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NANOSCIENCE NEWS
Cornell researchers move beyond 'nano' to 'atto' to build a scale sensitive enough to weigh a virus
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University [profile] researchers already have been able to detect the mass of a single cell using submicroscopic devices. Now they're zeroing in on viruses. And the scale of their work is becoming so indescribably small that they have moved beyond the prefixes "nano" "pico" and "femto" to "atto." And just in sight is "zepto." Members of the Cornell research group headed by engineering professor Harold Craighead report they have used tiny oscillating cantilevers to detect masses as small as 6 attograms by noting the change an added mass produces in the frequency of vibration. Their submicroscopic devices, whose size is measured in nanometers (the width of three silicon atoms), are called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS. But the masses they measure are now down to attograms. The mass of a small virus, for example, is about 10 attograms. An attogram is one-thousandth of a femtogram, which is one-thousandth of a picogram, which is one-thousandth of a nanogram, which is a billionth of a gram.
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Aerogels: 'Solid Smoke' May Have Many Uses
It looks like glass and feels like solidified smoke, but the most interesting features of the new silica aerogels made by UC Davis [profile] and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [profile] researchers are too small to see or feel. Lighter than styrofoam, this strange material is riddled with pores just nanometers in size, leaving it 98 percent empty. Water can soak into the material, but in the confined space the water molecules arrange themselves in unusual ways, said Subhash Risbud, professor of chemical engineering and materials science at UC Davis. For example, a lipid membrane can spread across a wet aerogel just as it does around a living cell.
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Science and technology experts analyze President's budget and critical policy issues
Washington, D.C., 2 April 2004 – AAAS, the science society, will release a comprehensive five-year budget forecast at the 29th Annual Science and Technology Policy Forum in Washington D.C., 22 - 23 April. Renowned policy experts from government, industry, academia, and scientific organizations will present the most comprehensive analysis available on the President's research and development budget for 2004. They will evaluate issues in science and technology policy: the promise of nano-, bio- and information technology; social and ethical implications of enhancing humans capabilities; vulnerabilities of new voting technologies; the evolution of the university structure and challenges for university R&D; homeland security; and intellectual property. http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4432
Nanotechnology highlights from the ACS national meeting in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. — From stain-free clothing to scratch-resistant eyeglasses to longer lasting sunscreen lotions, nanotechnology — the science and technology of the ultra small — is already making an impact on our lives. Now, it's poised to make an even broader impact with promises of faster computers, better diagnostic tests and improved ways to remove toxins from contaminated sites. More than 15 symposia will feature these and other topics related to this growing field of research — including its promises, challenges and potential risks — during the 227th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, in Anaheim, Calif., March 28-April 1.
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Methuselah enzymes: SEN and the art of molecule maintenance
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Enzymes, the workhorses of chemical reactions in cells, lead short and brutal lives. They cleave and assemble proteins and metabolize compounds for a few hours, and then they are spent. This sad fact of nature has limited the possibilities of harnessing enzymes as catalytic tools outside the cell, in uses that range from biosensing to toxic waste cleanup. To increase the enzyme's longevity and versatility, a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [profile] in Richland, Wash., has caged single enzymes to create a new class of catalysts called SENs, or single enzyme nanoparticles. The nanostructure protects the catalyst, allowing it to remain active for five months instead of hours.
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Connecting the quantum and classical physics
Hanover, N.H. – In this week's issue of Science, a Dartmouth researcher comments about a new experiment that brings us closer to connecting the macroscopic and the microscopic worlds. Miles Blencowe, a quantum theorist with the Physics and Astronomy Department at Dartmouth [profile], wrote the article "Nanomechanical Quantum Limits" for the "Perspectives" section of the April 2 issue of Science. In it, he explains the problem of reconciling the inherent contradiction between the quantum or atomic world and the macroscopic word of trees, buildings and cars that we live in. "The world we live in follows the principles of classical physics," says Blencowe. "We see objects in one place. In the microscopic world, the quantum world, things can be in two places at once. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle asserts that the more you try to localize an object the more you disturb it and it zooms away and then you don't know where it is anymore. Somehow the atomic world becomes ours as we go to larger and larger systems. Scientists want to know how that crossover from quantum to classical occurs."
