Nanoparticle News articles from December 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from December 2003

Dielectric nanoparticles could fill trenches in advanced ICs.(Electronics And Optoelectronics)(Integrated Circuits)
December 1, 2003... Engineers from Honeywell Electronic Materials have discovered that dielectric nanoparticles can help to solve a problem inherent to the manufacture of advanced integrated circuits (ICs): filling high-aspect-ratio features. The fabrication...

Nanotech bill becomes law.(21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... President Bush has signed into law the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, which authorizes funding for nanotech R&D over four years, starting in FY 2005. This legislation puts into law programs and activities supported by...

Nanoscience licenses NYU technology.(New York University)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Nanoscience Technologies, Inc. has signed a research and license agreement with New York University (NYU), under which Nanoscience is granted a license to certain existing and "to be generated" intellectual property related to DNA...

Magnetic particles might remove toxins from blood.(Biotechnology News)
December 1, 2003... Argonne National Laboratory researchers are developing a system that can remove toxins from the bloodstream using magnetic micro-or nanoparticles and a portable, external magnetic separator. Existing methods of cleaning the blood of...

Nanotube based fuel cell developed.
December 1, 2003... Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. (Tustin, CA) says that a research team headed by Yushan Yan of the University of California at Riverside has successfully developed a fuel cell using carbon nanotube-based electrodes under a contract with PFCE. The...

Company goes from Micro to Nano.(MicroSignal Corp approved a name change to NanoSignal Corp)
December 1, 2003... The board of directors of MicroSignal Corp. (Las Vegas, NV) approved a name change to NanoSignal Corp, effective November 11. The company, which produces software for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), says the name change represents a growing...

FeRx receives $100k research grant.(Funding)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... FeRx Inc. (San Diego, CA) received a $100,000 phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance the company's drug delivery technology. The grant, entitled "Targeted Delivery of...

nPoint secures round of funding.(Funding)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... nPoint, Inc., (Madison, WI) a producer of ultraprecision motion devices and controllers for nanoscale research and manufacturing with roots in the University of Wisconsin, closed its second round of funding. The private equity round was...

NIH awards $1.3m to NanoInk.(Funding)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... NanoInk, Inc. (Chicago, IL) received the first award of a two-phase $1.3 million small business innovation research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of NanoInk's patented dip pen...

Quantum dots track molecules in living cells.(Biotechnology News)
December 1, 2003... In work to better understand the workings of the human nervous system, French researchers have used semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) to track the movements of glycine receptor molecules in living cells. This marks the first-ever...

Droplet studies lead unexpectedly to nanowires.(Processing And Characterization)
December 1, 2003... A research team from Purdue University and the University of Chicago has made a discovery about droplet formation that could lead to new methods for making threads and wires only a few nanometers wide. Such nanoscale threads and wires...

Advanced magnetics adds two to board.(People)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has added two new directors to its board. The new members are Mark Skaletsky, chairman, president and CEO of Essential Therapeutics, and Theodore I. Steinman, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical...

Nanophase appoints director.(R. Janet Whitmore)
December 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) announced the election of R. Janet Whitmore to the company's board of directors by a unanimous vote of its current directors. This brings the company's board of directors to seven, including...

New VP joins Cabot Micro.(Clifford L. Spiro)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Aurora, IL) has appointed Clifford L. Spiro to the position of vice president, research and development. Spiro reports directly to William P. Noglows, Cabot Microelectronics' chairman and CEO. Spiro joins Cabot...

Magnetics attract biomedical interest.(Commentary)
December 1, 2003... If you are asked to think of applications for magnetic materials, industrial products such as electric motors and hard drives probably come to mind. It may come as a surprise, then, that magnetic nanomaterials are poised to make a big...

Impact of shape on properties probed.(Processing And Characterization)(Washington University )
December 1, 2003... Size matters, but so does shape, at least in the world of semiconducting nanocrystals, report chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nanoparticles aid in cancer diagnosis.(New Research)
December 1, 2003... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) reports that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the company's investigation nanoparticulate iron oxide product (called ferumoxtran-10 or Combidex) allows for the non-invasive diagnosis of metastatic...

