Nanoparticle News articles from July 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from July 2003

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. and Hydrogen Solar form new company. .
July 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. has entered into a teaming agreement with UK-based Hydrogen Solar Production Company Ltd. to form a new company that will develop and commercialize a solar-powered hydrogen generator. Hydrogen Solar owns the...

Nanophase Technologies Corp.settles suit for $2.5m.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) has reached an oral agreement in principle to settle the securities class action lawsuit filed against it and certain of its current and former officers, pending in the U.S. District Court for the...

SI Diamond Technology Inc. renamed Nano-Proprietary.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The shareholders of SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, TX) approved the change of the company's name to Nano-Proprietary, Inc. at its June 10, 2003, annual shareholder meeting. The name change and new trading symbol, NNPP, went into effect on...

Nanosys solidifies IP position.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Nanosys Solidifies IP Position. Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has signed exclusive licensing agreements with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University to obtain worldwide rights to intellectual property related to...

Air Products partners with Nanotechnologies. .
July 1, 2003... In the past two months, Nanotechnologies has entered into joint development agreements with two major global companies based on its pulsed plasma nanoparticle production technology. At the end of May, Nanotechnologies Inc. teamed up with...

BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc. to develop vaccines with army. .
July 1, 2003... BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) for the development of biodefense vaccines using its...

UK Government launches nanotechnology study.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The UK Government launched an independent study in June to examine in detail the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. Science Minister Lord Sainsbury commissioned the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering to conduct the...

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. stock in compliance.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV) has received a letter from Nasdaq stating that its common stock is in compliance with Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(8)(D), which requires that the company's common stock maintain a minimum $1.00 bid...

Orthovita reaps $13.7m in private placement.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) has entered into agreements to sell approximately 4,893,000 shares of its common stock to several institutional investors for gross proceeds to the company of approximately $13.7 million. The investors will also...

Nanotechnology.com for sale.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Offers in excess of US$1 million are being considered for www.nanotechnology.com, the web location that was made available for sale in mid-June. As of press time the website was still available for purchase. The web domain was originally...

Contrast agent helps pinpoint small tumors. .
July 1, 2003... A team of researchers from the U.S. and The Netherlands have demonstrated that magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with Combidex, a dispersion of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles produced by Advanced Magnetics, allows for the detection of...

Nanotech and Biotech Converge in Connecticut.
July 1, 2003... BCC's second annual Nanotech and Biotech Convergence conference was held May 5-6 in Stamford, CT, USA, preceded by the first ever workshop on Trends in Nanoscale Diagnostic Technologies on May 4. Presentations at the conference, from leading...

Planned nano center receives $17m.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The planned Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL) has received $17 million in State of Illinois funds. The payment is part of $36 million Illinois has pledged for construction of the center, a two-story,...

Nanotubes purified nondestructively. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A team of Irish researchers have developed a high-yield process to purify nanotube soot using a polymer with a coiling structure to extract the nanotubes from the accompanying material efficiently and nondes-tructively. The polymer's structure...

Qdots enable imaging inside live animals. [Quantum dots].
July 1, 2003... Multiphoton microscopy with semiconductor nanocrystals is useful for producing high-resolution, three-dimensional images inside live animals, according to researchers from Cornell University and Quantum Dot Corp. "We have demonstrated a...

Simple method yields photocatalyst. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... It is possible to produce an anatase-phase titanium dioxide photocatalyst with a nanoscale particle size without a high temperature sintering process, according to researchers from LG Electronics, Inc. (Seoul, KR). The method, which is...

Fluorescent ink based on nanocrystals. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... BioCrystal, Ltd. (Westerville, OH) has protected (U.S. Patent 6,576,155) a fluorescent ink composition based on functionalized fluorescent nanocrystals that can be used to print security marks on ID cards, passports, checks and the like....

The carbon nanotube industry: Part II. .
July 1, 2003... There is a wide variation in the requirements to produce nanotubes. Over the next few years, production of nanotubes in commercial volumes (i.e. tons) will be restricted to either chemical vapor deposition or gas phase processes, as laser...

Nanocomposite produced for fuel cell.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Hybrid Power Generation Systems LLC (Los Angeles, CA) have produced a carbon nanofiber-based bipolar plate for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The flow-field plate, which is designed to be corrosion resistant, electrically...

Carbides and oxides improve Ni coatings. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Nanoscale SiC and [Al.sub.2][O.sub.3] particles incorporated into a nickel matrix during electrodeposition allow for the formation of electroplated layers with improved hardness and wear resistance, according to researchers from the Institute...

IBM obtains optical emission from nanotubes.
July 1, 2003... In research that shows the potential of carbon nanotubes for optoelectronic applications, IBM has created what it calls the world's smallest solid-state light emitter. The light emitter is a single nanotube, 1.4 nanometers in diameter,...

Carbon might replace copper in circuits. .
July 1, 2003... In work that might extend the life of the silicon chip industry, NASA scientists have developed a technique to use carbon nanotubes instead of copper conductors to interconnect parts within integrated circuits (ICs). One advantage of using...

Chinese team synthesizes aligned nanotubes. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A team of Chinese researchers has developed a new method to synthesize large-area (7x15 [mm.sup.2]), high-density (higher than [10.sup.9] [cm.sup.-2]), aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with uniform diameters on a silica wafer. The technique,...

CdSe nanocrystals produced at 13 g/h rate.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... A team of scientists from Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroshima University (Hogashi-Hiroshima, Japan) have produced organically capped, highly luminescent CdSe nanocrystals in a continuous flow reactor at 13 g/h rate....

Spray pyrolysis yields BaTi[O.sub.3]. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Researchers from Hiroshima University (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland) synthesized highly crystalline, dense BaTi[O.sub.3] nanoparticles using a salt-assisted spray pyrolysis (SASP)...

Composite fibers display unmatched toughness. .
July 1, 2003... Using a spinning process, a team of researchers from the U.S. and Ireland have synthesized 100-meter lengths of carbon nanotube composite fibers that are tougher than any known synthetic or natural polymer fiber. The high-strength solid...

Degussa draws on in-house experience to Advance Nanomaterials. .(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Geoffrey Varga joined Degussa in 1996 and has served the company in various research and management capacities. In January of this year Varga was promoted to Director, Advanced Nanomaterials. NN: When did you personally first become aware...

[H.sub.2] sensor designed for transformer oils. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), a subsidiary of SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, TX) says it has successfully demonstrated a new palladium alloy nanosensor for the detection of hydrogen gas dissolved in power transformer oil. The absorption...

Scientists manipulate 1-nm thick clay particles.
July 1, 2003... An ultrathin film containing 1-nm thick clay particles has been created for the first time, an accomplishment critical to the formation of functional hybrid materials composed of clay and organic molecules, according to Purdue University and...

Cu nanowires deform elastically. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... Cu Nanowires Deform Elastically. Researchers at the Center for Metallurgical Chemistry Research (CECM; Paris, France) have published in a recent issue of Science their success at restructuring copper in a way that grants copper wire surprising...

InMat Inc. receives Phase II contract. .(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center, also known as Natick Labs, has awarded InMat Inc. (Hills-borough, NJ) a Phase II SBIR contract to develop improved chemical protective gloves using elastomeric nano-composite coatings. Best Manufacturing...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2003... September 7-11, 2003 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New York, New York. Contact: American Chemical Society, Fax: 202-872-4615, Email: help@acs.org. September 8-10, 2003 World Nano-Economic Congress, Washington, DC....