Sharing Nanotechnology Knowledge

• Nano Start-Up Finds Naturally-Occurring Nanotubes May Expand Use, Cut Costs for Industrial Nano Apps
  NaturalNano Inc. is hard at work proving that nanotech success may not require exotic multi-million-dollar research labs. Mother Nature, it turns out, may have her own recipe for commercial-grade nano-structures.
  NWN Exclusive - By Vance McCarthy
• USPTO Poised to Ring in a New Era of Simplified Search and Better Visibility for Nano Patents
  Happy New Year, courtesy of the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office!
  NWN Exclusive - By Vance McCarthy
• Sarnoff Enters Into Multi-Year Agreement with ExxonMobil to Develop Company’s Nanomaterials for Non-Petrochemical Markets; Executives From Both Companies Give NWN Their Perspectives About This Strategic Partnership
  NWN Interview By Jennifer Rocha with Dr. John Riganati, Sarnoff and Dr. Tom Degnan, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
  Sarnoff Corporation will work with ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company (EMRE) over the next five years in identifying commercialization opportunities for EMREs materials for non-petroleum markets. ExxonMobil’s proprietary nanomaterials are among the first ever created and have already been commercialized by the company for its own use.

• Nanotechnology En Route from Bench to Bedside for Cancer Patients
  NCI’s 12 Platform Partnerships Awards catalyze development of diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic tools against multiple cancer types.
  Special collaborative feature with National Cancer Institute
• Australia-Based Company Begins Sales of Exclusive Human Proteins to Global Research Reagents Market
• Philips Electronics and Schering Enter Into Long-Term Alliance for New Disease Diagnosis
• Labeling and Imaging of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Quantum Dot Bioconjugates
  B. Shah et al., University of Illinois at Chicago

• Nanoelectronics Research to Explore Post-CMOS Semiconductors Begins in New Year
  Nanoelectronics research will enter a new era in the New Year with the creation of two multi-university research centers dedicated to exploring how nano-sciences can help the semiconductor industry to extend Moore’s Law for several decades.
  An Exclusive NWN Interview with IBM’s Hans Coufal, Founding Director of SIA’s Nanoelectronics Research Initiative - By Vance McCarthy
• Freescale Semiconductor Manufactures First 24-Megabit-Memory Chip Based on Silicon Nanocrystals
  Dr. Bruce White of Freescale Speaks to NWN About This Latest Chip Breakthrough And the Impact Nanotechnology Has on the Chip Industry.
• Georgia Tech Developing Next Generation Chips For NASA Spacecrafts
• University of Tokyo and Sharp Jointly Establish Laboratories Dedicated to Flexible Electronics Technologies
• A Novel Approach to Integrate Multiple Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) with Different Frequencies in a Single Chip
  Z. Huang et al., Harvard University, and L-P Wang et al., Intel Corporation

• Sarnoff Enters Into Multi-Year Agreement with ExxonMobil to Develop Company’s Nanomaterials for Non-Petrochemical Markets; Executives From Both Companies Give NWN Their Perspectives About This Strategic Partnership
  NWN Interview with Dr. John Riganati, Sarnoff and Dr. Tom Degnan, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
  Sarnoff Corporation will work with ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company (EMRE) over the next five years in identifying commercialization opportunities for EMREs materials for non-petroleum markets. ExxonMobil’s proprietary nanomaterials are among the first ever created and have already been commercialized by the company for its own use.
• New Study Shows Nanotubes Have Foam-Like Properties, Flexing and Rebounding with Great Compressibility
  NWN Interview Brief with Dr. Pulickel Ajayan and Dr. Anyuan Cao
• DuPont to Construct TiO2 Plant in China
• Nano Architecture MEA for Next Generation Fuel Cell
  J. Schneider et al, Nanometrix Inc.

• MKS Instruments, Inc. to Acquire Swedish Software Company
  Umetrics services the multi-industry set of manufacturing markets at the heart of nanotechnology.
• Mechanical Nonlinear Generation with Coupled Torsional Harmonic Cantilevers for Sensitive and Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy of Material Characteristics
  O. Sahin at al., Stanford University
• Optimization of Nano-Machining With Focused Ion Beams
  L.A. Giannuzzi et al., FEI Company