Nanoparticle News articles from February 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from February 2003

Short-term applications will propel nanotube market to $232m in 2006. (Market Analysis).
February 1, 2003... The global market for research grade single wall and multiwall carbon nanotubes is forecast to reach $231.5 million by 2006, up from an estimated $11.9 million in 2002, according to Nanotubes: Directions and Technologies, a recently released...

Nanogram Devices raises $9.2m.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nanogram Devices Corp. (Fremont, CA), a spinout from NeoPhotonics Corp., completed a financing round totalling $9.2 million. Equity investors in Nanogram Devices include Venrock Associates, Nth Power Technologies, Bay Partners, Rockport Capital...

NanoInk closes $6m financing round.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... NanoInk, Inc. (Chicago, IL), which is commercializing technology to build structures and pattern surfaces at the nanoscale, has closed a $6 million second round of financing led by Lurie Investment Fund, LLC. NanoInk says it will use the...

Nanopowder Enterprises moves to larger site.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nanopowder Enterprises Inc. (NEI, Piscataway, NJ) moved to a larger facility at the end of January. The company now occupies a site of 3,500 sq. ft. "It is a combination of both office space and shop floor space, the latter being about 70% of...

Nanocor forges two strategic alliances. (Industry News).
February 1, 2003... Nanocor, Inc. has joined forces with PolyOne Corp. and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. to commercialize polymer nanocomposites in two different market segments. The focus of the PolyOne/Nanocor alliance is improving the strength and...

Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) Founded.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) (Brooklyn, NY), an affiliate of the international nonprofit organization World Care, was launched in December, 2002, with the goal of producing and disseminating information about nanotechnology....

Bill introduced to advise president on Nanotech.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Rep. Mike Honda (D--San Jose) has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to establish an independent advisory board, comprised of leaders from industry and academia, to advise the President and Congress on research...

Orthovita diversifies product line.(Vitoss Scaffold Micro Morsels, Vitoss Scaffold Macro Morsels introduced)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Biomaterials firm Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) has launched two new products, Vitoss Scaffold Micro Morsels and Vitoss Scaffold Macro Morsels, based on its nanoscale calcium phosphate technology. "These new products offer the same ultra-high...

UChicago and Argonne launch consortium. (Alliances and Mergers).(University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have launched a joint $1 million Consortium for Nano-science Research to serve as a flagship science program focused on emerging science and technology as well as an incubator for...

New reports call for the regulation of Nanotech. (Industry News).
February 1, 2003... Two recently issued publications, one by the Canadian ETC Group and the other by the Better Regulation Task Force of the U.K. government, make strong calls for the regulation of nanotechnology research and production. "The world's most...

Applied Nanotech partners with Mitsui. (Alliances and Mergers).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, TX), through its subsidiary, Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. of Japan that involves a two-month study to investigate the possibility of...

Altair forges alliance with WMU. (Alliances and Mergers).(Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., Western Michigan University)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV) and Western Michigan University (WMU; Kalamazoo, MI) have entered into an agreement to jointly develop titanium dioxide nanoparticle sensors for the detection of chemical and biological weapons, and also...

IBM provides supercomputer for nanotube research. (Alliances and Mergers).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Rice University has established a research agreement with IBM that will provide researchers at Rice's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) with a supercomputer powerful enough to decipher the quantum phenomena of carbon...

Bone cement can repair load bearing fractures. (Biotechnology News).
February 1, 2003... Competitive Technologies, Inc. has signed an exclusive agreement with the University of South Carolina Research Foundation to license and commercialize an injectible, tricalcium phosphate bone cement that reportedly can be used to repair load...

Nanopositioning of quantum dots improves hybrid LEDs. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).
February 1, 2003... Exploiting a processing technique that allows a single layer of semiconductor quantum dots to be sandwiched between two organic thin films, MIT researchers successfully fabricated a light-emitting diode (LED) with a 25-fold improvement in...

Alberta reaps windfall from Sun agreement. (Alliances and Mergers).(Center of Excellence in Integrated NanoTools at the University of Alberta to be established)
February 1, 2003... A collaboration between Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) and the Government of Alberta will establish a Center of Excellence in Integrated NanoTools at the University of Alberta that will provide researchers with "a nano-technology...

Advanced Magnetics posts loss. (Financial Results.).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... For the first quarter of fiscal 2003 ended December 31, 2003, Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) reported a net loss of ($365,521), or ($0.05) per share, as compared to a net profit of $375,760, or $0.06 per share, for the same period in...

