Nanoparticle News articles from March 2006

Nanoparticle News archives from March 2006

BIOTECHNOLOGY Safer Nanotubes Fit for Consumption.
March 1, 2006... Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely studied recently as potential tools for a variety of medical applications. Once administered, their novelty lies in the ability to carry drugs or therapeutic genes directly into specific cells. However...

Smaller Quantum Dots Improve in vivo Imaging.
March 1, 2006... Quantum dots (QDs), nanosized semiconductor crystals, have proven themselves as brilliantly colored fluorescent labels for a wide variety of biochemical studies. For example they have shown promise as imaging agents, for mapping so-called...

PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION More Water-Soluble Nanotubes Prepared.
March 1, 2006... Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology led by Somenath Mitra and Zafar Iqbar, in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, claim to have developed a quick and simple method to produce more water-soluble carbon...

ENERGY Titania Nanotubes Promise Better Solar Cells.
March 1, 2006... A new generation of solar cells made from titania nanotubes doped with a dye, may be the answer to making solar electricity production cost-effective, according to Craig Grimes and his research team at Penn State University. Grimes says,...

Pulse Thermal Processing Aids Flexible Device Fab.
March 1, 2006... By controlling materials at the nanoscale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers believe they can greatly improve manufacturing processes of products ranging from solar cells to computers to flat-panel displays. At the center of...

INDUSTRY NEWS Nanotube Prices Tumble: Is Sea Change Imminent?
March 1, 2006... Among the new generation of nanomaterials none quite match the appeal and diversity in properties as carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Their cylindrical graphite structure rolled into single- (SW) or multi-wall (MW) forms- typically ranging from around...

Inorganic Nanotubes Show Commercial Growth.
March 1, 2006... Not to be outdone by the commercial prospects of their organic CNT cousins, inorganic nanotubes are now beginning to be recognized as yet another promising subset of nanomaterials. In the latest development the European Union Commission (EUC)...

Nanomaterials and R2R Continue to Synergize.
March 1, 2006... Recently I reported on the Digital Fabrication 2005 conference and the growing interest in rapid throughput solution-printing of organic electronics (see Nanoparticle News, October 2005). Further to this there have been a continuing number of...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... May 7-11, Nanotech 2006, NSTI NT Conference & Trade Show, Boston, MA. Contact: Email: bfr@nsti.org; Website: http://www.nsti.org//Nanotech2006 May 16-18, 2006, Nanotechnology in Northern Europe, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Laura Juvonen,...

BCC RELATED REPORT.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Flexible Circuits: Materials and Applications The worldwide flex circuit market is estimated to be approximately $5.9 billion in 2005, and is expected to increase at an average annual growth rate of 13.5% to reach $11.2 billion in 2010. Product...

COMMENTARY Commercial Marketplace: Nanoparticles Popping up on the Radar Screen.
March 1, 2006... Nanoparticles are spreading their wings further into the commercial marketplace. During the first quarter of 2006 there have been several encouraging signs that the message is getting out and that these materials offer revolutionary...

AWARDS.
March 1, 2006... Electronic Nanomaterials Get Funding Boost. Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Technology (Potsdam, NY) and Alfred University's Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology (Alfred, NY), were recently awarded $1.8 million in funding from...

BUSINESS.
March 1, 2006... A123 Receives Further Capital Infusion. A123Systems (Watertown, MA) a developer of a new generation of lithium-ion nanoscale battery electrodes originally developed at MIT, has received a further $30 million in private equity funding. This...

FINANCIAL.
March 1, 2006... Konarka Receives Venture Capital Boost. Konarka Technologies, Inc., (Lowell, MA) an innovator in developing Power Plastic that converts light to energy, has announced that it has raised $20 million in new venture capital financing. Konarka...

PATENTS.
March 1, 2006... Nanophase Core-Shell Patent Approved. Nanophase Technologies (Romeoville, IL), a leading commercial manufacturer of nanopowder metal oxides used in a wide variety of industrial market applications, has recently been allowed a catalyst...

PRODUCTS.
March 1, 2006... Japanese Develop Dendrimer Manufacturing Process. Hakuto Co Ltd. (Tokyo) in collaboration with the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), has developed a new commercial process for manufacturing...

RESEARCH.(Breakthrough in Lithium Battery Material)
March 1, 2006... Breakthrough in Lithium Battery Material. MIT researchers led by Gerbrand Ceder have developed a new lithium nickel manganese oxide material which they claim could revolutionize battery technology currently used in portable devices and the...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT Top-Down Scaling of Structures to the Nanoscale (Part 2).
March 1, 2006... By Lou Brousseau, President & CEO, Quantum Logic Devices, Austin, TX 78752 The successful implementation of chemically prepared nanoscale building blocks previously described in Part 1 will depend on the development of processes for...

Application of Templates.
March 1, 2006... Following one of nature's fabrication strategies, QLD uses nanoscale templates to create the necessary electrode structures for making contact to nanoparticles, while remaining within the limits of existing CMOS processing technologies. One...

Single Electron Transistors.
March 1, 2006... The single electron transistor (SET) is a nanoscale transistor utilizing a quantum dot in place of the usual silicon-conducting channel (see Figure 2). The "single electron" nature of the device, describes the fact that a charge of one...

Summary.
March 1, 2006... By borrowing fabrication strategies from biological systems, nanoelectronic devices can be constructed from "bottom up" assembly of nanoscale components. Chemical self-assembly provides control over spacing and placement with sub-nanometer...