Nanoparticle News articles from May 2001

Nanoparticle News archives from May 2001

Growing Biotech Startup Targets DNA Diagnostics.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Biotech startup firm Nanosphere, Inc. expanded its laboratory and office space more than fourfold with a move from Northwestern University's technology incubator to a 13,500 sq. ft. space in Northbrook, IL last month. The company was...

News Briefs.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Degussa Unit dmc2 Changes Hands. One day after OM Group (Cleveland, OH) announced plans to acquire all of the operations of Degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec (dmc2), a unit of Degussa AG (Frankfurt, Germany), for EUR1.2 billion (approximately...

FeRx Initiates Clinical MTC-DOX Trials.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... FeRx Inc. has initiated a Phase I/II clinical trial to investigate its lead product, MTC-DOX, in the treatment of patients with metastatic liver cancer. MTC-DOX is a targeted drug delivery technology based on magnetic iron-carbon composite...

Fluorescing Clusters Promise Optical Storage.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Silver nanoclusters that can be photoactivated to fluoresce by exposure to blue light could be the basis for a new type of optical data storage in which green light is used to "read" the fluorescence, according to researchers at the Georgia...

People.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... New President at Super-conductive Powder Producer. Robert J. Borel has joined Superconductive Components, Inc. (Columbus, OH) as president and chief executive officer, and has also been elected to the board of directors. He succeeds Edward R....

Advance Leads to Carbon Transistors.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Using carbon nanotubes, IBM scientists have developed a new transistor technology that could enable production of smaller, faster, and lower power computer chips than is currently possible with silicon. As reported in the April 27 issue of...

Contracts and Funding.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Orthovita Signs Strategic Agreement in Japan. Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) entered into a development and distribution agreement with Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, Inc. for Orthovita's Vitoss[TM] Synthetic Cancellous Bone Void Filler, which...

Building Buckyballs from the Bottom up.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Using simple solution chemistry, a senior chemist at Ames Laboratory has developed a process to produce gram quantities of corannulene (C20), a curved-surface, aromatic hydrocarbon. Nicknamed buckybowls, the bowl-shaped corranulene molecules...

Recent Grants.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Superconductive Components to Produce SrRu[O.sub.3]. Superconductive Components, Inc. (Columbus, OH) received a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a novel method for making...

Tailored Nanomaterials for Functional Applications.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Nanopowders and nanopowder-derived products are being actively pursued for use in a wide range of applications, including electrochemical energy storage and generation, chemical sensors, optoelectronics, semiconductors, wear and scratch...

Product News.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Plasma Processed Ti[O.sub.2] Ready for Evaluation. NanoSource Technologies, Inc (Oklahoma City, OK) says it has achieved proof of concept of its plasma-processed nanopowders, and samples of its nanoparticulate titanium dioxide are now available...

Nanophase's Revenues Up 100%+ Over Last Year.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Revenues from product sales accounted for over 91% of first quarter 2001 revenues of Nanophase Technologies and represent an increase of more than 100% compared to the company's product revenues in the first quarter of 2000. Nanophase...

Financial Results.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... AMCOL Takes Steps to Reduce Spending. AMCOL International Corp. (Arlington Heights, IL) reported that earnings for the first quarter ended March 31, 2001 were $67 million compared to $73 million for the same period in 2000. In regard to the...

Nanotechnology Centers Popping Up Everywhere.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The University of Washington (UW) and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have formed the Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to integrate expertise in nanobiology, material synthesis,...

$15 Million Investment Buoys Nanotube Producer.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Supported by a $15 million investment by two individual investors, Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. (CNI) plans to build a new carbon nanotube test reactor with the capacity to produce two to three pounds of nanotubes per day, an amount sufficient...

Slurry Venture Ups Production Capacity.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials L.L.C., a 50/50 joint venture company of DuPont and Air Products and Chemicals formed to produce planarization slurries for the semiconductor industry, is increasing manufacturing capacity for colloidal...