Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm, today announced a free white paper based on the firm's upcoming report, "Batteries and Ultra-Capacitors for the Smart Power Grid: Market Opportunities 2009-2016". The report will be released in mid July 2009.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Clemson scientist Stephen Klaine has been awarded two $400,000 EPA grants to study a subject that did not exist a decade ago. Klaine is part of the young field of nano-ecotoxicology: the investigation of the impact that nanoparticles have on the environment.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Science and technology are becoming increasingly involved in the world of art. Scientific advances and new technological instruments are opening new doors to fields of knowledge to which they had been previously closed. Art is one such case in point.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Zwei neue Nachwuchsforschungsgruppen hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) im Rahmen ihres Emmy Noether-Programms an der Ruhr-Universität eingerichtet.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. today announced the foundry segment's first functional 65-nanometer multi-time programmable non-volatile memory process technology.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
On the 1st of September 2009, in Sarajevo (Bosnia), the Workshop "Nanoinformatics: New Challenges for Biomedical Informatics at the nano level" wil be held.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
New developments in a substance which emits brilliant light could lead to a revolution in lighting for the home and office in five years, claims a leading UK materials scientist, Professor Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Zecotek Photonics Inc., a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its proprietary Green Fiber Laser GFL 550 has been selected by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) as the main laser source for Raman spectrometers in solid-state research and for confocal microscopy in biomedical (DNA) research.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
AIXTRON AG today announced that it has recently received a further multiple system order from Epistar located at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
The London Centre for Nanotechnology researches spintronics and quantum computing: two of the most promising ways to scale computers down to ever smaller sizes.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Scientists in Germany have found that surface topography can be more important than chemistry for stem cells.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
The wafer-processing section at this year's SEMICON West will feature engineers from CyberOptics Semiconductor discussing the role of a newly developed particle-sensing technology to monitor airborne particles in process equipment in real-time to validate and analyze wafer contamination.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
DuPont today announced plans with the U.S. Department of Energy for a $9 million solar research program - part of the company's overall effort in providing more mainstream solar photovoltaic products for commercial and residential applications.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Russian physicists are trying to synthesize a new chemical element which would fill in the gap in Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements, pertaining to the atomic number 117.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure, quantum encrypted information was sent over an eight node, mesh network.
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Posted on: Jul 2nd, 2009
ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Tooth-colored fillings may be more attractive than silver ones, but the bonds between the white filling and the tooth quickly age and degrade. A Medical College of Georgia researcher hopes a new nanotechnology technique will extend the fillings' longevity.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Vistec Lithography announced it will be shipping a new electron beam lithography system to the United States Army for advanced research and development.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
The expanding clean energy sector in New York State - including research supporting renewable energy technologies and the resulting business and economic development opportunities and impact - will take center stage at the fourth annual New Energy Symposium, to be presented July 8 and 9 by New Energy New York and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Strategic collaboration agreement to speed development of lower-cost, leading-edge imprint masks using mask replication technology based on Jet and Flash Imprint Lithography.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
The Innovation Policy Committee, established by the Bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) on 18 March 2009, held its first session today.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Aus dem Entwicklungsbereich der Electrovac AG wurde die Sparte Nanotechnologie vom Managementteam per Juni 2009 in das unabhängige Unternehmen C-Polymers GmbH übernommen.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through a printing process.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Shape memory alloys can 'remember' a condition. If they are deformed, a temperature change can be enough to bring them back to their original shape. A simulation calculates the characteristics of these materials.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
ESPRC and National Science Foundation of China fund three-year spintronics study.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
SUSS MicroTec, one of the world´s leading suppliers of process and test solutions for microstructuring applications in semiconductor and related markets, today announced a new structure for sales in Asia based in Singapore.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
The Energy Unit at TECNALIA is researching the potential of mass production of microalgae as a crop, working on the selection of stocks, the optimisation of crop production systems (open, closed and mixed), as well as the optimisation of various operation variables in the harvesting and final treatment of the microalgae for their transformation into energy.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
Successful business applications such as drug screening technologies, flat-panel displays and solar-cell designs are amongst the achievements in physics recognised by the Institute of Physics? (IOP) 2009 awards, announced today, along with leading research in a wide range of fields from astronomy to optical physics, and excellence in engaging the general public with physics.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
The Computer History Museum launches new exhibit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit.
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Posted on: Jul 1st, 2009
For the first time Obducat will take part in an exhibition for solar cell technology.
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