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Nanoparticle News archives from February 2005
BIOTECHNOLOGY: Aligned Nanotubes Could Improve Artificial Joints.
February 1, 2005... Artificial joints might be improved by making implants out of carbon nanotubes and filaments that are all aligned in the same direction, mimicking the alignment of collagen fibers and natural ceramic crystals in real bones, according to a...
CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES: Novel Linear Polymers Grown in Nanotubes.
February 1, 2005... Researchers at the University of Oxford and University of Nottingham, UK, have used single-walled carbon nanotubes as an inert reaction vessel to perform unique polymerization reactions. In the January 2005 Chemical Communications the...
Nanotubes Form Along Atomic Steps.
February 1, 2005... A research group headed by Ernesto Joselevich of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, has developed a new approach to create patterns of carbon nanotubes by formation along atomic steps on sapphire surfaces. Carbon nanotubes are excellent...
Carbon Nanotubes Spun into Fibers.
February 1, 2005... Scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) NanoTech Institute, along with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), have achieved a major technological breakthrough by spinning multi-walled...
ELECTRONICS AND MAGNETICS: New York State Reaps $2.5 B from IBM-Led Consortium.
February 1, 2005... In early January, New York Governor George E. Pataki announced more than $2.5B in investments in Upstate New York by an IBM-led consortium of high-tech companies. IBM along with Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, Infineon, AMD, and Charter, will spend...
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT: Solar Cell Infrared Light Harvesting Advanced.
February 1, 2005... Researchers at the University of Toronto led by Ted Sargent have made a significant discovery in the ability to fabricate versatile semiconductor quantum dot/polymer coatings which demonstrate a photovoltaic effect in the infra red region....
Nanonickel Powder Poised to Replace Platinum Catalyst.
February 1, 2005... QuantumSphere Inc recently filed three crucial US patents based on their platform-technology vapor condensation process to synthesize high-purity nanonickel spheres. Nanonickel has the potential to replace platinum as the main catalytic...
PROCESSING & CHARACTERIZATION: Colloidal Quantum Dots (QDs) Synthesized More Economically.
February 1, 2005... Scientists at the National University of Seoul, Korea claim to have pioneered a much more economic synthesis of colloidal QDs using less toxic metal precursors. The scientists estimate that commercial-scale synthesis of magnetic or...
MARKET ANALYSIS: Nanophotonic Devices Market to Reach $9.33 Billion by 2009.
February 1, 2005... Photonics is the technology of generating and controlling light and particularly using light to carry information. Photonics includes the emission, transmission, amplification, detection, modulation and switching of light. Light is used to...
WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Von Ehr Maintains Long-Term Vision While Building Self-Sustaining Firm.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... James Von Ehr is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Zyvex Corp., the first molecular nanotechnology company. Prior to founding Zyvex in 1997, Von Ehr worked in engineering management at Texas Instruments and as a software entrepreneur in desktop...
COMMENTARY: That Was Then, This Is Now: A Nano Retrospective.(Julia Weertman )
February 1, 2005... The first time I heard the prefix "nano-" was in the fall of 1991. I was a new graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, listening to professors provide overviews of their research....
BUSINESS.(nanotechnology )(NanoScale Materials Inc )
February 1, 2005... Nanoscale Introduces Analytical Services. NanoScale Materials Inc (Manhattan, KS) a supplier of a variety of metal oxide nanomaterials for military, environmental and homeland security applications, has launched an analytical services program....
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.(nanotechnology)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Evident Awarded Anti-Counterfeiting NSF Grant. Evident Technology's (Troy, NY) 6 month Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project worth $100,000 will look at the feasibility of creating security features that are virtually...
PEOPLE.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Konarka Expands Hiring. Konarka Technologies, Inc (Lowell, Ma), a developer of solar panels based on dye-coated titanium oxide have appointed two new industrial and scientific advisors. They are Charles Gay, a recognized leader in the solar...
PRODUCTS.
February 1, 2005... UK Carbon Nanotube Supplier Approved. Thomas Swan UK has been certified as an approved supplier of high-quality carbon nanotubes under the auspices of a strict supply chain certification program managed by Zyvex Corporation (Richardson, TX)....
RESEARCH.
February 1, 2005... Nanotube Glucose Sensors. Carbon nanotubes have been used to develop a new type of near-infrared sensor potentially useful for detecting glucose in the bloodstream. A group of researchers led by Michael Strano at the University of Illinois,...
PATENTS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... NanoInk Strengthens Patent Portfolio. Direct write nanolithography technology supplier NanoInk Inc. (Chicago, IL) has been awarded a third patent for its dip pen nanolithography (DPN) process. U.S. Patent 6,827,979 deals with methods of...
CALENDAR.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... March 21-22, 2005 Nanoparticle Technology for Drug Delivery, Philadelphia, PA. Contact: Tel: 800-856-2556, Email: barnettinfo@paraexel.com.
April 25-26, 2005, Nanotechnology: Issues for Business, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Email:...
TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: QUANTUM-DOT LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES AND DISPLAYS.
February 1, 2005... By Vladimir Bulovic, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Jonathan Steckel, Wing- Keung Woo, LeeAnn Kim, and Moungi Bawendi, Lab of Organic Optics and Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA.
The luminescence of inorganic core-shell...
CdSe Quantum Dots.
February 1, 2005... Nanocrystal quantum dots are semiconductor nanoparticles that are chemically synthesized using simple benchtop techniques. Their sizes can be precisely controlled in a range from 1 to 10 nm. Electrons and holes are delocalized in QDs in states...