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Cosmas, Inc.
Synthesis of metal, metal oxide & mixed metal
oxide nanoparticles
Nanoparticles of any transition metal or rare
earth and any combination of any number of all
of the above. Particles <10nm +/-1nm. High
crystallinity and purity
Coatings – abrasion & thermal, catalysts,
batteries, fuel cells, photoelectronics, sun
screen/photo protection
See applications
Ceramatec, Inc., Headwaters, Inc., High
Performance Coatings, Inc., BYK Chemie
Seeking funding
BYU Department of Chemistry
Seeking collaborations in all fields of
application of nanomaterials
None until funding
Lynn Astle, Ph.D.
CEO
lynnastle@byu.edu; 801/367-7085
Global News:
China sees soaring development in nanotechnology
Varsity to set up nano facility centre- India
Russian Minister Expects Economic Boost from Nanotechnology
Special issue on nanotechnology in Singapore
German Research Foundation approves two new nanotechnology ...
Singapore to develop nano-material filters to recycle water
US Statewide News:
Harvard Is Licensing More Than 50 Patents to a Nanotechnology Start-Up
Maximizing nanotechnology patent benefits
Nano-Products:
Clarion Nanotechnology Helps Improve Solar Cell Performance
Nano Interface Technology, Inc. will sell its products in 1 year
PharmaTropic Offer Try Before You Buy on Nano O2 Air Purifiers
USE OF NANOTECH IN CONSUMER GOODS KEEPS GROWING
ThalesNano Nanotechnology Inc. News
ATP to Bring Its Latest DRAM and Solid State Flash Solutions to ...
Research News:
Nanotechnology Seeks to Improve Computer Storage Devices
Breaking The Barriers To Nanomanufacturing To Enable The ...
Ethanol production inside carbon nanotubes
Fluorescent carbon nanotubes as medical imaging tools
The Original Nano Workout: Helping Carbon Nanotubes Get Into Shape
Nano-Material Filters Could Cut Cost Of Cleaning Water
Nanotechnology Could See Plastics Package Hydrogen
New method for making the surface of metal stents highly nano porous
Business:
Entrepreneurs look to nanotechnology
Appleton businessmen aim to improve paper with 'nano' fibers
Nanometrics Completes Divestiture Of Non-strategic DiVA And ...
Commercialization of nano assessed in new study
GenISys, JEOL, and Cornell partner on nano-EPC
Tools needed for 'nano-scaling,' says Samsung exec
Kelvin Nanotechnologies - Facilitating Commercialisation of World ...
Articles & Reports:
The 1st International Festival of NanoArt - Finland 2007: Art and ...
Nanotechnology: Toward matter programmable to atomic precision
Ethanol production inside carbon nanotubes
Grocery Manufacturers Association to study nanotechnology in food ...
Economic Development Organization Forms Nanotechnology Unit
Nanotechnology on the Road
Nanotechnology faces criticism, fear
Concerns over nanotechnology
Expert: accentuate benefits of nanotechnology
Nano-Risks:
Nanotechnology Toxicity Controls Proposed
Consumer Report's first nanotechnology test - Nanoparticles and sunscreen
safety"
Agriculture and food workers question nanotechnology
Awards:
Vanderbilt robot teams, nano-engineering projects win young ...
