SKOKIE, IL–(Marketwire -02/02/12)- NanoProfessor®, a division of NanoInk®, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today a partnership with City Colleges of Chicago in which two City Colleges students will complete a specially designed “Introduction to Nanotechnology” course followed by a paid summer internship program working in the Skokie-based NanoProfessor labs.

It marks the first step by City Colleges to prepare students for careers in the growing field of nanotechnology. During the course of the program, the selected students will receive valuable hands-on training and experience with instrumentation used in the nanotech industry that could directly lead to a nano-focused job following their graduation.

“Our partnership with NanoProfessor will offer our students an unprecedented opportunity to build valuable technical skills and gain real-world experience in the growing nanotechnology industry,” said Cheryl L. Hyman, chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. “The NanoProfessor internship is a great start and we look forward to expanding this and other key industry relationships that allow us to offer our students cutting-edge education to prepare them to launch careers in high-demand fields.”

The internship program is part of the recently announced Colleges to Careers program, which is a partnership between City Colleges of Chicago and industry leaders to fill the skills gap and ensure residents can win the jobs of today and tomorrow.

“We are very excited to partner with City Colleges of Chicago and help meet Mayor Emanuel’s goal of matching education and training with 21st century careers,” said Dean Hart, chief commercial officer at NanoInk. “Moving forward, we hope to expand the program to reach even more students at City Colleges of Chicago.”

Mike Davis, associate vice chancellor for Science Technology Engineering and Math at City Colleges, has been a strong advocate for the tie between classroom experience and workplace skills. “Experiences like this are true game changers. Once you see what the larger world has to offer, classes have a whole new meaning.”

Significant investment in nanotechnology research over the past decade is providing innovations and breakthroughs in many industries including biotechnology, electronics, alternative energy and medicine. As these innovations evolve into commercially viable products, companies need a workforce with the knowledge and skill of working at the nanoscale in order to fully commercialize their products and become successful entities. Unfortunately, many companies go wanting as there is a significant global gap between the estimated 400,000 researchers in nanotechnology today and the 6 million nano-savvy workers projected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be needed globally by 2012. The need for nanoscience education for undergraduate students is not only growing but also immediate.

City Colleges students wishing to apply for the NanoProfessor internship need to submit a resume, cover letter, transcripts (official or unofficial), and a letter of recommendation from a professor by Friday, February 10. Students must be a current City Colleges student with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and have already completed Chemistry 201 or higher, Math 143 or higher, Physics 221 or higher and English 101. More information can be found at www.ccc.edu/internships.

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About the NanoProfessor® Nanoscience Education Program
The NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program aims to advance the field of nanoscience and address the growing need for a skilled workforce of nanotechnologists. The NanoProfessor Program, including instruments, an expert-driven curriculum, and student/teacher support materials, is available for community colleges, technical institutes, and universities worldwide. More information is available at www.NanoProfessor.net or (847)679-NANO(6266). You can also follow NanoProfessor on Facebook® at www.facebook.com/pages/NanoProfessorTM/367787368082.

About the City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 120,000 students annually at seven colleges and seven satellite sites city-wide. The City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life’s goals.

The City Colleges of Chicago includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. The system also oversees the Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, two restaurants, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Institute, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3. For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773)COLLEGE or visit www.ccc.edu.

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NEW YORK, NY, Nov 17, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The nanotechnology industry encompasses a wide range of potential products and applications. As of 2011, a total of 175 different types of consumer nanoproducts have been identified in nine different sectors. According to a research study by Global Industry Analysts, Inc., although the recent global economic recession dampened the optimistic expectations and heady growth patterns of previous years, the global market for products incorporating nanotechnology is projected to grow at a CAGR of 11.1% between 2010 and 2015 to reach US$2.4 trillion. Key factors that will drive this growth include a sturdy demand outlook for nanotechnology-enabled products in healthcare and electronics sectors, the post recession resurgence in growth fundamentals for key markets such as semiconductors, chemicals, and automotives, and an increase in government and private sector funding for R&D.

While there are scores of privately held nanotechnology companies around the world, as a result of the reduced number of IPOs over the past ten years, only a few standout companies in the nanotechnology industry are publicly traded, including Nanophase Technologies Corp., the chemicals and materials giants Dupont and Cabot Corp., FEI Company, and Flamel Technologies SA.

