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Nanotechnology: the science of small things
Nanotechnology, according to its fans, will jumpstart a new industrial revolution with molecular-sized structures as complex as the human cell and 100 times stronger than steel. The new technology transforms everyday products and the way they are made by manipulating atoms so that materials can be shrunk, strengthened and lightened all at once.
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Chinese,US scientists make headway in nano-wire research
Chinese,US scientists have recently collaborated to make headway in the research of nano optical wave guiding. Dr. Tong Limin and Prof. He Sailing from Zhejiang University [profile], working together with researchers from Harvard [profile], used a new method and got very even-shaped sub-micron and nano-diameter silicon oxide wires,and successfully conducted low-loss transmission experiment using these wires.
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For Science, Nanotech Poses Big Unknowns
Nanotechnology, the hot young science of making invisibly tiny machines and materials, is stirring public anxiety and nascent opposition inspired by best-selling thrillers that have demonized the science -- and new studies suggesting that not everything in those novels is fantasy. [Supporters and critics both] agree the stakes are huge. Government officials have called nanotechnology the foundation for the "next industrial revolution," worth an estimated trillion dollars within the coming decade. But if nano's supporters play their cards wrong, experts say -- by belittling public fears as "irrational" or blundering into a health or environmental mishap -- the industry could find itself mired in a costly public relations debacle even worse than the one that turned genetically engineered crops into "Frankenfood."
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Stirring research provides recipe for nanotube success
If manufacturing is entering the "Golden Age" of nanotechnology, then carbon nanotubes are the "Golden Child." In recent years, these tubes of graphite many times thinner than a human hair have become a much-touted emerging technology because of their potential ability to add strength and other important properties to materials. Adding carbon nanotubes to plastics and other polymers has potential to make automobile and airplane bodies stronger and lighter, and textiles more tear-resistant. And because of their electrical properties, carbon nanotubes also may be used to embed sensors in clothing for military and medical applications. By one estimate, the carbon nanotube market valued at approximately $12 million in 2002 could grow to $700 million by 2005. Editor's Note: Research done at NIST [profile].
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Nanotech spy eyes life inside the cell
In Prey [purchase], Michael Crichton's tale of nanotech gone awry, a swarm of light-sensitive nanoparticles swim through a human body, creating the ultimate medical imaging system. In the real world, biochemists are hoping to go one step further, deploying viruses as "nano-cameras" to get a unique picture of what goes on inside living cells and a greater understanding of how viruses themselves work. Editor's Note: Research focuses on work at Indiana University (Bloomington) [profile]
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Nanotechnology Can Have a Big Future in the Bay Area; Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium's Report Promotes Regional Collaboration
The San Francisco Bay Area is an internationally recognized hotbed of nanotechnology, but it must not relax or rest on its laurels if this science of the ultra-small is to provide big future economic benefits to the region. This is the main message of a 36-page report on nanotechnology in the Bay Area released today by the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC). The report - "Nanotechnology in the San Francisco Bay Area: Dawn of a New Age" - is being unveiled at today's groundbreaking for the Molecular Foundry, a $85 million user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide researchers the tools needed to make new molecules and nano-sized objects.
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Ceramic nanopillars form ferroelectromagnet
Scientists from the University of Maryland [profile], Rowan University [profile], Virginia Tech [profile] and Pennsylvania State University [profile], US, have made a nanostructured BaTiO3-CoFe2O4 ferroelectromagnet. The self-assembled multiferroic structure contained vertical CoFe2O4 nanopillars in a ferroelectric BaTiO3 matrix.
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Scientists spy on nanotube growth
Researchers in Denmark have taken the first high-resolution videos of the growth of carbon nanofibres in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The scientists, from Haldor Topsøe [profile] and the Technical University of Denmark [profile], made the nanofibres by methane decomposition over nickel nanocrystals.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4225