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Nanocompasses and quantum dots
Nanosized versions of one of the oldest navigational instruments known -- a magnetite compass needle -- have been built by Frank Osterloh, associate professor of chemistry at UC Davis [profile] and graduate student Jin Young Kim. Particles of magnetite (iron oxide) were strung on nanowires of lithium molybdenum selenide to create magnetic needles about 400 nanometers long and 30 across. The structures are so small that they are effectively one-dimensional. Because they are magnetic, they could be used in devices for measuring magnetic fields or for making patterns on surfaces, Osterloh said. They are similar (although smaller) to structures created by some bacteria that use magnetic fields to orient themselves.
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Making protein nanostructures
Modern analytic techniques use patterns of very small spots of protein, DNA or other biological molecules to screen for genes or proteins. Gang-yu Liu, associate professor of chemistry at UC Davis [profile], and her colleagues have now made dots of protein hundreds of times smaller than those in any commercial "chip" device. Liu's laboratory used scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy to place eight molecules of the protein lysozyme in a square about 100 nanometers across on a gold surface. By reducing the size of dots in gene or protein chips, the number of potential tests per device could be hugely increased.
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DNA-guided nanotubes
One key to using nanotubes as the next generation of electronic components is to organize them into patterns more precise than those now possible with conventional lithography. Some form of self-assembly presents an attractive possibility. In organisms, DNA and RNA organize molecules, so it seems logical to try to use DNA to organize nanotubes. A team at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology has done just that, creating single-nanotube transistors by guiding the nanotubes in a solution into place with DNA (Science 2003, 302, 1380). However, many steps lie between this initial proof of principle and working circuits.
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Self-organizing polymers
By developing techniques to precisely control the growth and shape of polymers at the molecular level, researchers hope to make possible the design and synthesis of new materials with biomedical applications. The idea is to mimic the "bottoms-up" approach used in nature, which starts with single molecules of controlled size, shape and functionality, and assembles the molecules to form structures such as enzymes.
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PNNL develops mercury-absorbing pollution solution
ANAHEIM, Calif. --Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory [profile] have developed a novel material that can remove mercury and other toxic substances from coal-burning power-plant waste water. Mercury pollution is widely recognized as a growing risk to both the environment and public health. It is estimated that coal-burning power plants contribute about 48 tons of mercury to the United States environment each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one in eight women have mercury concentrations in their body's that exceed safety limits. The Environmental Protection Agency is currently reconsidering proposed rules on the release of mercury from coal-burning power plant effluents and may impose greater restrictions. Mercury found in liquid effluents comes from water-based processes the facilities use to scrub, capture and collect the toxic material.
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers create nanoparticles to clean up contaminated sites
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University [profile] and the U.S. Department of Energy are developing "smart" nanoparticles to clean up environmental toxins that resist conventional remediation methods. This research is being presented by Greg Lowry on Wednesday, March 31, at the 227th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Cal. (ENVR 52, Marriott-Grand Ballroom D). Pollutants in the ground that do not easily mix with water, such as organic solvents, are a continued source of groundwater pollution until they are removed.
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Duke engineers fabricating polymer 'nanobrushes' and other 'smart' molecule-sized structures
ANAHEIM, CALIF. –- Engineers from Duke University [profile] have described progress building so-called "smart nanostructures," including billionths-of-a-meter-scale "nanobrushes" that can selectively and reversibly sprout from surfaces in response to changes in temperature or solvent chemistry. In talks delivered during the March 28-April 1 at the American Chemical Society annual meeting in Anaheim, researchers from Duke's Pratt School of Engineering also told how they are using an atomic force microscope to create reprogrammable "nanopatterns" of large biologically-based molecules that could potentially serve to analyze the protein contents of individual cells, among other uses.