Week 23: nanotechweb.org News
HEADLINES
1. Business briefs
A round-up of this week's nanotechnology news featuring Octillion, Industrial Nanotech,
Copernicus Therapeutics and more.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/8?alert=1
2. Batch fabrication boost for nanowire LEDs
Nanowire LEDs could soon shed their status as a research curiosity thanks to a breakthrough in
batch production. These highly directional emitters offer waveguiding properties on a miniature
scale and are shaping up to become photonic building blocks of the future.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/7?alert=1
3. Excitons reveal nanotube reactions
Visualizing single-molecule reactions on the sidewalls of individual carbon nanotubes show how
electron-hole pairs, called excitons, move through these materials, say scientists in France and
the US. The results could lead to nanotubes being used as sensors in biological cells as well as
provide a better understanding of the excitonic processes that occur in these 1D nanosystems.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/6?alert=1
4. Nanobubbles go on and on
Surface nanobubbles are extremely stable, contrary to what was previously believed, say
physicists in the Netherlands. Detlef Lohse of the University of Twente and colleagues have
found that these bubbles are not only stable at room temperature and pressure but also under
extreme negative pressures down to –6 MPa. This "super-stability" could be important for
understanding liquid–solid interfaces and may even find applications in industry.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/5?alert=1
5. Photoacoustic imaging goes for gold
Photoacoustic imaging is an optical technique that can be used to visualize abnormalities in soft
tissue. Now, a Netherlands-based research consortium is investigating the possibility of adding
gold nanoparticles into the photoacoustic mix in the hope that the work will one day yield a costeffective breast-cancer detection system, and perhaps even a new type of therapy.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/4?alert=1
6. As easy as blowing bubbles
Researchers in the US and Hawaii have developed a simple technique to align carbon nanotubes
and nanowires over large areas – by suspending these materials in a polymer and blowing
bubbles from the suspension. The bubbles, which grow to 25 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height,
contain regularly spaced nanowires or nanotubes all pointing in the same direction. The method
could prove useful for applications that require large-scale arrays of nano- or opto-electronic
devices such as sensors and displays.
See http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/6/6/3?alert=1
Forbes Newsletters [newsletters@forbes.com]:
Nanotech Insider: Jun 8 (On the Road Again, Cleantech)
APPLICATIONS: DISPLAYS
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are currently found on mobile phones and
digital cameras. But in the future, manufacturers expect bigger, bendable, and completely
transparent versions. They envision bright maps on visors and windshields, television
screens built into eyeglasses, and roll-up, see-through computer screens. And although
the OLEDs themselves can be transparent, to make a clear display, the transistors that
control each display's OLED, or pixel, need to be transparent as well.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/18818/
INDUSTRIES: SEMICONDUCTORS
The shift towards the ''nano-scaling'' era is becoming a major challenge, thereby requiring
new breakthroughs in fab equipment, materials and EDA tools, according to a top
executive from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. At present, the IC industry is moving
towards the 45-nm node and beyond in what could be called the ''nano-scaling'' era. In
this era, a 300-mm fab runs $2.5-to-$2.9 billion, while the development costs for a 45-nm
process is about $1.1 billion, said Oh-Hyun Kwon, president of System LSI Business at
Samsung.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199901398
APPLICATIONS: CLEAN WATER
Singapore's university and government agency has developed a nano-material which
could cut cost of filtering and recycling water, local media reported on Monday. The new
material, developed by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Public Utilities
Board (PUB), uses nanotechnology, which controls matter on a scale smaller than 1
micrometer, and is made up of nano-sized crystals, according to local television Channel
NewsAsia.
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/05/eng20070605_380894.html
COMPANIES: NANO-TERRA
George M. Whitesides, a Harvard University chemist, is a renowned specialist in
nanotechnology, a field built on the behavior of materials as small as one molecule thick.
But there is nothing tiny about the patent portfolio that Harvard has amassed over the last
25 years based on work in his lab. Harvard and Nano-Terra Inc., a company co-founded
by Professor Whitesides, plan to announce the exclusive licensing for more than 50
current and pending Harvard patents to Nano-Terra.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/technology/04nano.html?_r=1&em&ex=118118880
0&en=531aaaf514c99659&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
COMPANIES: NANOEXA
Battery company Nanoexa hired Deepak Srivastava of the NASA Ames Center as chief
technology officer. This is the first CTO at the South San Francisco company. Previously,
technology research was overseen by Director of Technology Sujeet Kumar, who remains
with the company. Srivastava worked more than 10 years doing computer modeling at the
NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology. He also co-founded Junius Tech, which later
merged into the company Nanostellar.
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/06/04/daily14.html
SCIENCE: NANOWIRES
A new way of embedding silicon nanowires in cells could one day allow scientists to
control how living tissues grow using electrical stimulation. Living cells cannot easily be
connected to nanowires. In the past, researchers have had to physically push nanowires or
carbon nanotubes into the cells, which can damage or kill them.
However, Peidong Yang of the University of California at Berkeley and a team of
researchers found that when cells in a solution settle onto an array of silicon nanowires,
they gradually incorporate the wires into the cells without any resistance.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11968-embedded-nanowires-could-controltissue-growth.html
Foresight Nanotech Weekly News Digest: June 6, 2007
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