Nanoparticle News articles from September 2001

Nanoparticle News archives from September 2001

NRC Undergoes Major Restructuring.(Nanomaterials Research Corporation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nanomaterials Research Corp. (NRC) recently completed a major reorganization into two separate companies: Nanomaterials Research, LLC, which is focused on nanoengineered device development and manufacture, and NanoEnergy Corp., which is engaged...

FDA Issues Blow to Advanced Magnetics.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... FDA Issues Blow to Advanced Magnetics. Advanced Magnetics, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that the company's supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for Feridex I.V.[R] is not...

Altair Changes Name to Nanotechnologies.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Altair Changes Name to Nanotechnologies. The board of directors of Altair International, Inc. (Cody, WY) have approved changing the name of the company to Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. and that of its wholly owned subsidiary from Altair...

Japanese Firm Establishes First of Several Nanotech Companies.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Plans are underway at Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to set up a series of companies to engage in nanotechnology development and commercialization. As a first step, Mitsui invested several tens of billions of yen to set up a company, The Carbon Nanotech...

Fraunhofer CMAM Establishes Collaboration.(Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Fraunhofer CMAM Establishes Collaboration. The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (CMAM) has established a new collaboration with University of Delaware professor Ismat Shah. Shah will work with CMAM on a part-time basis...

NanoSource Licenses Plasma Technology.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... NanoSource Licenses Plasma Technology. NanoSource Technologies, Inc. (Oklahoma City, OK) has obtained an exclusive license from Tekna Plasma Systems (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) for the fabrication and commercialization of nanoparticulate...

Cabot Microelectronics Director Moves On.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Cabot Microelectronics Director Moves On. Cabot Microelectronics Corp. (Aurora, IL) announced that Samuel W. Bodman resigned from the company's board of directors to accept a position in the Bush administration as deputy secretary of commerce....

China Welcomes Nanotech Center.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... China Welcomes Nanotech Center. As reported in the China Daily, Shanghai plans to launch operations at its new nanotechnology base by the end of September. Located near the East China University of Science and Engineering, a nanomaterials...

Transparent, Functional Coatings Introduced by Nanophase.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Transparent, Functional Coatings Introduced by Nanophase. Nanophase Technologies Corp. (Romeoville, IL) announced the availability of three types of transparent, functional coatings that are enabled by the company's nanocrystalline particles....

CyTerra Acquires Spark Erosion Technology, Launches Initiative.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CyTerra Corp. has launched an initiative for the development of nanophase materials following its acquisition of two patents covering a spark-erosion process to produce nanopowders. To support its nanotechnology initiative, the company has...

New Production Process Enters Commercial Phase.(Nanophase Technologies Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nanophase Technologies is manufacturing its first commercial order using its new "Audrey" process and expects shipment to a customer during September. "As we previously announced, we expected to begin commercializing initial Audrey...

Products Equipped with "Smart" Film Emerge.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Products Equipped with "Smart" Film Emerge. Research Frontiers' licensee InspecTech Aero Service has delivered the world's first aircraft equipped with suspended particle device (SPD) "smart" windows. At Research Frontiers' annual meeting 2...

Baikowski Acquires High Purity Powder Producer.(Malakoff Industries)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Baikowski Acquires High Purity Powder Producer. The assets of Malakoff Industries, Inc. (Malakoff, TX), a subsidiary of Alcoa since its acquisition of Reynolds Metals, were sold to Baikowski International Corp. (Charlotte, NC) on July 31, 2001....

Ferro On Track to Close Acquisition.(buying dmc2 assets)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Ferro On Track to Close Acquisition. Ferro Corp. (Cleveland, OH) announced that the company's pending acquisition of certain dmc2 businesses from OM Group, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) is on track to close during the third quarter of 2001. The 30-day...

OM Group Completes dmc2 Purchase.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... OM Group Completes dmc2 Purchase. OM Group, Inc. (Cleveland, OH) has completed its acquisition of dmc2, a subsidiary of Degussa AG. The dmc2 businesses that OMG will retain include metals management, automotive catalysts, fuel cells, precious...

"Nanoparticle Haloing" Improves Stability of Colloidal Systems.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered a new mechanism for regulating the stability of colloidal microparticles that relies on adding charged nanoparticles to the system. Called "nanoparticle haloing,"...