Team simulates nanoparticle assembly.(New Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A diverse research team representing Tel Aviv University, MIT, Harvard, and Columbia have conducted computer simulations of the behavior of nanoparticles in a solvent when the solvent is removed by drying. They report in the November 20th issue...

Nanomaterials in Nanoelectronics: Part I: logic devices.(Technology Insight)
December 1, 2003... For decades, progress in microelectronics has lied on the continued miniaturization of the devices and wiring on silicon wafers in order to increase the processing power of computer chips. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel,...

Nanowires synthesized without catalysts.(New Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Scientists from the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn State University (University Park, PA) have developed a novel technique to fabricate one-dimensional copper oxide nanowires that they say requires neither sophisticated techniques nor...

Nanocrystals improve iron therapy.(New Research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... There are cost and convenience advantages to using superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocrystals as an iron replacement therapy for the correction of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a team of researchers from the...

Polymerization yields high strength composite.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A team of Chinese researchers have developed an in-situ polymerization technique to produce a high strength polyolefin nanocomposite. They report a Young's modulus in the range of 700 to 2,600 MPa and a tensile strength in the range of 20 to 55...

Ductile nanoparticle alloys formed.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A highly ductile metallic alloy can be formed by dispersing nanoparticles in the amorphous phase of a metallic glass and then cold rolling the material to optimize its mechanical properties, according to U.S. Patent 6,652,679, issued to Japan...

DNA can separate and sort nanotubes.(Carbon Nanostructures)(Deoxyribonucleic Acid )
December 1, 2003... A collaborative group of DuPont-led scientists have discovered that DNA can be used to separate and sort carbon nanotubes, an advance that could be important for the implementation of nanotubes in next-generation electronic devices. A...

Nanotube transistors assembled with DNA.(Deoxyribonucleic Acid )
December 1, 2003... Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have harnessed the power of DNA to create self-assembling nanoscale transistors from single carbon nanotubes. Such transistor structures promise faster, smaller operation than today's...

Core-shell particles designed for tumor treatment.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Core-Shell Particles Designed for Tumor Treatment. Researchers from the Institute for New Materials (Saarbrucken, Germany) have patented the use of specially engineered superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for tumor therapy by...

Nanotube device challenges explored.(Books & Publications)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The feasibility of nanotube-based devices has been demonstrated already in electrical leads, rectifiers, transistors, actuators and cold electron sources, according to Nanotube-Based Devices, a new proceedings volume just published by the...

Self-assembly covered in proceedings.(Books & Publications)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Self-assembly, in which complex building blocks are organized into hierarchical structures via noncovalent interactions, has emerged as one of the most promising techniques for the efficient fabrication of nanostructured materials, according to...

Orthovita gets FDA OK to market new device.(Industry News)(Food and Drug Administration)
December 1, 2003... Last month Orthovita received 510(k) FDA regulatory clearance to market a new device-called the Vitoss Cartridge-that allows doctors a more efficient way to administer the company's nanoparticle-based synthetic bone filler product during bone...

Gillis aims to grow business at double-digit rate.(Who's Who In Nanotech)(Interview)
December 1, 2003... Scott H. Gillis is president of Nucryst Pharmaceuticals and has more than 29 years of experience in pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He has worked in both "big pharma" and small start-ups, where he has been directly responsible for sales,...

NN stock watch.(Illustration)
December 1, 2003... NN STOCK WATCH (At close 12-01-03) This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 14.09 9.40 49.9...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2003... February 2-3, 2004 Nanotech Investing Forum, Rancho Mirage, CA. Contact: IBF, Tel: 516/765-9005, Fax: 516-765-9015, Web: www. ibfconferences.com. March 7-11, 2004 Nanotech 2004, Boston, MA. Contact: Nano Science and Technology Institute,...