In the area of nanomaterials, Applied Nanotech, Inc. APNT -7.04% is a company that holds 150 patents and has an additional 150 pending. Applied Nanotech, Inc. has developed a broad range of nanomaterials, including Exclucent(TM), a highly transparent thin copper metallic mesh film with very low electrical resistance that cannot be achieved with indium tin oxide films. Applications for Exclucent(TM) include high growth markets of touch pads for consumer electronics and electrodes for photovoltaic cells used in solar panels. Applied Nanotech’s proprietary carbon nanotube (CNT) composites have been licensed for use to Yonex Co. Ltd., a 65 year old international golf and sporting goods manufacturer from Japan. In addition to Applied Nanotech’s CNT technology, the company received an R&D 100 award for its patented thermal management product, CarbA1(TM), a carbon based metal nanocomposite designed to provide passive thermal management for temperature control issues that could reduce costs and extend the life of electronics applications.

Products incorporating nanotechnology make up the largest product segment of the chemicals industry and also represent the fastest growing segment of the pharmaceutical & healthcare industry, estimated to surge at an impressive CAGR of 77.6% from 2010 to 2015.

In November 2011, RedChip Research published a report on Applied Nanotech, Inc. To learn more about Applied Nanotech and download the report, visit:

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Strong players in nanotechnology research and educational laboratory design have joined forces
As an internationally recognized nanotechnology research and education institution ETU has developed a cost-effective, multi-disciplinary Nanotechnology education laboratory. NanoLab enables efficient training and research activities based on standardized set of laboratory exercises. Moreover, ETU plays a leading role in standardization of nanotechnology education in Russian universities.

TEKLAB specializes in providing modular and multipurpose electric workstations and laboratories for industry and education. TEKLAB has delivered more than 1 000 complete laboratories or workshops with over 20 000 workstations to more than 100 countries since 1981. TEKLAB possesses deep knowledge of customer requirements in demanding industrial and educational environments. TEKLAB’s unique modularity provides a perfect platform also for nanotechnology teaching purposes. Moreover, TEKLAB’s multipurpose and mobile possibilities enable theory lessons and laboratory practice in the same facilities, if required.

The NanoLab partnership is the first university-industry commercialization project in the framework of the Finnish-Russian Innovation Alliance on Nanotechnology funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry’s Finland – Russia Neighborhood Programme and coordinated by Spinverse Ltd. The programme is supported by Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation between Finland and Russia.

NanoLab – a trans-disciplinary nanomaterials education and research environment
NanoLab consists of up to 12 workplaces, covering both nanomaterial synthesis and analysis. The workplaces can also be used for research projects by students and graduates, as well as for small-scale production for prototyping and proof-of-concept. So far, the workplaces cover gas phase processes (ALD, carbon nanotube synthesis), liquid phase processes (Langmuir-Blodgett, sol-gel technologies), electrochemical synthesis of nanoporous materials (Si, SiC, Al2O3etc), DNA amplification by PCR, as well as methods for analysis of nano-objects such as optical microscopy with probe diagnostics, scanning electron microscopy, atomic-force microscopy, ellipsometry, EPR-spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis on chip. NanoLab has been successfully tested within engineers training on Nanotechnology and Characterization course.

The NanoLab solution is built around ETU’s standardized educational content and software developed by leading scientist of each area of study, using both off-the-shelf and custom-designed hardware. TEKLAB unites all the components into one functional and logistical solution and ETU offers necessary technical support in installation, commissioning and user training. A NanoLab user community will help to gather customer feed-back and best practice experience and keep the NanoLab constantly up-to-date as new technologies, materials and educational methods evolve.

NanoLab will be available for deliveries from the beginning of 2012.

Professor Victor Luchinin, scientific supervisor: “We at ETU Nanocentre are proud of the NanoLab concept and educational content developed by our leading lecturers and researchers. The unified laboratory guarantees high educational standard and allows training specialists who can leverage their theoretical knowledge in practical work in research and industry”

Mr. Esko Horelli, CEO of Teklab Ltd. “NanoLab allows TEKLAB to expand its solution portfolio from world-leading electronics laboratories to new materials related education and research and serve an expanding customer base in Russia and world-wide”.

Comments Mr. Pekka Koponen, CEO of Spinverse: “This partnership demonstrates how combining Russian science with Finnish commercialization expertise creates mutually profitable business. Spinverse is proud to have brought together world’s oldest Electrotechnical university ETU and the leading electronics laboratory vendor TEKLAB.”

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 18, 2011

Black Rooster Creations has launched its website with a viral campaign and three major book releases written by screenwriter Jim Beck featuring zombies, superheroes, and yes, even bugs.

