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Scientists build the first wafer-scale graphene integrated circuit smaller than a pinhead. Designed for wireless communications, this graphene-based analog integrated circuit could improve today’s wireless devices and points to the potential for a new set of applications. Graphene, the thinnest electronic material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure, possesses outstanding electrical, optical, mechanical ... Read More »

Gurgaon: Gurgaon-based Navran Advanced Nanoproducts Development International (NAND ipl) has raised funds from Singapore-based Khattar Holdings for an undisclosed amount. Khattar Holdings have picked up 40 percent stake in the company. Credence Advisors, Delhi-based advisory firm, was the sole advisor in the deal. Incorporated in 2008 by Abhinava Srivastava and Kumar Binit, NAND ipl is engaged in developing, manufacturing and ... Read More »

Oxford Instruments, which manufactures tools and systems for industry and research, has purchased Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH along with its subsidiaries, and Ombiprobe in a double deal worth €46.25 million (£40.67 million). German-based Omicron designs and produces microscopes and chemical analysis instruments for nanotechnology research. Texas-based Ombiprobe designs and produces tools which give customers nano-scale laboratory capabilities within microscopes. According to ... Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Nanotechnology Directorate (NND), a unit under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), will set up a RM200 million NanoMalaysia Centre complex at Senai High Tech Park, Johor. Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili, said the project, under the 10th Malaysia Plan, would be the first of its kind in ... Read More »

BANGALORE, India –  India’s richest software tycoon was planning Tuesday to produce a £20 ($32) tablet computer designed to bring iPad-style technology to his country. Computer company Wipro, founded by Azim Premji, said it was developing a touch-screen PC device that would cost a fraction of the 29,500 rupee ($660) starting cost of an Apple iPad in India. The tablet, ... Read More »

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 16 (Xinhua) — Russia, South Korea and Singapore signed a cooperation deal on developing nanotechnology Thursday. A memorandum of understanding signed Thursday on the sidelines of the 2011 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum broadens investment in the Asia Nanotechnology Fund, which was set up last September by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), the Singaporean Economic ... Read More »

A group of Turkish researchers at an Ankara university have manufactured the longest and thinnest nanowires ever produced, by employing a novel method to shrink matter 10-million fold. Hürriyet image The invention, discovered at Bilkent University’s National Nanotechnology Research Center, or UNAM, is set to appear on the cover of Nature Material magazine’s July edition. “At this moment, we may ... Read More »