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Carnegie Mellon University announces 'one-step' method to make polymer nanowires
Increases versatility of conducting polymers
ANAHEIM, Calif.--A powerful one-step, "chain growth" method should make it easier to design and synthesize a variety of highly conductive polymers for different research and commercial applications, according to a presentation by the method's developer, Carnegie Mellon University [profile] chemist Richard McCullough. McCullough, dean of the Mellon College of Science and professor of chemistry, is reporting his research Tuesday, March 30, at the 227th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif. (POLY 360, Plaza B). McCullough has harnessed the chain-growth method to increase the versatility of the conducting polymers, called regioregular polythiophenes. This new method allows scientists to "cap" each conducting polymer with chemical groups that link to other structural polymers (Figure 1). With this research, funded by the National Science Foundation, researchers can form highly conductive nanowire sheets within polymer blocks (Figure 2) or create a plethora of new conducting polymers.
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How minerals react in the environment depends on particle size
One of the most common groups of minerals on earth is the iron oxides, found in soils, rusting iron, and the dust of Mars. Due to their importance in the environment, iron oxide minerals have been widely studied, providing insight into their properties and reactivities. But when the size of minerals decreases to 1 to 10 nanometerrs (billionths of a meter), many of their properties change. Andrew Madden of Blacksburg, a Ph.D. student in geosciences at Virginia Tech [profile], will report on the nanoscale properties of iron oxide at the 227th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, being held in Anaheim, Calif., March 28 through April 1, 2004.
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PSU Nanoscientist Earns Coveted CAREER Award From National Science Foundation
Jun Jiao, assistant professor of physics and co-director of Portland State's [profile] Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, has been awarded the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, a five-year, $400,000 grant to support research into carbon nanotubes.
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Spying on a Cell - New Nanosensors a Body Can Live With
For two decades, chemists have been making great strides in analyzing the biological functions that drive living cells. But many biological substances still remain undetectable. That will soon change, thanks to a biological sensor being developed by University of Arizona chemists. Their new sensor platform has many capabilities that current ones lack. Most intracellular sensors are made from hard plastics (polymers). The plastic is formed into solid, nanometer-sized, BB-like beads, which are doped with chemicals. These chemicals make them sensitive to a variety of ions and molecules. But scientists can only detect intracellular compounds that react optically with these chemicals.
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Bay Area To Get Unique X-Ray Microscopy Resource
BERKELEY, CA — A first-of-its-kind x-ray microscope being built for the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) [profile] holds forth the promise of “cat scans” for biological cells, and other unprecedented capabilities for cell and molecular biology studies. The new microscopy resource also promises a better understanding of human diseases at the molecular level and possibly new discoveries for treating those diseases. Now, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), have received grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build and operate this microscope.
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Duke chemists describe new kind of 'nanotube' transistor
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Duke University [profile] researchers exploring ways to build ultrasmall electronic devices out of atom-thick carbon cylinders have incorporated one of these "carbon nanotubes" into a new kind of field effect transistor. The Duke investigators also reported new insights into their previously published technique for growing nanotubes in straight structures as long as half an inch. Duke assistant chemistry professor Jie Liu will report on these and other nanotube developments during three talks at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society to be held March 28-April 1 in Anaheim, Calif. Field effect transistors, among the workhorse devices of microelectronics technology, are tiny switches in which the passage of electric current between a "source" and a "drain" is controlled by an electric field in a middle component called a "gate."
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Cornell to present nanofabricated etching -- including tiniest full-color U.S. flag ever put on silicon chip -- to White House on March 30
ITHACA, N.Y. -- In a salute to nanotechnology, Cornell University [profile] researchers have etched the world's smallest, full-color American flag on a silicon chip. The flag is part of an elaborate nanofabrication that includes six full-color flags and 15 White Houses, all etched on the chip. The size of a postage stamp, the chip has been placed in a Lucite paperweight that will be presented to the White House on Tuesday, March 30, in Washington, D.C., by Joshua Wolfe, a 1999 Cornell graduate and managing partner of Lux Capital, a New York City venture capital firm specializing in nanotechnology. It will be accepted on behalf of President George Bush by John Marburger III, science adviser to the president. Later an identical paperweight will be presented to Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Science Committee.
