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Haydale to Exhibit Patented Split Plasma Process at Graphene 2012

Innovative Carbon’s subsidiary, Haydale based in South Wales, UK, will display its latest products at Graphene 2012, which will be held from April 10 to 13, 2012, in Brussels.

9 Apr 2012

DFJ VTB Capital Aurora, AGC America Invest in Nanocoating Specialist Rolith

AGC America, a major glass manufacturer, and DFJ VTB Capital Aurora, a nanotechnology investor affiliated with VTB Group, have offered a $5 million worth Series A funding to Rolith, a company specializing in sophisticated nano-structured devices and coatings.

9 Apr 2012

NSF CAREER Award to Rensselaer Professor for Research on Advanced Materials

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has presented a $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) to Dr. Jie Lian, who is an Assistant Professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering.

6 Apr 2012

New Method to Detect Flaws and Measure Properties of Magnetic Materials

A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Royal Institute of Technology, and the University of Maryland Nanocenter has developed a new technique to identify flaws in nano-scale magnetic structures, even when they are buried beneath the surface of a multilayer electronic device.

6 Apr 2012

Air Products Completes Buyout Deal of JV with DuPont

Air Products has successfully closed the purchase of DuPont's stake in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, a 50-50 joint venture between the two companies. Terms of the deal were not revealed.

5 Apr 2012

Research and Markets Offers New Book on In-situ Synthesis of Polymer Nanocomposites

Research and Markets has included a new book titled ‘In-situ Synthesis of Polymer Nanocomposites’ to its catalogue.

5 Apr 2012

AKHAN Technologies to Deliver Presentation at XXI International Materials Research Congress

AKHAN Technologies, a specialist in designing sophisticated diamond electron devices, has declared that Adam Khan, the company’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, will deliver a presentation at the Nanostructured Carbon Materials for MEMS/NEMS and Nano-Electronics Symposium at the upcoming XXI International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2012.

4 Apr 2012

New Technique Helps Control Electric and Mechanical Properties of Graphene

A research team from the University of Arkansas and Nanjing University has developed a new experimental technique to control the strain or mechanical property of freestanding graphene sheets suspended over small square meshes of copper.

4 Apr 2012

New Technique to Fabricate Porous Metal Films with High Electrical Conductivity

A research team from the Cornell University has devised a new technique to fabricate porous metal films with an electrical conductivity 1000 folds higher than that can be achieved by earlier methods.

4 Apr 2012

New EU Project to Design High-Efficiency Thin-Film Solar Modules Using Nanomaterials

Eighteen major research and industrial partners have teamed up in a European Union (EU) Fast Track project to develop high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules using nanotechnology.

3 Apr 2012

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