Tag: nanotechnology
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Safer Catalysts Developed for Power Plant Pollutants
A research team at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has developed catalysts that convert the harmful nitrogen oxides emitted from coal- and gas-fired power plants to nitrogen and water vapor. Unlike current methods, the catalysts developed with nanotechnology do not use ammonia or need high temperatures to work. Charles Lyman, professor of materials science and…
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Energy Department to Fund Nanolubricant Plant
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded NanoMech Inc. of Springdale, Arkansas a grant for $1 million to develop and test a pilot-scale production facility for manufacturing of NanoGlide, the company’s lubricant additives engineered at nano scale. The DoE grant is a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award that follows an earlier…
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Intel, Irish Research Institute to Collaborate on Electronics
Intel Corporation and Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland have signed a research collaboration covering several fields related to electronics. The agreement also provides Intel with a license to commercially develop technology created through the collaboration with Tyndall. Under the agreement researchers from Tyndall and Intel will investigate new materials, devices, and photonics technologies that…
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Academic, Industrial Researchers Enhance Nanospring Capabilities
Researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis and University of Idaho in Moscow, with colleagues from GoNano Technologies also in Moscow, loaded biological molecules onto a type of nanostructure called “nanosprings” that are able to maximize surface area in chemical processes operating on a micrometer scale. The researchers found a way to attach enzymes to…
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Startups License Academic Research to Combat Counterfeiting
Two startup companies completed exclusive license agreements with University of Arkansas – Little Rock (UALR) to bring to market technology developed by UALR’s Nanotechnology Center that offers anti-counterfeiting solutions for manufacturers. UALR says the technology will enable companies and government agencies to authenticate items with an invisible and unique code that is virtually impossible to…
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University Licenses Carbon Nanotube Technology for Fuel Cells
Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee has commercialized research on nanomaterials by one of its engineering professors to a company making components for hydrogen fuel cells. Bing Energy Inc., a manufacturer of fuel cell components in Chino, California, has entered into an agreement with FSU that gives it exclusive use of Zheng’s patented technology. Jim…
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Nanoscale Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Memory Barrier
Rice University scientists in Houston, Texas have created the first two-terminal memory silicon chips that can be manufactured with nanoelectronic techniques and promise to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore’s Law, which states the number of devices on a circuit doubles every 18 to 24 months. Professor James Tour initially showed how electrical…
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FDA Holding Workshop on Nanotech and Medical Devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to learn more about the safety and effectiveness of medical devices made with or from nanotechnology, and has scheduled a public workshop to find out. The session is set for Wednesday, 23 September 2010 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. According to the notice of the meeting … FDA would…
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Clearing the Air with Nanotech Concrete
Germany’s Fraunhofer-Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME) in Munich, together with the German city of Fulda, and pavement manufacturer F. C. Nüdling Basaltwerke GmbH, also in Fulda, have tested a new paving material that reduces the amount of nitrogen oxide pollutants in the air. High levels of nitrogen oxide in urban areas are…
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Grant Awarded for Nicotine Vaccine
Selecta Biosciences Inc. in Watertown, Massachusetts received a grant for $3 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance development of an enhanced vaccine to help treat nicotine addiction and aid in smoking cessation and relapse prevention. The grant will fund a candidate from Selecta’s…