Nanoparticle News articles from April 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from April 2003

Nanocrystals key to Motorola's test memory. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).
April 1, 2003... In the search for a successor to floating gate-based flash memory, Motorola has demonstrated a 4-megabit (Mbit) memory device based on silicon nanocrystals that promises size reduction, lower power operation, simpler processing, and better...

QinetiQ commissions nanopowder plant.(QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd. (Farnborough, Hampshire, UK) a wholly owned QinetiQ subsidiary established just over a year ago to develop large-scale nanomaterial capabilities, has commissioned its nanomaterial manufacturing facilities. The two...

Plans for Canadian Nano Institute unveiled.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Plans for the permanent home of the National Research Council's (NRC's) new National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) were unveiled mid-March in Edmonton, Alberta. The NINT, a partnership between the Government of Canada through the NRC, the...

Quantum dots used as pens to pattern surfaces. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).(UCLA)
April 1, 2003... Using electric fields and laser light, UCLA researchers can manipulate quantum dots like pens on an organic surface, producing nanoscale patterns that might serve as the basis for next-generation molecular electronic circuits. "This...

Biomaterials firms develop products for spine.(Orthovita, Inc and Kensey Nash Corp)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) and Kensey Nash Corp. (Exton, PA) have entered into an agreement to commercialize new products for the spinal surgery market based on Orthovita's Vitoss bone void filler material in combination with proprietary...

Nanocomposite step-assists warrant GM award.(General Motors awards its "Boss" Kettering Award to group)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The developers of the thermoplastic olefin nanocomposites used to produce step-assists for 2002 Astro and Safari vans were honored by General Motors (Detroit, MI) last month with a "Boss" Kettering Award, GM's highest award for recognizing...

Nanocrystal devices take the lead in memory race. (Commentary).
April 1, 2003... A number of nanoelectronic memory technologies, including quantum dot devices and molecular memories, are competing to serve as the successor to today's highly successful memory devices, such as flash memory and dynamic random access memory...

Features of nanotube AFM expanded. (Product News).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... nPoint, Inc. (Madison, WI), a producer of ultra-precision motion and control nanopositioners for nanoscale research and manufacturing, has expanded the features of its ProbeMAX carbon nanotube atomic force microscope (AFM) tips to include a...

Nanofiber-based cockpit door passes tests. (Product News).(US Global Aerospace, Inc)
April 1, 2003... US Global Aerospace, Inc. says its Guardian anti-ballistic cockpit security door complies with the highest requirements of the Israeli Secret Service and has been authorized for installation on the EI AI Airlines fleet, in advance of US Federal...

Nanosys wins Phase II award to advance sensor. (Grants Awarded).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Nanosys Inc. (Cambridge, MA) will be using a Phase II $1.6 million SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further develop and commercialize a novel sensor platform based on semiconductor nanowires to detect the presence of...

Nanofibers produced from natural gas. (Grants Awarded).(Catalytic Materials Ltd )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... With the support of a $550 thousand Phase II SBIR award from the DOE, Catalytic Materials Ltd. (Holliston, MA) is developing a graphite nanofiber manufacturing method based on the catalytic conversion of methane. The company believes the high...

Nitride synthesis enables electrochemical capacitors. (Energy And Environment).(NASA)
April 1, 2003... An oxygen-free plasma-assisted synthesis process that yields high purity nitride nanoparticles is the key to fabricating high-performance alkaline electrochemical capacitors, according to NASA. The developmental ultracapacitors are composed...

Novel biosensors use nanoparticles as wiring. (Biotechnology News).(Hebrew University and Brookhaven National Laboratory )
April 1, 2003... Scientists at Hebrew University in collaboration with researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used gold nanoparticles as tiny electrical wires to plug enzymes into electrodes, enabling the detection of enzyme-aided molecular events...

Nanocrystals allow integration of two memory types. (Recent Patents).(Motorola Inc)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Motorola (Schaumburg, IL) researchers have integrated a nonvolatile memory and a high speed, high-density volatile memory on the same semiconductor substrate using nanocrystals as charge-storage elements. Nonvolatile memory can store data...

