Nanoparticle News articles from January 2002

Nanoparticle News archives from January 2002

The economic downturn. (2001: The Year In Review).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The impact of the economic downturn on the nano business during 2001 is illustrated by the vast difference in the manufacturing news published in the January and December issues of Nanoparticle News (NN). January's news was tinged with...

Nanopierce signs letter of intent.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Nanopierce Signs Letter of Intent. NanoPierce Card Technologies GmbH (Munich, Germany), a subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., announced the signing of a letter of intent with the Taiwan-based Opto Tech Corp. to jointly develop the...

Rohm and Haas updates outlook.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Rohm and Haas Updates Outlook. Rohm and Haas Co. (Philadelphia, PA) announced that it expects to report fourth-quarter operating results of $0.19 to $0.21/share. Chairman Raj L. Gupta says the fourth quarter is shaping up as anticipated....

OM Group acquires Rhodia Division.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... OM Group Acquires Rhodia Division. OM Group. Inc. (Cleveland, OH) acquired the metal organics division of Rhodia, a leading international chemical company, effective December 21, 2001. The acquisition encompasses Rhodia's Metal Organics...

Rise of partnerships. (2001: The Year In Review).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... One of the industry trends that NN observed during the past year is the rise of partnerships between start-up companies and more established corporate entities in an effort to expedite commercialization of various nanotechnology-based products....

Self-assembly emerges. (2001: The Year In Review).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Among the technological trends NN observed during 2001 was the emergence of self-assembly technology as a means of fabricating nanomaterials and ordered nanostructures from the "bottom up." The Technology Insight feature in the February 2001,...

Spotlighting nanowires, nanotubes. (2001: The Year In Review).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Also piquing the interest of the scientific and industrial communities during 2001 was the synthesis of nanowires and carbon nanostructures and their use in device fabrication. In February, NN reported on a flexible "step-edge decoration"...

SPD plans to offer both film and glass.(SPD Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... SPD Plans to Offer Both Film and Glass. This month SPD, Inc. (Woodbury, NY) will begin to provide end-product manufacturers with flat or laminated glass that has SPD (suspended particle device) film already incorporated into it and is ready for...

Praxair semiconductor materials expands web presence.(Praxair Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Praxair Semiconductor Materials Expands Web Presence. Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, CT) has launched an enhanced semiconductor materials area on the company's website. The company says it has improved information accessibility by adding regional...

Vibrations induce ordering.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Vibrations Induce Ordering. By applying a controlled oscillatory motion to settling dispersions of colloidal particles, it is possible to prepare nanocomposite materials with highly periodic structures, according to U.S. Patent 6,325,957,...

New market analysis. (2001: The Year In Review).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The year 2001 also saw the release of a new, three-volume series of technical-market reports published by Business Communications Co. that, in sum, pegged the total world market for nanoparticulate materials at $492.5 million in 2000 and...

Oxonica pushes forward with biolabel technology. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical).(Oxonica Ltd.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Having filed a patent to protect its scaleable method to produce quantum dots, Oxonica, Ltd. is a step closer to commercializing nanoparticles for use as luminescent biolabels in various diagnostic applications. Oxonica, formerly known as...

Functionalized nanocrystals help visualize live tissue.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Functionalized Nanocrystals Help Visualize Live Tissue. Bio-Pixels, Ltd. (Westerville, OH) has developed and patented (U.S. Patent 6,333,110) a method to use functionalized nanocrystals for the fluorescence imaging of living tissue. The...

Method to purify nanotubes protected.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Method to Purify Nanotubes Protected. Researchers from Iljin Nanotech Co., Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) have patented (U.S. Patent 6,331,209) a simple method of forming purified carbon nanotubes from which graphitic phase or amorphous carbon particles...

Immunosensor assembled from colloidal particles.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Immunosensor Assembled from Colloidal Particles. University of Delaware researchers have invented a particle-based sensor for the presence of bio-specific molecules that provides an alternative, highly advanced method for performing diagnostic...

Self-assembly exploited to mimic bone structure. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Researchers at Northwestern University have exploited molecular self-assembly to form 3-D structures that mimic the key features of human bone at the nanoscale level, including collagen nanofibers that promote mineralization and hydroxyapatite...

High efficiency from pulsed wire discharge.(aluminum nitride nanoparticles can be synthesized at a greater efficiency with alternate method)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... High Efficiency from Pulsed Wire Discharge. Aluminum nitride nanoparticles can be synthesized by a pulsed wire discharge method at an efficiency 50 times higher than that possible by arc discharge, according to researchers from the Extreme...

