Nanoparticle News articles from October 2002

Nanoparticle News archives from October 2002

MRI transformed into cancer treatment tool. (Biotechnology News).
October 1, 2002... Specially designed magnetic nanoparticles have the potential to revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging by making it a cancer treatment tool instead of merely a diagnostic procedure, say scientists at the State University of New York at...

Nanomix secures $9M in funding.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Nanomix, Inc. (Emeryville, CA), a company developing components for electronics, sensor applications, and energy storage, announced the close of a $9 million Series B financing round led by Apax Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds. Additional...

Nanosphere wins $1.5M in NIH grants.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Nanosphere, Inc. (Northbrook, IL) has been awarded two grants worth $1.5 million total from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund the development of SNP molecular diagnostic tests to assess genetic risk factors for hypercoagulation...

Quantum dots home to cancerous tissues. (Biotechnology News).
October 1, 2002... Researchers at the Burnham Institute and UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have developed hybrid organic/inorganic particles that home to cancerous tissues in live mice. The scientists synthesized nanocrystalline semiconductor...

Altair moves ahead in drug development. (Biotechnology News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Based on the success of laboratory tests of its new pharmaceutical agent, Renazorb, Altair Nanotechnologies says it has executed four confidentiality agreements with major pharmaceutical companies for further development of the product and is...

Nanolayers closes seed finance round.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Nanolayers Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel), an organic semiconductor company, closed a seed financing round led by the Millennium Materials Technology Fund. Intel Capital and Summit Technology were among other investors participating in this round....

UTexas creates nanomanufacturing program.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... A nanomanufacturing technology program to foster educational, research, and commercialization efforts in nanomanufacturing has been launched at the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology (Austin,...

Nanosys signs license agreement.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) signed an agreement with the Regents of the University of California (UC) for the exclusive license of semiconductor nanowire-based laser technology. Such lasers can be tuned to emit light of different...

Advanced Magnetics enters clinical trials.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has entered into two clinical trial agreements with the Biomedical Imaging Program (BIP) of the National Cancer Institute to study the use of its Combidex and Code 7228 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...

Auto care products will exploit Nanogate's coatings. (Polymer Nanocomposites).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... German firm Nanogate Technologies, GmbH and U.K.-based FarEcla Products, Ltd. have signed an international cooperation agreement that entails using Nanogate's nanocomposite coating technology in Farecla's line of automobile care and service...

Standard equipment yields nanocomposites. (Polymer Nanocomposites).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... It is possible to fabricate nanocomposites from a wide range of polymer feedstocks using standard extrusion equipment, according to Honeywell International. The company is seeking licensees for this technology, which is patented. The...

Altair moves to Nasdaq SmallCap.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Altair Nanotechnologies' (Reno, NV) common stock commenced trading on NASDAQ's SmallCap Market System on September 25, 2002. The company's common stock will continue to trade under its current symbol, ALTI. "As a public company participating in...

Cabot Microelectronics loses CFO. (People).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The vice president and chief financial officer of Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Aurora, IL), Martin M. Ellen, will resign at the end of October to become the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Snap-on, Inc., a $2 billion...

Battery expert joins Altair's advisory board. (People).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... K.M. Abraham has joined the technical advisory board of Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV). Abraham is the president and chief technology officer of E-KEM Sciences, a Needham, Massachusetts--based consulting and research company. Abraham...

Orthovita's board undergoes changes. (People).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Orthovita, Inc. (Malvern, PA), a developer of orthopaedic bio-materials, has appointed Jonathan Silverstein to its board of directors. Silverstein is a director for OrbiMed Advisors, LLC, a global health care fund manager. In related news,...

Correction.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The new president of Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. (NEI, Piscataway, NJ) is Richard D. Ziminski. Ziminski's name was inadvertently misspelled in the September issue of Nanoparticle News.

Nano-Si provides frequency doubling, mixing. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... University of Illinois (Urbana, IL) researchers led by Munir Nayfeh, physics professor, have demonstrated and patented (U.S. Patent 6,456,423) nonlinear optical devices based upon silicon nanocrystal structures. In the patent the researchers...

Nanotubes produced with unprecedented control. (Carbon Nanostructures).
October 1, 2002... Scientists led by Purdue University chemist Hicham Fenniri have learned to create multiple species of carbon nanotubes with virtual "dial-up" control over their physical and chemical properties. The researchers found they can manipulate a...

ANI signs nanotube license with Japanese company. (Carbon Nanostructures).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), a subsidiary of SI Diamond Technology, Inc., has signed a license agreement with what it calls "one of the largest display manufacturing companies in Japan" for its carbon nanotube field emission technologies. ...

