Nano News

Selle San Marco, the leading Italian maker of high quality, professional racing bicycle saddles has selected ultra-high strength Sandvik Nanoflex rails for its innovative and patented Magma MG, Rever Profil, Era and SKN saddles.

The Seventh International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes started today in Nagano, Japan (June 18 - 23, 2006).

The Namib Desert, one of the driest regions in the world, gets less than half an inch of rain per year. But early in the morning, a light fog drifts over the desert, offering the plants and animals living in that harsh environment their only chance for a life-sustaining drink.

Of particular interest to any marine company working with anti-fouling/bio-fouling, fuel, lubricants, painting and finishing and composites. Micro and nanotechnology (MNT) is being described as the most significant development since plastics. Expected applications in the marine industry within that time include never-fogging windscreens, composites, heat exchangers, water inlets, anti-corrosives and antifouls.

Heidelberg, Germany, June 16, 2006: Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of an advanced DWL66 fs maskless laser lithography system to the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada.

Hen the multi- million - pound nanotechnology centre at University of Wales, Swansea officially opened its gleaming doors earlier this year many thought the work there would be confined to the realms of science fiction.

Nanotechnology financiers and facilitators Advance Nanotech Inc (OTCBB) today reported "significant progress" in developing new organic semiconductors.

Zyvex and Arkema today have announced their intention to strengthen their strategic partnership by jointly developing commercial nanomaterials applications. Through a new licensing arrangement, Arkema will use Zyvex's patented Kentera(TM) dispersion technology, in conjunction with its own Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs). Arkema will also be the exclusive distributor in Europe of Zyvex's NanoSolve® product line.

Switzerland-based Schoeller Textil AG’s NanoSphere® finishing technology has earned the Germany-based Hohenstein Institutes’ Nanotechnology Quality Label.

Nanotechnology tools maker FEI Co. has just placed three of its electron and ion-beam scopes with Russia's new national nanotechnology center.