Nanoparticle News articles from November 2001

Nanoparticle News archives from November 2001

Fine, ultrafine, and nano particles 2001. (Special Conference Report).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... New technological developments and emerging applications were discussed alongside commercialization and related business issues at the fourth annual Business Communications Co. (BCC) conference, Fine, Ultrafine and Nano Particles 2001, held...

World market forecast to reach $900.1m in 2005. (Opening Session).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The world market for nanoparticulate materials reached $492.5 million in 2000 and is expected to reach $900.1 million in 2005, corresponding to a 12.8% average annual growth rate (AAGR) during the next 5 years, according to BCC senior analyst...

Projects funded.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Five of 43 ATP Awards Related to Particle/Nanotechnology. Five of the 43 awards announced last month by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will fund projects related to particulate...

Argonne center for nanoscale materials receives $2m grant. (Opening Session).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Murray Gibson, director of the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, discussed Argonne's proposed Center for Nanoscale Materials, which will feature a hard x-ray nanoprobe at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS) facility,...

Develop customers, not markets. (Keynote Presentations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Among the advice to small businesses espoused by Don Freed, vice president of business development at Nanophase Technologies Corp., was to "develop customers, not markets." Freed also advised start-up companies to "focus on the here and now" by...

Nanotechnology spending tripled from 1997 to 2001. (Keynote Presentations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Worldwide government spending in nanoscale science and technology more than tripled between 1997 ($432 million) and 2001 ($1,577 million), according to Mihail (Mike) Roco, senior adviser for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation. He...

Changes in particle size and shape modulate bandgap, conductivity. (Keynote Presentations).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... By controlling the size and shape of semiconductor nanocrystals, it is possible to induce variations in their optical bandgap, electrical conductivity, and other fundamental characteristics, according to Janke J. Dittmer, a post-doctoral fellow...

Engineered coatings improve quantum dot brightness. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... By engineering the surface coatings on fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals, Quantum Dot Corp. improved the chemical stability and photostability of the dots and obtained up to an order of magnitude improvement in the quantum yield and...

Antimicrobial nanostructured films release silver at controlled rate. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Robert Burrell, vice president of science and technology at Westaim Biomedical Corp., reported that nanocrystalline silver films of approximately 15 nm in grain size and 900 nm in film thickness exhibit both antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory...

Electrophoretic depositions yields high bond strength biocoatings. (Biomedical And Pharmaceutical Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Inframat Corp. has developed a room-temperature electrophoretic deposition process to fabricate high-quality nanostructured hydroxyapatite coatings for artificial bone applications. According to T. Danny Xiao, vice president of R&D at...

Li-Ion battery electrodes formed from nanocomposites. (Energy And Catalysis Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Gholam-Abbas Nazri, staff research scientist at GM Research & Development Center, believes nanomaterial technology will play an important role in the fabrication of lithium-ion batteries, which are expected to serve ultimately as a power source...

Morphologies contribute to high catalytic activities. (Energy And Catalysis Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Nanocrystalline metal oxides and mixed metal oxides are characterized by unique morphologies with high surface concentrations of edge/corner/defect sites that, coupled with their huge surface areas, permit superadsorption properties and unusual...

Fourth quarter results mixed for Cabot. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Cabot Corp. (Boston, MA) reported revenues of $381 million for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2001, compared with $387 million for the same quarter of 2000. Cabot recorded net income of $27 million from continuing operations, as...

AMCOL focuses on IP, visibility for nanocomposites. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In disclosing AMCOL International's quarterly results, Larry Washow, president and chief executive officer, says in regard to the company's nanocomposites business (Nanocor), which is not yet reporting as a separate segment, "We're encouraged...

Moyco reports record sales from precision abrasives. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Moyco Technologies, Inc. (Montgomeryville, PA) announced record sales from the continuing operations of its precision abrasives subsidiary and record profits primarily attributable to the gain on the sale of the dental supplies business segment...

