A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed 'laser spinning', a novel method of producing glass nanofibres with materials.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and BASF SE have founded IP3 (innovative products, intelligent particles, integrated processes), a joint laboratory for process technology in Karlsruhe.

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of an advanced DWL 66FS maskless laser lithography system to the Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany.

Heidelberg Instruments, GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, a leading supplier of direct write laser lithography systems, announced order for two advanced VPG maskless lithography systems from an Asian based photomask production group.

There is still time until January 8, 2010 to register for the second edition of the Alp NanoBio International School (ANIS2), which will be held in Sterzing/Vipiteno (Bozen, Italy) on January 11-15, 2010.

Huper Optik - inventor of the world's first multi-layered patented nano-ceramic window films was featured in the November 2009 edition of Popular Science Magazine.

Zayani Motors, the authorized car dealership for Mitsubishi and Peugeot in Bahrain announces the launch of their new Huper Optik window tinting facility, along with the offering of brand new nano-ceramic film for front windshield.

Much cheaper fuel cell catalysts using iron instead of platinum - this major scientific breakthrough achieved by INRS researchers has earned a spot in Discover Magazine's 'Top 100 Stories of 2009', in the January/February 2010 issue.

Terahertz research is in the focus the 'German-Russian Centre for terahertz research and technology', funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that has been recently established at the physics faculty in Regensburg.

STMicroelectronics, a leading supplier of MEMS for consumer and portable applications, has integrated a 3-axis digital accelerometer with a 2-axis analog gyroscope in a single module.

The 'Flexible active-matrix cells with selectively poled bifunctional polymer-ceramic nanocomposite for pressure and temperature sensing skin' project has been developed by the research group around Professor Dr. Bernd Ploss, FH Jena, including research groups from Cambridge University, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Joanneum Research Weiz and Princeton University.

A quick and easy way to take 3D images at the nanoscale with a single measurement has been developed by US researchers. The process works by bouncing a single beam of x-rays off an object, then collecting the scattered wave pattern using a curved detector.

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded $945,000 funding from the Australian Solar Institute.

In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on the Return of Temporarily Free Funds of State Corporations to the Budget of the Russian Federation, RUSNANO transferred 66.4 billion rubles (approx. $2.15 bn) to the bank accounts of the Federal Treasury of the Russian Federation.

Angstron Materials Inc., a world leader in the production of nano graphene platelets (NGPs), has been awarded 1.494 million to develop processes for mass-producing chemically modified ('functionalized') NGPs for a nearly limitless number of applications in the aerospace, energy, defense, automotive and telecommunications markets.

Charles Black was named 'for pioneering contributions to the integration of nanometer-scale polymer self-assembly in the fabrication of high-performance semiconductor microelectronic devices'.

DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials L.L.C. (DA NanoMaterials) remains confident in its legal positions following the judge's order denying all summary judgment motions in DA NanoMaterials' patent invalidity/non-infringement lawsuit against Cabot Microelectronics currently under way in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

The Organizing Committee of Nanotoxicology 2010 are pleased to announce the opening of early bird registrations and abstract submissions.

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has recently implemented a product stewardship program to ensure the safe use of its products. Baytubes, BMS multi-wall carbon nanotubes, have also been part of this program.

Seit 1.12.2009 gibt es am Leibniz-Institut fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW) ein Zentrum fuer Spektroelektrochemie. Damit soll die Entwicklung spektroelektrochemischer Methoden vorangetrieben und vor allem fuer die Anwendung in der Industrie attraktiv gemacht werden.