Nanoparticle News articles from August 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from August 2003

Clinical trials support new uses for contrast agent.(Biotechnology News)(ferumoxytol)
August 1, 2003... New clinical data on an experimental nanocrystal-based contrast agent developed by Advanced Magnetics shows that the product, called ferumoxytol or Code 7228, could improve magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), a procedure used to image blood...

Overhaul underway at NEI.(NEI Corp.)(Nanopowder Enterprises Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... NEI Corp. (Piscataway, NJ) is the new name for Nanopowder Enterprises Inc., as of July 1, 2003. The name change has come about due to the company's shift in focus away from nanopowders and toward value-added nanomaterials and nanoadditives...

UK announces $150m investment.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... UK Science and Innovation Minister Lord Sainsbury says the UK will spend $150 million over the next six years on collaborative nanotechnology research and a new network of micro and nanotechnology facilities. The new investment is also securing...

Quantum dots yield high sensitivity tests.(Biotechnology News)
August 1, 2003... Quantum Dot Corp. (QDC) says it has developed a high-sensitivity quantum dot-based lateral flow assay (LFA), a type of rapid diagnostic test used for various clinical, agricultural and environmental applications. Among the most common and...

Nanocomposite opens door to optical chip.(Electronics And Optoelectronics)
August 1, 2003... Paving the way for an optical computer chip, University of Toronto researchers have developed a quantum dot-embedded polymer that can convert electrons into photons at the wavelengths used for fiber-optic communications. The findings hold...

SurroMed enters into collaborations.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... In return for $24 million of a new series of SurroMed (Mountain View, CA) senior preferred stock, SurroMed and PPD signed an agreement that involves a cash investment on the pad of PPD and a sale of assets, including a range of cancer...

Degussa launches independent start-up.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Degussa AG (Dusseldorf Germany) has transferred its former Nanomaterials Project House into the independent internal start-up Degussa Advanced Nanomaterials, a new unit whose mission is to produce innovative nanomaterials and tap into new...

QDC hires Collabrys to reach customers.(Quantum Dot Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Quantum Dot Corp. (Hayward, CA) has chosen Collabrys, Inc. (South San Francisco, CA) to increase product awareness and sales lead generation for its expanding product line. "Results so far demonstrate that Collabrys provides us with a...

NanoInk and CNI team up.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... NanoInk, Inc. (Chicago, IL) and Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Boston, MA) have signed a joint development agreement to employ single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in next-generation nanofabricated devices whose design and manufacture are...

Nano-Optic devices produced for CD and DVD Players.(Electronic And Optoelectronic)
August 1, 2003... NanoOpto Corp. and Enplas Corp. of Kawaguchi City, Japan, have entered into a manufacturing and licensing agreement that covers the development and manufacture of nano-optic devices for optical recording media and other applications using...

Ground broken on DOE nano center.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham broke ground Friday, July 18, on the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at the Oak Ridge National Lab (Oak Ridge, TN), a $65 million dollar research and development facility dedicated to the study...

Advanced Magnetics turns profit for 3Q.(Financial Results)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) announced a net profit of $664,432, or $0.10 per share, for the third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2003, as compared to a a net loss of ($125,554), or ($0.02) per share, for the third fiscal quarter of...

Nanotechnologies applies materials-based marketing philosophy.(Who's Who In Nanotech)(Dennis Wilson)(Interview)
August 1, 2003... Dennis Wilson, formerly a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, is the CTO of Nanotechnologies, Inc., an Austin, TX-based nanomaterials start-up he co-founded in 1999. NN: Nanotechnologies is commercializing a...

NanoGram names manufacturing partner for medical batteries.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... NanoGram Devices Corp. has signed an agreement with EaglePicher, Inc. for the manufacture of nanomaterial-based medical power sources. The partnership combines NanoGram Devices' medical battery technology with the development and manufacturing...