Process permits simultaneous fabrication of fuel cell layers. (Energy And Catalysis Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Altair Nanotechnologies is using nanosize yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) ceramic powders to simultaneously form the multiple layers of a solid oxide fuel cell core. As explained by Bruce J. Sabacky, director of research, engineering, and...

Particle dispersion deemed critical. (Technology Reviews).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In a review of the various processes used in laboratories and industry to produce nanoparticles, Xiangdong (Shawn) Feng, co-chairman of the particle science and technology core team at Ferro Corp., explained that the various synthetic...

Instruments characterize particles in gas phase. (Technology Reviews).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Andreas Schmidt-Ott, head of the particle technology section at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, described the physics and capabilities of various online methods of characterizing particles in the gas phase. One particular...

Particles transferred from organic to aqueous media. (Technology Reviews).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Two methods to efficiently transfer reactive nanoparticles from an organic solvent to water in high concentrations are (1) the covalent capping of the nanoparticle surface and (2) a non-covalent spontaneous method developed at the Max Planck...

Lucent projects return to profitability in 2002. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) reported revenues of $5.2 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2001 compared with $5.9 billion in revenues achieved in the third fiscal quarter of 2001. For fiscal year 2001, revenues declined 26% to...

Acquisition boosts OMG's 3rd quarter revenue. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Third quarter increases in sales, net income, and earnings per share of OM Group, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) were achieved primarily through the company's precious metal chemistry and metal management operations, resulting from the acquisition of...

Gas-phase-synthesis of nanoparticles part I: particle formation and growth. (Technology Insight).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Highly functional nanoparticles with controlled physical and chemical properties can be manufactured on a large scale via gas-phase synthesis, or aerosol, processes. According to how the final product is produced, most of the gas-phase...

Sales and earnings down at Rohm and Haas. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Sales and Earnings Down at Rohm and Haas. Rohm and Haas Co. (Philadelphia, PA) today reported earnings of $53 million, or $0.24 per common share, compared with $77 million, or $0.35 per share for the third quarter of 2000. Reported sales for...

Orthovita reports large rise in VITOSS sales. (Financial Results).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... Orthovita Reports Large Rise in VITOSS Sales. Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA) reported that VITOSS Scaffold worldwide product sales reached $1,134,000 and $2,314,000 for the 3 and 9 months ended September 30, 2001, respectively. VITOSS product...

Nanostructuring enhances or inhibits heat flow. (Technology Reviews).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Jeffrey Eastman, a scientist in the Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, described the use of nanostructuring to enhance or inhibit heat flow in thermal management materials. In the case of thermal barrier coatings applied...

Surfactants optimize slurry stability. (Microelectronic Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In answering the question "How stable must a CMP slurry be?" Brij Moudgil, director of the Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology at the University of Florida, emphasized the need to pay attention to particle-surface...

Transistors printed from nanoparticles. (Microelectronic Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Despite their high carrier mobility and prevalent usage in the microelectronics industry, inorganic materials have not played a significant role in emerging microelectronics fabrication routes due to costly high-temperature processing and...

Self-assembly engineers particle surfaces. (Microelectronic Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Frank Caruso, leader of the Nanostructured Interfaces and Materials Research group at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, described a polyelectrolyte-mediated self-assembly technique to nanoengineer particle surfaces. By...

Nantero raises $6 million in funding round.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Nantero (Woburn, MA) completed a $6 million round of investment to develop a nanotube-based high-density memory, with investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Stata Venture Partners, Harris and Harris Group, an early investor in Nanophase...

Altair announces research developments.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Using its proprietary nanoscale YSZ, Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Cody, WY) says it has formed electrolyte films for solid oxide fuel cells that are well under 25 microns in thickness. The nanoscale YSZ enables production of a thinner film,...

Coatings extend life of cutting tools. (Nanoceramics and Emerging Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A two-stage deposition process involving electrostatic spray coating and chemical vapor infiltration can be used to produce a stable composite wear coating with good adhesion properties, explained Ajay Malshe, a professor in the department of...

