Nanoparticle News articles from April 2005

Nanoparticle News archives from April 2005

BIOTECHNOLOGY: Nanotubes Could Strengthen Artificial Joints.
April 1, 2005... According to research published in the April 2004 issue of Nanotechnology, nanotubes derived from guanine and cytosine base- pairs, that self-assemble using the same chemistry as DNA, could prove ideal for creating better artificial joints and...

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES The Basics of Nanotube Formation.
April 1, 2005... In spite of the tremendous worlwide R&D activity in carbon nanotube synthesis, little is known about how these techniques physically produce the hollow fibers of carbon molecules known as nanotubes. However a multinational team of scientists...

Buckypaper Made From Carbon Nanotubes.(properties of double-walled carbon nanotubes)(conventional chemical vapor deposition process )(usage of molybdenum conditioning catalyst)
April 1, 2005... An international group of scientists led by Morinobu Endo from Shinshu University, Japan report in the February 3, 2005 issue of Nature that they have developed a conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process for making pure...

CHARACTERIZATION AND PROCESSING Smallest Stainless Steel Nanopowder.
April 1, 2005... QinetiQ Nanomaterials Limited (QNL), a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ Group, Europe's largest research and technology organization, has recently announced its development of Tesimorph ES-25- an experimental magnetic stainless steel material...

Forsyth Resolves Enamel Formation.(Forsyth Institute)
April 1, 2005... Scientists at The Forsyth Institute, an independent, nonprofit research organization focused on oral, craniofacial and related biomedical science, have found and replicated a key aspect of the mechanism by which dental enamel is formed. Their...

ELECTRONICS AND MAGNETICS Replacing Carbon With Nanotubes.
April 1, 2005... Fujitsu believes it may have the answer to a major technology problem that will confront chip makers in the future- substituting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to replace some of the copper wires used to connect layers of integrated circuits in chips....

Element Six Announces Diamond Transistor.(University of Ulm )
April 1, 2005... Element Six (Ascot, England), a world leader in the production of all forms of industrial synthetic diamond, in collaboration with the University of Ulm (Germany), has produced preliminary microwave devices (MESFET transistors) using synthetic...

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Porphyrin Nanotubes Promise Solar Hydrogen Production.
April 1, 2005... Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using nanodevices is the goal of a research team from the Dept. of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. The research has captured the interest of chemists around the world pursuing...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Konarka, Evident Join in Photovoltaics.
April 1, 2005... Konarka Technologies, Inc., (Lowell, MA), an innovator in developing and commercializing solar power plastics that convert light to energy, and Evident Technologies, a leader in synthesizing and developing the commercial applications of...

Program Examines mplications of NT.(nanotechnology)
April 1, 2005... The University of South Carolina (USC) has recently established an ambitious first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program to examine the societal and ethical implications of nanotechnology (NT). USC is also collaborating internationally with the...

CALENDAR.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... May 8-12, 2005 NSTI NanoTech Ventures, Anaheim, CA. Contact: Nano Science and Technology Institute, Tel: 508/357-2925, Email:info@nsti.org May 12-13, 2005 Moore's Law at 40: Chemistry & the Electronics Revolution. Philadelphia, PA. Contact:...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Motorola Integrating Carbon Nanotubes into Key Device Applications.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Vida Ilderem is Vice President and Director of the Center of Excellence for Embedded Systems and Physical Sciences [ESPS] Research, Motorola Labs. Prior to this position, she served as Director of RF/IF Silicon Technologies, a Senior Member of...

COMMENTARY: The Interdisciplinary Challenges of Applied Nanotechnology.
April 1, 2005... The U.K.'s Royal Society of Chemistry has recently expressed its abhorrence to the decision invoked at the University of Exeter to close its chemistry department and integrate this into a new School of Biosciences. Almost coinciding with this...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT The "Multi-Talented" Nanostructure.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... By Ray Tsui, Manager, Nanoelectronics Lab, Motorola Labs, Tempe, AZ Over the course of the last decade, interest in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) among the technical community has grown significantly. This is in large part due to the many...

Electronics Applications.
April 1, 2005... A significant portion of the research on CNT-based electronics is targeted at field-effect transistors (FETs). Early demonstrations were made with bulk-grown material randomly deposited from a suspension onto a substrate. This approach...

Field-Effects.(single-walled nanotubes )
April 1, 2005... As mentioned earlier, individual SWNTs have been actively studied as the channel of high-performance FETs. For such an application, it is important to have SWNTs with semiconducting instead of metallic properties. To develop a technique to...

BUSINESS.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Degussa Expands in China. Degussa, AG (Dsseldorf, Germany) has announced that it has begun a new project to significantly expand its carbon black manufacturing capacity in Qingdao, China. After completion it will be able to produce 100,000...

FUNDING.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Nantero Secures Nano-Based Memory Funding. Nantero Inc (Woburn, MA) which is using CNTs to develop next-generation semiconductor (SC) devices, has secured $15 million in funding and a new lead investor, bringing the total amount of investment...

PATENTS.
April 1, 2005... University of California Top of its Class. The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the top 10 U.S. universities receiving the most patents during calendar year 2004. The University of California...

PRODUCTS.(EPFL)
April 1, 2005... NanoEner to Commercialize Revolutionary Battery Electrodes. Ener1, Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) has announced that its subsidiary, NanoEner, Inc., has established and equipped a pilot NT-based manufacturing facility to fabricate electrodes for...

RESEARCH.(SEMATECH)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Xidex and Sematech Develop CNT-Based Microscope Probe. Xidex Corporation (Austin, TX) and SEMATECH have developed the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as high-resolution surface sensors for scanning probe microscopes. During semiconductor...