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Nanotechnology helps packaging smarten up Meili’s focus is on innovation trends (foto-laaks.de) by Christian Raaflaub, swissinfo.ch In the near future packaging will be much more than a simple external protective wrapper or support for product advertising. Biotechnologist Christoph Meili outlines the major role nanotechnology will play. The Swiss packaging industry, which represents about 250 firms and 19,000 workers, accounts for about ... Read More »

Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 – 11:04 in Physics & Chemistry By introducing individual silicon atom ‘defects’ using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states. Published April 3 in Nature Communications, the study demonstrates the viability of engineering atomic-scale quantum states on ... Read More »

Pfizer inks deal with nanotechnology drugmaker Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — BIND Therapeutics said Wednesday that Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay at least $160 million per drug as part of a collaboration to develop targeted medicines using nanotechnology which use particles measured in billionths of a meter. BIND is developing an experimental group of targeted, programmable medicines called Accurins ... Read More »

Nanosys expands U.S. manufacturing as demand for displays with lifelike color heats up By Nanosys, Inc. Published: Tuesday, Apr. 2, 2013 – 5:11 am MILPITAS, Calif., April 2, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ – Nanosys, enabling a new generation of high color fidelity, energy-efficient displays with its quantum-dot technology, today announced that it has expanded into a new, high-capacity production facility in Milpitas, ... Read More »

Research and Markets: Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology, 2013 to 2019 DUBLIN – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/tncnhd/quantum_dot_and ) has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc’s new report “Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED): Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology, 2013 to 2019″ to their offering. Quantum dots will ... Read More »

Indium creates Nanotechnology Team Indium Corporation announces the creation of a Nanotechnology Team to support Indium Corporation’s expansion into novel nanotechnology materials and markets. “Nanotechnology” is a term that describes materials that are less than 100 nanometers (0.1microns) in one or more dimensions. It also encompasses products that are made using nanotechnology, as well as products that are used in ... Read More »

Nanofoam Works As Body Armor The Army’s research and development arm has funded a three-year research program at University of California, San Diego investigating nanofoam for protection — the first foam armor endeavor ever, the college said. “We’re developing nanofoams that help disperse the force of an impact over a wider area,” explained UC San Diego professor of structural engineering ... Read More »