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Category Archives: Nanotechnology
Researchers use super-high pressures to create super battery
Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
Nanotechnology webinar series on regulatory issues
Building on last year's popular webinars on the regulation of nanotechnology, Keller and Heckman and NanoReg are pleased to announce Nanotechnology Today 2010, a series of four new webinars designed to address important regulatory issues and the challenges associated with the safe development of nano-enhanced products.
Euspen Challenge 2010 for students in micro-, nanotechnology and precision engineering
Carl Zeiss hosts the international competition for upcoming engineers.
Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders’ ring
Researchers have built a thermal-powered insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs.
Shrink Nanotechnologies Enters into Technology Integration and Development Agreement With Lydall, Inc. for Solupore Plastic Membrane
Collaboration seeks to produce effective and low cost single molecule detection sensors for infectious diseases and environmental hazards using Shrink's NanoPetal nanostructure technology.
Jason Carlson Named President and CEO of QD Vision
QD Vision, developer of Quantum Light nanotechnology-based products for solid state lighting and displays, announced that Jason Carlson has been named President and CEO.
Nanomachines in the powerhouse of the cell
Scientists of the University of Freiburg and the University of Frankfurt have elucidated the architecture of the largest protein complex of the cellular respiratory chain. They discovered an unknown mechanism of energy conversion in this molecular complex. The mechanism is required to utilize the energy contained in food.
Understanding complex emulsions
New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.
Nanomaschinen in den Kraftwerken der Zelle
Wissenschaftler der Universitaeten Freiburg und Frankfurt haben die Architektur des groessten Proteinkomplexes der zellulaeren Atmungskette aufgeklaert. Sie entdeckten einen bisher unbekannten Mechanismus der Energieumwandlung in diesem molekularen Komplex.
Touchdown Technologies Introduces Single-Touchdown, Full-Wafer Probe Card for Advanced DRAM Testing
Industry's lowest force probe card protects devices-under-test from potentially damaging stresses.
Search for the bridge to the quantum world
Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to make sense of it. A team of Arizona State University researchers, however, believe they've opened a door to a clearer view of how the common, everyday world we experience through our senses emerges from the ethereal quantum world.
Carving up water
Single water molecules can now be sliced into different atomic components, thanks to the electronic properties of ultrathin oxide films.
NEXX Systems Ships 50th Stratus Electrochemical Deposition System to a Taiwan Foundry
The Stratus S300 tools are used for production of multiple advanced packaging technologies enabling the foundry to deliver high volume, high performance, and low cost of ownership for next generation bumping solutions to its customers as well as to enable further collaboration with NEXX on development of future advanced packaging applications.
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk. They have hand-drawn fine threads of honeybee silk from a 'soup' of silk proteins that they had produced transgenically.
Nano-foundry technique yields ultra-durable probes from diamond
When a team of university and industry researchers tried a novel, foundry-style mold-filling technique to make nanoscale devices, they realized they had discovered a gem.
Evonik Acquires Membrane Extraction Technology
The synergies between MET and Evonik will make the combination company a leading player in Organic Solvent Nanofiltration.
Malvern Displays Complementary Materials Characterization Solutions at ACS Spring Meeting
Malvern Instruments is demonstrating technologies from its broad range of complementary materials characterization solutions at the American Chemical Society Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition, from March 21-25, in San Francisco
Freescale Introduces 90nm Thin Film Storage Flash With FlexMemory For Next-generation Microcontrollers
90nm memory technology to deliver outstanding performance, flexibility, value, reliability and low power for industrial and consumer applications.
European project for Engineered NanoParticle Risk Assessment publishes first newsletter
Launched in May 2009, ENPRA (Engineered NanoParticle Risk Assessment) is a major new European Framework 7 project to develop and implement a novel integrated approach for engineered nanoparticle risk assessment.