Nanoparticle News articles from April 2006

Nanoparticle News archives from April 2006

ELECTRONICS SPECIAL REPORT Nanoelectronics- Pushing Moore's Law to New Limits.
April 1, 2006... In 1965 Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore proposed his famous law that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months. To this day Moore's Law has remained a reliable yardstick for the semiconductor industry. However with...

Further Progress in Carbon Nanotube Integrated Circuits.
April 1, 2006... A group of IBM scientists led by Phaedon Avouris in collaboration with researchers from Florida University and Columbia University have built the first complete electronic integrated circuit around a single carbon nanotube (CNT) molecule. It is...

Untapped Opportunities for Graphite-Based Circuits.
April 1, 2006... In the future graphite could be the basis for a new class of nanoelectronic devices that have the attractive properties of CNTs but could be produced using traditional microelectronics manufacturing techniques. Using thin layers of...

Still Room at the Bottom.(nanometer transistor developed by Yang-kyu Choi from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology )
April 1, 2006... A team of Korean researchers led by Yang-kyu Choi from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the National Nano Feb Center have codeveloped a 3 nanometer transistor, the world's smallest nanoelectronic device based...

On-Going Evolution in Flexible Electronics.
April 1, 2006... In parallel with rigid silicon-based electronics there is an ongoing revolution in materials and device fabrication based on flexible polymer films. Two of the latest developments involving the integration of CNT's and stretchable silicon are...

Aligned CNT Polymer Composites.
April 1, 2006... A new process has been developed to make flexible nanoskins-combining the strength and conductivity of CNTs with polymers-that can be used in a variety of applications ranging from electronic paper to chemical, biological and mechanical strain...

Silicon Flexes Muscle on Polymer Substrates.
April 1, 2006... At the March American Chemical Society meeting held in Atlanta, John Rogers a Materials Science and Engineering professor from the University of Illinois in collaboration with Kyung Choi from the Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies gave...

Silicon Films Curl into Nanotubes.
April 1, 2006... For several years researchers at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany have been using standard cleanroom molecular beam epitaxy and etching techniques to fabricate free-standing forms of rolled-up films of various...

BIOTECHNOLOGY SPECIAL REPORT Medical Nanoparticles Pushing the Frontiers.
April 1, 2006... With the variety of novel nanoparticle systems currently being researched it seems appropriate to highlight several of the latest developments reported just in the past month. They come with diverse chemistries, shapes, sizes and properties and...

Gold Nanorods Identify Cancer Cells.
April 1, 2006... Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California have found a more effective and safer way to detect and kill cancer cells. By changing the shape of gold nanospheres into cylindrical gold nanorods, they can detect...

Gold Nanorice Enhances Biomolecular Detection.
April 1, 2006... Continuing along a similar theme-gold nanoparticles with anisotropic shape-Naomi Halas and her research team at Rice University have synthesized a novel type of non-conductive iron oxide core/gold shell rice-shaped nanoparticle. Details of...

Nanoparticles Improve Computer Tomography.
April 1, 2006... The miscellany of nanoparticles primarily developed as contrast agents for medical imaging applications-for example to detect tumors at a very early stage-cater almost exclusively to magnetic resonance and ultrasound imaging. However a team of...

Boron Carbide Targets Brain Cancer.
April 1, 2006... Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), an experimental therapy for treating brain cancer, could get a boost following the recent development of boron carbide nanoparticles that can be targeted for uptake by cancer cells. These nanoparticles...

Review Assesses Quantum Dot Toxicity.
April 1, 2006... Quantum dots (QDs) show tremendous potential in a variety of basic cancer research and clinical oncology applications. Indeed a modest commercial market is now evolving which is focused on exploiting their biomedical as well as other potential...

PROCESSING & CHARACTERIZATION Magnetic Nanoparticles Aid Chemical Catalyst Recovery.
April 1, 2006... Traditional batch chemical production involves a sequence of paired chemical reaction and separation steps at the end of which the desired chemical product must be removed from the excess reactants, waste products and catalysts. To reduce the...

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.
April 1, 2006... Until now separations using magnetic catalysts have been limited by a tendency for the nanoparticles to clump together because of their magnetic attraction for one another. The clumping dramatically reduces their catalytic activity. However...

INDUSTRY NEWS Consumer Nanoproducts Inventory Available Online.
April 1, 2006... As part of its Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (NPN, Feb.), the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has launched The Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory. This represents the first and only publicly accessible online...

Germany Reports First Nanoproduct Recall.
April 1, 2006... A German federal government consumer protection agency reported on March 31 what appears to be the first health-related recall of a nanotechnology-based product. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin issued a consumer alert...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... May 16-18, NT in Northern Europe, Congress and Exhibition, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: NTNE Fax +358 9 2517 7888; Email: info@nano.fi May 18, 2006, IEEE Nanoelectronics Standards Roadmap Workshop, New York City, NY. Contact: Nathan...

((BRIEFS)) AWARDS.
April 1, 2006... EPA Announces NT Health and Environmental Awards. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has awarded 14 more grants totaling...

BUSINESS.(Applied Nanotech Inc. signs venture with Da Ling Co. Ltd)(Vahe Sarkissian leaves FEI Co.)(subsidiary of Seiko Instruments Inc. signs partnership with Carl Zeiss Nano Technology Systems)
April 1, 2006... CNT TV Pilot Production Scheduled. Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (Austin, TX) through its subsidiary Applied Nanotech Inc., has signed a letter of intent with Da Ling Co., Ltd (Taiwan), an electronics and construction materials corporation, with the...

FUNDING.
April 1, 2006... Industrial Support for CNT Wireless Materials Development. Advance Nanotech Inc., [ANI](London, UK/New York City, NY) in partnership with Alps Electric Co. Ltd. of Japan, Dow Corning, are supporting a new research project to explore novel...

PATENTS.
April 1, 2006... USPTO Awards 7 Millionth Patent. DuPont scientist John O'Brien gained Valentine's Day notoriety when his synthesis for polysaccharide fibers was awarded U.S. Patent 7000000 on February 14. United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...

PRODUCTS.
April 1, 2006... New Ultrasonic Atomization Technology Undergoes Development. Sono-Tek Corp (Milton, NY) announced that it is developing an entirely new generation of ultrasonic atomizing nozzles using advanced materials technology and unique new designs. A...

RESEARCH.
April 1, 2006... Electronic Nose Diagnostics to be Developed. Nanomix Inc. (Emeryville, CA), a leading developer of scaleable nanoelectronic devices integrating ultra-sensitive carbon nanotube sensing elements, has signed a collaboration agreement with...

FINANCIAL.(Starpharma Holdings Ltd. )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Starpharma Gaining Strong U.S. Investor Support. Starpharma Holdings Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia) is capitalizing on growing U.S. investor interest in its lead development product, a vaginal microbiocide which is designed to prevent sexually...

PEOPLE.
April 1, 2006... Advance Nanotech Announces Appointment. Advance Nanotech, Inc., (New York, NY), which is dedicated to the successful commercialization of nanoenabled products, has appointed Joe Parkinson as non-executive Chairman of its Board. He is chiefly...