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Enlisting carbon nanotubes to unmask nerve agents
Besides posing a serious environmental hazard, organophosphate-based pesticides, or OP compounds, are raw material for chemical-warfare nerve agents. Crews responding to a terrorist's nerve-agent attack have had no way to identify the compound they’re dealing with until it’s too late.
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Tiny machines need even tinier lubricants
Tiny machines built as part of silicon chips are all around us, and their need for lubrication is the same as large machines such as automobile engines, but conventional lubricants, like oils, are too heavy for these micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), so Penn State [profile] researchers are looking to gases to provide thin films of slippery coating. MEMS today are mostly found in automobile air bags as the sensor that marks sudden deceleration and triggers airbag use. They can also take the form of tiny motors that move mirrors to focus a beam of light, or tiny nozzles that provide minute droplets of ink in ink jet printers.
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Carnegie Mellon University creates novel carbon nanoparticles with vast potential
Innovative polymer chemistry employed
Anaheim, Calif.--Carnegie Mellon University [profile] scientists have developed an attractive way to make discrete carbon nanoparticles for electrical components used in industry and research. This method, which employs polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a nanoparticle precursor, is being presented by Chuanbing Tang, a Carnegie Mellon graduate student, on Sunday, March 28, at the 227th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, Calif. (POLY69, Garden A). The research findings have been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition.
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Nanoparticles for biosensors
Fluorescent nanoparticles that can be attached to biological molecules are being developed for use in microscopic sensor devices. Philip Costanzo, a graduate student in chemistry at UC Davis [profile], and Timothy Patten, associate professor of chemistry, have prepared nanoparticles of cadmium sulphide and silicon dioxide coated with polymer chains with biotin attached to the ends. When avidin, a protein that binds to biotin, is added, the nanoparticles cluster into larger aggregates. The researchers used dynamic light scattering, electron microscopy and other methods to study these aggregates.
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Type of buckyball shown to cause brain damage in fish
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 28 — Researchers have found that a type of buckyball—a carbon nanoparticle that shows promise for electronic, commercial and pharmaceutical uses — can cause significant brain damage in fish. The small preliminary study, the first to demonstrate that nanoparticles can cause toxic effects in an aquatic species, could point to potential risks in people exposed to the particles, they say. The study was described today at the 227th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. "There are many potential benefits of nanotechnology, but its hazards and risks are poorly understood. This study gives us additional cause for concern," says study leader Eva Oberdörster, Ph.D., an environmental toxicologist with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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Nanoparticles from the ocean and vehicle emissions
Under the right conditions, nanoparticles can form spontaneously in the air. Atmospheric nanoparticles are an important missing factor in understanding global climate change, because they could influence cloud formation and change how the Earth reflects or retains heat, said Anthony Wexler, professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering at UC Davis [profile]. They may also have health effects. Wexler's laboratory uses and develops equipment to detect these extremely small particles.