Biomimetic approach offers benign synthesis route.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Biomimetic Approach Offers Benign Synthesis Route. Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, OH) believe that biomimetic approaches to materials synthesis offer an alternative, benign route...

Alternative energy applications for nanomaterials. (Technology Insight).
January 1, 2002... Nano-sized ceramic materials will play an ever-expanding role in the creation, development, and fabrication of energy conversion and energy storage devices in the future. During the past 2 year, Altair Nanotechnologies has developed several...

MRI contrast agent aids cancer treatment.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... MRI Contrast Agent Aids Cancer Treatment. At the Radiological Society's annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, radiologists representing Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital reported that Combidex, an investigational magnetic...

Drug delivery with nano CaP[O.sub.4] yields positive results. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical).(BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc. tests calcium phosphate nanoparticulate drug delivery system)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. says results from a pre-clinical trial have demonstrated the effectiveness of its calcium phosphate (CaP[O.sub.4]) nanoparticulate delivery system for the administration of drugs into the eye. BioSante's...

Nano ferrite powders produced by alternative technique. (Electronics And Magnetics).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In an effort to produce ferrites such as Ni[Fe.sub.2][O.sub.4] with improved magnetic properties, a team of researchers from Inframat Corp., the University of Connecticut and the University of Texas have developed an alternative synthesis...

UChicago researchers demonstrate hierarchical self-assembly.(research concerns the assembly of organic-inorganic, copolymer-metal nanostructures)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... UChicago Researchers Demonstrate Hierarchical Self-Assembly. Researchers from the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), led by Heinrich M. Jaeger, have demonstrated a versatile hierarchical approach for the assembly of organic-inorganic,...

Doped nanoparticles evaluated for sensors.(University of Western Australia and RMIT University conduct research)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Doped Nanoparticles Evaluated for Sensors. Besides a reduced crystallite size, the presence of dopants has been recognized as a means of enhancing the sensitivity of gas sensor materials, such as tin oxide. It is believed that the dopant both...

$970,000 awarded for nano cathode material project.(Nanopowder Enterprises Inc. obtains contract)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... $970,000 Awarded for Nano Cathode Material Project. Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. (NEI) was awarded a $970,000 contract from the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) to develop a new class of nanostructured vanadium oxide-based...

Uniform Sn[O.sub.2] layers for gas sensor applications. (Electronics And Magnetics).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... With the goal of refining the material fabrication technology for tin-oxide based gas sensors, researchers from the Institute for Micromanufacturing at Louisiana Tech University have demonstrated the self-assembly of tin oxide (Sn[O.sub.2])...

Mitsui plans world's largest nanotube plant. (Manufacturing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Japan's Mitsui & Co. says it plans to build a manufacturing plant with an annual production capacity of 120 tons of carbon nanotubes, with a trial start planned for September 2002. Through its Tokyo-based research unit, the Carbon Nanotech...

Contract supports near net-shape process development.(United States Army grants contract to Nanopowder Enterprises Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Contract Supports Near Net-Shape Process Development. The U.S. Army awarded a Phase II SBIR contract to Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. (NEI) to develop a near net-shape process for materials that are generally difficult to sinter. Starting from...

Publication reviews nanomaterial technology.
January 1, 2002... Publication Reviews Nanomaterial Technology. Noyes Publications has released Nanostructured Materials--Processing, Properties, and Potential Applications, a 350-page volume that reviews new and improved synthesis methods, selected properties...

Concise edition of handbook released.
January 1, 2002... Concise Edition of Handbook Released. A newly published, concise edition of Hari Singh Nalwa's Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology is intended to satisfy the needs of scientists and students working in chemistry, physics,...

SDK ready for mass production of vapor-grown carbon nanofibers. (Manufacturing News).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... With the completion of a 10-tons/year scale-up for vapor-grown nanofibers, Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) says it plans to step up its efforts to develop the nanofiber market. Carbon nanofibers characterized by a fiber diameter of 80 nm are the...

New volume designed as course book and reference.
January 1, 2002... New Volume Designed as Course Book and Reference. Nanostructured Materials, published December 2001, by Academic Press, focuses on the synthesis, processing, and structural tailoring of nanocrystalline and nanoporous materials. The volume is...

Newt Gingrich joins Nano Trade Association. (Washington News).(NanoBusiness Alliance)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has joined the NanoBusiness Alliance as honorary chairman. The NanoBusiness Alliance is the first trade association developed to bring together scientists, academics, and...

Calendar.
January 1, 2002... January 31-February 1, 2002. Nanotechnology--Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications, Lecce, Italy. Contact: Lance Haworth, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 525, Arlington, VA 22230; Tel: 703/292-4916; Email:...