Chemicals map nanowire arrays
Minuscule grids of nanowires could enable smaller, faster computer circuits. But there are two challenges to getting nanowire arrays ready for prime time -- finding ways of accessing any particular nanowire junction, and connecting the devices to the outside world. Chemically modifying the right junctions could solve both problems. Editor's Note: Research teams at Harvard [profile] and CIT [profile].
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Melted Fibers Make Nano Channels
Tiny channels designed to control the flow of minuscule amounts of fluids are a major component of labs-on-a-chip, which promise to enable inexpensive, hand-held devices for chemical and biological testing. Researchers from Cornell University [profile] have devised a simple, inexpensive way to construct fluidic channels whose corners are elliptical rather than sharp, which permits fluid to flow more freely.
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Civil society groups call for more communication between nanotechnology stakeholders
The UK working group charged with carrying out a study on the likely developments in nanotechnology has heard calls for the creation of a 'space' where scientists, government representatives, civil society groups and industry can communicate as needed. Representatives from civil society groups attended a meeting with the working group, and agreed that now is the optimum time to instigate such a process. This is mainly due to an increasing desire among scientists to interact with society, and, as a result of debates on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), recognition within businesses of the importance of engagement.
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Nano technology strikes key research chord
Nano technology will be one of the key research directions of universities and institutes in HCM City. The HCM City Hi-tech Zone has defined nano technology as one of its four key research targets.
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A Tale of Two Nanotechs
It's the best of times for nanotechnology. Or is it the worst of times? There's evidence in both directions.
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Gulf between rich, poor will grow if high-profile nanotechnology opponents prevail: ethics experts
Paper warns of 'Nano-divide' between have and have-not countries
The chasm between have and have-not countries will grow even wider if nanotechnology research is upended by the unbalanced positions of high-profile opponents like Prince Charles, warns a new analysis from a leading global medical ethics think-tank. Nanotechnology is the building of working devices, systems and materials molecule by molecule by manipulating matter measured in billionths of a meter. The research seeks to exploit the unique and powerful electrical, physical and chemical properties found at an infinitesimally small scale.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4219

Infineon, Albany Nano-Tech, Genus Invest $12M in R&D
Infineon [profile], Genus and the University of Albany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics [profile] have signed a letter of intent to enter into a $12 million, three-year partnership to develop next-generation memory devices, it was announced today. Under the program, researchers and engineers from Infineon, Genus and Albany Nano-Tech (ANT) will work jointly on site at the UAlbany Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics R&D complex to develop and optimize atomic layer deposition processes for both metal electrode and high-k dielectric materials for sub-45nm DRAM capacitors on a Genus StrataGem-300 300mm wafer bridge cluster tool.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4218

Sandia, University of New Mexico Researchers Mimic Photosynthetic Proteins to Manipulate Platinum at Nanoscale
Method Has Potential of Changing the Metal's Properties; Many New Applications Possible
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 27 -- Researchers from the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories [profile] and the University of New Mexico [profile] have developed a new way of mimicking photosynthetic proteins to manipulate platinum at the nanoscale. The method has the potential of changing the metal's properties and benefiting emerging technologies. "While we are in the early stages of research, we see the possibility of manipulating the nanoscale structure of platinum so that we can have control over the size, porosity, composition, surface species, solubility, stability, and other functional properties of these metal nanostructures," says John Shelnutt, the Sandia scientist leading the research effort. "Such control means that the redesigned platinum could be used in many new applications, including catalysis, sensors, and optoelectronic and magnetic devices."
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Plasma prefers semiconducting nanotubes
Researchers at Stanford University [profile], US, have found that a plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) technique can produce high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes at low growth temperatures - around 600°C. What’s more, in an unexpected bonus, almost 90% of the resulting nanotubes were semiconducting.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4216