Doped-SiO2] particles have lamp application. (Recent Patents).(Osram Sylvania)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Using a low temperature sol-gel method, Osram Sylvania (Danvers, MA) researchers have produced a nano-particulate binder that promotes adherence of phosphor coatings to lamp envelopes and also emits visible light under excitation from...

Carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposites for space applications. (Technology Insight).
April 1, 2003... Carbon nanotubes have been one of the most popular research subjects since their discovery in 1991 [S. Iijima, Nature 354 (1991) 56] due to their excellent intrinsic physical properties and promising potential applications in almost every...

Hardness tests performed on single nanoparticles. (Processing And Characterization).(University of Minnesota )
April 1, 2003... Having made the first-ever hardness measurements on silicon nanospheres, University of Minnesota researchers report that the nanospheres' hardness falls between that of sapphire and diamond and is up to four times higher than that of bulk...

Nanotechnologies appoints CEO. (People).(Randy Bell)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Austin, TX) has appointed Randy Bell as president and chief executive officer. In his new position, Bell will be responsible for the company's overall strategic direction as well as the company's operations. Bell also...

Nanophase hires new VP. (People).(Edward Ludwig )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) announced that Edward Ludwig has joined the company as vice president of business development reporting to Dan Bilicki, Nanophase's vice president of sales and marketing. Ludwig has a Ph.D. in...

Sonochemical process yields nanorods. (Research News).(Chinese researchers achieve large-scale fabrication of single-crystal cubic PbS nanorods via sonochemical synthesis )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China) and Lingling University (Yongzhou, China) reported the successful, large-scale fabrication of single-crystal cubic PbS nanorods via sonochemical synthesis in the May issue of the...

French start-up firms develop nanoproducts. (International News).(Nanoledge, Ademtech and iNanov)
April 1, 2003... Three start-up companies based in France--Nanoledge, Ademtech and iNanov--are commercializing nanomaterials for applications ranging from in-vitro diagnostics to advanced displays, according to a report from the French Technology Press Office....

Maul pegs packaging as most promising. (Who's Who In Nanotech).(Interview with Peter Maul, president of Nanocor, Inc)(Interview)
April 1, 2003... Peter Maul is president of Nanocor, Inc., the AMCOL International Corp. subsidiary formed in 1995 to manufacture and sell chemically modified nanoclays as additives for plastics. NN: What do you believe are Nanocor's most important...

Nanotubes produced from carbon black. (Research News).(Northwestern University )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... It is possible to produce carbon nanotubes from carbon black by a solid-state transformation without a catalyst in a modified high-temperature arc furnace, according to researchers from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). They report in the...

Nanomaterials reference book published. (New Books).(Nanoscale Materials, by Luis M. Liz-Marzen and Prashant V. Kamat)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Nanoscale Materials, by Luis M. Liz-Marz*n of Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and Prashant V. Kamat of the University of Notre Dame, is designed to serve as a reference book for researchers by providing fundamental understanding of many types of...

Nanotechnology stock watch (at close 4-01-03). (Nanoparticle News).(Illustration)
April 1, 2003... NANOTECHNOLOGY STOCK WATCH (At close 4-01-03) This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 4.50 4.20 7.1...

BCC announces Nanoparticles 2003. (Meetings And Events).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The 6th annual BCC conference Nanoparticles 2003 will be held in Cambridge, MA, from October 27-29. Among the highlights of this year's meeting are a field trip to the Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) at the Massachusetts...

Volume reviews nano catalysis field. (New Books).(review of Nanostructured Catalysts, Edited by Susannah L. Scott, Cathleen M. Crudden and Christopher W. Jones)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Volume 3 of the Nanostructure Science and Technology book series, Nanostructured Catalysts, was released in January by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Edited by Susannah L. Scott of the University of Ottawa, Cathleen M. Crudden of Queen's...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... May 5-6, 2003 Nanotech and Biotech Convergence, Stamford, CT. Contact: Sharon Faust, Conference Coordinator, Business Communications Co., Inc., Fax: 203/853-0348, Email: conference@bccresearch.com, Web: www.bccresearch.com/nanobio2003. May...