Nanoparticle News articles from September 2003

Nanoparticle News archives from September 2003

Can cerium oxide inhibit aging?(Biotechnology News)
September 1, 2003... Initial studies showing that cerium oxide nanoparticles can triple or quadruple the life of brain cells suggest that the nanoparticles might allow people to live longer with fewer age-related health problems, according to a molecular biologist...

SAIC to fund R&D at Nanosys.(Science Applications International Corp. )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Under the terms of a new marketing and business development agreement between Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), SAIC will fund selected R&D efforts at Nanosys to develop nanotechnology-enabled...

DuPont licenses nanotube emitter technology.(DuPont Electronic Technologies, Nanomix Inc. )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... DuPont Electronic Technologies (Research Triangle Park, NC) has been granted an exclusive license from Nanomix Inc. (Emeryville, CA) to make and sell field-emitting thick film materials containing carbon nanotubes for use in flat panel...

Nantero fabricates 10 Gbit nanotube memory array.(Electronics And Optoelectronics)
September 1, 2003... As a step towards developing a high density electromechanical memory based on carbon nanotubes, Nantero has built an array of ten billion suspended nanotube junctions on a 4-inch silicon wafer using only standard semiconductor manufacturing...

$10.5m windfall for Nantero.(Lead investor Charles River Ventures and returning investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, State Venture Partners and Harris and Hariris Group)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nantero, Inc. (Woburn, MA), a company developing a high-density nonvolatile random access memory chip based on carbon nanotubes, received $10.5 million in its second round of investment. The new lead investor was Charles River Ventures....

Report explores socioeconomics of Nanotech.(report published by research team at the University of Sheffield funded by the Economic and Social Research Council )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... A research team at the University of Sheffield funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (Swindon, UK) has published a report that describes the emerging atom-by-atom science of nanotechnology and discusses the sweeping social...

Nanox secures $4.1 million.(Nanox Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nanox Inc. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada), a developer of mechanochemical synthesis and perovskite formulations for low temperature diesel oxidation catalysts (DOC) and other types of autocatalysts, concluded a second round financing of...

Berkeley researchers build nanoscale motor.(Electronics And Optoelectronics)
September 1, 2003... Fifteen years after the first microscale motor was built, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have constructed a nanoscale motor that is 200 times smaller, marking a significant advance in nanoelectromechanical systems...

Nanoparticles: the next Botox?(Commentary)
September 1, 2003... Want to avoid the wrinkled, leathery skin associated with sun damage? Slather on some sunscreen with zinc oxide nanocrystals for UV radiation protection. Want to hide those fine lines between your brows or crows' feet around your eyes? Dab on a...

Technology for Cu nanopowder licensed.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... NanoDynamics, Inc. (Buffalo, NY) has entered into an exclusive license for copper nanopowder production technology that was developed at an unnamed research institution under NanoDynamics sponsorship. The funded research program, which began in...

Altair to supply Ti[O.sub.2] to TIMET.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (Reno, NV) has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Titanium Metals Corp. (TIMET) to collaborate on a new development program for producing low-cost titanium metal. TIMET has been selected by the U.S....

NSF awards $1m+ for societal research.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded two new grants of over $1 million each for research investigating the societal implications of nanotechnology. One of the grant recipients is the University of South Carolina's Davis Baird, a...

Nanox adds to board.(People Martial Bilodeau and Purnesh Seegopaul)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Martial Bilodeau of Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital and Purnesh Seegopaul of Umicore USA Inc. and Pangaea Ventures have joined the board of Nanox, Inc. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada), which includes Gary Whipp, Luc...

Nano-enabled optical device applications: Part II.(Technology Insight)
September 1, 2003... Nanoparticle Polymer Composites Preformed nanoparticles can be blended with a broad range of polymeric host materials by chemically bonding nanoparticles to a terminal site of polymer host via a coupling molecule. The optical properties of...

Memory expert added to Nantero board.(Mohan Rao, Bruce Sachs, and Bill Tai have joined the company)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Carbon nanotube memory developer Nantero (Woburn, MA) has added Mohan Rao, previously senior vice president of the Semiconductor Group at Texas Instruments, to its scientific advisory board. Rao is an inventor on over 100 patents worldwide...

Westaim posts loss.(Financial Results)(positive results shown in iFire Technology and Nucryst Pharmaceuticals )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... For the second quarter ended June, 2003, The Westaim Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) recorded a net loss of $8.1 million, or 10 cents per share on revenue of $9.7 million. In the same quarter last year, the company recorded a net loss of $25.6...

Iron nanocrystals clean up contaminated groundwater.(Energy And Environment)
September 1, 2003... Nanoscale iron particles can transform and detoxify a wide variety of common environmental contaminants, such as chlorinated organic solvents, organochlorine pesticides, and PCBs, according to a Lehigh University environmental engineering...

Nanophase's revenues drop.(Financial Results)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nanophase Technologies Corp., reported that revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2003, totaled $1.3 million compared to $1.7 million in the comparable period of 2002. The majority of product sales were concentrated in personal care products,...

Plasma process yields nanopowder.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Austin, TX) has patented a process for the direct electrothermal-physical conversion of ceramic into nanopowder (U.S. Patent 6,600,127). The method entails using a hybrid exploding wire device containing a solid metal...

Lasers based on si nanocrystal.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... In an effort to impart optoelectronic functionality to silicon-based electronic devices, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) led by physics professor Munir Nayfeh have developed laser devices based on silicon...

Titania nanotubes sense hydrogen.(Energy And Environment)
September 1, 2003... Titania nanotubes are 1,500 times better than the next best material for sensing hydrogen, according to a Penn State materials scientist. "We are seeing factors of 1 million percent change in electrical resistance in response to about 10...

Nanophase markets bismuth oxide for x-ray applications.(New Products)
September 1, 2003... In a move marking Nanophase Technologies' entry into the medical appliance industry, the company is now marketing bismuth oxide nanomaterials produced by its NanoArc synthesis technique, the company's most advanced production technology. ...

Solid electrolytes formed from nano YSZ.(Recent Patents)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Ion conducting solid electrolytes for sensors, oxygen pumps, fuel cells, batteries, electrosynthesis reactors and catalytic membranes can be constructed from nanostructured precursors, according to U.S. Patent 6,610,355, assigned to...

NEI Corp. transforms to market-driven company.(Who's Who In Nanotech)
September 1, 2003... Dr. Ganesh Skandan is a co-founder and CEO of N EI Corp., a spin off of Structured Materials Industries that was founded in 1997 as NanoPowder Enterprises, Inc. NN: What precipitated the founding of NEI Corp. (formerly NanoPowder...

NanoScale introduces neutralization system.(New Products)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... NanoScale Materials, Inc. has introduced a chemical hazard containment and neutralization system based on reactive nanoparticles that reportedly can neutralize a wide range of toxic chemicals and destroy chemical warfare agents. Tradenamed...

Nanocomposite anode improves batteries.(Grants Awarded)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... With the support of a $474,108 grant from the National Science Foundation, T/J Technologies Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) is developing high-capacity nanocomposite anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Using tin-based (Sn/MOx) nanocomposite anodes,...

Calendar.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... October 10-12 2003 11th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology. Burlingame, CA. Contact: Foresight Institute; Fax: 650/ 917-1123, Email: foresight@ foresight.org, Web: www. foresight.org. October 16-17, 2003, Nanomaterials...