Nanoparticle News articles from September 2000

Nanoparticle News archives from September 2000

Nanocomposite Cushions Make Lighter Athletic Shoes.
September 1, 2000... Triton Systems' polymer nanocomposites are the enabling technology for super-light athletic shoe heel cushions filled with lightweight helium gas instead of traditionally used sulphur hexafluoride (super gas) and air. The helium-containing...

News Briefs.
September 1, 2000... Degussa-Huels Moves Forward With Reactor Construction. Approximately six months into a three-year, multimillion dollar research effort funded by Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) and Degussa-Huels, Degussa's Project House Nanomaterials...

Nanophase Receives Order for Thermal Spray Product.
September 1, 2000... Nanophase Technologies Corp. has received an initial order for a newly developed and qualified product in its NanoClad family of metal oxide powders for thermal spray applications. The new product, Nanoclad SD-100, is a ready-to-spray material...

ITT Produces Nano TiC at 25 lb/hr Rate.
September 1, 2000... Idaho Titanium Technologies (ITT), Inc., a high-tech spin out from the DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho, has achieved a 25 lb/hr production rate for nanocrystalline titanium carbide. The...

SDK Undertakes Ceria Production Scale-Up.
September 1, 2000... Showa Denko K.K. of Japan has embarked on a 500 million yen (nearly US$5 million) expansion of its production capacity for ceria-based ultrafine abrasive powders. The expansion is due for completion this year. The production capacity of...

Recent Patents.
September 1, 2000... NanoGram Beefs Up Patent Portfolio. Nanogram Corp. (Fremont, CA) has added four U.S. patents to its intellectual property arsenal within the past six months. The protected technology includes a laser pyrolysis process to produce carbon fibers...

"Ultra-Nanocrystalline" Diamond Shows Promise for MEMS Devices.
September 1, 2000... Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed a method to synthesize smooth, "ultra-nanocrystalline" diamond films that offer a promising alternative to silicon for fabricating MEMS devices. Researchers worldwide are developing...

Nitride Nanopigments Improve Ink-Jet Prints.
September 1, 2000... The lightfastness of ink-jet prints can be improved without a loss in optical density by using nanoscale inorganic pigments such as titanium nitride in the ink formulations, say Bayer AG researchers. Usually, the colorants used for ink-jet...

Nanoprobes: Metal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications Part II.
September 1, 2000... Metal Nanoparticles as Larger Covalent Labels A primary goal of current research at Nanoprobes is to develop much larger covalently linkable nanoparticles that will bring the same advantages to applications that currently require the larger...

Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Tested by Antex Biologics.
September 1, 2000... BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Antex Biologics, Inc. have signed an option license agreement for the development and testing of BioSante's calcium phosphate nanoparticle (CAP) platform technology as a vaccine adjuvant. Vaccine adjuvants are...

Projects Funded.
September 1, 2000... Carbon Nanofibers Suppress Charging. Applied Sciences, Inc. (Cedarville, OH)is incorporating conductive carbon nanofibers into insulating materials, such as kapton and Teflon, to minimize satellite charging. The work, which is funded by the Air...

Cytogen Acquires Rights to Iron Oxide Contrast Agents.
September 1, 2000... Advanced Magnetics, Inc. and Cytogen Corp. have mutually agreed to terminate a previously announced merger agreement in which Cytogen was to acquire Advanced Magnetics in a stock transaction. Instead, the two companies have entered into product...

NanoGram Closes $10 Million Funding Round.
September 1, 2000... NanoGram Corp. has completed a $10 million round of financing. The company's largest investors, Institutional Venture Partners of Menlo Park, Venrock Associates of New York, and Nth Power Technologies of San Francisco were joined by new...

Polish Telecom Places Order From NanoPierce Card.
September 1, 2000... NanoPierce Card Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of NanoPierce Technologies, Inc., has received an order to develop software for coding chip cards from OTO Lublin, a central business division of the Polish Telecommunications Service (TP S.A.)....

Books and Reports.
September 1, 2000... Cluster-Surface Interactions Probed. To exploit the often unique properties of metal clusters in commercial applications, the clusters must be brought into contact with an encapsulating matrix or a surface. Due to the interaction of the cluster...

Universal Photonics Named Distributor for Bayer CMP Line.
September 1, 2000... Universal Photonics, Inc. will serve as the North American exclusive distributor for Bayer Corp.'s chemical mechanical polishing-grade and wafer polishing-grade colloidal silica products, tradenamed Levasil. Universal Photonics' line of...

Poster Session Abstract Deadline Approaching.
September 1, 2000... Abstracts for the poster session of BCC's third annual conference Fine, Ultrafine, and Nano Powders 2000, which will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from October 29 through November 1, must be submitted no later than September 29, 2000. The...