The first release, Patient Zero, serves as a cautionary tale that mixes old school zombies with new school technology. Narrated by the zombie virus itself, the story follows single father Robert Forrester, who is brought back to life as one of the living dead after a botched experiment involving nanotechnology. His transformation is slow, first appearing as a skin rash and advanced arthritis, and he quickly begins to lose control.

Featuring a cover quote by Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of such zombie fare as his own Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin, Jim Beck’s Patient Zero is currently available through Amazon and Smashwords as a digital download and will soon be available for such formats as Apple’s iBooks and Barnes & Noble’s Nook.

Accompanying the release will be a viral campaign through Facebook and Twitter beginning on October 18th, and will feature the main character’s inner thoughts as his infection escalates. Details are available on the Black Rooster Creations website (blackroostercreations.com).

Beck stated, “The idea for Patient Zero came to me after ingesting numerous forms of zombie lore and realizing that many of them shared the same basic formula of an unexplained outbreak, followed by a group of people trying to survive. I wanted to tell a more personal story about a single father trying to protect his son and defend their home while coming to grips with his own transformation. I also liked the contrast between zombification and nanotechnology, and telling the story from the point of view of the virus will provide readers with an insight rarely seen in the world of zombies.”

The second and third releases coincide with the introduction of TV in Prose (TM), an exciting new venture that brings television into the world of books. Each series will be split up into seasons and episodes similar to a televised series and will include season-long arcs, season finales, and even cliffhangers. Current plans are for each series to have four seasons, with 6-8 episodes each. New releases will take place every 1-2 months.

The first TV in Prose title is Alter Ego, the story of a homicide detective who discovers that his demure wife is a superhero charged with defending their city against those who would do it harm. The second title is Pest Control, a cartoon of sorts that follows the adventures of a cockroach private eye as he tries to get back into the detective game after an eighteen-month hiatus.

Beck commented, “I love television and I love books, and I thought someone should finally mix the two formats in a way that hasn’t really been done before. Alter Ego and Pest Control have been pet projects of mine for several years, and I am excited to allow readers the opportunity to see what’s in my head.”

To celebrate their website launch, Black Rooster Creations is offering the first episode of each TV in Prose series for free. For details on where to go for a free copy, please visit their website (blackroostercreations.com).

Beck also added, “With the formation of Black Rooster Creations, we hope to bring unique, original stories into the fold … and are determined to have fun while we do it.”

ABOUT BLACK ROOSTER CREATIONS
Black Rooster Creations is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company, founded in 2011 by Jim Beck. The company specializes in the creation of unique and intriguing concepts for various forms of entertainment.

The compact turn-key instrument sensitively captures fluorescence spectra from 400 to 1600 nm (optionally to 2000 nm) using up to 5 laser excitation wavelengths. It also measures UV, visible, and near-IR absorption spectra from 210 to 1600 nm, and Raman spectra from 150 to 3000 cm-1 with one or two excitation wavelengths. Integrated software is included for data acquisition and carbon nanotube characterization.

The instrument’s modular design allows configurations to be customized to user needs.

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Laboratory equipment and instruments produced by 22 companies are being displayed in the section of Equipment Manufacturers in the Fourth Nanotechnology Festival and Exhibition in Tehran.

Among such equipment, mention can be made of scanning tunneling microscope (STM), atomic force microscope (AFM), BET, deep reactive ion etching (DRIE), HiReSPECT and capillary electrophoresis instrument.

The device for the determination of specific area of nanomaterials (BET) , (Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) with the ability to create micrometric and nanomteric structures in vertical and deep forms was presented, while capillary electrophoresis instrument with the ability to quantitatively and qualitatively identify drugs and animal spectroscopy device (HiReSPECT) with the ability to take images from small animals were introduced in Iran Nano 2011 Exhibition.

Among the devices presented in Equipment Manufacturers Zone of Iran Nano 2011 Exhibition, mention can be made of two-dimensional gas chromatography device, sputtering deposition device and bi-functional PECVD system, scanning tunneling (STM) and atomic force microscopes (AFM) , molecular deposition device, and the device for the production of nanopowder through Electrical Wire Explosion method.

The Equipment Manufacturers Zone of the Fourth Nanotechnology Festival and Exhibition has been held on the first floor of the Persian Gulf Hall located in Tehran Permanent International Fairground and it will host the visitors by the end of October 9, 2011.

Acoustic emission testing is one of the most popular methods currently employed to monitor the internal health of structures. By measuring specific elastic waves that emanate from imperfections within a material, AE sensors can pinpoint the location and severity of potentially perilous damage. Since these sensors operate by passively “listening” to the effects of everyday stresses, they are an ideal solution for “always-on” monitoring that can relay information about the health of a structure to a remote location.

