Nanoparticle News articles from February 2006

Nanoparticle News archives from February 2006

ELECTRONICS Flexible Electronics from Stretchable Silicon.
February 1, 2006... Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on flexible...

Connected Nanotubes Create Transistor.
February 1, 2006... In the past year the work of several research groups has been highlighted on the possible use of CNTs in post-CMOS electronics. These include their use as conductors, resistors and semiconductors in novel transistor and circuit designs. Now...

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT On-the-Go Affordable Solar Power.
February 1, 2006... Scientists from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are developing cheap, portable, personal solar cells that will be able to recharge laptops and mobile phones. The lightweight devices, based on a flexible polymer sheet coated with...

PROCESSING & CHARACTERIZATION Instrument for Real Time Nanoparticle Detection.
February 1, 2006... Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have developed a means of detecting single nanoparticles, such as single viruses or gold particles, in real time. The new technique reported in the January 13th issue of Physical...

Building Superlattices Just Got Easier.
February 1, 2006... Bacteria, macromolecules and nanoparticles can self-assemble, generating ordered structures with a precision that challenges current lithographic techniques. This area is one of considerable research intensity because of its potential to extend...

Nanofiber Fabrication via the Crazy Route.
February 1, 2006... Pennsylvania State University chemical engineers have discovered an easy, versatile new method for making nanofibers that have potential uses in advanced filtration as well as wound care, drug delivery, bioassays and other medical applications....

BIOTECHNOLOGY Transistor Detects Disease Mutations.
February 1, 2006... University of Pittsburgh researcher Alexander Star and colleagues at Nanomix, Inc., a commercial producer of nanoelectronic-based sensors, have developed devices made of carbon nanotubes that can find mutations in genes causing hereditary...

DNA-Encapsulation Creates Cell Sensors.
February 1, 2006... Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) wrapped with DNA can be placed inside living cells and detect trace amounts of harmful contaminants using near infrared light, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Their...

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES Smalley's Legacy Lives On.
February 1, 2006... Rice University's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) has been renamed the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology in honor of CNST founder and university professor Richard Smalley, who died Oct. 28,...

INDUSTRY NEWS Regulating Nanotechnology- A Hardnose Look.
February 1, 2006... The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has released a report, Managing the Effects of Nanotechnology, which examines the strengths and weaknesses of the current regulatory framework for nanotechnology and calls for a new approach...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... April 26-28, 2006 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, Atlanta, GA. Contact: via website www.tappi.org/06NANO May 1-5, QD2006- 4th International Conference on Semiconductor Quantum Dots,...

BCC RELATED REPORT: Nanopatterning.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2006... FAST FACT- The global market for nanopatterning tools, templates, resists and other consumables is estimated at $46.3 million in 2005 and is expected to rise to $292.7 million in 2010, at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 44.6%. ...

COMMENTRY Safety and Health Risks: Ignorance is bliss?
February 1, 2006... To quote the 18th-century English poet Thomas Gray, "where ignorance is bliss,... tis folly to be wise." Or, not knowing something is often more comfortable than knowing it. This tried and true statement seems apt in terms of the ongoing...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT Hybrid Strategies for Nanoelectronics Fabrication: Part 1- Bottom-Up Chemical and Biological Assembly.
February 1, 2006... By Louis Brousseau, President & CEO, Quantum Logic Devices, Austin, TX 78752 Extension of Moore's Law into the nanometer regime faces a number of challenges. The effects of quantum principles at this size scale demand better control over...

Self-Assembly.
February 1, 2006... One very appealing feature of biomimetic and chemical approaches to nanofabrication is that design of molecular reaction pathways can obviate the need for energy inputs. That is, thermodynamic forces can be harnessed to perform spontaneous and...

Figure 1: Chemical self-assembled monolayer formation of molecular film on a surface.
February 1, 2006... The wet-chemical approaches to nanofabrication described here offer a valuable set of tools applicable to virtually any material of interest. The versatility of these immobilization methods makes it possible to design a number of self-assembled...

Nanofabrication of Quantum Dots.
February 1, 2006... Reviews of the various routes to prepare nanoparticles are detailed in the literature (e.g. see Clusters and Colloids, VCH, 1994). Examples include II-VI semiconductor nanoparticles (CdS, ZnS) prepared by combination of H2S or Na with the...

Figure 2: SEM-graph of nanostructure created from colloidal gold and trigonal phenylacetylene linker. The top dot is approximately 12 nm diameter.
February 1, 2006... Examples include the DNA-hybridization driven assembly of gold nanoclusters by the groups of Alivisatos (UC Berkeley) and Mirkin (MIT). In this work, solutions of each strand of complementary DNA sequence immobilized on gold colloids are mixed...

(((BRIEFS))) AWARDS.
February 1, 2006... Electron Microscope Wins Accolades. The FEI Company (Hillsboro, OR) has announced that within months of its release, FEI's Titan scanning transmission electron microscope (S/TEM), the world's most powerful, commercially-available microscope,...

BUSINESS.(Telomolecular Corp. has signed licensing agreement with UNeMed)(Zyvex Corp. and Diabetech, LP to develop wireless sensor implant)(Starpharma Pooled Development Ltd. and Dendritic Nanotechnologies Ltd. to develop polymer nanodendrimer based product)
February 1, 2006... Human Aging Nanoparticles Licensed. Telomolecular Corp. (Sacremento, CA), a biotechnology company, that develops biopharmaceutical therapies designed to treat aging and age-related disease, has signed a global licensing agreement with UNeMed,...

FINANCIALS.(Fujitsu Ltd.on its investments)(Nanostart AG invests in Nanosys Inc.)(Zyvex Corp. on its revenues)
February 1, 2006... Major Investment in 65 nm Chip Production. Fujitsu Limited (Tokyo, Japan) is investing $1.05 billion in a second 300mm fab in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Volume production on both 90nm and 65nm processes is expected to start in July 2007....

FUNDING.
February 1, 2006... Nano-Imprint Lab Gets Funding. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is establishing a Nano-Imprint Lithography (NIL) laboratory to further its research capabilities in nanoscale device manufacturing. Nano-imprint lithography is based on the...

PATENTS.
February 1, 2006... Big Blue Still Tops. The U.S, Patent and Trademark Office announced the 2005 top 10 global private sector patent recipients. Despite a 10 percent drop in output from 2004, IBM again topped the list with 2941 issued patents. They were followed...

PRODUCTS.(Scarlet Johansson to promote for L'Oreal S.A.)(Raymor Industries Inc. on its carbon nanotubes)(Arkema introduces new carbon nanotube pilot plant)
February 1, 2006... Cosmetics Captures Irridescence. L'Oreal (Paris, France) has announced that Hollywood starlet Scarlet Johansson is to become the latest face to promote its new nanotechnology-based High Intensity Pigment (HIP) product line which will be...

RESEARCH.
February 1, 2006... Biotech Start-Up Joins Dendrimer Hub. Artificial Cell Technologies Inc (Shelton, CT), which designs, characterizes and produces complex, multilayer, nanoassembled polypeptide films, coatings and microcapsules, is locating a laboratory at the...