Nanoparticle News articles from July 2002

Nanoparticle News archives from July 2002

Nanophase gets foot into CMP biz as Rodel supplier. (Industry News).(chemical-mechanical polishing )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In a move designed to penetrate the burgeoning chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry market, Nanophase Technologies Corp. has joined forces with slurry producer Rodel, Inc. to develop and market new CMP products. Under the terms of...

Report provides directives for NNI.(National Nanotechnology Initiative)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... For nanotechnology to fulfill its promise of revolutionizing industry, the government-funded National Nanotechnology Initiative needs to increase its support of long-term research and promote more interdisciplinary effort, says a new report...

Oxonica nets $6M in funding round.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Oxonica (Kidlington, U.K.) raised just over 4 million [pounds sterling] (U.S.$6 million) from a syndicate of venture capital companies from around the world, including VCF Partners, BASF Venture Capital GmbH, NextGen Partners LLC, Northern...

Motorola, DA NanoMaterials team to market slurry.(chemical-mechanical polishing slurry)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, LLC (DA NanoMaterials), a relative newcomer to the CMP slurry field, and Motorola and have agreed to jointly commercialize an advanced copper CMP formulation that originated in Motorola's labs. Motorola,...

Rohm & Haas expects revenue rise in 2Q.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Rohm & Haas Co. (Philadelphia, PA) says it expects its electronic materials business to show sequential revenue improvement of approx. 15% from the first to the second quarter due to improved demand for advanced technologies used to make...

NIST announces ATP 2002 competition.(National Institute of Standards and Technology; Advanced Technology Program)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Washington, DC) has opened a new competition for cost-sharing awards to support high-risk R&D projects that accelerate the development of...

Nanocor and Gitto Global expand joint program. (Alliances and Mergers).(creating flame resistant polyolefin plastics for nanotechnology)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Nanocor, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AMCOL International Corp. (Arlington Heights, IL), and Gitto Global Corp. (Lunenburg, MA), are expanding their joint development program to create flame resistant polyolefin plastics that exploit...

Despite chip industry downturn, CMP arena good place to be. (Commentary).(chemical-mechanical polishing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Two understated press releases issued recently by two nanomaterial producers--Nanophase Technologies and DA NanoMaterials--harbored some very good news. Nanophase will be supplying nanoparticles to Rodel, which is believed to rank among...

Striped nanowires might enable next-gen transistors. (Electronics and Optoelectronics).(Berkeley Lab researchers)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Berkeley Lab researchers have taken a step toward developing next-generation nanoelectronic circuits by fabricating "striped" nanowires whose interfaces can function as transistors and other types of electronic and optoelectronic devices,...

NanoProducts forges alliance with plastics producer. (Alliances and Mergers).(from Japan)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... NanoProducts Corp. (Longmont, CO) has entered into a strategic partnership with an unnamed Japanese polymer product manufacturer. According to NanoProducts, the partnership aims to develop and commercialize plastic products reinforced with...

Baxter, NU team up to advance nanoscience in medicine. (Alliances and Mergers).
July 1, 2002... Baxter Healthcare Corp. (Deerfield, IL) and Northwestern University's Institute for Bioengineering and Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine (IBNAM) (Evanston, IL) plan to collaborate on early discovery projects in nanoscience. As part of the...

Degussa to be taken over by RAG. (Alliances and Mergers).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... RAG (Essen, Germany) plans to launch a public take-over of Degussa AG. RAG has confirmed to Degussa's management board that it will support Degussa's successful growth strategy and its business development as the new major shareholder. The...

NSERC names research director. (People).(Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) has appointed Peter Grutter of McGill University research director of NSERC's Nano Innovation Platform (NanoIP). Grutter and the NanoIP Advisory...

Boron nanowhiskers synthesized in nanotube attempt. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In an attempt to produce electrically conductive nanotubes from boron, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have synthesized and characterized the first boron "nanowhiskers"--nanoscale wires of boron. Their work was...

Altair appoints MIT prof to advisory board. (People).(Altair Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jackie Y. Ying)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV) says Jackie Y. Ying, a professor in the chemical engineering department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has joined the company's technical advisory board. Ying has been part of the...

Cabot elects former Amoco exec to board. (People).(Cabot Microelectronics Corp., H. Laurence Fuller)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Aurora, IL) announced the election of H. Laurence Fuller to the company's board of directors. Fuller is a retired cochairman of BP Amoco, plc. Prior to retiring from this position in March 2000, Fuller was the...

Phase transfer of nanoparticles from organic to aqueous media: Part II: transfer via covalent ligand attachment. (Technology Insight).
July 1, 2002... The goal of the current study was to create high concentrations of metal nanoparticles in aqueous solution, by phase transfer from organic solution, for subsequent use in a variety of applications. The first reported phase transfer of...

E-beam irradiation yields Si nanocrystal arrays. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... By irradiating Si[O.sub.2] substrates with electron beams at a temperature of 400[degrees]C or higher, a team of Japanese researchers is able to produce 3-D superlattice structures of Si nanocrystals (quantum dots). According to U.S. Patent...

Nanophase moves to protect surface technology. (Recent Patents).(Nanophase Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) has filed a U .S. patent application entitled "Process for Preparing Nanostructured Materials of Controlled Surface Chemistry." The application describes plasma processes to prepare nanocrystalline...

1-nm diameter Pt particles produced for fuel cells. (Energy And Environment).(platinum particles for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... In an effort to improve the economics of fuel cell production by reducing the amount of platinum consumed in the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of PEM fuel cells, a team of German researchers from Celanese AG have produced extremely small,...

Infineon controls growth of nanotubes on silicon. (Carbon Nanostructures).(Infineon Technologies)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Scientists from Infineon Technologies in Munich, Germany, have modified a tried-and-tested microelectronics process so that carbon nanotubes can be grown at predefined locations on 6-in. silicon wafers. Infineon says that for the first time...

Nanoparticles play role in antifouling coating. (Recent Patents).(Bayer AG)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany) has patented (U.S. Patent 6,413,446) a formulation for a nanoparticle-containing antifouling coating, which is designed for application onto ship's hulls, screens, nets, canal installations, and other objects that...

Process yields cubic nanophosphors. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... German scientists have developed a process that yields oxidic phosphor nanocrystals having a desirable cubic crystal structure and small primary particle size without requiring an additional heat treatment. The cubic equilibrium phase is...

Laser produced from colloidal nanocrystals. (New Research).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... MIT researchers have demonstrated a color-selective quantum dot laser produced from chemically synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals. Prior to this report, published in the June 17, 2002 issue of Applied Physics Letters, similar quantum dot...

Surface-engineered nano alumina readily dispersed.(Sasol Ltd.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... Sasol's new nanoparticulate boehmite alumina monohydrate is surface-engineered for easy dispersion into a variety of solvents, facilitating its use as a reinforcement for fire-retardant plastics, automobile tires, and wear-resistant coatings....

Altair completes SOFC demonstration tests. (New Research).(Altair Nanotechnologies, solid oxide fuel cell)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV) reports that it has completed successfully a series of test demonstrations of its advanced solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). The first series of tests of the company's SOFC, which took place at the end of...

Ceramic process yields photonic structures. (New Research).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... A study published by researchers from Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University (Ames, IA) in the June 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society describes a simple and novel ceramic processing technique that utilizes nanoscale...

Degussa launches silica for pharma applications.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2002... The Aerosil & Silanes business unit of Degussa AG of Dusseldorf, Germany, has developed a highly densified fumed silica, Aerosil 200 VV Pharma, engineered for applications in the pharmaceutical industry. The new product is a refinement of...

Size of gold nanocrystals tightly controlled. (New Research).(researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology produce size-controlled alkanethiol-protected gold nanocrystals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... With the goal of assembling 1- and 2-D superlattices of gold nanocrystals for future nanoelectronic and nano-optical devices, a team of Japanese researchers have developed methods to produce size-controlled alkanethiol-protected gold...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... September 9-12, 2002. NanoTech 2002--At the Edge of Revolution, Houston, TX. Contact: S. Watson, Center for NanoSpace Technologies, Inc.; Email: swatson@nano space.org, Website: www. nanospace.org/confer.htm October 27-30, 2002....