Sell what you have, not what you don't. (Nanoceramics and Emerging Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Vincent O'Grady, CEO of Nyacol Nano Technologies, advised companies in the business to "be flexible," but also to "sell what you have, not what you don't have," in his discussion of the development of nanoparticulate antimony pentoxide for...

Pyrolysis allows composition control. (Nanoceramics and Emerging Applications).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... A flame spray pyrolysis technique to produce simple and mixed metal oxide nanopowders with composition control at the ppm level has been scaled up to 5 kg/hr, by Tal Materials, according to Richard Laine, a professor of materials science and...

Metal powders pose challenges. (Metal Nanoparticle Processing and Usage).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Julia Weertman, professor emeritus in the department of materials science and engineering, discussed the various problems encountered in processing metal nanopowders into dense specimens and evaluating their mechanical properties. Residual...

Measurements detect lower sintering temps. (Metal Nanoparticle Processing and Usage).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The onset of sintering in metal nanopowder specimens is discernible at much lower temperatures using electrical resistivity measurements than by measuring shrinkage dimensionally with dilatometry, according to Fred Tepper, president of Argonide...

InspecTech wins order from major jet manufacturer.(InspecTech Aero Service, Inc.)
November 1, 2001... InspecTech Aero Service, Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, FL) received an order for SPD "smart" aircraft windows to be developed for an unnamed major aircraft manufacturer. SPD (suspended particle device) aircraft windows incorporate a fast-responding...

Doped oxides exhibit lasing behavior. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Doped, nanosize metal oxide particles exhibit stimulated emission and continuous-wave laser action when energized by electron beams, as described in world patent WO0038282. The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) inventors produced particles...

Spindle-shaped particles engineered for magnetic recording. (Recent Patents).
November 1, 2001... According to U.S. Patent 6,309,479, Toda Kogyo (Hiroshima, Japan) researchers have produced spindle-shaped metal nanoparticles characterized by a high coercive force, an excellent particle coercive force distribution, a large saturation...

New method orients nanotubes. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Researchers from the Japan Fine Ceramics Center (Nagoya, JP) say they have developed a new method to manufacture a carbon nanotube film composed of highly oriented nanotubes. To produce the nanotubes, SiC is heated under vacuum to remove...

Particle size, aggregation must be controlled for MLCCs. (Metal Nanoparticle Processing and Usage).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Of critical importance to manufacturers of dielectric and metal powders for multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) applications are control over particle size and aggregation due to the need to form dense thin films with controlled shrinkage...

Carbonyl decomposition yields Ni powder for batteries, electronics. (Metal Nanoparticle Processing And Usage).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... By controlling conditions to favor nucleation during the carbonyl decomposition method of producing nickel powders, filamentary chains with very fine crystallites and high surface area can be produced, according to Eric Wasmund, senior engineer...

NN stock watch: (At close, November 1, 2001). (Industry News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... NN STOCK WATCH (At Close, November 1, 2001) This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 3.55 3.19 ...

Failure to pay chops nanophase's revenue. (Industry News).(Nanophase Technologies)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... The failure of Celox, Ltd. to pay $400,000 in contractually owed revenue to Nanophase Technologies resulted in the reversal of a previously reported sale and a 36% decrease in Nanophase's reportable revenue for the quarter ended September 30,...

Refractory fibers formed in hydrothermal process. (Recent Patents).(Battelle Memorial Institute )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Researchers from Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA) have discovered a hydrothermal method for forming rare earth, oxygen-containing fluoride nanoparticles and nanodimensional fibers. In one representative example of the process...

Calendar.
November 1, 2001... November 26-30, 2001. Nanoscale Materials And Processes Symposia, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA. Contact: MRS, 506 Keystone Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086-7573; Tel: 724/779-3003, Fax: 724/ 779-8313; Website: www. mrs.org. ...