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New technique uses household humidifier to create nanocomposite materials
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In what may sound like a project from a high school science fair, scientists are using a household humidifier to create porous spheres a hundred times smaller than a red blood cell. The technique is a new and inexpensive way to do chemistry using sound waves, the researchers say. In the home, ultrasonic humidifiers are used to raise humidity, reduce static electricity and ease discomfort from the common cold or cough. In the lab, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [profile] are using the devices to make complex nanocomposite materials that could prove useful as catalysts in applications ranging from refining petroleum to making pharmaceuticals. The procedure is both simple and efficient. http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4408
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NANOBUSINESS NEWS
ImaRx Therapeutics Completes $5,000,000 Private Placement to Fund its Fantastic Voyage
Company Appoints John A. Moore as Chairman of the Board
TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2004--ImaRx Therapeutics, Inc. [profile] announced today that it closed a private placement with First Montauk Securities Corp., a registered broker dealer, through the issuance of 2,500,000 shares of its Common Stock. The proceeds of this transaction will be used to advance an exciting new paradigm, termed NanoInvasive(TM) surgery, which combines imaging, nano-particles, and externally-applied energy to perform therapeutic procedures. The money raised in this private placement will be used to expand the first human clinical trials of ImaRx's innovative, non-invasive treatment for a broad range of cardiovascular conditions. The new therapeutic procedure employs NanoInvasive surgery and externally-applied energy to perform therapeutic treatment of some of the most pervasive, expensive and deadly diseases plaguing mankind today. The ImaRx treatment can be monitored and observed by the administering physician while in process through existing imaging techniques assuring that the desired therapeutic end-points are reached.
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NASA Administrator and Nanotechnology Consultant Headline Tech Conference
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Sean O’Keefe will deliver the morning keynote discussing NASA’s vision for space exploration and the Mars Rover Expedition. O’Keefe has served as the head of the administration since December 2001 and was previously Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Deputy Assistant to President Bush. Also speaking will be Jack Uldrich, president of consulting agency The NanoVeritas Group and author of “The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology will Change the Future of Your Business.”
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Turning Nanotech into Profit
"There is a lot of confusion about what nanotechnology actually is," Zvi Yaniv, CEO of Applied Nanotech, told TechNewsWorld during a break in the Nanotechnology 2004 conference in Japan last week. "That makes it hard to talk about its uses."
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Zyvex Announces New IC Probing Application for Semiconductor Yield Improvement
Offers 90 and 65 nanometer node probing capabilities
Richardson, Texas (April 2, 2004) - Zyvex Corporation [profile] today announced a breakthrough probing application for integrated circuit (IC) defect analysis. Zyvex enables rapid-response semiconductor device failure analysis at the contact level for better, faster, and cheaper IC development - features that are critical to the highly-competitive semiconductor industry.
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LATEST GADGETS AND FUTURE ‘MUST HAVES’ SEEN AT CONSUMER SHOW
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held annually the first week of January in Las Vegas, provides a window on the latest and greatest gadgets that will soon become the newest “must haves” for consumers. From a MEMS perspective, Texas Instruments remains the undisputed leader of this sector with its Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology for digital TVs, home theater and portable projectors.
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Inquiry calls UK government support of nanotechnology 'lacking in foresight'
A damming report from a UK [profile] parliamentary watchdog today (Friday 2nd April) accuses the government and to some extent industry of letting slip an early lead in nanotechnology. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) culpable of failing to build on early breakthroughs and concludes that the commercialization of nanotechnology research in the UK "presents a depressingly familiar picture of excellent research that is not being translated to the country's commercial benefit to the same extent as it is in other competitor countries."
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[Oregon] Governor backing nanotech research
A new institute in Oregon may help turn the technology into commercial products.
PORTLAND — Gov. Ted Kulongoski urged some of the top business and technology leaders in Oregon to think small on Thursday — very, very small. It was no April Fool’s joke. The governor was talking about nanotechnology, the science of working with materials and devices so tiny some of them cannot be seen with a standard microscope.
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Former Hewlett-Packard President and CEO John A. Young Joins Nanosys Board of Directors
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004--Nanosys, Inc. [profile], a developer of nanotechnology-enabled solutions, has added John A. Young to the company's board of directors. From 1978 to 1992, Mr. Young was president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's leading technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally in areas spanning IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, imaging services and printing.
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Nano Technology and Pakistan
While the world is wrestling with wars and violence, scientists in advanced countries are burning midnight oils to push their countries into nanotechnology arena. This is a golden opportunity for Pakistan to reorient its resources and invest in nano-technology.