CANEUS Seeks Bidders for Micro-Nano-Technology RFPs in Aerospace Applications
The CANEUS organization invites researchers, consultants and agencies / organizations to submit proposals for the preparation of CANEUS pilot projects concept papers and process workshops background papers for the CANEUS 2004 conference.For more information please visit: http://www.caneus.org/RFP2004
Contact
Questions may be submitted to
Milind Pimprikar, CANEUS Chairman:
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Tel: 1-514-499-3959
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Nanotechnology laboratory at UI to get more room
URBANA – The University of Illinois [profile] lab for studying the very tiny will soon be 50 percent larger. Nanotechnology will continue to study matter at the molecular level and life at the cellular, but the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab on the UI's Engineering Quad will be remodeled to try to keep ahead of changes in the fast-evolving field.
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Nitpicking Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, the manufacture of materials and machines with atomic precision and size, is regarded as the next technical revolution. As the debate rages on its eventual capabilities, it is inevitably becoming a target for environmentalist attacks. The first major public attack on nanotechnological safety was launched by the Winnipeg-based organization ETC Group. It has worked hard to raise the red flag on the issue internationally. Pat Mooney, the group's executive director, claims not to oppose nanotechnology per se, believing that it has a huge potential for improving health and the environment. His worry is that the science is unregulated and must be brought under control to prevent human harm or undesirable social consequences.
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New type of nanotube made of gold or silver created at the Weizmann Institute
Rehovot, Israel -- January, 26, 2004 -- Weizmann Institute [profile] scientists have created a new type of nanotube built of gold, silver and other nanoparticles. The tubes exhibit unique electrical, optical and other properties, depending on their components, and as such, may form the basis for future nanosensors, catalysts and chemistry-on-a-chip systems. The study, published in Angewandte Chemie, was performed by Prof. Israel Rubinstein, Dr. Alexander Vaskevich, postdoctoral associate Dr. Michal Lahav and doctoral student Tali Sehayek, all of the Institute's Department of Materials and Interfaces.
http://news.nanoapex.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4212

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NANOBUSINESS NEWS


Cetek Shareholders' Report for the Fourth Quarter 2003
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2004--Cetek Technologies Inc. [profile] reports that the fourth quarter of 2003 was the first profitable quarter in over four years. Revenues for the year 2003 were 185% higher than the year 2002.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2266

Researchers seek big payoff from tiny products
The smaller things get, the less the normal rules apply. That's among the reasons that researchers who are able to manipulate the smallest building blocks of nature are struggling to mass-produce some of the intriguing machines and materials they have constructed from individual atoms. At stake is the potential to create faster computers, super-strong lightweight materials, and medical devices that monitor or regulate the body from within.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2265

Nanotechnology is area giant
Here in the East Bay, nanotechnology has become the fabric of our lives. Based in large part on technology developed by scientists at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley and Livermore National Laboratories, East Bay start-ups have been among the growing number of businesses taking nanotechnology, which involves manipulating particles one billionth of a meter in size, from its science fiction roots and turning it into a moneymaking reality.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2264

ON THE RECORD: NANOTECHNOLOGY An insider's view of nanotech Three stars from the emerging industry dissect its huge potential and possible pitfalls
It's no surprise that the Bay Area -- with its concentration of computer scientists, venture capitalists and biotechnology giants -- is a leading contender in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The Chronicle invited three of the most prominent leaders in the field (Jurvetson, Eigler, Alivisatos) -- all from the Bay Area -- to join in a freewheeling discussion and give readers an insider's view of nanotechnology's potential and possible pitfalls.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2263

Nanogen Issued Patent for Addressable Biologic Electrode Arrays
SAN DIEGO, Jan 28, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Nanogen, Inc. [profile] announced today that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,682,936, "Addressable Biologic Electrode Array," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The '936 patent relates to electrode-based array devices and methods of operation in which individual electrodes contained within the array can be selectively addressed or manipulated.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2261

Examining Nanotechnology
The U.S. Army next Tuesday will showcase its nanotechnology research as part of an effort to attract commercial partners. washingtonpost.com's Kyle Balluck toured the nanotech facilities at the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, Md.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2260

