Nanoparticle News articles from September 2004

Nanoparticle News archives from September 2004

Nanosphere Funding Advances Biowarfare Agent Detection.
September 1, 2004... Aiming to further its development of biological warfare agent detection technologies, Nanosphere Inc. has expanded its multimillion dollar development contract with the U.S. Government Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) and received a...

COMMENTARY.(Editorial)
September 1, 2004... A Reflection on Post-9/11 Progress in Nanomaterials With the passing of the third anniversary of September 11, 2001, we as a nation reflect on the lives lost and the ways in which our world has been forever changed. The implications of 9/11...

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Carbon Nanotube Filters Cleanse Water, Petroleum.(Banaras Hindu University, India)
September 1, 2004... Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Banaras Hindu University (India) have devised a simple method to produce carbon nanotube filters that efficiently remove micro- to nanoscale contaminants from water and heavy hydrocarbons from...

Purdue Studies Impact of Buckyballs on Nature.
September 1, 2004... With the support of nearly $2 million in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Purdue University scientists and a colleague from the University of Minnesota are investigating the...

BIOTECHNOLOGY NEWS: Gold Nanodots Could Enable New Biolabels.
September 1, 2004... Water-soluble quantum dots made from small numbers of gold atoms could be the basis for a new biological labeling system with attributes complimentary to those of semiconductor quantum dots, according to a team of researchers from the Georgia...

CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES: Can Nanotube Fibers Outperform Kevlar?
September 1, 2004... Rice University scientists have developed a scalable chemical method to produce highly aligned, continuous macroscopic fibers composed solely of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) - an advance that could lead to the manufacture of fibers...

Temperature Anomaly Bodes Poorly for Nanotube Devices.
September 1, 2004... New research suggests that the concept of temperature, which is known to break down at the atomic scale, might also be meaningless for carbon nanotubes and other nanostructures, a result that could have serious ramifications for future...

PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION Quantum Dot Method Can 'Dial-a-Size'.
September 1, 2004... A University at Buffalo research team has developed a one-step technique to produce quantum dots that features a "dial-a-size" capability - a key attribute due to the link between dot size and the color of light emitted. Semiconductor...

WHO'S WHO IN NANOTECH: Evident Targets In-Vivo Diagnostics and LEDs for Future Markets.(light emitting diodes)(Interview)
September 1, 2004... Clinton Ballinger is President/CEO and Chairman of Evident Technologies of Troy, NY. Prior to co-founding Evident, he conducted research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and worked on product development at Lockheed Martin. Ballinger...

NEWS BRIEFS.(nanotechnology)
September 1, 2004... Al Nanopowder Output Ramped Up. QuantumSphere (Costa Mesa, CA) has opened a new manufacturing facility that it says is ramping up to produce 2,500 pounds per month of high purity nanoaluminum and nanonickel powders for applications in the...

GRANTS AND FUNDING.(Konarka Technologies Inc.,)
September 1, 2004... Konarka Raises Additional $18M. In announcing its recent $18 million Series C round of financing, Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, MA), a developer of nanotech-based polymer photovoltaic products, emphasized the significant investment from...

FINANCIAL RESULTS.
September 1, 2004... Altair Revenues Reach Six Figures. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Reno, NV) reported that revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2004 ended June 30 increased to $154,233 compared to revenue of $4,434 for the second quarter of fiscal 2003. The...

PEOPLE.(appointments)
September 1, 2004... Nanosys Adds CFO. Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) announced that Peter S. Garcia has joined the company as its chief financial officer. Garcia brings extensive executive expertise to Nanosys with over 19 years experience in various financial...

PRODUCT NEWS.(NanoScale Materials Inc.,)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Nanoscale Expands Product Line. NanoScale Materials, Inc. (Manhattan, KS), has added two products to its line of high performance chemicals - NanoActive-G (granulated) and NanoActive-S (suspensions). The granulated metal oxides retain the high...

NEW RESEARCH.
September 1, 2004... Nanodots Built in Arrays for LEDs. Using pulsed lasers, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) researchers have coaxed nickel to self-assemble into three-dimensional, ordered arrays of 7-nm nanodots within aluminum oxide and...

CALENDAR.(NANOMATERIALS 2004)
September 1, 2004... October 24-26, 2004 NANOMATERIALS 2004, Nanoelectronics, Nanomagnetics, and Nanophotonics, Stamford, CT. Contact: Business Communications Co., Inc., Tel: 203/853-4266, Fax: 203/853-0348, Email: conference@bccresearch.com, Web:...

TECHNOLOGY INSIGHT: Tools and Techniques for Nanoparticle Characterization.
September 1, 2004... Eric B. Steel, Acting Deputy Director, Chemical Science & Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD Nanoparticles offer new challenges for characterization approaches. From the chemical...

CHARACTERIZATION CHALLENGE.(macroscopic or bulk methods )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... A suite of methods has been developed for macroscopic or bulk methods that are fast, accurate, and meet most of the needs of the macromaterials and manufacturing. These are supported by microscopic methods in research and design and sometimes...

PROBLEMS OF SCALE.(bulk analytical methods)(nanoscopic techniques)
September 1, 2004... Many of our bulk analytical methods are directly proportional to mass. This means that polydisperse powders (those with broad size distributions) can yield misleading information. As an example, say we had nine particles, each ten microns in...

NANOSCALE CHARACTERIZATION.(atomic resolution )(field ion microscopes)(transmission electron microscopy (TEM))
September 1, 2004... For decades we have been able to form images with atomic resolution using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), field ion microscopes or atom probes, and scanned probe microscopies (SPM) such as STM and AFM. This has been very useful for...

NEEDS AND CHALLENGES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2004... Even with all these promising developments, significantproblems with nanoanalysis exist. One of the main problems is the long time for these analyses and the related poor level of sampling of a material. If we take a spectrum a second and try...