Nanoparticle News articles from December 2000

Nanoparticle News archives from December 2000

Light Amplification from Nanocrystals Paves Way to All-Silicon Laser.
December 1, 2000... Light amplification is possible with silicon--a notoriously poor light emitter -- when it is fabricated in the form of silicon nanocrystals dispersed in a silicon dioxide matrix, reports a team of Italian researchers led by Lorenzo Pavesi of...

In the News.
December 1, 2000... Altair Creates Alternative Energy Group. Altair Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Altair International, Inc. (Cody, WY), has created an Alternative Energy Group to develop fuel conversion units for fuel cell power applications....

Future Generations of Transistors Might Be Built from Buckyballs.
December 1, 2000... Taking advantage of a phenomenon that is viewed largely as a problem by the electronics industry, a team of Berkeley Lab and University of California (UC) Berkeley researchers created a separation between two gold electrodes of only 1-nm...

Viral Biotemplate Organizes Nanoparticles into Arrays.
December 1, 2000... A virus can be used as a template to form arrays of 2-nm to 3-nm metallic nanoparticles, and also arrays of continuous nanowires, according to researchers from the University of Bristol (U.K.). Their work was motivated by the need to...

Nanobarcodes Designed to Revolutionize Bioanalysis.
December 1, 2000... SurroMed, Inc. has introduced Nanobar Codes identification tags--cylindrical metal nanoparticles that facilitate multiplexed bioanalytical measurements on microvolume samples. The composition along the length of the metal nanorods can be...

People.
December 1, 2000... New Chairman Steps Up at Ametek. The board of directors of Ametek, Inc. (Paoli, PA) has elected Frank S. Hermance, Ametek's chief executive officer, as chairman of the board of directors. He succeeds Walter E. Blankley, effective with...

Silica-Filled Polymers Show Promise in Thermal Insulation.
December 1, 2000... Silica-filled polymers made from ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) show promise as ablative thermal insulation materials, according to engineers from Thiokol Corp., led by David Guillot. These polymer composites are under...

Laser-Pyrolyzed Powders Engineered for Batteries.
December 1, 2000... Nanoparticulate lithium transition-metal oxides produced by laser pyrolysis technology are characterized by a high degree of crystallinity and ultra-high surface area, according to NanoGram Corp. (Fremont, CA), a start-up firm that is...

Research Advances.
December 1, 2000... Burn Rate of Gun Propellants Nearly Doubled. A study on the combustion behavior of aluminized gun propellants by a French-German team revealed that the burning rate of conventional double-base propellants is nearly doubled by adding nanoscale...

Si Nanoparticles as Sensitizers in Er-Doped Optical Amplifiers.
December 1, 2000... Optical amplifiers are commonly used in optical telecommunication to compensate for the intensity losses experienced as optical signals travel through kilometers of glass fiber. These amplifiers rely on erbium-doped (Er-doped) silica glass as...

Heat Conduction Properties of Nanotubes Top Other Materials.
December 1, 2000... New research from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) indicates that carbon nanotubes might be the best heat-conducting materials the world has ever known. The findings suggest that these exotic strands, already heralded for their...

Award Supports Fabrication of Particle Analysis Tool.
December 1, 2000... In a study that might impact powder manufacturing as well as environmental standards, the RJ Lee Group plans to develop and manufacture a prototype instrument for particle characterization that will incorporate multiple analytical tools. ...

Recent Patents.
December 1, 2000... New Slurry Minimizes Defects in Disk Substrates. Showa Denka K.K. (Tokyo, Japan) has developed a titanium oxide nanoparticle-based abrasive slurry for polishing high-density magnetic recording disk substrates, which must be polished with high...

Honeywell Advances Metal Powder Technology.
December 1, 2000... Honeywell Laboratories is leading a new national research program to develop an advanced metal injection molding (MIM) design and manufacturing process. The program is being co-sponsored by Honeywell and the National Institute of Standards and...

Advanced Nano Technologies Moves to New Premises.
December 1, 2000... Advanced Nano Technologies Pty., Ltd. (ANT, 112 Radium St., Welshpool 6106, Western Australia), a joint venture of Advanced Powder Technology Pty., Ltd. (APT) and Samsung Corning, Ltd., has moved into new premises in the Perth suburb of...

Advanced Magnetics' Quarter Impacted by Accounting Change.
December 1, 2000... Advanced Magnetics attributes its reported loss for the fiscal year ended September, 30, 2000, to an accounting change -- specifically, the company's adoption of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 101 -- Revenue Recognition in Financial...