Hybrid Plastics’ Receives a $100,000 R&D Grant from the NSF
Fountain Valley, CA: Hybrid Plastics, Inc. [profile] has received a $100,000 R&D Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the development of Nanostructured Solder Materials. This competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation Research [SBIR] award will allow the company to advance the fundamental knowledge and service performance of lead-free electronic solders.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2259

NANOTENNIS ANYONE? TINY, SPORTY MATERIALS HAVE THEIR DAY ON COURT
Every year, tennis racket manufacturers fund a substantial amount of research and development in their quests for the Holy Grail of rackets: the playing stick that will become the most-sought-after model for the vast majority of recreational players. In recent years, tennis ball manufactures have also stepped up the pace of their R&D as competition for the lion’s share of a somewhat stable, but not wildly increasing, market has become stiffer.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2258

COATINGS COMPANY WANTS CONSUMERS TO LOOK FOR THE U-RIGHT LABEL
Raymond Chui, deputy CEO of U-Right International Holdings Ltd., wants consumers to think of Texcote when they think of water- or stain-repellent fabrics – the same way that soda refers to Coca-Cola. But U-Right might have to settle for being Pepsi. The garment industry is one of the first consumer markets in which nanotechnology has really taken off, and the battle for shares already seems to be taking a page from the cola wars – where similar products depend on branding to increase sales.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2257

Biotrove, Inc. secures $10.9 million to continue the development and commericalization of novel nano-scale drug discovery solutions
Woburn, MA, January 29, 2004- BioTrove, Inc. [profile] today announced that the company has successfully raised $10.9 million in venture capital funding. The investors supporting the financing include Catalyst Health and Technology Partners, CB Health Ventures, Zero Stage Capital and BioFrontier Partners. The funds will be used to continue the development and commercialization of the Company’s micro- and nano-scale products and services, the Living Chip™ and Momentum™ Assay Development and Screening.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2256

Nanotechnology Takes On Cancer
On Sept. 30, National Institutes of Health director Elias A. Zerhouni laid out a series of far-reaching initiatives known as the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Developed with input from more than 300 nationally recognized leaders from academia, industry, government and the public, the Roadmap's goal is to speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. One of its top five priorities? Nanomedicine. And nowhere is the use of nanotech in medical advances more critical than at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which sees the potential for nanoscience to dramatically enhance our ability to effectively detect cancer, deliver targeted therapeutics and monitor the effectiveness of cancer interventions.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2255

Nanotechnology: Big Potential In Tiny Particles
BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Brainiacs at companies like Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Sun Microsystems have hailed the science of small things as an industry-changing force. Nanotechnology, broadly defined, involves the scientific development of brand new machines and materials at an atomic or macromolecular level.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2254

Biophan Technologies Completes First Round of Financing for $2.9 Million
Financing Funds BIPH Strategic Plan and Potential Major Exchange Listing
Rochester, NY January 30, 2004 – Biophan Technologies, Inc. [profile], an innovator, developer and marketer of MRI-related and other advanced biomedical technology, announced today that it has completed its first round of financing with SBI-Brightline, Irvine, California. The financing will further enable the company to pursue its previously announced strategic initiatives which include expansion of its patent portfolio, acceleration of marketing programs, potential strategic acquisitions, and the exploration of a potential listing on a major exchange.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2253

NanoCure(TM) Corporation Receives a Michigan Economic Development Corporation Contract Award to Commercialize Drug Delivery Technology
NanoCure(TM) Corporation [profile] has been awarded a contract from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) that provides $187,075 over three years. This contract is part of a $1.24 million award to the University of Michigan from the MEDC to develop a drug delivery platform based on patented dendrimer technology exclusively licensed by NanoCure(TM) from the University. The funds provided to NanoCure(TM) will support costs related to commercialization, including developing applications for clinical testing of the platform and funding to support clinical trials.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2252

