Nanoparticle News articles from May 2002

Nanoparticle News archives from May 2002

Magnetic fluids could repair damaged retinas. (Biotechnology News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Nanoparticle-based injectable magnetic fluids that are being developed to repair torn or detached retinas could ultimately prevent blindness in thousands, according to researchers from Virginia Tech. A magnetized version of the silicone...

NanoInk secures $3 million in financing.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... NanoInk, Inc. (Chicago, IL) has secured $3 million in first-round financing from venture capital firms Galway Partners, LLC and Lurie Investment Fund, LLC. The company plans to sell an automated suite of tools that enables customers and...

Harris & Harris Group invests in NanoOpto.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (New York, NY) invested $625,000 in privately held NanoOpto Corp., a New Jersey based spin-off of Princeton University that is applying propriety nano-optics and nano-manufacturing technology to the design and...

Fraunhofer Center acquires reactor.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (Newark, DE) says it has acquired, in collaboration with its partnering institute (IFAM) in Bremen, Germany, one the largest R&D nanoparticle reactors in the U.S. for producing...

Capabilities of drug carrier particles broadened. (Biotechnology News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Preclinical results show that FeRx's proprietary magnetic targeted carrier product, MTC-DOX, which is normally administered intra-arterially for liver cancer treatment, might be useful in treating bladder cancer via an alternative, intravesical...

Amended class action complaint filed.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... On March 8, 2002, Glancy & Binkow (Los Angeles, CA) filed an amended complaint in a class action lawsuit against Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL). The complaint alleges that Nanophase disseminated false and misleading statements...

NanoPierce closes $2M financing.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Last month NanoPierce Technologies, Inc. (Denver, CO) closed the first $1 million tranche of a two-stage $2 million financing agreement. The financing, arranged by Bathgate McColley Capital Group, LLC. (Denver, CO) and provided by Generation...

Nanosys adds director. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Nanosys Inc. (Paid Alto, CA) announced that Regis McKenna joined the company's board of directors. McKenna is chairman of The McKenna Group, a consulting firm specializing in the application of information and telecommunications technologies to...

Company founder receives award. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Molecular Nanosystems' (Palo Alto, CA) scientific founder, Hongjie Dai, won the American Chemical Society's pure chemistry award for 2002, in recognition for his innovation in controlled synthetic methods--known as metal-catalyzed chemical...

MRI contrast agent has multiple functions. (Biotechnology News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Advanced Magnetics' Combidex magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent for diagnosing lymph node disease appears to be useful for imaging brain tumors and may have other applications as well, according to an independent study conducted by...

ANI demonstrates 14-in.-diagonal nanotube display. (Electronics and Optoelectronics).(Applied Nanotech Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), a subsidiary of SI Diamond Technology, has produced a carbon nanotube demonstration display measuring 14 inches along the diagonal. The display was fabricated using low-cost dispensing (printing) techniques...

VP assumes president position at Altair. (People).(Rudi E. Moerck)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV) announced that Rudi E. Moerck has assumed the position of president of the company. Moerck recently joined the company as vice president of business development. Altair's board of directors also has...

NUCRYST appoints CMO. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Westaim Corp. subsidiary NUCRYST Pharmaceuticals (Wakefield, MA) appointed Paul J. Schechter as vice president, drug development & regulatory affairs and chief medical officer, effective May 1,2002. His role at NUCRYST will be to guide the...

Advanced Magnetics reports profit. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Advanced Magnetics reported revenues for the second fiscal quarter of $2,044,991 as compared to revenues of $1,214,622 for the same period in fiscal 2001. There was a net profit of $421,169, or $0.06 per share, as compared to a net profit of...

Cabot earnings down. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA) announced net earnings from continuing operations of $28 million, or $0.39 per diluted common share before special items, for the company's second quarter ended March 31, 2002, compared with $40 million, or $0.52 per...

Subnanoscale gold synthesized for devices. (Electronics and Optoelectronics).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Researchers from the University of Oregon have fabricated for the first time subnanometer gold particles for assembly into optical and nanoelectronic devices. Due to their well-defined electronic structure, ligand-stabilized gold crystals...

RTP introduces nanocomposite for extruded film or sheet. (Polymer Nanocomposites).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... RTP Company says it has developed a lightweight nanocomposite product for film or sheet extrusion that requires a mere 2-8% organo-clay platelet loading to yield equivalent or better properties than similar composites with 20-30% loadings. The...

Nanothin clay particles reinforce auto windows. (Polymer Nanocomposites).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Nanoparticulate filler particles made of layered silicate minerals such as montmorillonite can be impregnated into polycarbonate or acrylic windows at a loading of up to 10 vol.% without any appreciable decrease in transparency, according to...

Nanophase generates $1.4 M in Revenue. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) reported revenue of $1.4 million for the quarter ending March 31,2002, compared with revenue of $1.07 million in the first quarter of 2001, which represents revenue growth of 30% year-over-year. The...

Orthovita reports sales increase. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) reported that product sales for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002, grew to $1,838,000, as compared to $226,000 for the first quarter of 2001. The first quarter sales represent a 13% increase from the fourth...

Quantum dot nanoparticles and their biological applications: part II. (Technology Insight).
May 1, 2002... SYNTHESIS The first part of quantum dot nanocrystal synthesis is the creation of the semiconductor "core-shell." The composition--such as cadmium selenide (CdSe), cadmium telluride (CdTe), or indium arsenide (InAs)--and the size of the...