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Nanotechnology Institute Signs GlaxoSmithKline as Corporate Member
PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- The Nanotechnology Institute (NTI), a comprehensive model for the development of nanotechnology-driven, real-world applications, has signed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as a corporate member. This partnership reflects the NTI's efforts to commercialize the basic research done through the Institute's four core research teams. It also matches GSK's efforts to identify technologies that enable new product and research methodologies.
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Isonics Corporation Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Silicon Wafer Manufacturing Business
GOLDEN, Colo.--March 31, 2004--Isonics Corporation [profile] (NASDAQ: ISON), a leader in the development of isotopically engineered semiconductor materials, a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and isotopes for life sciences and health care applications, announced that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire the silicon wafer manufacturing business and related assets from EnCompass Materials Group Ltd. (EMG) of Vancouver, Washington. EMG manufactures silicon test wafers and provides wafer recycling services for leading semiconductor manufacturers.
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Obducat receives two orders from China
Obducat [profile] has in a short period of time secured its first two orders from China. The orders encompass NIL systems for research purposes and have been placed by the Jilin University and the Beijing University, respectively.
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Samsung to double flash capacity, debuts 90-nm NAND
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Looking to extend its lead in flash memory, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. [profile] plans to double its flash capacity and has begun shipping its first NAND part based on a new 90-nm process technology. On the product front, Samsung has begun shipping a 2-gigabit NAND device, built around the 90-nm process, said Tom Quinn, vice president of memory sales and marketing for the company's U.S unit, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., based in San Jose.
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Nanotech Looms Big in Tech Companies; Not Wall St
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nanotechnology is well established at some major technology companies, but Wall Street is just catching on to the money-spinning potential for the rapidly evolving field, industry experts said this week. Nanotech, which aims to build new materials by manipulating atoms and molecules, is "business as usual" at Intel Corp., Paolo Gargini, director of technology strategy, told a National Nanotechnology Initiative conference in Washington, D.C. this week.
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Israeli Science Minister: ApNano is Example of our Contribution to the Economy
Rehovot, Israel , April 1, 2004. The Israeli Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Eliezer Zandberg has visited the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot together with the Finance Ministry Director General, Dr. Yossi Bachar, where they were given presentations regarding nanotechnology research projects that were financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Following the visit to the Weizmann Institute, they visited the R&D center of ApNano Materials [profile], a start-up company which is the result of a research in the materials sciences, initiated and financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, within the first scientific infrastructure program. The research led to a unique international breakthrough.
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FEI Company Breaks the 1 Angstrom High Resolution Imaging Barrier
Seeing is Now Believing at the Atomic Scale, Using Commercially Available Technologies
New Possibilities for Nanotechnology Research and Development
HILLSBORO, Ore., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company [profile] announced today that scientists at the company's nanotechnology center have broken the one Angstrom image resolution barrier with a 200kV transmission electron microscope (TEM). FEI believes that this is the first time images can be directly viewed with a resolution of less than one Angstrom using commercially available technologies. One Angstrom is one-tenth of a nanometer in size, and a nanometer is one billionth of a meter. One Angstrom is also approximately one-third the size of a carbon atom and is a key dimension for atomic level research.
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GSI Creos Cultures Cells Efficiently in Stacked Cup-shaped Carbon Nano-tube
Tokyo (JCNN) - GSI Creos [profile] announced that the company has confirmed unique properties of "Carbere," its proprietary carbon nanotube (CNT) with a stacked-cup structure for cell proliferation. An experiment the company conducted demonstrated that cells grew 30% faster and achieved 30% longer longevity when grown using Carbere than in conventional cultures. The company plans to offer the prototype of a stacked cup-shaped CNT cell culture material within the year.
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Merrill Lynch Creates `Nanotech Index' To Track Evolving Industry; Index Includes U.S. Shares, ADRs; American Stock Exchange Will Quote Measure Intraday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004--Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER) today introduced the "Merrill Lynch Nanotech Index," which, effective immediately, will be quoted intraday on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol NNZ. The Merrill Lynch Nanotech Index, designed to help investors track the developing area, is an equally-weighted index of 25 nanotechnology companies headquartered in the United States or traded through American Depositary Receipts (ADR).
