Nanoparticle News articles from December 2001

Nanoparticle News archives from December 2001

Nanophase implements manufacturing furlough. (Manufacturing News).
December 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has implemented a temporary furlough affecting a portion of the hourly manufacturing staff at its Burr Ridge nanoparticle facility. The furlough was initiated on November 26, 2001, and fully staffed production...

Nanomaterials group moves to new facility.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Nanomaterials Group Moves to New Facility. The Nanofabrication Group of Nanomaterials Research, LLC (Longmont, CO) has moved into a new facility at 1831 Lefthand Circle, just down the road from the company's 2021 Miller Drive location. In other...

Deliveries, production of SPD film set to begin.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Deliveries, Production of SPD Film Set to Begin. SPD, Inc. (Inchon, KR) announced that, in addition to delivering suspended particle device (SPD) light-control film, it expects to begin producing SPD glass incorporating this film in January of...

NanoGram closes $25 million funding round.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... NanoGram Closes $25 Million Funding Round. NanoGram Corp. (Fremont, CA) completed a $25 million round of financing, which represents the final phase of this round of funding for the company. Several new venture investors joined corporate...

Umicore halts operations at nanocarbide plant.(Laurinburg, North Carolina plant)
December 1, 2001... The Belgian firm Umicore, formerly known as Union Miniere, has halted operations at its Laurinburg, North Carolina plant, which was producing carbide nanopowders for hard-metal applications. "We couldn't get the right price [for the...

First exterior auto application emerges for nanocomposites. (Nanocomposites).
December 1, 2001... An advanced thermoplastic olefin (TPO) nanocomposite part is being used on 2002 GM mid-size vans in the first automotive exterior application of such materials. GM and three suppliers, Basell, Southern Clay Products, and Blackhawk...

New E-Ink facility to develop flexible transistors.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... New E-Ink Facility to Develop Flexible Transistors. E Ink Corp. (Cambridge, MA), a developer of electronic ink technology for paper-like displays, has opened a (9,500-[ft.sup.2]) flexible microelectronics facility in Woburn, Massachusetts,...

Nanocor makes processing progress.(joint cooperation program with New Castle Industries)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Nanocor Makes Processing Progress. Nanocor, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AMCOL International Corp. (Arlington Heights, IL), and New Castle Industries are continuing a joint cooperation program to produce equipment for the formation of...

Advanced magnetics turns a profit. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Advanced Magnetics Turns a Profit. Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a producer of iron oxide nanoparticle-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imagine, turned a profit for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30,...

Westaim posts loss for 3Q. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Westaim Posts Loss for 3Q. The Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) recorded a net loss of $7.7 million, or $0.10/ share, on revenue of $16.8 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2001. In the same quarter last year, the company...

Nanocor names alliance partner for thermoset nanocomposites. (Nanocomposites).
December 1, 2001... AMCOL subsidiary Nanocor, Inc. and Polymeric Supply, Inc. have entered into a marketing and distribution alliance for nanocomposite thermoset formulations. Under the terms of the agreement, Polymeric Supply will provide Nanomers to...

FMC Lithium and Altair collaborate on batteries. (Energy and Catalysis).
December 1, 2001... FMC Lithium and Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. executed a letter of interest concerning the development and marketing of nano-lithium titanate spinel-related metal oxides and associated proprietary technologies for the energy storage industry....

Moyco reports first quarter results. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Moyco Reports First Quarter Results. Moyco Technologies (Montgomeryville, PA) reported net sales of $1,529,277 for the first quarter ended September 30, 2001, compared with net sales of $2,777,139 in the same quarter in the prior year. Although...

New CEO takes over at AP materials.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... New CEO Takes Over at AP Materials. AP Materials, Inc. (St. Louis, MO) a developer and manufacturer of ceramic and metallic nanopowders for electronics, energy, and other markets, announced the appointment of Keith A. Blakely as president and...

NanoPierce adds board member.(Noel Eberhardt appointed)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... NanoPierce Adds Board Member. NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. (Denver, CO) appointed Noel Eberhardt to its board of directors on November 28, 2001. Noel Eberhardt formerly served as the vice president for advanced technology of Indala Corp....

New VP and CFO joins Cabot.(John A. Shaw)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... New VP and CFO Joins Cabot, Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA) announced that John A. Shaw has accepted the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective January 1, 2002. Shaw comes to Cabot from Dominion Resources, where he...

Merck and NTera team up to develop electrochromic displays. (Electronics and Magnetics).
December 1, 2001... Merck KGaA and Ntera, Ltd., a Dublin, Ireland-based producer of nanomaterials, have signed two agreements to develop and commercialize nanomaterial technology for "paper quality" advanced displays and other potential applications. Financial...

Toshiba produces nanopowder for bonded magnets. (Electronics and Magnetics).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Toshiba has developed a new magnetic nanopowder--a Sm-Zr-Fe-Co-B-N alloy--for isotropic bonded magnets that provides for a maximum energy product of more than 160 kJ/[m.sup.3]. According to Toshiba, the new powder exhibits excellent...

