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IMOMEC Develop Method to Stabilize Nanomorphology of Organic Solar Cells

With these stabilized solar cells, efficiencies were achieved comparable to state-of-the-art organic solar cells. This breakthrough paves the way to commercial organic solar cells with an operational lifetime of over 5 years

15 Oct 2008

Popular Science Names MIT Memebers on Annual "Brilliant 10" List of the Country's Top Young Scientists

Popular Science magazine has named MIT faculty members Rebecca Saxe and Francesco Stellacci to its annual "Brilliant 10" list of the country's top young scientists to watch. The list appears in the November...

15 Oct 2008

Utah Establish New Nanotechnology Research Center to Revolutionize the Future

Officials at the University of Utah announced today the establishment of the Nano Institute of Utah, representing a significant and decisive step in the state's quest to bring together the university's and the st...

15 Oct 2008

Pioneer Surgical Debut Enhanced Bone Graft Substitute using Nanotechnology

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc. today announced the U.S. market release of their FortrOss bone graft substitute. The novel biologic will make its public debut at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Soci...

15 Oct 2008

Scientists Produce "Swimming" Metallic Particles for Development of Nanomotors

Ayusman Sen, head of the Department of Chemistry at Penn State, makes tiny, metallic objects do something extraordinary -- he makes them swim. Sen's work is driven by catalysis, the chemical phenomenon whereby a subs...

15 Oct 2008

DuPont Announce Opening of New State-of-the-Art Biorefinery Research and Development Center

The DuPont cellulosic ethanol joint venture, DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE), has broken ground for its first pilot-scale biorefinery

15 Oct 2008

Material Scientists Clarify Optical and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes scientists at NIST have made some of the most precise measurements yet of the concentrations at which delicate mats of nanotubes become transparent, conducting sheets.

15 Oct 2008

Eastman Chemical Showcase New Innovative Packaging Designs at Luxe Pack 2008

Eastman Chemical Company will be featuring new examples of elegant and innovative cosmetic and personal care packaging designs from The Glass Polymer™ family of copolyesters at Luxe Pack 2008, October 28-31, Monaco...

15 Oct 2008

Next generation Hydrocarbon Rubber Products from Dow Redefine Industry Standards

Dow Elastomers, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), has implemented significant upgrades to its NORDEL™ Hydrocarbon Rubber products to enable higher compound quality at better economics. “R...

15 Oct 2008

Extreme Nature Design Help Scientists Produce Nanomaterials

Scientists are using designs in nature from extreme environments to overcome the challenges of producing materials on the nanometre scale. A team from the UK's John Innes Centre, the Scripps Research Institute in Cal...

15 Oct 2008

ZnO Nanowires with Unique Elasticity to Enhance Next Generation Electronics

Recently, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have drawn major interest because of their semiconducting nature and unique optical and piezoelectric properties. Various applications for ZnO nanowires have been conceived, including...

15 Oct 2008

Veeco to Support an Eminent Scholar Who Uses SPM to Advance Nanoscale Characterization

Veeco
Instruments Inc. has established an endowed chair at UC Santa Barbara that
will support the teaching and research of a pioneering scholar in engineering
or the sciences.

From Veeco 15 Oct 2008

PANalytical Launch New XRF with Unrivalled Speed and Throughput

PANalytical launch the Axios FAST simultaneous XRF system, which delivers unrivalled speed and throughput for routine analysis and dedicated real-time process control, combined with the flexibility to operate in industrial applications ranging from mining exploration to steelmaking.

15 Oct 2008

Nanocomp Technologies Receives Technology Innovation Award for Materials and Base Technologies

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy-saving component products and performance materials, today announced it has received the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for materials and base tech...

15 Oct 2008

Researchers Set to Develop Novel Solid-State Laser Design Incorporating CVD

Researchers at the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, have started work on a 3.5 year project to develop a novel solid-state laser design incorporating CVD (chemical vapour deposition) diamond manufacture...

15 Oct 2008