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Protiveris Received MIPS Award for Technology Optimization
ROCKVILLE, MD. April 1, 2004 Protiveris Inc. [profile], a bio-nanotechnology company commercializing bioMEMS technologies to facilitate protein research and the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, today announced that it is a recipient of a $116,000 award from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program. This award is to be used for the optimization of microfluidic sample delivery system in the VeriScan™ 3000 – the Company’s patent pending biosensor system for advanced biological and chemical detection.
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Antibodies, Inc. produce quantum dot conjugates for biological research using Evident's EviTags
Ready-to-use, cutting edge fluorophores for lab bench use. Antibodies Incorporated, of Davis, California, announced today that they are immediately commencing shipment of quantum dot-based secondary antibody, Streptavidin, Protein A and Protein G conjugates as well as launching a custom quantum dot conjugation service. These conjugates will be made ready-to-use for researchers in biology, life-sciences, drug discovery, disease diagnostics, proteomics, and genomics. Traditionally, fluorescent organic dye conjugates serve as the workhorses for biotechnology research and diagnostics. These conjugates make it possible to locate, quantify, and identify proteins and genes that are the key to furthering our understanding in many life science applications.
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IntelliSense Software announces the release of a new PiezoMEMS design tool
Woburn, MA. Mar 26 2004
IntelliSense Software [profile] announced the immediate availability of its PiezoMEMS™ modeling tools for its IntelliSuite® package. The tools allow users to perform coupled 3D piezoelectric and piezoresistive modeling. Sandeep Akkaraju, the CEO of IntelliSense, remarked “Over the years, the process technology behind piezo-films has matured. However, modeling tools have lagged behind considerably. The release of the PiezoMEMS tools reflect our continuing commitment to the MEMS community. A maturing process technology combined with state-of-the-art modeling tools will allow for the wide-spread deployment of piezo-technology in commercial applications.”
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SEMI NanoForum Named One of Top Five Major Nanotechnology Conferences
Registration now open for November conference
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 31, 2004 – In a year when 200 such events are scheduled, Tradeshow Week magazine selected SEMI NanoForum as one of the top five major nanotechnology conferences of 2004. According to a March 8 article, SEMI NanoForum earns the high placement because the conference is one of the only nanotechnology events backed by a global industry organization with large-show experience. An industry-leading publisher of tradeshow information and exposition news, Tradeshow Week tracks trends, marketing and statistical data of nearly 5,000 events annually.
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UCLA Facilitates Commercial Use of Research
UCLA [profile] announces HiddenGems Program to help speed industry's access to new technology licensing opportunities developed in the labs. R&D areas include: nanotechnology; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; electronics/photonics; materials; telecommunications; and more.
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Protiveris Recognized for Excellence in Technology Transfer
ROCKVILLE, MD. March 31, 2004 - Protiveris Inc. [profile], a bio-nanotechnology company commercializing proprietary bioMEMS technologies to facilitate protein research, today announced that it is has received the Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, along with the Company’s colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) [profile], in recognition of outstanding efforts in the transfer of technology to the commercial marketplace. The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) will present this award to Protiveris and ORNL at their annual meeting in San Diego in May.
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HANSEN GRAY ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT FOR ACQUISITION OF EQUITY INTEREST IN ICURIE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA—March 30, 2004—Hansen Gray & Company, Inc. (OTC: HGCI) announced today that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with iCurie Lab Holdings, Ltd., a U.K. company. iCurie Lab Holdings, Inc. through its subsidiary iCurie Lab, Inc. [profile] located in Seoul Korea, operates a research laboratory which has developed a technology which may become the new standard in cooling for the micro-chip industry.
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Uldrich will deliver microscopic message
A few months ago, when Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce President Bud Stone saw Uldrich give a presentation on nanotechnology in the Twin Cities, he knew immediately that he wanted to bring that futuristic message to Grand Rapids.