Gap-filling dielectric based on nanoparticles. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Honeywell International (Morristown, NJ) has protected the use of a colloidal dispersion of nanoparticles to form a gap-filling dielectric material with low thermal shrinkage, as described in U.S. Patent 6,444,495. The dielectric film is...

Testimony supporting the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. (Industry Insight).
October 1, 2002... (Editor's Note: This month's Insight is excerpted from the testimony of Nathan Swami, Executive Director of INanoVA, at the first Senate hearing on nanotechnology on September 17, 2002. Also making prepared remarks at the hearing were F. Mark...

Thermal spray technology yields nanocoatings. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Thin films or coatings of greater than 100 nm in thickness composed of sub-100 nm particles can be fabricated by thermal-spraying a solution of a liquid coating precursor feedstock onto a substrate, according to U.S. Patent 6,447,848, assigned...

Nanoparticles self-assembled to form sensor. (Recent patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Sony International (Europe) GmbH (Berlin, Germany) has developed a chemical sensing device based on conductive nanoparticles linked by bifunctional or polyfunctional ligands. Such ligands make it possible to precisely control the arrangement of...

Senators introduce bill to promote nanotech R&D. (Washington News).
October 1, 2002... U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), and George Allen (R-Va.) introduced bipartisan legislation to promote nanotechnology research and development in the United States at the Senate's first hearing on nanotechnology in...

U.S. funds biowarfare agent detection. (Washington News).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Nanosphere, Inc. has entered into a multi-million-dollar development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) to apply its biomolecular detection system to the future detection of biological warfare agents. ...

Metal oxides clean hydrocarbon streams. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Engineers from Intevep, S. A. (Caracas, Venezuela) have discovered that high-surface-area, reactive metal oxide nanoparticles provide excellent adsorption of both [H.sub.2]S and C[O.sub.2] from crude and gas hydrocarbon streams, even at...

Hybrid FEDs rely on nanotubes. (Recent Patents).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... In what it terms "a very important strategic development," SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (Austin, TX) has been issued two patents (U.S. Patents 6,411,020 and 6,441,543) covering its hybrid field emission display (HyFED) concept. The technology,...

High-quality deposits formed from Nano-ZnO. (New Research).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Bubble-free, uniform deposits of nano-ZnO can be obtained by the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of ZnO nanopowders in suspension, according to scientists from the National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan). The EPD processing...

Ceria-coated silica achieves higher polishing rate. (New Research).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Slurries containing ceria-coated colloidal silica particles can polish semiconductor wafers more rapidly than slurries containing pure ceria nanoparticles, according to researchers from the Center for Advanced Materials Processing at Clarkson...

ATP grant supports biotech collaboration. (Washington News).
October 1, 2002... With support from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), SurroMed, Inc. and Callida Genomics, Inc. have teamed up to develop a high-throughput universal genotyping system that combines SurroMed's Nanobarcodes particle...

Nanoparticles and cancer: high risk, but high pay-off. (Commentary).
October 1, 2002... It is fairly widely known that inorganic nanoparticles--specifically, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanocrystals--are used as the active ingredient in a variety of sunscreen products. Some might be familiar also with the use of gold...

CaP[O.sub.4] nanoparticles induce immunity. (New Research).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... BioSante Pharmaceuticals' (Lincolnshire, IL) calcium phosphate nanoparticle (CAP) vaccine adjuvant was shown to be an effective mucosal adjuvant capable of inducing mucosal immunity and protection against herpes infection in a study published...

Nanophase sees 85% revenue rise over 2001. (Industry News).
October 1, 2002... Nanophase Technologies Corp. reports that it generated approximately $1.3 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2002, which represents an increase of 85% compared with the third quarter of 2001. Despite the year-over-year revenue...

NN stock watch. (Industry News).(Brief Article)(Illustration)
October 1, 2002... NN STOCK WATCH (At Close, October 1, 2002) This Last % Company Symbol Month Month Change Advanced Magnetics, Inc. AVM 5.08 ...

Solid-state method yields LaCo[O.sub.3] in high yields. (New Research).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... A team of Chinese researchers say they have developed a new process to produce perovskite-type LaCo[O.sub.3] nanocrystals in high yields that is convenient, inexpensive, and effective. The technique is based on a solid-state reaction that...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... October 27-30, 2002. Nanoparticles 2002, Hotel Pennsyl-vania, New York. Contact: Sharon Faust, Conference Coordinator, Business Com-munications Co., Inc., Fax: 203/853-0348; Email: conference@ bccresearch.com, Website: www.bccresearch.com/...

Upcoming reports from BCC.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
October 1, 2002... UPCOMING REPORTS FROM BCC Magnetic Materials Market in China and Its Position in the World Market Product Code: C6GB-268 Target Date: November 2002 $3950 Nanotubes: Directions and Technologies--Updated Edition Product Code:...