Nanoparticle News articles from July 2001

Nanoparticle News archives from July 2001

Biotech Market for Nanoparticles to Reach $144.8M in 2005.(industry forecasting)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
July 1, 2001... In recent years the biotechnology community has discovered that the distinctive physical characteristics and novel properties of nanoparticles--their extraordinarily high surface area-to-volume ratio, tunable optical emission, superparamagnetic...

Tetronics Exploits Smart Award For New Facility.(nanotechnology facility information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Tetronics Exploits Smart Award For New Facility. With the support of a DTI Smart Award, Tetronics, Ltd. (Faringdon, Oxon, UK) is building a highly engineered, automated plasma facility for the production of an increased range of nanopowders,...

OMG's Acquisition of [dmc.sup.2] Moves Forward.(acquisition information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... OMG's Acquisition of [dmc.sup.2] Moves Forward. OM Group, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) made additional filings with the Federal Trade Commission on June 27, 2001, in connection with its acquisition of all operations of Degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec...

Spinel Particle Slurry Avoids Scratching.(product development information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A team of researchers from EKC Technology, Inc. and Baikowski Chimie have developed and tested a chemical mechanical polishing slurry based on spinel nanocrystals that can planarize both metal and oxide surfaces without scratching. The...

NanoPierce Plans Open House.(NanoPierce Technologies, Inc)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... NanoPierce Plans Open House. The wholly owned German subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. (Denver, CO), NanoPierce Card Technologies, GmbH, will host an open house on September 20, 2001 at its Hohenbrunn (Munich) facilities. The open...

Manufacturing Improvements Spur Productivity for Nanophase.(Nanophase Technologies Corp)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Manufacturing Improvements Spur Productivity for Nanophase. Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) says it has made a series of significant developments in its core physical vapor synthesis (PVS) nanocrystalline manufacturing process,...

ThermoView Develops SPD `Smart' Windows.(ThermoView Industries, Inc)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... ThermoView Develops SPD `Smart' Windows. ThermoView Industries, Inc. (Louisville, KY) is developing a new line of SPD (suspended particle device) "smart" windows that it plans to demonstrate publicly, beginning next month, and to manufacture...

New Officer at PowderJect.(Staph Bakali )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... New Officer at PowderJect. PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, Plc (Oxford, UK) has appointed Staph Bakali (39), currently Chiron Vaccines' head of worldwide sales and marketing, as chief operating officer. Bakali will be responsible for the commercial...

Army Moves to Launch Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.(United States Army)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Army Moves to Launch Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. The Army plans to sponsor two informational meetings for its proposed Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. The pre-competition informational meetings will be held on August 20 in...

Technique Arranges Nanotubes for Field Emission Devices.(Agere Systems process development)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Agere Systems researchers have developed a clever new process to fabricate carbon nanotube field emitter structures with improved emission properties. The patented field emitter array, which consists of similarly sized nanotubes protruding...

Nanotech Firm Wins MIT Business Plan Competition.(Angstrom Medica )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Nanotech Firm Wins MIT Business Plan Competition. Angstrom Medica (Cambridge, MA) won $30,000 in the 12th annual MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition for its nanomaterial-related business plan. Headed by former MIT graduate student Edward Ahn,...

Seven New Pilot Reactors Up and Running.(Degussa-Huels AG)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Seven New Pilot Reactors Up and Running. Degussa-Huels' Project House Nanomaterials (PHNM) (Germany) has placed seven of eight planned pilot scale reactors for producing nanoparticulate materials into parallel operation. The reactor types...

E-Ink and Philips Showcase Display Prototypes.(new product introduction)(Product Information)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... E-Ink and Philips Showcase Display Prototypes. Less than 4 mo. after forming a comprehensive agreement to develop and commercialize high-resolution, active matrix electronic ink displays for use in smart handheld devices, Philips Components...

Quantum Bar Codes Promise Diagnostic Advances.(research information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Quantum Bar Codes Promise Diagnostic Advances. Researchers at the University of Indiana (Bloomington, IN) have achieved multicolor optical coding for biological assays by embedding different-sized quantum dots (specifically, zinc sulfide-capped...

Nanowire Laser Array Poses Competition for GaAs Devices.(UC Berkeley research information)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A University of California, Berkeley, chemist has fabricated a zinc oxide nanowire laser array with potential applications in microchip chemical analysis, high-density information storage, and photonics. "The ability to produce high-density...

Advanced Magnetics Explores Core Opportunities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has filed an investigational new drug exemption (IND) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its product Code 7228 for use in iron replacement therapy. The company's existing products...

