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Neopharma announces expansion into biotechnology and nanotechnology-based research and development
Neopharma October 5th, 2009 Neopharma, the Abu Dhabi-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer, announced a large scale expansion programme to enter into biotechnology and nanotechnology-based research and manufacturing capabilities.

Graphite mimics iron’s magnetism
Eindhoven University of Technology October 5th, 2009 Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results are promising for new applications in nanotechnology, such as biosensors and detectors. The findings were published online in Nature Physics.

'nano science - manipulating the world around us': Milo Shaffer speaks to Glass about Nanoscience and the future of planes, trains and bulletproof clothing
glassmagazine.co.uk October 5th, 2009 Milo Shaffer completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1998. Following a period working as a materials technology consultant focusing on technology exploitation and innovation, he enjoyed a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took up his current position at Imperial College London in 2003 as Reader in Nanomaterials Chemistry. From the ancient Egyptians to the mid 20th century civilizations great achievements were big: pyramids, stadia, cathedrals. Only comparatively recently has engineering got to grips with the small: quantum physics, computer chips. The natural world remains way ahead of us at incorporating complex design at every size scale. Atom to molecule to membrane to cell and up, up, up. The complexity is mind-boggling. To even start approaching multi-level design, science needs to provide new bricks at intermediate scales; this is where nanoscience steps in. Dr. Milo Shaffer is working to bridge this gap in our ability to manipulate the world around us. His work focuses on the carbon nanotube. Nanotubes are pipes with walls as thin as atoms and diameters as small as a millionth of a millimeter that have recently been used to create transparent speakers of nanometer thickness and the world's toughest fibers. They act as a versatile building block, realizing sci-fi technologies and making good, existing materials, vastly stronger.

Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Possibilities: National Science Foundation Grant Aids Quest for Low-Cost, Flexible Solution
UT Dallas October 5th, 2009 A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile devices. And a new $330,000 grant from the National Science Foundation should help him come closer to realizing that vision.

Silver nanoparticles give polymer solar cells a boost
Ohio State University October 5th, 2009 Small bits of metal may play a new role in solar power. Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun's energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells.

Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine
University of Wisconsin-Madison October 5th, 2009 Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.

IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer to Help Drive Down Cost of Personalized Genetic Analysis: IBM scientists advance genome sequencing project
IBM Corporation October 5th, 2009 In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained within their genetic code.

Harris & Harris Group Announces Proposed Follow-On Public Offering
Harris & Harris October 5th, 2009 Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY), announced today the proposed follow-on public offering of shares of its common stock. The offering price of the shares will be determined by market conditions at the time of pricing in consultation with the underwriter of the offering. The offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement, which was filed with and has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Needham & Company, LLC is acting as sole book running manager in the offering.

Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers
MIT October 6th, 2009 Electron microscopes are the most powerful type of microscope, capable of distinguishing even individual atoms. However, these microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons destroy the samples. Now, MIT assistant professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his student, William Putnam, propose a new scheme that can overcome this limitation by using a quantum mechanical measurement technique that allows electrons to sense objects remotely. Damage would be avoided because the electrons would never actually hit the imaged objects.

Harris & Harris Group Announces Pricing of Follow-On Public Offering
Harris & Harris October 6th, 2009 Harris & Harris Group, Inc., announced today that it has priced a follow-on public offering of 4,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $4.75 per share. We expect net proceeds, after underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us, of approximately $18,648,750 ($21,495,188 if the over-allotment option is exercised in full by the underwriter). We have also granted to Needham & Company, LLC, the sole book running manager in connection with the offering, a 30-day over-allotment option to purchase an additional 637,500 shares of our common stock. We intend to use the net proceeds of the offering to make new venture capital investments in nanotechnology and microsystems as well as follow-on investments in our existing portfolio companies, and for operating expenses. The closing is expected to take place on or about October 9, 2009, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev took part in the Second Nanotechnology International Forum
isria.com October 6th, 2009 In his speech at the Forum, President Medvedev insisted that everything should be done to make nanotechnology one of the strongest sectors of the Russian economy. Mr Medvedev said that Russia had all the intellectual, organisational and financial resources necessary to become a leader in this field. The President noted that Russia has the world's largest government investment programme in the field of nanotechnology. By 2015 it will have allocated 318 billion rubles (more than 10.5 billion dollars) to the programme, and sales for Russia's nanotechnology industry are expected to reach 900 billion rubles. To meet this challenge the country needs to take advantage of all the resources of Russian science and make the necessary changes in legislative, tax and customs regulations. Russia needs a system of state orders for the long-term procurement of innovative products as well as an up to date system of national standards.

Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners
The Foresight Institute October 6th, 2009 The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.

TSMC and IMEC join forces to bring novel technology solutions to emerging markets
IMEC October 6th, 2009 IMEC and TSMC today announce that they have forged an Innovation Incubation Alliance to create a platform enabling the development of innovative product solutions using emerging More-than-Moore technology options. Integrating extra functionalities with foundry CMOS enables customers to compete in emerging markets. By combining IMEC's expertise in design & technology R&D with TSMC's excellence in high-volume manufacturing, customers will benefit from an early access to new More-than-Moore technologies and rapid transition to volume manufacturing for their next generation electronic products.

Breakthrough in lab-on-chip for fast cancer detection and therapy
IMEC October 6th, 2009 IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, the Institüt für Mikrotechnik Mainz (IMM), one of the leading European research centers in microfluidics, and their partners within the European Sixth Framework Project MASCOT achieve a major milestone in the development of a lab-on-chip for the detection and therapy evaluation of breast cancer. This is the first time that a lab-on-chip system including many complex sample preparation steps and multiplexed detection was conceived and is being implemented. All modules for sample preprocessing and detection are ready for further miniaturization and integration in a single lab-on-chip platform. The system will be clinically validated in a breast cancer therapy study in Oslo.

High-sensitivity bone marrow aspiration technology enhances leukemia cell detection
American Association for Cancer Research October 6th, 2009 Scientists have created a viable technology to improve the detection of leukemia cells in bone marrow. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) enhanced the ability to rapidly quantify the amount of nanoparticle bound tumor cells in a sample at least 10 fold, and increased sensitivity of minimal residual disease measurements. Results of this proof-of-concept study are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

UC Merced Professor Receives $1.3 Million National Science Foundation Grant
UC Merced October 6th, 2009 David Kelley and colleagues will attempt to improve luminescent solar concentrators, used to channel solar energy

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking
Virginia Tech October 6th, 2009 Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems.

Tronics Wins 2009 Foundry of the Year Award From EuroAsia semiconductor Magazine
Tronics October 7th, 2009 Tronics Honored for Continued Success and Expansion of Its Value-add Custom MEMS Manufacturing Business

Nanogate receives additional application patent for innovative optics technology – partnership launched for new LED application
Nanogate AG October 7th, 2009 LED technology comprehensively protected by additional European patent - further LED applications from this new partnership are expected to be ready for production by the end of 2010.

Leti Achieves Groundbreaking Discovery in Using Copper-based Catalysts to Synthesize Silicon Nanowire
CEA-Leti October 7th, 2009 Project Demonstrates that Silicon Nanowire Synthesis can be CMOS-Compatible

Atomic Wire with Protective Sheath
Angewandte Chemie October 7th, 2009 Stable metal nanowires one atom wide inside carbon nanotubes

Building a better qubit
American Physical Society October 7th, 2009 Combining 6 photons together results in highly robust qubits

To peer inside a living cell
MIT October 7th, 2009 Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.

IMEC’s spray-coating technique holds promise for cheap fully solution-processed organic solar cells
IMEC October 7th, 2009 IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top. The resulting cell shows power conversion efficiencies above 3%, a performance comparable to organic solar cells produced by spin coating of the organic layer and vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal. This is an important step towards producing organic solar cells with cheap and large-area processes.

