Nanoparticle News articles from March 2004

Nanoparticle News archives from March 2004

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Ceria Nanoparticles Help Diesels Meet NOx Deadlines.(nitrogen oxide)
March 1, 2004... Cerium oxide nanoparticles are the key to a new catalyst that could help automakers meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's deadline of eliminating 95% of nitrogen oxide from diesel engine exhaust by 2007. Developed by researchers...

Nanoscale Engineering Yields Better Insulator.(nanolaminates)
March 1, 2004... New research out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that nanolaminates could serve as thermal insulators with ultra-low thermal conductivities. "We explored ways to control thermal properties in materials by...

ELECTRONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS Infineon Makes Power Transistors Using Nanotubes.(Infineon Technologies)
March 1, 2004... A team of researchers from Infineon Technologies AG has demonstrated for the first time that carbon nanotubes can serve as the basis for semiconductor power components that can outperform their silicon counterparts. "One important...

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: Quantum Dots Could Tag Faulty Genes.(United States. National Institute of Standards and Technology)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Semiconductor quantum dots could be used to improve the improve the reliability of an important diagnostic test for breast cancer as well as other biomedical tests, according to a report by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Nanosys and DuPont Advance Nanowires.(Nanosys Inc., DuPont Central Research & Development)
March 1, 2004... Nanosys, Inc. and the DuPont Central Research & Development (CR&D) organization have agreed to jointly research the use of Nanosys' semiconductor nanowire-based thin film technology for applications in electronics. "This is a technology...

Altair. Hosokawa Join to Develop Batteries.(Altair Nanotechnologies Inc.,Hosokawa Micron International Inc.)
March 1, 2004... Altair Nanotechnologies and Hosokawa Micron International have signed a memorandum of joint development work for the commercialization of nanomaterial-based electrochemical devices, including batteries, capacitors and supercapacitors. ...

COMMENTARY Smaller is Better?
March 1, 2004... "Smaller is better" could well be the mantra of many of today's nanotechnology start-ups and nanoscience researchers. They've developed technology to engineer materials with nanocrystalline structures, manipulate them with nanoscale precision,...

Platinum Manipulated With Photosynthetic Technique.
March 1, 2004... Using a new technique that mimics photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale, it is possible to form unusual nanoscale structures quickly and simply, according to researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the...

Nanoporous Solid Built from Crystalline Framework.(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
March 1, 2004... It is possible to form three-dimensional nanoporous materials consisting of regularly arranged nanopores within a crystalline metal oxide framework, according to researchers from the Energy Electronics Institute (EEI) of National Institute of...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH Nanosphere Targets Genetic Testing Market.(Nanosphere Inc.)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Vijaya Vasista is the chief operating officer of Nanosphere, which is developing and commercializing nanoparticle probes, assays and instruments for molecular testing. Prior to joining Nanosphere in November, 2000, Vasista served as vice...

NEWS BRIEFS.(Nanonex Corp.,NanoOpto Corp.)
March 1, 2004... Ground Broken on 'Molecular Foundry.' At the end of January, ground was turned to mark the beginning of construction of a six- story, $85 million, 94,500-square-foot research building called Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry (Berkeley, CA) that...

GRANTS AND FUNDING.(Oxonica Ltd.,SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.,)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Oxonica Raises $7.5M in Internal Round. Early in 2004, Oxonica (Oxford, UK) closed an internal funding round of nearly US$7.5 million, taking the total investment raised by the company to over US$15 million. Shareholders participating in the...

PRODUCT NEWS.(Cabot Corp.,Evident Technologies Inc.,Millennium Chemicals Inc.,Super Sky Products Inc.,)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Nanodot Composites Enter Market. Evident Technologies (Troy, NY) is marketing a composite of quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals) in common polymers and other matrices. Solid matrix materials allow product developers to control the form...

PEOPLE.(appointments)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Nanosys Expands Board. Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) has added Gregory J. Yurek, chairman and CEO of American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), and Sass Somekh, formerly an executive vice president and board member of Applied Materials, to the...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.(Nanophase Technologies Corp.)(Westaim Corp.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Westaim Posts Loss for 2003. The Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) recorded a net loss of $34.5 million, or 44 cents per share, for the year ended December 31, 2003, compared to a net loss of $49.8 million, or 64 cents per share, in the...

RECENT PATENTS.(Public Notice)
March 1, 2004... Dispersible Polymer Particles Synthesized. With the goal of producing discrete polymer nanoparticles that are thermally stable and readily dispersible in a wide variety of rubbers and elastomers, researchers from Bridgestone Corp.'s research...

RESEARCH NEWS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Silica Dispersed without Clouding. University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) chemistry professor James Mark and colleagues have devised a technique that strengthens silicone rubber with nanoscale particles and leaves the material translucent....

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... March 28-30, 2004 Nanotech and Biotech Convergence 2004, Cambridge, MA. Contact: Business Communications Co., Inc, Tel: 203/853-4266, Fax: 203/853-0348, Email: conference@bccresearch.com, Web: www.bccresearch.com. May 12-16, 2004 Nano- and...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: What We Know about the Impact of Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes on Respiratory Health.
March 1, 2004... By David B. Warheit, Research Fellow, DuPont Haskell Laboratory for Health and Environmental Sciences, Newark, DE Toxicology studies in rats demonstrate that ultrafine particles (generally defined as particles in the size range < 100 nm)...

Background.
March 1, 2004... It is generally considered that ultrafine or nanoparticles produce greater inflammogenic, fibrogenic, and tumorigenic pulmonary responses in the lungs of rats when compared to fine-sized particles (> 100 nm in diameter) of similar or identical...

Carbon Nanotube Studies.
March 1, 2004... The aim of this study was to assess the hazard pulmonary potential of intratracheally instilled single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). The lung toxicity of instilled carbon nanotubes was compared with a positive control particle-type, quartz,...

TO CHARACTERIZATION AND PROCESSING: Self-Assembly into Curved Structures Demonstrated.
March 1, 2004... A team of Northwestern University chemists report they have discovered ways to construct rod-like nanoscale building blocks that can self-assemble into curved structures with a high level of predictability, depending on the architecture and...