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Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles to Detect and Treat Cancer

Cancer Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: CTHP), a biotechnology business incubator, with a specific emphasis on disruptive treatments and nanotechnology, announced today its new partner, NanoTherapies, Inc., is utilizing calciu...

11 Jun 2009

Interconnected Carbon Nanostructures Formed on Graphene Substrates

Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania, Sandia National Laboratories and Rice University have demonstrated the formation of interconnected carbon nanostructures on graphene substrate in a simple assembly process that involves heating few-layer graphene sheets to sublimation using electric current that may eventually lead to a new paradigm for building integrated carbon-based devices.

10 Jun 2009

Suss Introduce New Technology for On-Wafer FR Probes

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems, one of the world's leading suppliers of process and testing solutions for markets as Advanced Packaging, MEMS, Nanotechnology, Compound Semiconductor, Silicon-On-Insulator and 3D Interconn...

From Focuslight Technologies Inc. 10 Jun 2009

New Approach to Producing Pure White LEDs

Researchers are reporting the first use of a fundamentally new approach in the quest to snare the Holy Grail of the lighting industry: An LED (light-emitting diode) - those ultra-efficient, long-lived light sources - that emits pure white light.

10 Jun 2009

Report Predicts Exciting New Opportunities for Conductive Coatings

A new report from NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets, predicts that new opportunities are rapidly emerging in the conduct...

10 Jun 2009

Oxford Instruments X-Ray Detector Destined for International Space Station

Oxford Instruments’ MAXI X-ray detectors will be part of the launch to the International Space Station on 13th June 2009. X-ray detectors, developed by Oxford Instruments in Finland, will be installed on the International Space Station as part of the Japanese MAXI instrument.

From Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis 10 Jun 2009

Production of Self-Replicating Concentrated Homochiral Metallofullerene Double Alpha Helices with Buckyballs

JenLaur Ltd., LLC is announcing the discovery of a template for creation of amino acids, nucleosides, and RNA through a proprietary patent pending method of metallofullerene production. This new process is a further development of prior metallofullerene methodology that was, in the words of Dr. Richard E. Smalley, "a completely new material that may have significance in the carbon-carbon composite field and other applications."

10 Jun 2009

Windows that Produce Electricity

Offering a view of the garden and an adjacent field, it looks like any other window. But this window offers an additional feature: it also produces electricity. The facades of the house, too, harness solar energy to supply the occupants with electrical power. This is what the domestic power supply of the future could look like.

10 Jun 2009

New Process for Synthesising Tin Sulfide Nanotubes

A research team headed by Wolfgang Tremel at the University of Mainz has now developed a new process for the production of tin sulfide nanotubes. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the researchers let the SnS2 tubes “grow” out of a drop of metal.

10 Jun 2009

Dame Leiden University Gets NanoTracker Optical Tweezers

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce the installation of its unique NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system in the laboratory of Dr. Remus Dame at Leiden University.

10 Jun 2009