$2.5 million settlement receives prelim approval.(Industry News)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered preliminary approval of a $2.5 million settlement of the securities class action lawsuit filed against Nanophase Technologies Corp. and certain of its current and...

Cabot Micro reports revenue rise.(Financial Results)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Cabot Microelectronics Corp. reported that revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2003 was $64.3 million, up 3.4% on a sequential basis from $62.2 million in the prior quarter and down 6.0% from $68.4 million in the third quarter a year ago....

Nano-enabled optical device applications.(Technology Insight)
August 1, 2003... Photonic devices for broadband optical networks today are experiencing tremendous market-driven demands. Both optical fiber and wireless devices have significant market opportunities given continued growth in data volumes. Many of these...

Qdot assembly predicted.(New Research)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... A method that can be used to predict the growth of earthquake faults also aids prediction of the tiniest of phenomena--how arrays of quantum dots assemble and stack themselves on semiconductor materials, National Institute of Standards and...

NN stock watch as of close 8-01-03.(Technology Insight)(Nanoparticle News)(Illustration)
August 1, 2003... NN STOCK WATCH as of close 8-01-03 This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 9.65 10.05 -4.0 Altair...

Atomic resolution from electron nanodiffraction.(Processing And Characterization)
August 1, 2003... A new imaging technique that uses electron diffraction waves to improve both image resolution and sensitivity to small structures has been developed by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The technique works on...

Designer nanotubes gain recognition.(New Research)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Fluoronanotubes first prepared at Rice University (Houston, TX) in the laboratory of chemistry professor John L. Margrave have been named one of the 100 most technologically significant products of the year by R&D Magazine, The "designer"...

CTO named to advisory group.(People)(Dennis Wilson)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Dennis Wilson, founder, chief technology officer and chairman of the board of Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Austin, TX) has been named to the President's nanotechnology technical advisory group (TAG), which will assist the President's council of...

Westaim appoints directors.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Michael B.C. Davies and G. Wesley Voorheis have been appointed to The Westaim Corp,'s (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) board of directors. Davies is principal at Davies & Co., which specializes in mergers and acquisitions, investment banking and...

New director joins Altair.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV)has appointed Jon N. Bengtson to its board of directors. "Jon's experience with a number of successful start-up technology companies and companies in the public arena will be a valuable addition to our...

Cabot announces new leadership.(People)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA) announced the following personnel changes: William J. Brady, executive vice president, has been named general manager of the carbon black business group. Brady succeeds William P. Noglows, who left to pursue other...

Motorola advances nanotube display production technology.(Carbon Nanostructures)
August 1, 2003... Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola, Inc., says it has developed a low temperature process to grow carbon nanotubes and also a method to control their position, length and diameter. The technology is intended to advance...

Nanowires and nanotubes grown directly on chips.(Carbon Nanostructures)
August 1, 2003... Silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes can be grown directly on semiconductor wafers in a room temperature chamber by precisely localizing the extreme heat needed for growth, according to researchers from the University of California at...

Nano silver preserves reproductive samples.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Minitube of America (Verona, WI) has patented the use of silver nanoparticles as a means of preserving animal reproductive samples without the use of antibiotics. The company sought to develop an antibiotic-free extender for reproductive...

Dental nanocomposite provides high strength.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Nanocrystals are incorporated into a dental composite developed by Kerr Corp. (Orange, CA) that reportedly provides the high strength required for load-bearing restorations while maintaining a glossy appearance even after substantial wear....

Calendar.
August 1, 2003... August 30-September 6, 2003 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies (NN 2003), Crete, Greece. Contact: Ilya Ovid'ko, Conference Chair, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; Fax: +7 (812) 321 4771, Email: ovidko@def.ipme.ru. ...

Creating order from chaos.(Commentary)
August 1, 2003... The unique electronic, optical, mechanical, thermal and other properties of individual nanoparticles, nanotubes and nanowires are difficult--if not impossible--to exploit if the nanoscale structure of interest takes the form of an agglomerated...