Nanofilm Model Explains Optimum Slurry Particle Size.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Experiments to determine the impact of abrasive particle size on the material removal rate and surface finish during chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) showed that an 80 nm abrasive size is optimum, report researchers from the Georgia...

Fuel Additive Tests Show Promising Results.(Nanophase Technologies' catalytic fuel additive)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Fuel Additive Tests Show Promising Results. Nanophase Technologies (Romeoville, IL) says the initial results of its catalytic fuel additive test program are sufficiently promising to warrant additional static engine testing. First-stage testing...

Nanostructures for Thermal Management Applications.
September 1, 2001... Controlling heat flow is critical to many applications, including nanoscale advanced electronics, MEMS devices, and miniaturized fluid heat exchangers. Depending on the application, either low or high rates of heat transfer are required. For...

Doped ZnO Liquid-Phase Sintered.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Doped ZnO Liquid-Phase Sintered. Dense ceramic bodies (99% of theoretical) can be fabricated by liquid-phase sintering of green compacts formed from homogeneous doped-ZnO ceramic nanopowders produced by a metallorganic polymeric method,...

Simple Nanotube Purification Method Devised.(single-walled carbon nanotubes)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Simple Nanotube Purification Method Devised. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have devised a simple procedure for the purification of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) synthesized by the hydrogen arc-discharge method. The...

Mo[S.sub.2] Nanoclusters Degrade Hydrocarbons.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nanosize molybdenum disulfide (Mo[S.sub.2]) nanoclusters can decompose difficult-to-degrade aromatic and halogenated hydrocarbons by photoxidation faster than conventional methods and without creating toxic by-products, according to researchers...

Impact of Hydrothermal Parameters Evaluated.(peptizing agents and nanocrystalline titanium dioxide)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Impact of Hydrothermal Parameters Evaluated. An evaluation of three types of tetraalkyl ammonium hydroxides (TANOHs), namely, tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide (TMNOH), tetraethyl ammonium hydroxide (TENOH), and tetrabutyl ammonium hydroxide...

CMP Consumables Covered in New Volume.("Chemical-Mechanical Polishing 2000 Fundamentals and Materials")(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... CMP Consumables Covered in New Volume. Just published by the Materials Research Society, Chemical-Mechanical Polishing 2000 Fundamentals and Materials Issues documents symposium reports from the 2000 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco,...

NEI and Argonne Collaborate on Heat Transfer Fluids.(Nanopowder Enterprises)(Argonne National Laboratory)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nanopowder Enterprises, Inc. (NEI) has teamed up with Argonne National Laboratory to develop high thermal conductivity "nanofluids" for heat transfer applications. The work is supported by a recently awarded $100,000 Phase I STTR contract from...

Carbon Nanotubes in the Lead to Replace Silicon.(International Business Machines Corp.)(T.J. Watson Research Center)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... IBM researchers have created the first functional logic circuit within a single carbon nanotube, an achievement that promises smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computers and foreshadows the eventual obsolescence of silicon in...

MRS Expands Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Series.(Materials Research Society)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... MRS Expands Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Series. The newest volume in a continuing series has been released by the Materials Research Society. Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials 2000 brings together researchers specializing in the synthesis,...

Nanoparticles Exploited for Thermal Spray Processing.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nanoparticles Exploited for Thermal Spray Processing. Scientists from Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ) and the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) have patented (U.S. Patent 6,277,448) several techniques that use nanoparticle precursor...

Conductive Particles Improve Photocatalytic Activity.(Toto Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Conductive Particles Improve Photocatalytic Activity. Photocatalyst technology pioneer TOTO, Ltd. (Fukuoka, JP) describes the use of titanium dioxide nanopowders coated with even smaller conductive particles to form photocatalytic coatings on...

Heavy Metal Clusters Incorporated into Polymer.(Japan. Agency of Industrial Science and Technology forms nanocomposite material with useful nonlinear optical properties or high modulus)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Heavy Metal Clusters Incorporated into Polymer. Researchers from the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo, Japan) have developed a method to incorporate heavy metal clusters into a polymeric matrix, forming a nanocomposite...

High-T Organic Superconductor Fabricated from Buckyballs.(Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs research high temperature superconductors)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have shown that carbon fullerenes can act as superconductors at relatively warm temperatures, raising hopes for inexpensive, power loss-free organic electronics and other practical applications...