Defects in Sol-Gel Alumina Drive Emission.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Defects in Sol-Gel Alumina Drive Emission. Scientists from Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing, People's Republic of China) observed blue photoluminescent emission in pure nanoscale alpha-[Al.sub.2][O.sub.3] powders prepared by the sol-gel...

Nanomaterials for Abrasion-Resistant Coating Applications.
July 1, 2001... Nanomaterials have been the subject of intensive research activity in recent years, from which numerous applications have been developed with products ranging from UV absorbers, cosmetics, catalysts, and heat transfer fluids, to coatings. In...

Monodisperse Nanocrystals Form Superlattices.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Monodisperse Nanocrystals Form Superlattices. Experiments to produce monodisperse nanocrystals with a controllable size and shape have allowed researchers from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and BASF AG to study the size dependence of various...

Powderject Protects Vaccine Technology.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Powderject Protects Vaccine Technology. PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, plc (Oxford, UK) has been issued two key patents that the company says broadens and strengthens its lock on the powder injection of both DNA and conventional vaccines. Newly...

Nanoparticles Improve Ex Vivo Gene Therapy.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Immunicon Corp.'s newly patented (U.S. Patent 6,228,624) method to target, transfect, and separate cells using nanoparticle and magnetic separation technology is expected to play a role in ex vivo gene therapy. Immunicon's process involves...

Neutron Diffraction Explains Role of Defects in Catalyst.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Nanocrystalline ceria, Ce[O.sub.2], is used in automotive catalytic converters as a catalyst support to maintain the supply of oxygen vital to the catalytic function, but until recently there has been no adequate explanation of how it works or...

Polymers Self-Assembled into Rigid Silica Structures.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Intelligent polymer-silica nanocomposites that report on their environment by changing color from blue to fluorescent red under mechanical, chemical, or thermal stress have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the...

DNA Used as Template to Assemble Devices.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... DNA Used as Template to Assemble Devices. Integrated Nano-Technologies, LLC (Rochester, NY) has patented technology (U.S. Patent 6,248,529) to chemically assemble nanoscale devices, including electronic circuits, using DNA molecules as a...

Electrically Assisted Synthesis Improves Size Control.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Electrically Assisted Synthesis Improves Size Control. Researchers from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) have been awarded U.S. Patent 6,254,940 for an electrically assisted technique to produce oxide, nitride, carbide, bonde, or...

Irradiated Mo[S.sub.2] Nanoclusters Photo-Oxidize Contaminants.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Irradiated Mo[S.sub.2] Nanoclusters Photo-Oxidize Contaminants. By dispersing Mo[S.sub.2] nanoclusters in a solvent containing a hydrocarbon compound contaminant and irradiating the mixture with visible light, it is possible to photooxidize the...

Ti[O.sub.2] Imparts Germicidal Behavior to Lamp.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Ti[O.sub.2] Imparts Germicidal Behavior to Lamp. Toshiba Lightning and Technology Corp. (Tokyo, JP) has developed "germicidal" lighting fixtures that use UV light radiated from the lamp to activate a photocatalytic coating on the bulb. The...

Technique Improves Control Over Particle Size.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new technique to produce metal oxide nanoparticles that promises improved control over particle size and chemistry. The new synthesis method,...

RF Array Designed with a Carbon Nanotube Cathode.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... RF Array Designed Cathode Carbon Nanotube Cathode. FEPET, Inc. (Austin, TX) is incorporating carbon nanotube (CNT) field emission cathodes into a fully integrated array of radio frequency (RF) sources, with the support of a Phase I SBIR award...

Powder Forging Applied to Nanopowders.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Powder Forging Applied to Nanopowders. Ceracon is applying a quasi-isostatic, solid-state powder forging method to consolidate nanocrystalline aluminum alloy powders into rocket turbopump components, with the support of a Phase I SBIR award...

Altair Sells Nanostructured Thermal Spray Product.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Altair Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Altair International, Inc., has sold one of its high-purity nanostructured thermal spray products to F.W. Gartner Thermal Spray Co. for use in an undisclosed coating application. Altair estimates that...

Nanophase Halts Plans for Exclusive Relationship.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies Corp. says it will not proceed with a proposed exclusive strategic relationship with a European company for the development, manufacture, and joint marketing of an environmental catalyst incorporating Nanophase's...

NANOPARTICLE NEWS STOCK WATCH.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... NANOPARTICLE NEWS STOCK WATCH (At Close, July 2, 2001) This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM...