Nanoparticle News articles from December 2002

Nanoparticle News archives from December 2002

Nanomaterials key to four new ATP projects. (Washington News).(Advanced Technology Program )
December 1, 2002... Four of the 40 new projects funded by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will rely on nanomaterials to achieve their objectives. Awarded in October for a duration of three...

Nanosys collaborates on solar cells for Asia.(Nanosys Inc. in agreement with Matsushita Electric Works)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Nanosys Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) and Matsushita Electric Works (Osaka, Japan) have entered into a collaborative agreement to develop solar cells for the Asian building materials market. Under the terms of the agreement, Nanosys' proprietary...

NanoProducts adds $1 million in equipment to facility.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... NanoProducts Corp. (Longmont, CO) says it has added about $1 million in nanopowder processing equipment to its Colorado facility, increasing its nanoscale powder post-processing capacity to 100-1,000 tons per year, depending on powder...

Alleged price fixing investigated.(Cabot Corp. investigated)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA) announced that U.S. and European antitrust authorities have initiated a joint investigation into alleged price-fixing within the carbon black industry. As part of this procedure, European antitrust authorities are...

MIT's Soldier Institute holds Industry Day.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... On November 25 the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) held its first annual Industry Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with the goal of attracting additional industrial partners. More than 110 people representing...

Altair launches animal tests of pharmaceutical.(Altair Nanotechnologies )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies (Reno, NV) has begun in vivo animal testing of RenaZorb, its nanoparticulate lanthanum ceramic pharmaceutical for removal of phosphate ions from patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing kidney dialysis. The...

Regulation important for nanotech growth. (Washington News).(nanotechnology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Nanotechnology offers the greatest benefits for society if left to grow through modest regulation, civilian research, and an emphasis on self-regulation and responsible professional culture, according to Forward to the Future: Nanotechnology...

Biotech firms merge to advance cancer treatment technology. (Biotechnology News).(Triton BioSystems, Inc., Thermonix, Inc. merge)
December 1, 2002... Triton BioSystems, Inc. has merged operations with Thermonix, Inc. to focus on pre-clinical product development of a nanoparticle-based therapeutic system for the treatment of advanced breast cancer. The cancer treatment system, called...

Deposition system introduced. (New Products and Services).(Oxford Applied Research launches UHV system for nanocluster materials)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Oxford Applied Research has introduced an integrated UHV system for the deposition of nanocluster materials. Incorporated into the new deposition system is the NC200 Nanocluster source, which produces a beam of well-defined nanocrystalline...

Dow offers drug particle engineering. (New Products and Services).(Dow Chemical Co. )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) has launched a new service based on particle nano-engineering to help pharmaceutical companies improve the solubility of dissolution-rate limited drug compounds. Referred to as BioAqueous(SM), the...

Advanced Magnetics posts loss. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) announced that revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2002 were $1,025,425 as compared to revenues of $1,739,448 for the same period in fiscal 2001. The company reported a net loss of $2,377,648,...

Nanofibers add functionality to lightweight protective gear. (Biotechnology News).
December 1, 2002... Researchers at NC State's Colleges of Textiles (COT) are developing new classes of functional nanofibers that can be processed into lightweight, high-performance protective gear. The goal is to add new technological capabilities to protective...

Nanophase lowers revenue expectations. (Financial Results).(Nanophase Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) lowered its fourth quarter and fiscal 2002 revenue projections to approximately $1.1 million and $5.5 million respectively in early December. The company says that nearly $600,000 of previously...

NanoBusiness Alliance expands board. (People).(new boardmembers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The NanoBusiness Alliance has appointed several new members to its advisory board, which has a rotating membership. The new board members are: Robert Walker, former chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science; Daniel Ritter,...

Nanomaterials technology and business development in Germany: Part I. (Industry Insight).(Industry Overview)
December 1, 2002... The emerging opportunities related to nanomaterials are receiving a high level of attention from both government organizations as well as industrial concerns in Germany. While German research efforts are globally well known to be effectively...