ESA process yields functional coatings. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... ESA Process Yields Functional Coatings. Nanosonic (Christiansburg, VA) has applied its electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) process to the production of functional coatings, including abrasion resistant, magnetic, conductive, and UV absorbing...

Particles dispersed in laminated glass interlayer. (Recent Patents).(Central Glass Company Ltd)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Particles Dispersed in Laminated Glass Interlayer. Researchers from Central Glass Co., Ltd. (Ube, JP) have incorporated up to 10 wt.% functional ultrafine particles into the interlayer film of laminated glass in order to obtain various...

Gas-phase-synthesis of nanoparticles part II: modeling of particle formation. (Technology Insight).
December 1, 2001... Product quality and application characteristics of nanoscaled particles depend strongly on the par-ticle size distribution and the morphology of the particles, that is, the size and number of primary particles determining the degree of...

Silicon nanowires grown without contamination.(City University of Hong Kong wins U.S. Patent 6,313,015)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Silicon Nanowires Grown Without Contamination. Silicon nanowires and silicon nanoparticle chains can be formed by the activation of silicon monoxide in the vapor phase, according to U.S. Patent 6,313,015, assigned to the City University of Hong...

Nanophase protects coating technology.(Nanophase Technologies Corp seeks patent on nanostructured films and coatings)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Nanophase Protects Coating Technology. Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) has filed a U.S. patent application on nanostructured films and coatings with improved mechanical properties. The patent details carefully controlled mixtures...

Nucryst seeks pharmaceutical applications for nano silver. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp., formerly known as Westaim Biomedical Corp., has decided to pursue pharmaceutical opportunities for its patented antimicrobial silver nanocrystalline material technology. This decision is based on Nucryst's...

Small airborne particles pose greater risk. (Characterization And Testing).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Submicron airborne particles are more plentiful and may pose a greater health hazard than previously thought, says an Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher studying airborne particles in the Great Smoky Mountains and beyond. Recent...

Altair files for patent protection for YSZ.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Altair Files for Patent Protection For YSZ. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV) has filed a patent application covering its process for making nanosized-stabilized zirconia. Products covered by the patent application include zirconia...

Electric Field Orients Nanotubes. (Research News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Electric Field Orients Nanotubes. Electric-field-directed growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes by chemical-vapor deposition has been demonstrated by a group of researchers from the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University (Stanford,...

Microwires assembled from metallic nanoparticles. (Research News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Microwires Assemble from Metallic Nanoparticles. A new class of conductive microwires can be assembled by dielectrophoresis from suspensions of metallic nanoparticles, according to researchers from the University of Delaware (Newark, DE). The...

Nanotube Arrays Formed from [Al.sub.2][O.sub.3] Template. (Research News).(University of Kentucky)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Nanotube Arrays Formed from [Al.sub.2][O.sub.3] Template. A team of researchers from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) and the Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA) synthesized aligned, high density, open-tipped carbon...

First licensee of MCP technology will produce powders for CMP. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Under the terms of an agreement signed in Seoul, Advanced Nano Technologies Pty, Ltd. has granted Samsung Coming Co., Ltd. a license to produce cerium oxide nanopowders using its patented MCP nanopowder technology for an initial fee of U.S.$1...

Solution-mediated approach yields transparent films. (Research News).(University of Dayton)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Solution-Mediated Approach Yields Transparent Films. It is possible to prepare optically transparent nanocomposite films of PMMA reinforced with montmorillonite by a solution-mediated approach amenable to spray or dip coating, according to...

Surfactants induce oriented growth of particles. (Research News).(University of Queensland)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Surfactants Induce Oriented Growth of Particles. Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) reported the first observation of surfactant-induced oriented growth of alumina...

Assembled nanowires implement computations. (Research News).(Harvard University)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Assembled Nanowires Implement Computations. Harvard University researchers report a "bottom-up" approach to microelectronics fabrication in which functional device elements and element arrays are assembled from solution through the use of...

NN stock watch: (at close, December 3, 2001). (Industry News).(Illustration)
December 1, 2001... This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 3.35 3.55 -5.6 Altair International, Inc. ALTI 1.39 ...

NanoGram opens facility for optical coating production. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... NanoGram Corp. has opened a new 50,000 [ft.sup.2] facility devoted to the production of high-quality planar optical thick films using its nanomaterials-based laser reactive deposition (LRD) technology. LRD processing can uniquely produce...

U.S.-EC nanotech collaboration launched. (Washington News).(The National Science Foundation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Commission (EC) have expanded a program of workshops and funding of mutual research goals in materials science to include nanotechnology. "The creation and modification of materials at...

Ti[O.sub.2] nanotube arrays formed by anodic oxidation. (Research News).(Penn State University)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Ti[O.sub.2] Nanotube Arrays Formed by Anodic Oxidation. A research team representing Penn State University (University Park, PA) and the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) has fabricated titanium oxide nano-tubes by anodic oxidation of a...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... January 31-February 1, 2002. Nanotechnology--Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications, Lecce, Italy. Contact: Lance Haworth, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 525, Arlington, VA 22230; Tel: 703/292-4916; Email:...