Nanoparticle News articles from January 2004

Nanoparticle News archives from January 2004

2003: THE YEAR IN REVIEW The Year of the Nano Bubble?
January 1, 2004... After three straight years of losses, the stock market finished up for 2003 and the stocks in the Nanoparticle News stock watch were no exception, with an average gain of 166%. The biggest gains were made by Altair Nanotechnologies...

Who Teamed Up - And With Whom?
January 1, 2004... Partnerships, partnerships and more partnerships. As Peter Maul, president of Nanocor, stated in our April, 2003 issue: "Strategic partnerships are critical to success...on the commercial side partnerships bring not only legitimacy to the...

S. in Nanotechnology.(Bachelor of science degree)
January 1, 2004... With an Australian university already offering a bachelor of science degree in nanotechnology and a U.S. institution preparing to establish a bachelor's degree program in nanosystems engineering, it may come as no surprise that dedicated...

Nano Companies Attract Investment.
January 1, 2004... A handful of nanotechnology companies attracted close to $100 million in venture capital and private and corporate investment last year. Nanosys, which is commercializing semiconductor nanowire technology, led the pack with a total of $38...

COMMENTARY: What's Next for Nano: A Cure for Mad Cow?
January 1, 2004... During this past year, in the laboratory if not the marketplace, nanotechnology has enabled faster transistors, longer-lasting batteries, more wear-resistant coatings, higher-density hard drives, and more effective sunscreens. What's next? A...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Building A Midwest Nanotech Cluster.(Interview)
January 1, 2004... Sean Murdock is the executive director and a founding board member of AtomWorks, an organization dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of nanotechnology in Illinois and throughout the Midwest. Prior to founding AtomWorks, Murdock...

MARKET ANALYSIS: Nanotech Tool Market Nears $200 Million.
January 1, 2004... The worldwide market for nanotechnology instruments and tools reached an estimated $199.2 million in 2003 and is expected to rise at a 28.6% average annual growth rate (AAGR) during the next five years, crossing $700 million by 2008, according...

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: Nucryst Launches Phase II Trials of Nano Cream.
January 1, 2004... In a move to develop its pharmaceutical business along with its wound care business, Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp., a subsidiary of The Westaim Corp., has begun its first Phase 2 human clinical trial of a topical cream formulation of...

NanoBio Advances Drug Delivery.(NanoBio Corp.)(Dendrimer-based drug delivery)
January 1, 2004... NanoBio Corp., a biopharmaceutical company founded in 2000, has formed a new company to support the development of dendrimer-based drug delivery and imaging products. Christened NanoCure Corp. and funded by contracts from the National...

ELECTRONICS & MAGNETICS: Can Quantum Dots Improve Computing?
January 1, 2004... Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), working in conjunction with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, has shown that the combination of single electron transistors (SETs) with standard CMOS transistors can provide enough gain and...

Nanorings Could Enable Storage.
January 1, 2004... Purdue researchers led by chemist Alexander Wei have found a way to create nanoscale magnetic nanorings that can be switched between stable magnetic states, an advance that might prove important for ultra-high density nonvolatile memory devices...

NEWS BRIEFS.
January 1, 2004... UK Allocates $157M for Nanotech. An action plan published by the UK Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt following a wide- ranging review of the UK's innovation policy calls for the allocation of $157 million in nanotechnology funding....

PRODUCT NEWS.
January 1, 2004... QDC Unveils Biolabels. Quantum Dot Corp. (QDC, Hayward, CA) has added two new products to its nanocrystal-based family of fluorescent labels for bio-imaging: the Qtracker 655 kit for loading Qdot nanocrystals into live cells and the Qdot 705...

PEOPLE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Zyvex Elects New President, Directors. Zyvex Corp. (Richardson, TX) has elected Thomas A. Cellucci, Donald A. DeVito II, and Malcolm R. O'Neill to its board of directors. Cellucci, Zyvex's chief operating officer, was also elected as president....

PATENT NEWS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Circuit Elements Chemically Assembled. Integrated Nano- Technologies LLC (Rochester, NY) has patented (U.S. Patent 6,664,103) a technology for chemically synthesizing and assembling complex electronic circuits and devices. Using DNA as a...

NEW RESEARCH.
January 1, 2004... Nanowires Allow Light to Travel Coherently. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) researchers led by Eric Mazur and Limin Tong (also of Zhejiang University in China) have developed a process to create silica wires of only 50 nm in diameter that...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... February 2-3, 2004 Nanotech Investing Forum, Rancho Mirage, CA. Contact: IBF, Tel: 516/765-9005, Fax: 516/765-9015, Web: www.ibfconferences.com. March 7-11, 2004 Nanotech 2004, Boston, MA. Contact: Nano Science and Technology Institute,...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Nanomaterials in Nanoelectronics Part II: Memory Devices and Outlook.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... By Mindy N. Rittner, Director of Nanotechnology Research, Business Communications Co., Inc., Norwalk, CT. This is the second part of a two-part paper based on the BCC report RGB-286 Nanomaterials in Nanoelectronics, published December,...

Nanoelectronic Memory Devices.
January 1, 2004... Nanotube or Nanowire Memory Arrays. High density nonvolatile memory devices that take the form of a nanowire array in which both the storage bits and interconnects are composed of the same material - either carbon nanotubes or semiconductor...

Outlook, Markets.(Nanoelectronic memory products)
January 1, 2004... The nanoelectronic materials and device structures that will make it to market first will be those that can be fabricated using current chip manufacturing processes and integrated with conventional semiconductor technology (complementary...