IMEC and BP Solar demonstrate high-efficiency low-cost silicon solar cell
IMEC October 7th, 2009 IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar's newly developed Mono2 TM silicon. By combining IMEC's advanced processing techniques with BP Solar's high-quality low-cost substrates, the companies demonstrated that Mono2 TM has a good potential to become a new base material for low-cost highly-efficient solar cells.

Death by Light
Angewandte Chemie October 7th, 2009 Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Study: Cleantech Fuels Orange County's Economy, Helps Environment
University of Central Florida October 7th, 2009 A new study released today outlines Orange County's future as the nation's next "cleantech hub" with green jobs that will fuel the region's economy.

Reform Tsar Struggles to Take Russia Into Nanoworld
abcnews.go.com October 7th, 2009 Russian economic reform architect Anatoly Chubais hopes to marshal oligarch investment into establishing Russia as a world leader in high-tech nanoscience, helping wean his country off dependency on raw material sales. Chubais has a reputation for getting seemingly impossible things done. Skeptics, however, say Russian science is hindered by bureaucracy and by a lack of small companies capable of translating scientific ideas quickly into commercial production. As economist, Chubais presided over the selloff of Soviet state property that produced the country's super-wealthy oligarchs and as a politician helped revive Boris Yeltsin's popularity to win a second term as president in 1996. More recently, he dismantled and privatized power generation. Chubais sees the economic crisis as a "unique chance" for Russia to break away from its dependency on oil and gas, with its fluctuating revenues, into the new world of nanoscience.

Nanotechnology opens new medical doors
newsrecord.org October 7th, 2009 Biomedical engineering researchers from the University of Cincinnati recently developed an artificial pore capable of transmitting nanoscale materials through a membrane. This new information might lead to a method for discerning what individual bases make up traversing DNA strands. Translating the DNA will aid scientists to examine the cause of inherited diseases, such as breast cancer. Professor Peixuan Guo, PhD, of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and director of the NIH Nanomedicine Development Center is a co-author of the research paper, "Translocation of double-stranded DNA through membrane-adapted phi29 motor protein nanopores." The periodical Nature Nanotechnology published the piece.

Now, you can adore atoms at nanoscale
indiatimes.com October 7th, 2009 Students in the city will soon have the chance to view matter at the nanoscale with Science City, on the planetarium campus, to acquire table-top atomic force microscopes (AFM) for its centres across the country, starting with Chennai. Ordinary optical microscopes can magnify only about 1000 times, while electronic microscopes can magnify up to one million times. Speaking at the inauguration of an awareness workshop on nanotechnology at the Periyar Science and Technology Centre here on Monday, Science City chairman M Anandakrishnan said the acquisition would propel students' interest in the field of nanoscience.

Defense Appropriations Bill Includes Over $60 Million for Military & Technology
salem-news.com October 7th, 2009 "Along with providing millions to fund job-creating advances in nanotechnology and clean energy technologies, this bill will help Oregon National Guard members succeed at home once their service abroad is over," said Senator Ron Wyden. Funding for the following projects include: ONAMI Nanoelectronics, Nanometrology and Nanobiotechnology Initiative - Portland State University - $4,800,000 - Multnomah County Funds will help advance research into biomedicine, measurement/imaging and electronics. ONAMI Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing - University of Oregon - $4,400,000 - Lane County Funds will be used to develop safer and greener nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing methods. ONAMI Miniaturized Tactical Energy Systems Development - Oregon State University - $3,000,000 - Benton County. Funds will be used to develop miniaturized energy systems such as soldier power systems and advanced cooling units. ARL-ONAMI Center for Nanoarchitectures for Enhanced Performance - University of Oregon - $1,000,000 - Lane County. Funds will be used to continue to build early stage technology for Army sensing, communications, portable energy storage and generation and thermal management requirements.

