Entries from October 2009 ↓
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LayTec Ranks Among Germany’s 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
At the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Hamburg on October 21, 2009 LayTec ranked 30th among the 50 fastest growing companies in Germany.
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Silver nanoparticle release from treated garments
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.
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Applied Materials’ Next-Generation IEC-Certified SunFab Module Technology Cuts Customers’ Cost of Manufacturing
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has significantly lowered the cost for customers to manufacture solar photovoltaic panels on its SunFab Thin Film Line using its next-generation module technology.
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New storage material improves energy density of lithium-ion battery
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.
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Velozzi Collaborates With Nanoledge to Provide Innovative Resin Solutions Using Carbon Nanotubes from Bayer
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Collaboration leverages Baytubes multi-walled carbon nanotubes in response to customer demand for improved composites.
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Hitachi High-Technologies to Acquire Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Business from Renesas
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced a basic agreement for the transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc. to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments Co., Ltd.
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Scientists build first ‘frequency comb’ to display visible ‘teeth’
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb - a tool for precisely measuring different frequencies of visible light - that actually looks like a comb.
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Spintronics may cool the laptop
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist.
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Pinning down superconductivity to a single layer
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss.
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Nanotechnology anti-freeze coating
October 30th, 2009 — From Nanowerk.com
Inspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in superhydrophobic coatings.