Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

With oil prices skyrocketing, transportation companies around the country are struggling to cope with higher fuel costs. But as the WXXI Innovation Trail’s Zack Seward reports, a Rochester company is using nanotechnology to help ease the pain. Cerion Energy makes a diesel additive that’s been shown to cut fuel costs by about 10 percent, while at the same time significantly ... Read More »

In the late 1990s, New York state began an aggressive strategy to attract semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology-related innovation. Here in the Mohawk Valley, EDGE led the charge with an aggressive marketing effort that was energized by Advanced Micro Devices’ 2006 decision to site a computer chip center in Malta. Since, EDGE has spanned the globe to promote the 300-acre greenfield ... Read More »

Guojun Liu has discovered a way to use nanotechnology to reduce friction in automobile engines and machines. “The technology should be useful in a wide range of machineries other than automobile engines,” says Dr. Liu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and an expert in polymer synthesis. “If implemented industrially, this nanotechnology should help prolong machine life and improve ... Read More »

5 – 6 Apr, 2011 Drury Conference Center Street: 100 Drury Lane City: Oakbrooke Terrace , Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60181 Country: United States Looking to understand what nanotechnology means for you? Need to understand how and why nanotechnology can improve your products, process and may even cut costs? Interested in learning about the latest applications and trends in top-down ... Read More »

Dallas, TX — (SBWIRE) — 03/04/2011 — This report concentrates on innovations in oral solid dose delivery systems (OSDDS) with an emphasis on the links between start up companies and academic collaborations. It deals with the impact of the difficult economic climate with the restriction on funding and opportunities for partnering projects. Developments are assessed in relation to understanding the ... Read More »

Nanotechnology company Liquidia Technologies has received a $10 million equity investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support vaccine development and commercialization. The financing follows the announcement last month of a collaborative agreement with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which is working with Liquidia to develop next-generation malaria vaccines using the Morrisville, North Carolina-based company’s nanotechnology methods. Liquidia’s ... Read More »

It is with great pleasure I can report that I read a really first-rate article on nanotechnology from the mainstream press. It comes from the Irish Times and is based around an interview with Prof Peter Dobson of Oxford University, who had been in Ireland in early February for the Nanoweek conference. I had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Dobson ... Read More »