Maiden edition of Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI)
Focus Nanotechnology Africa Inc. (FONAI) October 8th, 2009 The maiden edition of Journal Nanotechnology Progress International (JONPI) will be coming out very soon, be on the look out for this on the Journal website: www.fonai.org/Journal.html

Tender: comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in NMP research activities between EU and third countries
European Commission October 8th, 2009 The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has published a call for tender for a comparative scoreboard and performance indicators in nanotechnology, materials, processes (NMP) research activities between the EU and third countries.

NanoKTN Invites Industry to Help Shape UK Government Strategy for Nanotechnology: NanoKTN seeks market input to ensure major sector growth over next 10 years
Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) October 8th, 2009 The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, is inviting UK nanotechnology companies to help shape UK Government Strategy for Nanotechnology. The NanoKTN, the Materials KTN, the Chemistry Innovation KTN and the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN is jointly providing the secretariat for a working group adopting a mini Innovation & Growth Team approach to assist in the collection and coordination of input to the public consultation launched by the Government on 17 July 2009 and the closing date is 31st October 2009. We are inviting UK companies to tell us what you are currently doing in nanotechnology and what your requirements are, to ensure major growth within this market over the next ten years.

Microwave fridges and nano diving boards
National Physical Laboratory October 8th, 2009 NPL scientists are paving the way for highly accurate measurement at the nano-scale and beyond, by being the first team in the world to develop a tiny microwave-powered room-temperature fridge.

Quantum mechanics on the cheap
National Physical Laboratory October 8th, 2009 NPL, together with IBM and the University of Edinburgh, have developed a new technique that dramatically improves the accuracy and efficiency of computer models of materials. By applying aspects of quantum mechanics in new ways, highly accurate simulations of materials may be achieved quicker and more efficiently than is currently possible with standard methods.

Investigating nanopillars: Silicon brittle? Not this kind!
Empa October 8th, 2009 Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very different properties, as Empa researchers have shown by creating minute silicon pillars. If the diameters of the columns are made small enough, then under load they do not simply break off, as large pieces of silicon would, but they yield to the pressure and undergo plastic deformation, as a metal would. This discovery opens the way for completely new design techniques from a materials point of view for mechanical microsystems and in the watch industry.

Leti, Caltech Workshop to Present Nanosystem Roadmaps To Potential Industrial Partners
CEA-Leti October 8th, 2009 Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will present their joint nanosystem roadmaps at a Nov. 10 workshop at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif.

UAlbany NanoCollege and School of Business Develop World’s First MBA Program with Elective Track in Nanotechnology
UAlbany NanoCollege October 8th, 2009 Expansion of unique partnership also includes new doctoral-level Nano+MBA program

Clemson bioengineer uses nanoparticles to target drugs
Clemson University October 8th, 2009 Clemson bioengineer Frank Alexis is designing new ways to target drugs and reduce the chances for side effects.

$159M supports 181 Canada Research Chairs across the country
labcanada.com October 8th, 2009 The federal government last week announced $159.1 million in funding for 181 Canada Research Chairs newly awarded or renewed in 45 Canadian universities. The funding includes $7.4 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for research infrastructure awarded to 46 chairholders named in the announcement. Including: - Botton, Gianluigi A. Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 1, Advancement. $1,400,000 - Chen, Pu. Canada Research Chair in Nanobiomaterials. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Fanchini, Giovanni. Canada Research Chair in Carbon-based Nanomaterials and Nano-optoelectronics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Li, Hongbin. Canada Research Chair in Molecular Nanoscience and Protein Engineering. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Nadeau, Jay Louise. Canada Research Chair in Nanocellular Neuroscience. Health. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Sinton, David A. Canada Research Chair in Integrated Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Skorobogatiy, Maksim. Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanophotonics. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, Renewal. $500,000 - Ye, Winnie. Canada Research Chair in Nanoscale IC Design for Reliable Optoelectronics and Sensors. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000 - Yeow, John T.W. Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanodevices. Natural Sciences and Engineering. Tier 2, New. $500,000

