Nanoparticle News articles from June 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from June 2003

Electroluminescent clusters enable nanocomputing. (Electronics And Optoelectronics).
June 1, 2003... Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a new type of nanometer-scale optoelectronic device that performs addition and other complex logic operations, is simple to fabricate and produces optical output that can be...

Nanosys raises $38M after 2nd round.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Nanosys Raises $38M After 2nd Round. Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) closed its second round of financing in early June, bringing the total raised to $38 million. CDIB BioScience Ventures led the round, and venture funds managed by UOB Venture...

U.S. House authorizes Nanotech Act.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... U.S. House Authorizes Nanotech Act. Last month the full U.S. House of Representatives passed Science Committee legislation, by a vote of 405 to 19, authorizing a national nanotechnology R&D program. H.R. 766, the Nanotechnology Research and...

Nanoparticles key to electronic color displays. .
June 1, 2003... The color of an electrophoretic display based on nanoparticles can be changed by controlling the degree of particle dispersion, according to U.S. Patent 6,538,801, assigned to E Ink Corp., a developer of electronic ink displays. "E Ink has...

Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. completes $1.3m placement.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Altair Completes $1.3M Placement. Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV) has completed a $1.3 million private placement. Under the terms of the governing agreements, Altair issued 2,015,504 shares of common stock and 1,007,752 warrants to...

Soldier Nano Institute opens doors.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Soldier Nano Institute Opens Doors. The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN; Cambridge, MA), a joint research collaboration between the United States Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, formally opened its doors May 22...

Nanotech consulting firm expands.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Nanotech Consulting Firm Expands. Nanotechnology consulting company Cientifica Ltd. announced a major expansion in its consulting business with the opening of new offices in London, New York, and Mumbai and the relocation of its business...

Contrast agent reveals brain, head, neck tumors. (Research News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Contrast Agent Reveals Brain, Head, Neck Tumors. Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Cytogen Corp. (Princeton, NJ) report that data from two separate studies show that using Advanced Magnetics' investigative lymph node imaging agent...

Nanomaterials enable energy conversion. (Energy And Environment).
June 1, 2003... In a breakthrough that promises new microelectromechanical devices such as switches, actuators and transducers, scientists at the Institute of Nanotechnology at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe have obtained macroscopically measurable and reversible...

OctoPlus, CytImmune collaborate on delivery. (Biotechnology News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... OctoPlus and CytImmune Sciences, Inc. have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop a cancer treatment system based on a gold nanoparticle drug targeting technology. The technology entails using gold nanoparticles as delivery...

Composites formed by laser melting. (Research News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Composites Formed by Laser Melting. Carbon nanotubes can be dispersed in a glass surface by a Nd:YAG laser due to the absorption property of multiwall nanotubes (MWNTs), which causes localized melting of a mixed-oxide glass and the simultaneous...

A race with no end in sight. (Commentary).
June 1, 2003... In a letter supporting H.R. 766, the nanotechnology legislation that passed through the House of Representatives last month, Russell Shade, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers' technology policy committee wrote: "The race for...

Cabot Corp. acquires Superior MicroPowders. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Cabot Corp. has purchased the assets of Superior MicroPowders, LLC (SMP), a privately-held advanced materials company with proprietary nano- and micropowder manufacturing capabilities. The purchase price for the acquisition was...

Laser deposition allows nanofilm processing. (Research News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Laser Deposition Allows Nanofilm Processing. Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) and University of Science and Technology of China (Anhui, China) have demonstrated that n-type wide-band-gap semiconductor...

The carbon nanotube industry: these revolutionary new materials have some unique properties not previously observed. (Industry Insight).
June 1, 2003... Carbon nanotubes are revolutionary new materials that have some unique properties not previously observed in other materials. These cylinders have diameters that range from 0.8 nm to 300 nm and can be thought of as rolled tubes of graphite....