Optiva Strengthens Management Team to Focus on LCD Business; Nanotechnology Innovator Appoints Peter Hopper as CEO
Optiva, Inc. [profile], the creator of a new class of nanomaterials for optical applications, announced today a key addition to its senior management team. The board has appointed Peter Hopper as chief executive officer (CEO) as the company focuses on the importance of the liquid crystal display (LCD) business in Asia to their immediate future. Hopper will oversee all aspects and product lines for Optiva strengthening introduction of their commercial products to key customers, partners and suppliers.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2251

Sumitomo Corporation and Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. Finalize Strategic Alliance Agreements in Asia
Sumitomo Corporation and Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc. [profile] today announced the signing of two significant agreements that cement their relationship in developing the carbon nanotechnology business in Japan and S. Korea. These two world-class organizations have agreed to combine their efforts (1) by completing an exclusive marketing and distribution arrangement for CNI's buckytubes in Japan and S. Korea and (2) through an arrangement that includes an immediate financial investment, with the opportunity for additional investments, by Sumitomo Corporation in CNI. Sumitomo and CNI have been working together in Asia for two years to develop and promote the markets for CNI buckytubes.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2250

Quantum Dot Corp. Adds Four Patents to Its IP Portfolio
Quantum Dot Corporation [profile] added four new patents to its intellectual property portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2003, bringing its total for the year to eight patents. With 137 patents issued or pending, QDC is the world leader in semiconductor nanocrystal technology and its commercialization for use in biological, biochemical, and biomedical applications. "These four patents are additional evidence that Quantum Dot Corporation has established a dominant position in nanocrystal-based biological imaging," said Ken Barovsky, Ph.D., QDC's vice president and intellectual property counsel. "We clearly have the industry's strongest intellectual property portfolio."
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2249

SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUE SHINES EVEN IF FLASH DEVICE WAS FOR SHOW
Chances are, consumers will never see IBM’s [profile] nanocrystal flash memory on the marketplace. But the self-assembly technique used for making the nanocrystals could become a cornerstone – and a building block – in Big Blue’s future miniaturized computing components.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2248

QUANTUM CONTROL HOLDS THE KEY TO A SHINING LED LIGHTING MARKET
The new Audi A8 6.0's headlights feature daylight running lights based on them. And 12,000 of them illuminate the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. 12,000 white LEDs illuminated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. They are white LEDs, full-spectrum versions of the colored light-emitting pinpoints commercialized in recent decades as ubiquitous indicator lights.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2247

Applied NanoMaterials Completes Launch Phase - Changes Name to ApNano Materials
New York, January 28, 2004. Applied NanoMaterials, Inc. [profile], a provider of advanced nanotechnology products, today announced a new company name to reflect its progression to sales and production after having successfully completed its start-up and product launch phases. The company has changed its name to ApNano Materials, Inc.
http://www.nanoinvestornews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2246
American Superconductor’s Nanotechnology Breakthrough Significantly Increases Performance of Superconductor Wire
Company Files for Patent on Proprietary New Nanodot Technology; Nanotech-Based Manufacturing Process Delivers 30% Higher Current Carrying Capability in Second Generation High Temperature Superconductor Wire
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – January 26, 2004 – American Superconductor Corporation [profile], a leading electricity solutions company, announced today that it has successfully developed and filed a patent application for a nanotechnology-based manufacturing technique that delivers an immediate 30% increase in the electric current-carrying capability of the company’s second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. This new nanotechnology process leverages AMSC’s proprietary metal-organic chemical processing methodology by producing a dispersion of “nanodots” throughout the superconductor coating of the company’s 2G HTS wire. Nanodots are ultra-small particles of inorganic materials typically less than 100 atoms across. AMSC’s 2G HTS wire is being designed as a form-fit-function replacement for today’s commercial first generation (1G) HTS wire, but at two to five times lower manufacturing cost, which is expected to further expand the market for HTS applications.
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