Tiny technology may yield major finds -- and possible perils
miamiherald.com October 8th, 2009 In Miami, two newly arrived molecular pathologists are working on a test to detect cancer in the blood, and they say the test could be in use in three or four years. Drs. Richard Cote and Ram Datar, recently recruited from the University of Southern California, will run a Biomedical Nanoscience Institute being set up at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, giving South Florida a central role in the future of medical nanotechnology. The two are using the science to build devices that will perform dozens of "instant biopsy" tests on a pin-prick of blood and capture tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream. They don't hide their excitement. "The integration of nanotechnology and medicine has the potential to revolutionize our approach to human disease," said Cote, who will direct the institute and become chair of UM's department of pathology. In medicine, nanotech devices are in clinical trials that would carry medicine directly inside cancer cells, sparing the patient from chemotherapy's nausea and hair loss.

Race for New Superconductors Shrinks to Nanoscale
UT Dallas October 8th, 2009 Highly Engineered Materials May Solve One of Science's Toughest Problems

Aluminum-water rocket propellant studied
upi.com October 8th, 2009 U.S. scientists say they are developing a new type of 'green' rocket propellant that consists of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder. The aluminum-ice, or so-called Alice, propellant is described as being more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars or other water-bearing bodies.

Nanometric butterfly wings created
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology October 8th, 2009 A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, on a nano scale. The resulting biomaterial could be used to make optically active structures, such as optical diffusers for solar panels.

Signing of Investment Agreement to Launch 90 Nanometre Microchip Production Project
JSC SITRONICS October 9th, 2009 JSC SITRONICS (SITRONICS or the "Group") (LSE:SITR), a leading provider of telecommunications, information technology and microelectronic solutions in Russia and the CIS, with a growing presence in other EEMEA emerging markets, announced that it today signed the investment agreement to launch full-scale 90 nanometre microchip production in cooperation with the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies ("RUSNANO"), Sistema and "NIIME and Mikron", which is part of the SITRONICS Microelectronics business division. The signing ceremony took place during a visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the "NIIME and Mikron" facility in Zelenograd, Russia.

Medvedev Embraces Nanotechnology
times.spb.ru October 9th, 2009 Nanotechnology will rival oil as a global powerhouse industry, so Russia's economy needs to embrace it now to avoid a repeat of the "well-known scenario" in which growing oil prices keep it from modernizing, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. Medvedev spoke at the opening of the International Nanotechnology Forum, where one senior official said the burden to create new innovations should fall on small and midsized businesses. Rusnano chief Anatoly Chubais, meanwhile, gave Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov a guided tour of an exhibition of new Russian nanotechnology, including a photodiode lamp that appeared to temporarily blind Ivanov. "The economic crisis is a great impetus for an economic renewal," Medvedev said in his speech at the Krasnaya Presnya Expocenter. "But the main challenge," he said, "is to avoid the well-known scenario where oil prices are on the rise and the economy is improving and, again, just like in previous years, no one needs nanotechnology because we can relax and make ends meet without innovations. We therefore must make nanotechnology one of the main sectors of the economy."

Ray outlines new vision for OSU's future
gazettetimes.com October 9th, 2009 Oregon State University President Ed Ray said OSU also must increase its collaborative in-state research programs, pointing to the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) and Oregon Built Environmental and Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) as examples. "We also must significantly increase our direct partnerships with industry," Ray said. "Right now, only 2 percent of our annual research funding results from industry partnerships. We must increase this to 4-8 percent of our total even as we more than double our annual research portfolio by 2025."

Wurth Solar eyeing 14-15% conversion rates for CIGS thin-film modules
digitimes.com October 9th, 2009 Germany-based Wurth Solar, a producer of CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, expects to increase energy conversion rates for such products from 11-12% currently to 14-15% two years later, according to CEO Bernhard Dimmler for Wurth Elektronik Research under the company.

EU advised to consider mandatory nano reporting
chemicalwatch.com October 9th, 2009 A background paper for DG Environment on options for an EU reporting scheme for nanomaterials has suggested that the European Commission develop a mandatory scheme but that, at the same time, it should also move ahead with a voluntary scheme because of the length of time it would take to bring in a mandatory scheme.

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