materials Research Centers and Teams competition (solicitation NSF 10-568).

3M and IBM announced that the two companies plan to jointly develop the first adhesives that can be used to package semiconductors into densely stacked silicon "towers." The companies are aiming to create a new class of materials, which will make it possible to build, for the first time, commercial microprocessors composed of layers of up to 100 separate chips.

Tegal Corporation has announced that bids for the company's intellectual property portfolio for Nanolayer Deposition Technology (NLD) will be accepted until 5 p.m. PDT on September 30, 2011.

MARSH, TUV-Sued and The Innovation Society St.Gallen cooperatively launch an encompassing nano risk management offer for industrial clients. The nano risk management should offer enterprises more security in dealing with new nano materials, reduce potential liability risks und thus lowering costs for insurance polices and risk loadings.

The ICPC Nanonet Project partners are currently compiling Annual Region Reports on the latest nanoscience and nanotechnology developments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Mediterranean Partnership Countries, and Latin America, to be published in May 2012.

Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and sapphire and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar division, Tempress Systems, has joined Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands in a three-party research collaboration on the N-type Metal Wrap Through PV cell and module technology.

Neutron scientists at the ILL have measured how fast sound travels along DNA to determine its 'stiffness'. These findings help to explain how DNA folds, coils and denatures

QD Vision, Inc., developer of nanotechnology-based optical products for displays and solid state lighting, today announced it has relocated to a new, high-volume production facility in Lexington, Massachusetts to support new products launching in 2012.

The members of the Interdisciplinary Committee have chosen Professor Ozin as the winner of the 2011 Albert Einstein World Award of Science for his pioneering accomplishments in the field of nanochemistry that have helped to define and establish the rapidly expanding discipline, which has now become the cornerstone of modern chemistry.

NT-MDT is pleased to announce that on the 12th of September 2011 the contest of the AFM-images ProIMAGE Contest 2011 begins.

In dem neuen Forschungsprojekt "Electric Control of Magnetization Dynamics (ECOMAGICS)" untersucht Dr. Georg Woltersdorf vom Institut fuer Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik der Uni Regensburg ab Januar 2012 die Eigenschaften von Nanomagneten. Ziel ist es, die Magnetisierungsdynamik in ultraduennen magnetischen Strukturen mit Hilfe von elektrischen Feldern zu steuern.

We are experiencing an unprecedented resurgence of interest in herbal healing, and 'herbal renaissance' is happening all over the globe. The Western world has begun to acknowledge the importance of traditional medicines as they symbolize safety in contrast to the allopathic medicines, which tend to produce undesirable side effects and are lacking in curative value. In the realm of medicine, nanotechnology holds enormous promise for benefitting society by potentially reducing the miseries of people suffering from grave illnesses and save a great number of lives. Traditional Oriental medicine would greatly benefit by integrating with the scientific advancements in medical science and diagnostics in concert with nanotechnology. This trinity may usher in a new era of affordable, safe and effective medicinal system.

Researchers at AIST in Japan have developed a new dispersing agent that allows easy control of the isolated dispersion and aggregation states of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by UV irradiation, through the investigation of the molecular structures of agents.

Do better with less. That is the challenge the researchers of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have set for themselves, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Federal Office of Energy. Their specialty: manufacturing solar cells that are one thousand times thinner than conventional cells. In order to boost the output of the cells, they have developed a new nanopatterning technique.

Am 21. und 22. September treffen sich Wissenschaftler aus Physik, Philosophie, Theologie, Sozialwissenschaften und Informatik im Saarbruecker Schloss, um ueber die ethischen Fragen der Nanotechnologie auf der Konferenz "Size Matters 2011" zu diskutieren.

NanoSight, world-leading manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, will host a new interactive webinar on the latest developments in the methods of exosome characterization using the unique Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis technology, NTA. It will be held on Thursday 22nd September.

The Group held an Electron-Beam Lithography Workshop in partnership with the NCNST (National Centre of Nanoscience and Technology) in Beijing on September 6th, 2011 and will participate in the ChinaNANO 2011.

A group of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, have become the first group in the world to demonstrate that theories about nanoscale spin waves agree with observations. This opens the way to replacing microwave technology in many applications, such as mobile phones and wireless networks, by components that are much smaller, cheaper, and that require less resources.