Nanotechnology advantages applied to gas sensor development. (Technology Insight).
February 1, 2003... Gas detection instruments are increasingly needed for industrial health and safety, environmental monitoring, and process control. To meet this demand, considerable research into new sensors is underway, including efforts to enhance the...

Cabot remains "cautious" on outlook. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Reporting a drop in year-over-year operating profit for the first quarter of 2003, Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA), a manufacturer of fumed metal oxides, carbon black, tantalum powders and other products, says it continues to be cautious concerning...

Israeli alliance loses chair in shuttle disaster. (People).(Ilan Ramon)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Israeli Nanobusiness Alliance (INBA) is mourning the loss of its honorary chairman, Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut and payload specialist who perished in the Columbia space shuttle disaster on February 1. Ramon was named honorary...

Nickel Whiskers could increase sensitivity of magnetic heads. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).
February 1, 2003... Exploiting nanoscale nickel whiskers and an effect termed "ballistic magnetoresistance," researchers from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo have produced an ultrasensitive sensor that could boost the storage capacity of...

New CEO steps up at Westaim. (People).(Barry M. Heck)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... The Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), the parent company of Nucryst Pharmaceuticals, has appointed Barry M. Heck as president and CEO and as a member of the board of directors. Heck has served as Westaim's senior vice president since...

Alivisatos will direct Berkeley Lab Division. (People).(Paul Alivisatos)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nanoscience pioneer Paul Alivisatos, a physical chemist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named director of LBL's Materials Sciences Division (MSD). He succeeds Daniel Chemla, who...

Nanogram Devices appoints CEO. (People).(Ken Westrick)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nanogram Devices Corp. (Fremont, CA), a recent spin-out from NeoPhotonics Corp., has appointed Ken Westrick as chief executive officer. Westrick formerly served as CEO of New Focus, Inc., an optical components supplier, and as a member of...

Nanosys adds quantum dot pioneer to board. (People).(Columbia University professor Louis Brus)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Nanosys Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has named Louis Brus, a professor of chemistry at at Columbia University, to its scientific advisory board. Prior to his tenure at Columbia, Brus spent over 20 years at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he...

Balzers adds nano-si to FED structure. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Balzers AG has patented (U.S. Patent 6,507,145) the use of nanocrystalline silicon to form the resistive ballast layer of a field emission flat panel display. Typically difficult to manufacture, the resistive ballast layer interconnects the...

Gentle technique untangles nanotubes without breakage. (Processing And Characterization).
February 1, 2003... Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have found a means to efficiently untangle carbon nanotubes from the spaghetti-like structure they tend to form during synthesis with minimal breakage, an advance that could enable wider commercial...

Bright future for luminescent particles. (Commentary).(Editorial)
February 1, 2003... Merely a scientific curiosity a decade ago, quantum dots--tiny particles with an exotic name and unique properties--today form the backbone of several emerging technologies, products, and devices. A decade from now, quantum dots might be as...

Nanosphere solidifies IP with new patents. (Recent Patents).(intellectual property)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Within the past two months two new U.S. patents protecting the nanoparticle-based DNA detection technology of Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, IL) have issued, bringing the company's total to four within the past year. U.S. Patents 6,506,564 and...

Nanotubes to improve phased-array radar. (Grants Awarded).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Supported by a $750,000 Phase II SBIR grant from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Applied Nanotech Inc. (Austin, TX) is developing an economical solution for high-frequency phased-array radar applications using a carbon nanotube cathode. The...

Liquid used as scaffold in assembly process. (Processing And Characterization).
February 1, 2003... Researchers at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst have developed a new method to assemble nanoparticles into robust, three-dimensional structures by encapsulating and stabilizing water droplets, an advancement that might influence...

Nanotechnology receives 9.5% funding boost in 2004 budget. (Washington News).
February 1, 2003... President Bush has earmarked $847 million of the 2004 budget--a 9.5% increase in spending over 2003--to support the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which is designated as a "key area of investment" by the Office of Science and...

Nanoscale sintering aids yield better parts. (Grants Awarded).(Materials and Electrochemical Research Corp.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Materials & Electrochemical Research (MER) Corp. (Tucson, AZ) is using nanoparticulate sintering aids to produce high-strength transparent AION missile domes in a Phase I SBIR project sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The company...

Calendar.(nanotechnology events, March through May)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2003... March 23-27, 2003 225th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. Contact: Nancy Todd, Manager, ACS; Tel: 202/872-6009, Fax: 202/872-6128. April 2-4, 2003 National Nanotechnology Initiative: From Vision to...