Biomimetic method yields nano iron oxides. (Research News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Biomimetic Method Yields Nano Iron Oxides. A biomimetic process developed by a team of researchers from India yields monodisperse magnetite ([Fe.sub.3][O.sub.4]) and maghemite ([Fe.sub.2][O.sub.3]) nanoparticles ranging in size from 2 to 16 nm,...

Vertically aligned nanotubes form transistors. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Vertically Aligned Nanotubes Form Transistors. It is possible to fabricate a type of carbon nanotube transistor suitable for large-scale integration from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, according to U.S. Patent 6,566,704, assigned to...

NRC and firms announce nanocomposites initiative. (Industry News).
June 1, 2003... The National Research Council Industrial Materials Institute (NRC-IMI) of Canada has launched a new research and development initiative in partnership with 13 major companies to develop polymer nanocomposites. Known as PNC-Tech, the initiative...

Ceria dispersions improve photomask surface finish. (Processing And Characterization).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Ceria nanoparticles developed by Nanophase Technologies Corp. in conjunction with Schott Lithotec AG improve the surface finish of photomask blanks used for integrated circuit production, Nanophase reports. The two companies teamed up to...

LED based on si quantum dots. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... LED Based on Si Quantum Dots. Researchers from the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Kwangju, KR) have developed a light-emitting device (LED) based on amorphous silicon quantum dot nanostructures that can be fabricated using...

Environmentally friendly process protected. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Environmentally Friendly Process Protected. With the goal of developing an environmentally friendly method to produce stable, colloidal metal particles, researchers representing the council of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Delhi,...

Nanoparticle doped with DNA. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Nanoparticles Doped with DNA. Scientists from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Delhi (Delhi, India) have developed a process (U.S. Patent 6,555,376) of entrapping genetic materials in inorganic nanoparticles to form non-viral...

Particle assembly around larger spheres explained. (Processing And Characterization).
June 1, 2003... In a discovery that is likely to impact fields as diverse as medicine and nanomanufacture, researchers have determined how nature arranges charged particles in a thin layer around a sphere. The leap forward in understanding this theoretical...

Doped zinc oxide available from Nanophase. (Product News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Doped Zinc Oxide Available from Nanophase. Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) has announced the commercial availability of doped zinc oxide nanomaterials. The zinc oxide dopants include aluminum, copper, and silver at dopant levels...

Quantum dots online. (Books and Reports).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Quantum Dots Online. Using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, novel semiconductor structures can be fabricated with sub-nanometer accuracy and precisely controlled electronic and optical properties. Quantum Confined Semiconductor...

3-D nano assemblies covered in new book. (Books and Reports).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... 3-D Nano Assemblies Covered in New Book. Advances in nanoscale materials processing are taking place rapidly via myriad paths, including lithography, production of nanoparticle assemblies, surface manipulation and others. The properies of these...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... June 20, 2003 Nano Engineering & Investing Trends Conference, New York, NY. Contact: ASME International, Tel: 212/591-7789, Email: nano@asme.org, Web: http://www.asme.org/nano/forum. August 30-September 6, 2003 Nanomaterials and...

ANI makes gains with nanotube emitters. (Carbon Nanostructures).
June 1, 2003... SI Diamond Technology, a subsidiary of Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) successfully demonstrated an electron emission current density of at least 15 Amps/[cm.sup.2] using a gated carbon nanotube electron source. These electron current...

Harper works to keep Europe at the Forefront of Nanotech. (Who's Who In Nanotech).(Interview)
June 1, 2003... Tim Harper is the founder and president of CMP CientIfica, based in Madrid, Spain, and also the founder and executive director of the European NanoBusiness Association. NN: When did you first become aware of and interested in...

Meetings and events.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... BCC Announces Nanoparticles 2003 The 6th annual BCC conference Nanoparticles 2003 will be held in Cambridge, MA, from October 27-29. Information about the conference will be posted at www.bccresearch.com/nano2003 as it becomes...