Nanoparticle News articles from December 2004

Nanoparticle News archives from December 2004

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: EPA Doles Out $4 Million for Environmental Research.(Environmental Protection Agency)
December 1, 2004... The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a total of $4 million in grants to support 12 investigations of the potential health and environmental impact of nanoparticles. The three-year grants were awarded through EPA's Science...

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES: Long Nanotubes Outperform Copper.
December 1, 2004... In an advance that could be important for the implementation of carbon nanostructures in practical applications, scientists at the University of California - Irvine have synthesized the world's longest electrically-conducting nanotubes and...

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: DNA Self-Assembly Manipulates Nanomaterials.
December 1, 2004... In an advance that conjures up images of nanoscale robot arms, scientists at the University of Dortmund have developed a biological method to manipulate nanoparticles: they use short DNA strands to cause gold spheres to aggregate and then to...

MARKET ANALYSIS: Nanomagnetic Materials and Devices Market to Reach $12B By 2009.
December 1, 2004... The properties of nanostructured magnetic materials and devices are extraordinarily different from those of conventional magnetic systems. Exchange coupling, giant magnetoresistance, single-domain behavior, superparamagnetism, and...

INDUSTRY NEWS: ANSI Standards Panel Releases Recommendations.(American National Standards Institute; nanotechnolgy)
December 1, 2004... Based upon discussions at the inaugural meeting of the Nanotechnology Standards Panel of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI-NSP), the panel has identified four areas of nanotechnology that have the most urgent need for...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Triton BioSystems Targets Human Clinical Trials for 2006.(Interview)
December 1, 2004... Samuel Straface is president and CEO of Triton BioSystems, which is developing nanoparticle-based cancer treatment technology. His background includes executive level experiences at Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. He holds a Ph....

COMMENTARY Held to High Standards?(nanotechnology standardization)(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... A field with the breadth of nanotechnology - in terms of the scientific disciplines it interconnects, the technologies it encompasses, and the industries it affects - is screaming out for standardization. Basic, widely-used terms such as...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Nanomaterial Opportunities in Integrated Circuits.
December 1, 2004... By C. Michael Garner, Director, Material Technology Operation, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA Integrated circuit industry continues to progress along Moore's Law and is currently in production on the 90nm technology generation, which has...

Future Challenges.(nanotechnology)
December 1, 2004... Lithography. Photolithography is used to transfer an image from a photomask onto a silicon wafer using an optical projection system that exposes a photoresist on the wafer. The photoresist is then chemically developed, similar to a...

Packaging Challenges.(nanotechnology)
December 1, 2004... High Performance Packaging. As the feature sizes of integrated circuit technologies become smaller, reducing stress on the silicon will become more important and challenging. The most common high performance package assembly is mount the chip...

Conclusion.(nanotechnology circuits)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Nanomaterials have very interesting properties that may be useful in integrated circuit technology, but the potential earliest applications would be to modify package polymer mechanical properties or be used as additives in chemicals or...

BUSINESS.
December 1, 2004... QinetiQ Completes Acquisition. QinetiQ, Inc. (Farnborough, Hampshire, UK) has finalized its acquisition of Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, MA), a 350-person engineering and technology development company in the news this month due to its co-...

PRODUCTS.(NanoHorizons Inc)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Silver Particles Compatible with Polymers. NanoHorizons, Inc. (State College, PA) has developed a line of concentrated, polymer- compatible gold and silver nanoparticle formulations available in research and pilot production volumes. Prices for...

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.(nanotechnology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Sealants Could Reduce Weight. Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, MA) and Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Houston, TX) have received a $3.96 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop a new class of military aircraft sealants based...

PEOPLE.(Luna NanoWorks)(Solaris Nanosciences Corp)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... C60 Scientist to Lead Luna NanoWorks. Fullerene scientist Stephen Wilson, the founder and former chief scientific officer of C Sixty, Inc. (Houston, TX), will lead the newly formed company Luna nanoWorks (Danville, VA) as president. The...

PATENTS.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Printing Technique Yields Biosensors. MIT (Cambridge, MA) researchers have developed a printing technique in which surface- functionalized nanoparticles are deposited and patterned to form microelectronic devices that incorporate biological...

RESEARCH.(National Institute of Standards and Technology;nanotechnology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... Nanowire Orientation Controlled at NIST. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD) have demonstrated a technique for growing well- formed, single-crystal nanowires in place - and in a predictable...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.(nanotechnology industry)
December 1, 2004... Advanced Magnetics Posts Loss. Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) reported a net loss of ($2,210,812), or ($0.28) per share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 compared to net income of $1,215,464, or $0.15 per diluted share, for the...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
December 1, 2004... February 1 - 2, 2005 4th Annual Nanotech Investing Forum, Rancho Mirage, CA. Contact: Regina Ramazzini, IBF, Tel: 516-765-9005, Ext. 31, Email: regina@ibfconferences.com. March 28 - April 1, 2005 Materials Research Society (MRS) 2005...