Nanoparticle News articles from June 2004

Nanoparticle News archives from June 2004

COMMENTARY: New Spin on Electronic Devices.(spintronics)
June 1, 2004... The recent announcement of the formation of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center (SpinAps), a research collaboration that will involve over two dozen scientists from Stanford and IBM Almaden Research Center, brings the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Air Products, Nanogate Form Joint Venture.
June 1, 2004... Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and Nanogate Technologies GmbH have formed a joint venture company named Nanogate Advanced Materials GmbH that will focus on market opportunities in functional films, coatings and electronic displays. The...

Nanobusiness Alliance Sees Leadership Change.
June 1, 2004... Sean Murdock, founder and executive director of AtomWorks, a midwest nanotechnology development organization based in Chicago, is taking over as executive director of the 250-member NanoBusiness Alliance with the departure of Alliance...

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: Nanoparticles Illuminate Brain Tumors for Days.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In work that could advance image-guided brain surgery and improve the diagnosis of brain lesions and tumors, a research team from Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center has demonstrated some of the...

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: GE Process Minimizes Corrosion in Reactors.
June 1, 2004... In an advance that could potentially save utilities millions of dollars, a team of scientists from GE Global Research has patented a technology to use nanoparticles to minimize the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of boiling water nuclear...

ELECTRONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS: IBM, Stanford Collaborate on Spintronic Devices.
June 1, 2004... To formalize their combined efforts to develop high-performance, low-power electronic devices based on spintronics, scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Stanford University have formed the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and...

NanoChromic Displays Go Commercial.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... NTERA Ltd. says commercial products based on its NanoChromics Display (NCD) technology will be available in the fourth quarter of 2004 for the low-resolution display market, which includes products such as clocks, whitegoods, meters, and...

CHARACTERIZATION AND PROCESSING: Sandia Foresees Device Apps for 3-D Arrays.
June 1, 2004... Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have developed what they say is a simple, commercially feasible method to produce discrete, nonagglomerated nanocrystals as well as three-dimensional arrays of...

Nanotrees Developed at Lund in Sweden.
June 1, 2004... Taking synthesis techniques developed to produce semiconductor nanowires a step further, scientists at the Nanometer Consortium at Lund University have fabricated branched structures dubbed "nanotrees," demonstrating the possibility of...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Integran Focuses on Better Materials.(Gino Palumbo, CEO of Integran Technologies Inc.)(Interview)
June 1, 2004... Gino Palumbo is the founder, president, and CEO of Integran Technologies Inc. In a professional career spanning over 20 years, he has been involved in all aspects of metallurgical technology development, intellectual property protection and...

NEWS BRIEFS:.
June 1, 2004... NanoDynamics Acquires Subsidiary. NanoDynamics, Inc., (Buffalo, NY), has acquired the remaining 50% interest in MetaMateria Partners LLC (MMP; Columbus, OH), a developer of nanomaterial production and consolidation technology, and thus MMP is...

PEOPLE.
June 1, 2004... Advisors To Aid in Product Launch. Integrated Nano-Technologies (INT; Rochester, NY), a developer of a nano-scale bioelectronic DNA identification platform, has appointed General Dennis J. Reimer, former chief of staff of the U.S. Army, and...

GRANTS AND FUNDING.
June 1, 2004... New Grants Bring Total to $2M. Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication Laboratories (NN-Labs; Fayetteville, AK), a company founded in 2001 to develop colloidal nanocrystals for optoelectronic and biomedical applications, is the recipient of two new...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.(Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. 1st-quarter earnings)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Altair Reports Revenue Rise. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV) reported revenue for its first quarter ended March 31, 2004 of $139,749, a net loss of $1.7 million, and a net loss per share of $0.04 compared to first quarter of 2003...

NEW RESEARCH.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... HP Forms Si Nanobridges. Scientists at HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA) have devised a method of growing and connecting semiconductor nanowires in place, which could eventually lead the way to more effective sensors for detecting toxic gases and other...

RECENT PATENTS.(environmentally benign process to yield gold nanoparticles gets US patent)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Process Yields Gold Nanoparticles. A environmentally benign process (U.S. Patent 6,730,537) developed by University of Oregon (UO) chemistry professor Jim Hutchison eliminates the need to use two highly toxic chemicals - diborane and benzene -...

CALENDAR.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... June 29-July 2, 2004 ASME Nano Training Bootcamp, Evanston, IL. Contact: ASME International, New York, NY; Tel: 800/843-2763, Email: infocentral@asme.org, Web: www.asme.org. October 24-26, 2004 NANOMATERIALS 2004, Nanoelectronics,...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Electrochromic Information Displays Based On Nanocrystalline, Nanoporous Films.
June 1, 2004... By David Corr, Chief Technical Officer, NTERA Ltd., Dublin, Ireland Technologies used to display customer information in public transportation centres have evolved from the use of chalkboards through reflective flapper boards and on to a...

DISPLAY PERFORMANCE.
June 1, 2004... Printing formulations of nanoparticle containing inks were formulated directly from colloids and, in some cases from the nanoparticulate powders. Exact details cannot be given here due to the commercial sensitivity of the formulations. To...

CONCLUSIONS.(electrochromic devices)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Electrochromic devices have been constructed utilizing the physical and chemical properties of nanocrystalline films. The properties of each of the films required in the device are elaborated both from the individual particle properties and...