Westaim posts loss. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced that for the first quarter ended March 31, 2002, it recorded a net loss of $8.4 million, or 11 cents per share, on revenues of $14.3 million. In the same quarter last year, the company...

Mechanical activation affects phase. (New Research).(nanocrystals )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Researchers prepared maghemite ([gamma]-[Fe.sub.2][O.sub.3]) nanocrystals dispersed in an amorphous silica matrix by mechanical activation of a chemistry-derived precursor at room temperature. As reported recently in the Journal of the American...

Inframat establishes Shanghai JV for coating production. (Industry News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Inframat Corp has entered into a cooperative joint venture with Shanghai Dahao Enterprise Investment (Group) Co., Ltd. to manufacture feedstock powders for thermal spray coatings. The joint venture, Shanghai Dahao Inframat Nanomaterials &...

Cabot microelectronics reports revenue drop. (Industry News).(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... The weakening Japanese yen and a decline in average slurry selling price reduced Cabot Microelectronics' second quarter 2002 revenue by about 1% compared to the previous quarter, according to the company. Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP)...

Biofunctionality imparted to fullerenes. (New Research).(Virginia Tech synthesizes first organic derivative of metal-containing fullerenes)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Researchers from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) have synthesized the first organic derivative of metal-containing fullerenes (metallo-fullerenes), thereby imparting biological functionality to the carbon nanostructures and bringing them a step...

Selenides produced at room T. (New Research).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The room temperature reaction (6-10 h) of metal chlorides and sodium selenosulfate in an ammoniacal aqueous solution yields semiconductor selenides of MSe (M = Cd, Hg) nanocrystalline powders, according to researchers from the University of...

Fine powders improve capacitors. (New Research).(Nanomaterials Research LLC develops capacitors whose main dielectric layers were nanopowders)
May 1, 2002... With the support of funding from NASA, scientists from Nanomaterials Research LLC fabricated and tested capacitors whose main dielectric layers were sintered from BaTi[O.sub.3] nanopowders. The objective of the investigation was to improve the...

$1.8M grants accelerate university's NanoTech research. (Grants Awarded).(University of Texas at Dallas' NanoTech Institute gets $1.8 million from U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
May 1, 2002... Founded only last fall, the UTD NanoTech Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX) won two grants worth a total of $1.8 million in initial annual funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The...

QinetiQ licenses plasma technology. (Technology Transfer).(QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd. signs agreement with Tetronics Ltd.)
May 1, 2002... QinetiQ Nanomaterials Ltd. has signed a licensing and supply agreement with Tetronics Ltd., a U.K.-based developer of plasma technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Tetronics will provide plasma processing expertise and a ready-made...

ANI and UMass sign licensing option. (Technology Transfer).(Applied Nanotech, Inc. signs licensing agreement option with University of Massachusetts at Amherst for technology to produce high density nanowire arrays)
May 1, 2002... Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) signed a licensing agreement option with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass) for technology to produce high density nanowire arrays. The option is for a non-exclusive license in the display technology...

Nanoparticles improve permanent magnets. (Grants Awarded).(Beltran, Inc.)(Beltran, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) plans to produce magnetic composite materials )
May 1, 2002... With the support of a Phase I SBIR award from DARPA of the Department of Defense (DoD), Beltran, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) plans to produce magnetic composite materials consisting of nanoparticles incorporated into thermostable polyethylene or...

AP materials seeks to increase battery capacity. (Grants Awarded).(U.S. Missile Defense Agency awards AP Materials, Inc. and partner Millennium Cell contract to develop nanoscale titanium diboride)
May 1, 2002... AP Materials, Inc. (St. Louis, MO) and its partner Millennium Cell, a developer of hydrogen fuel systems, have been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for development of...

AFM designed with low noise performance. (Characterization and Testing).(Asylum Research introduces new atomic force microscope)
May 1, 2002... Asylum Research has introduced a new atomic force microscope (AFM), the Molecular Force Probe 3D (MFP-3D) that it says has the best noise performance of any commercially available AFM. "The MFP-3D's incredibly quiet sensors, digital design,...

Malvern introduces analyzer for wide particle size range. (Characterization and Testing).(Malvern Instruments' High Performance Particle Sizer)
May 1, 2002... The High Performance Particle Sizer (HPPS) recently introduced by Malvern Instruments provides particle size measurement over an extremely wide size range that previously would have required three separate dynamic light scattering systems. ...

Calendar. (Characterization and Testing).
May 1, 2002... May 29-30, 2002 Bridging the Gap Between Structure and Properties in Nanoparticle-Filled Polymers (Workshop), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. Contact: E. Hobbie, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD...

CMP slurries stabilized against pH drift. (Recent Patents).
May 1, 2002... CMP formulations that consist of alumina particles and an iodate oxidizer can be stabilized against pH drift during use by acidification using an organic acid, according to U.S. Patent 6,64,920, assigned to Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics...

Bubble collapse yields nanoparticles. (Recent Patents).
May 1, 2002... Nanostructured materials of high phase purities can be prepared via a hydrodynamic cavitation method, according to U.S. Patent 6,365,555, assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA). The technique involves mixing a...

Si[O.sub.2] filler improves polymer strength. (Recent Patents).(silicon dioxide powder patented by Nippon Aerosil Company, Ltd.)
May 1, 2002... Nippon Aerosil Co, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) has developed an ultrafine silicon dioxide powder that can improve the mechanical strength of various types of polymers without reducing their transparency. As described in US. Patent 6,352,679, the silicon...