Ni dispersed homogeneously in alumina matrix. (Research).(nickel)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... A team of Chinese and French researchers have prepared nanocomposite powders of Ni-[Al.sub.2][O.sub.3] (5 and 10 vol% Ni) from high surface area porous alumina preforms impregnated with nickel nitrate. The samples were obtained by reduction...

Nanowire array shows tunable magnetic properties. (Research).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... In a quest to develop next-generation magnetic recording media, researchers from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA) and IBM have produced terabit/[in.sup.2] density cobalt nanowire arrays with tunable magnetic properties. The...

Novel design paves the way to nanoelectronics. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).
December 1, 2002... Newly patented research shows that it is possible to fabricate a nanoparticle-based single electron transistor (SET) with nanoscale critical dimensions using conventional semiconductor processing, a development that paves the way toward...

Contrast agent can assess lymph nodes. (Research).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Clinical data published in the journal Radiology [225, 2,527-536] show that magnetic resonance imaging with Advanced Magnetic's Combidex product, a nanoparticulate superparamagnetic iron oxide contrast agent, is effective for the preoperative...

Biomolecules mediate assembly of gold particles. (Research).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Small peptide molecules attached of the surfaces of nanoparticles can be used to direct the assembly of gold nanocrystals into ordered lattices, according to researchers from Jilin University (Changchun, China). To date, much of the work on...

Nano Ti to replace Al in armored vehicles. (Grants Awarded).(Materials Solutions Inc)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... In the hope of improving the durability of track and suspension components for armored vehicles while meeting weight and cost limitations, Materials Solutions Inc. (Moscow, ID) plans to replace aluminum idler wheels with wheels produced from...

Protein acts as template for nanoparticle organization. (Self-Assembly Technology).
December 1, 2002... NASA scientists have developed a novel biological method to organize nanoparticles that might prove useful in the fabrication of future electronic or biomedical devices. "Much of the success of today's electronics industry comes from...

National security needs drive nanomaterials development. (Commentary).(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... U.S. national security needs that have arisen or gained prominence since September 11 of last year are driving new developments in nanomaterials that might ultimately benefit both civilians and soldiers. Functional nanofibers that can be...

SiC nanoparticles form basis for coolant. (Grants Awarded).(MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Based on its experience in thermal systems miniaturization, MicroEnergy Technologies, Inc. (MicroET) (Vancouver, WA) says it will use SiC nanoparticle suspensions to obtain enhanced heat transfer rates in high heat flux heat sinks and heat...

Plasma generates ceramic nanoparticles. (Patent News).(Nanotechnologies, Inc)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Nanoscale Engineering and Technology Corp., today known as Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Austin, TX), has protected a method and apparatus (U.S. Patent 6,472,632) for the direct electrothermal-physical conversion of ceramic into nanopowder. The...

Electric field assembles 3-D particle structures. (Self-Assembly Technology).
December 1, 2002... A newly developed dielectrophoretic method to assemble nanoparticles into three-dimensional structures gives engineers improved control and flexibility in the creation of materials for nanoscale devices, according to Paschalis Alexandridis,...

X-ray absorbing windows molded from nanocomposites. (Polymer Nanocomposites).
December 1, 2002... Windows that absorb x-rays while still allowing the passage of visible light can be made by compression molding tantalum oxide-polymer nanocomposite materials, according to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Tantalum serves as the...

Li battery powders formed by laser pyrolysis. (Patent News).(lithium manganese oxide )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Uniform lithium manganese oxide particles of less than 250 nm in diameter can be formed by heat treating manganese oxide nanoparticles or directly by laser pyrolysis, according to U.S. Patent 6,482,374, assigned to Nanogram Corp. (Fremont, CA)....

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2002... January 16-17, 2003 Forum on Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Munich, Germany. Contact: R. Romling-Engl, Center for Nanoscience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany; Email: nanoforum@cup.unimuenchen.de. February 9-10, 2003 2nd...