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Nanoscience & NanoTechnology
ACCORDING to committee on science U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Basic Research draft-hearing charter on “The state of Nano-science and its prospects for the next decade” Major new efforts in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology at the Department of Energy will take advantage of opportunities afforded by recent advances.
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Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc. Enters Nanocomposite Market With Introduction of Premise(TM)
ORANGE, Calif., Mar 30, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Sybron Dental Specialties, Inc. (NYSE: SYD) announced today that its Kerr Corporation subsidiary has entered the fast growing market for nanocomposite restoratives with the introduction of Premise(TM), a dental composite restorative having significant technological advancements over competing products. Developed with nano technology that results in easier, higher quality aesthetic restorations, Premise is a tooth-colored restorative material that replicates the natural form and function of a tooth.
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Smart Devices: The CEA, France Telecom and STMicroelectronics Create MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory(R)
GRENOBLE, France, March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEA, STMicroelectronics [profile] (NYSE: STM) and the R&D center of France Telecom announced today the creation in Grenoble of a joint multidisciplinary laboratory that will study new consumer products and services based on advances in micro and nano-technologies. Called MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory, it encompasses all aspects of development from the initial conception to evaluation of consumer interest.
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MIT'S Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation Unveils Newest Grant Round
Spring Grant Round Includes Innovations in Low-Cost Medical Devices, Microfluidics, Radio Frequency MEMS, Nanomanufacturing, and Security for Portable Electronics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [profile] Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation (Deshpande Center) announced today that it has issued its newest grant round. The Deshpande Center awarded 8 grants selected from 38 proposals. The four Ignition grants, which fund proof of concept explorations, and four Innovation Program grants, which help reduce technical and market risk around promising innovations, total $612,000. The grants were awarded to MIT faculty in the School of Engineering and support a wide range of emerging technologies such as low-cost medical devices, microfluidics, radio frequency MEMS, nanomanufacturing, and privacy for portable electronics. The grants will be supported with a Catalyst program that facilitates collaboration among faculty, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists and helps further the innovations towards commercialization.
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iolon Delivers Industry's First Adaptive Tracking, Widely Tunable Filter to Azea Networks
iolon shipments support Azea Networks' innovative submarine optical networking upgrade solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif. (March 30, 2004) - iolon, Inc. [profile], the leading designer and manufacturer of tunable optical devices, announced today that it has begun production shipments of the industry's first adaptive tracking, widely tunable filter to Azea Networks. Azea is a UK designer and manufacturer of submarine optical network terminal equipment that allows operators to exploit the full potential of their existing cable assets. These production shipments are the outcome of ongoing qualification and testing activities between Azea and iolon that started in December 2002, when iolon began shipment of tunable filter prototypes to Azea.
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NanoHorizons and Arrow International Collaborate on NanoBiomedical Device Development
State College, PA, March 30, 2004 – NanoHorizons, Inc. [profile] an emerging leader in nano-scale material and device technologies today announced a research collaboration with Arrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ – ARRO), a leading supplier of clinically advanced disposable catheters based in Reading, PA, to develop opportunities to apply state of the art nano-technology to numerous emerging cost and performance issues in biomedical technology. It brings together the latest in new materials and device technology, and the practical experience and commercial success needed to focus such development.
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Transmeta and NEC Electronics Reach Agreement on Strategic Alliance for Low Power and Leakage Management
NEC Electronics Licenses Transmeta's LongRun2 Technologies and Discloses Equity Stake in Transmeta
Tokyo, Japan and Santa Clara, CA - March 25, 2004 - Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ:TMTA), the leader in efficient computing, and NEC Electronics Corporation [profile] (TSE: 6723), a world-leading semiconductor solutions provider, today announced the two companies have agreed on a strategic alliance. Under the agreement, NEC Electronics has licensed Transmeta's LongRun2TM Technologies for use throughout its 90, 65 and 45 nanometer generation semiconductor products, for low-power and transistor leakage management. Transmeta an
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