Nanoparticle News articles from July 2005

Nanoparticle News archives from July 2005

CHARACTERIZATION AND PROCESSING Process Controls Harvesting Nanoparticles.
July 1, 2005... Liquidia Technologies Inc. and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a process that creates the world's tiniest manufactured particles for delivering drugs and biological materials into the human body. It provides...

Process Forms FlexibleNanotubes.
July 1, 2005... By depositing nanoparticles onto a charged surface, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have crafted silicon nanotubes that are flexible and nearly as soft as rubber. "Resembling miniature scrolls, the nanotubes could...

Friction, Adhesion at the Atomic Level.(research on friction)
July 1, 2005... Physicists have a pretty good idea of what to expect when friction and adhesion occur in the visible world. You jam on the brakes, for instance, and your tires and the highway interact to stop your car. You glue two pieces of wood together, and...

BIOTECHNOLOGY: Microbes Behave as Electrical Nanowires.(microbial nanowires)(Geobacter)
July 1, 2005... Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a tiny biological structure that is highly electrically conductive. This breakthrough helps describe how microorganisms can clean up groundwater and produce electricity from...

Quantum Dots Labeled with Carbohydrate Antigens.(glyconanoparticles)(services of Midatech Ltd )
July 1, 2005... Scientists from the Carbohydrate Group of Glyconanotechnology in Seville, Spain have pioneered an ingenious glyconanoparticle-based approach to develop bioactive fluorescence probes for specifically labeling carbohydrate cell receptors. Using a...

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES: Nanotubes Route Electrical Signals Faster.
July 1, 2005... UC Irvine scientists have demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes can route electrical signals on a chip faster than traditional copper or aluminum wires, at speeds of up to 10 GHz. The research breakthrough, reported in the June...

Separating Metallic and Carbon Nanotubes.(semiconducting nanotubes)
July 1, 2005... A Korean team from Seoul University and Sungkyunkwan University, led by Young-hee Lee, a professor at the Center for Nanotubes and Nanostructured Composites, have developed a new way to harvest semiconducting nanotubes from metallic ones by a...

ELECTRONICS: Polymer Zone-Casting for Nanoelectronics Assembly.(Carnegie Mellon University)
July 1, 2005... Carnegie Mellon University scientists have harnessed an experimental technology to produce polymer films with long-range- ordered nanostructure_ "nanocarbon arrays." Called zone casting, this technology could revolutionize the way industrial...

Progress in Realizing Molecular Electronics.(National Institute for Nanotechnology)
July 1, 2005... Molecular electronics- using molecules in the construction of electronic circuitry- may have moved a step closer to reality. Robert Wolkow, principal investigator and a team of researchers from the National Institute for Nanotechnology,...

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Quantum Dots Could Boost Solar Efficiency.
July 1, 2005... Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have shown that colloidal nanocrystalline semiconductor quantum dots may greatly increase the amount of electricity produced by solar cells. ...

INDUSTRY NEWS: China to Increase Nano Commitment.
July 1, 2005... China's Ministry of Science and Technology announced that it intends to significantly increase investment in nanotechnologies for application in the manufacturing and medical industries. The pledge was made by Cheng Jinpei, Vice-Minister for...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... July 25-27, Nanotechnology for Defense 2005, Washington DC.Contact: Tel: 1-800/882-8684; Website: http://www.idga.org/na- 2328-01/n510in August 22-24, Nanocomposites 2005, San Francisco, CA. Contact: Shar Finnegan at Executice Conference...

COMMENTARY: Whither the National Nanotechnology Initiative?(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Last month I commented on the seemingly stellar 5 year report card given to the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. As a follow up response I was struck by the article, The...

WHOS WHO IN NANOTECH: NanoSciences Vision-Bundle Disparate but Complementary Technologies.(NanoSciences Inc)(Interview)
July 1, 2005... Jim Clements, Vice President Business Development and Founder, NanoSciences, Inc. has focused on rapid commercialization of innovative new technologies for over 25 years.... in biotech, materials science and nanotechnology. He holds BS degrees...

AWARDS.(medical programs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Burnham Institute Selected for Medical Program. The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, CA) has been selected as a Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A...

CONTRACTS AND FUNDING.(contracts of AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings Inc.)(partnerships of College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering)
July 1, 2005... Raymor Receives Boeing Contract. Raymor Industries Inc. (Montreal, QC) has announced that its wholly-owned industrial subsidiary, AP&C Advanced Powders & Coatings Inc. (AP&C) has concluded a contract for titanium powder production with the...

EDUCATION.(Nanotechnology Business Course )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Nanotechnology Business Course Offered. The University of California Berkeley is offering its first college course on nanotechnology from a business perspective. Commencing in Fall 2005, the organizers, Tom Kalil and Drew Isaacs, say that, "the...

PATENTS.(Public Notice)
July 1, 2005... Solar Cells and Organic LEDs. NanoHorizons, Inc. (State College, PA), an emerging leader in applied nanoscale materials and solutions, has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent Office for its innovative nanoscale photovoltaic cell...

PRODUCTS.(testing of various nanoparticles in conjunction to develop filter media for the U.S. military)
July 1, 2005... Nanoparticle Proves Effective in Removing Deadly Pathogens. Emergency Filtration Products, Inc. (Henderson, NV) has disclosed the results of its testing of various nanoparticles in conjunction with its work to develop filter media for the U.S....

RESEARCH.(growth of carbon nanotubes with defined chirality)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... Carbon Nanotubes Grown with Defined Chirality. A research group headed by Richard Smalley from Rice University, have demonstrated an elegant method (reported in the June issue of Nano Letters) for growing single-walled CNTs (SWCNTs) with...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Silicon Nanocrystal Memory: Advantages, Challenges and Opportunities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... By Ko-Min Chang, Manager, Memory Device Development, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX Compared with the incumbent floating gate flash technology, silicon nanocrystal memory promises two key advantages: the ability to operate at...

Low Voltage Operation.(silicon nanocrystal memory)
July 1, 2005... The ability to operate at lower voltage, especially during program and erase operations, can lead to a smaller circuit area and is of particular interest in further scaling of NVM technologies. In support of lower program and erase voltages,...

Process Simplicity.(floating gate flash)(silicon nanocrystal memory)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The manufacturing process to incorporate silicon nanocrystal memory into an advanced CMOS technology is considerably simpler than that of a floating gate flash. In floating gate flash, critical patterning (photolithography and etch) steps are...

Technology Challenges.(silicon nanocrystal memory fabrication)
July 1, 2005... The primary challenge in silicon nanocrystal memory fabrication is in the deposition of the nanocrystals in areas where a good, tight control of the dot distribution is critical. Other challenges exist such as nanocrystal protection against...

Opportunities.(silicon nanocrystal memory)(Vt distributions)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... As the technology continues to scale, as dictated by Moore's Law, operating margins continue to shrink. In non-volatile memories, the peak to peak program/erase window dictates the first order operating margin. In a silicon nanocrystal memory,...

Summary.(feasibility of silicon nanocrystal memories )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2005... The feasibility of silicon nanocrystal memories as a way to extend flash memory technology has been demonstrated on an advanced CMOS process. Silicon nanocrystals with an areal density of 1012dots/cm2, achieving a 2V program/erase Vt window,...