Nano News & Events

Arrowhead Receives Patent Allowance for DPC siRNA Delivery System with Peptide Backbone

Nanotech-Now - May 8, 2013 - 7:45am
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent App...
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A giant leap to commercialization of polymer solar cell

Nanotech-Now - May 8, 2013 - 7:45am
A polymer solar cell is a type of thin film solar cells made with polymers that produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect. Most current commercial solar cells are made from a highly...
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Nanostart-holding MagForce Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm Therapy

Nanotech-Now - May 8, 2013 - 7:45am
- European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates - MagForce expands patent portfolio
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Partnerships in nanotech, stem-cell research pondered

Nanotech-Now - May 7, 2013 - 11:45pm
Nanotechnologies and stem-cell technology are areas in which Chinese and US companies can have significant cooperation, a delegation of business executives from China and their American hosts agreed. ...
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'Look but don't touch': ICFO researchers present a non-destructive technique for measuring at the atomic scale

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
Improving our understanding of the human brain, gathering insights into the origin of our universe through the detection of gravitational waves, or optimizing the precision of GPS systems- all are dif...
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Improving materials that convert heat to electricity and vice-versa

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
Thermoelectric materials can be used to turn waste heat into electricity or to provide refrigeration without any liquid coolants, and a research team from the University of Michigan has found a way to...
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UJI professor Juan Andrés Bort participates in the discovery of a new material

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
The professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) de Castellón, Spain, Juan M. Andrés Bort has participated in the discovery of a new material and in the article "Direct in situ obs...
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Pixelligent Closes $5.1 Million in Funding: Capital will be Used to Significantly Increase Manufacturing Capacity

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
Pixelligent Technologies, producer of PixClear™, the leading nanocrystal dispersions for demanding applications in the electronics, semiconductor, and industrial markets, announced today that it close...
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Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar in Diabetics for Days at a Time

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
"Injectable Nano-Network for Glucose-Mediated Insulin Delivery" Authors: Zhen Gu, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alex Aimetti, Yunlong Zhang, O...
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Miller Sports Aspen Brings European Fashion to Aspen With Designer Ski Wear with Goldwin and Toni Sailer

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
Owner of Aspen's newest ski shop Miller Sports Aspen is known for bringing the worlds hottest ski fashion to Aspen and will continue to do so in his new location with designer ski wear from Goldwin Sk...
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ANF Technology Ltd will present results from international research on NAFEN™, 6-9 May at SAMPE 2013

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
ANF Technology Ltd., the manufacturer of NAFEN™, the first ever superior-grade alumina nanofiber to be produced and made available at commercially viable, industrial volumes, will be exhibiting at the...
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'Going negative' pays for nanotubes: Rice University lab finds possible keys to better nanofibers, films

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
A Rice University laboratory's cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.
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How graphene and friends could harness the Sun’s energy

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed.
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New ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters to rapidly publish urgent research findings

Nanotech-Now - May 6, 2013 - 7:45am
ACS Publications is pleased to announce the launch of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (ES&T Letters). The new journal will accelerate the pace of research across the environmental field by...
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Yet Another Nanomaterial Does a Good Job at Oil Spill Remediation

Nanotech-Now - May 4, 2013 - 12:03pm
This blog has chronicled many nanomaterials suggested for cleaning up oil spills over the years, with the most recent being an aerogel developed in China that the researchers claim to be the lightest...
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New imaging technique to visualize bio-metals and molecules simultaneously

Nanotech-Now - May 4, 2013 - 7:45am
Metal elements and molecules interact in the body but visualizing them together has always been a challenge. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have developed a n...
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Nanostart-holding Lumiphore and Algeta Announce Further Expansion of Their Global Partnership

Nanotech-Now - May 4, 2013 - 7:45am
Nanostart-holding Lumiphore, Inc has announced that Algeta ASA, a company focused on the development of novel targeted cancer therapeutics, has exercised its option to take an exclusive worldwide lice...
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Arrowhead to Report Fiscal 2013 Second Quarter Financial Results - Conference Call Scheduled for Thursday, May 9, 2013

Nanotech-Now - May 4, 2013 - 7:45am
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 31, 2013, on Th...
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Multiferroics feel the strain

Nanotechweb - May 3, 2013 - 4:14am
Spintronics and magnonics technologies could benefit.
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How nanocrystals squeeze through nanotubes

Nanotechweb - May 3, 2013 - 2:21am
Crystals reform at atomic scale to pass through narrow passages within nanotubes.
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