Nanoparticle News articles from March 2005

Nanoparticle News archives from March 2005

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: Nano-Porphyrins Detect Cancer Below the Skin.
March 1, 2005... Nano-sized particles embedded with bright, light-emitting molecules have enabled researchers to visualize a tumor more than 1 cm below the skin surface using only infrared light. A team of chemists, bioengineers and medical researchers based at...

Mass Producible Biowarfare Nerve-Gas Detectors Developed.
March 1, 2005... A sensing device tailored for mass production of highly sensitive and stable nerve-gas detectors has been developed by a research group led by Li Shi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The...

CHARACTERIZATION AND PROCESSING: High-Res Microscopy Unravels Intermetallic Materials Mystery.(scanning transmission electron microscope)
March 1, 2005... Intermetallics could provide the key to faster jets and more efficient car engines, however some of the properties of these heat-resistant, lightweight compounds have stumped scientists for decades. Why for instance do so many break so easily?...

ELECTRONICS AND MAGNETICS: Flexible Microelectronics Research Center Launched.(Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing)
March 1, 2005... With a $10 million competitively bid contract from the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), Binghamton University, State University of New York, has established a new Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM). The USDC will...

Nanoimprint Lithography Used for Mass Data Storage.(EV Group E. Thallner GmbH's licensing agreement with Komag Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... EV Group (Scharding, Austria), a leading manufacturer of nanoimprinting, MEMS and semiconductor wafer-processing equipment, has signed an agreement with Komag Inc (San Jose, CA) to develop, license and sell high-volume nanoimprint-lithography...

Development in Transparent Inorganic Thin Film Transistors.(research of amorphous heavy-metal cation multicomponent oxides)
March 1, 2005... Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) and Hewlett Packard (Corvallis, OR) have developed an entirely new class of materials which could be used to make transparent transistors that are inexpensive, stable, and environmentally benign....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Drug Administration Has Nanotechnology Website.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates a wide range of products, including foods, cosmetics, drugs, devices, and veterinary products, some of which may utilize nanotechnology or contain nanomaterials. With the advent of...

Commercialization of NT-Based Solid Lubricants.(ApNano Materials Inc.'s nanotechnolgy based NanoLub)
March 1, 2005... ApNano Materials, Inc. (New York, NY), a provider of nanotechnology-based solid lubricant products, recently announced that it has completed second round financing from European private investors amounting to a total of $6 million. "The...

Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inks Three-Way Commercialization Deal.(licenses Dow Chemical Co. and Starpharma Pooled Development Ltd.)
March 1, 2005... Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc. (Mt Pleasant, MI), Dow Chemical Company, (Midland, MI) and Starpharma (Melbourne, Australia), have reached a 3-way agreement that provides DNT and Starpharma with ownership or access to the world's broadest...

MARKET ANALYSIS: Nanofilms Market to Exceed $2B in 2008.
March 1, 2005... The overall worldwide value of thin films shipped to eight major industries reached $1.1 billion in 2003 and is projected to just exceed $2 billion by 2008, rising at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 12.6%, according to a...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... April 5-8, 2005, Biomedicine Miniaturization 2005, Orange County, CA. Contact: Tel: 1-800-843-2763, Email: nano@asme.org. April 17-20, 2005, 5th Annual MEMS Technology Seminar, Minneapolis, MN. Contact: Tel:1-800-843-2763, Email:...

COMMENTARY: Patent or Perish?(Intelluctual Property)(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... Following in the footsteps of Mindy Rittner's highly accomplished editorship of Nanoparticle News for the past eight years, it's a pleasure to take over this new task and continue to inform you on the latest developments impacting this exciting...

BUSINESS.
March 1, 2005... DuPont Beefs Up Security Business. The Du Pont Co.(Wilmington, DE) has bought a 10 % stake in a unit of November A.G., a German maker of genetically coded product labels. Over a five-year period this will allow DuPont a 5-year exclusive license...

PEOPLE.(Paul Alivisatos is the recipient of the 2005 American Chemical Society Award)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Alivisatos Receives ACS Award. Paul Alivisatos professor at the University of California Berkeley and current editor of Nano Letters, is the recipient of the 2005 American Chemical Society Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. The award in...

PRODUCTS.(Product Introduction)
March 1, 2005... Nanotechnology Treatment Protects Wood in Australia. Nanotec Pty Ltd (Sydney, Australia) has started marketing a wood protection product, Nanoseal Wood, a water based, ultra hydrophobic, colloidal solution with self assembling properties to...

FUNDING & LICENSING.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... NSF Funding Down for 2005. As part of the 2005 omnibus spending bill passed by US Congress last November and signed by President George Bush in December, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fiscal 2005 budget has been set at $5.5B. This...

RESEARCH.(Charging of Nanocatalysts)
March 1, 2005... Evidence of Charging of Nanocatalysts Found. By studying nano- sized clusters of 8-24 gold atoms on a magnesium oxide surface, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Technical University Munich have found direct evidence for...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: QUANTUM-DOT LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES AND DISPLAYS.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... By Vladimir Bulovic and colleagues, Laboratory of Organic Optics and Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. Solution processing of inorganic nanocrystals is facilitated by the organic capping groups that dress the...

Fabrication.(Fabrication process)
March 1, 2005... While it is of course impossible for any thin film fabrication method to be universally applicable, we have demonstrated that this process is not dependant on any one component of the system. We have observed phase segregation and assembly of...

Impact and Applications.
March 1, 2005... Incorporation of nanoscale active elements into OLEDs enables the creation of a new set of devices, the properties of which can be tailored at the quantum mechanical level. However, attaining such levels of control necessitates a separation of...

Display Applications.(Light Emitting Diodes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... However, for display applications, it is the perceived quantum efficiency [cd/A] that is most important, as the human eye response is all that is of consequence for commercial display applications. In Adachi et al., a 7% EQE device has a power...