Embedding sensors for more precise measurements is highly desired, but the current generation of sensors is simply not suitable for this application due to their size, cost, and ceramic material properties. Matters are worse due to the complexity of advanced composite structures, which have anisotropic properties that are not well resolved by traditional AE sensors. The need to power such devices for long-term use makes embedded applications even more problematic.

Dr. Shi’s research team has addressed all of these issues by taking AE sensing to the nanoscale. PZT nanofibers developed by his group exhibit an extremely high piezoelectric voltage constant (g33, 0.079 Vm/N), high bending flexibility, and high mechanical strength. With added piezoelectric properties, the NAFCs have the opportunity to make self-powering devices. The team’s nanofibers can produce much higher voltage and power output than other semiconductor type of piezoelectric materials. Such a nanogenerator would be excited by the acoustic waves to produce electricity, thereby powering the sensors indefinitely without batteries.

The research team has previously published papers in this subject area in Applied Physics Letters and Nano Letters.

“This technology has the potential to become a public safety breakthrough by introducing embedded intelligence into critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and buildings,” reports Dr. Constantin Chassapis, Deputy Dean of the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science and Department Director for Mechanical Engineering at Stevens.

This exceptional set of characteristics makes the material a breakthrough for structural health monitoring, saving time, money, and lives by delivering current and precise information about the health of millions of structures worldwide.

About the Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering confidently addresses the challenges facing engineering now and into the future, yet remains true to the vision of the founders of Stevens Institute in 1870 as one of the first engineering schools in the nation. The department mission is to produce graduates with a broad-based foundation in fundamental engineering principles and liberal arts together with the depth of disciplinary knowledge needed to succeed in a career in mechanical engineering or a related field, including a wide variety of advanced technological and management careers. This is accomplished through a broad-based Core Curriculum of applied sciences, engineering sciences, design, management, and the humanities, coupled with a long-standing honor system. Learn more: visit www.stevens.edu/ses/me

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Prof. Daniel Maspoch, an ICREA Research Professor and leader of NANOUP at the ICN said, “The NLP 2000 System allows for versatile patterning of a wide range of substances and liquids including solutions of chemical reactants and biomolecules. Uniquely, the system allows patterning over large areas, opening up new possibilities for analysis and application of the techniques we are developing and for studying the fundamental properties of nanomaterials.”

Dr. Robert Marchmont, NanoInk’s general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) said, “Prof. Maspoch’s group has pioneered the understanding of several fundamental aspects of Tip-Based Nanolithography, including deposition of biomolecules and nanochemistry. We look forward to supporting him and his group in developing future step advances within this field.”

The research at the Supramolecular NanoChemistry & Materials Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology is focused on controlling the supramolecular assembly of molecules, biomolecules, metal ions and nanoscale building blocks at the nanometer scale for the design and synthesis of novel functional architectures. The group is interested in developing new technologies that enable the synthesis of complex supramolecular assemblies and bioinspired architectures with unprecedented structures and interesting physical and biological properties. More information on Supramolecular NanoChemistry & Materials group (NANOUP) is available at: http://www.nanoup.org or http://www.icn.cat.

NanoInk’s NanoFabrication Systems Division brings sophisticated nanofabrication to the laboratory desktop in an easy to use and affordable setting. It provides the ability to design and create custom engineered and functionalized surfaces with nanometer scale precision and sub-cellular resolution, which enables cutting edge nanofabrication, nanoengineering and nanobiological applications. More information is available on its new Web site at: www.nanoink.net/divisions.html#NanoFabrication.

About NanoInk
NanoInk, Inc. is an emerging growth technology company specializing in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life sciences, engineering, pharmaceutical, and education industries. Using Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN), a patented and proprietary nanofabrication technology, scientists are enabled to rapidly and easily create micro-and nanoscale structures from a variety of materials on a range of substrates. This low cost, easy to use and scalable technique brings sophisticated nanofabrication to the laboratory desktop. Headquartered in the Illinois Science + Technology Park, north of Chicago, NanoInk, Inc. currently has several divisions including the NanoFabrication Systems Division, the Nano BioDiscovery Division, the NanoProfessor®Division and the NanoGuardian® Division. For more information on products and services offered by NanoInk, Inc., visit www.nanoink.net.

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Clustered in a hallway on a floor of green tiles, with lights, pipes and vents visible overhead, about 50 informally dressed students and sports-jacketed faculty looked on as Sandia fellow and UNM professor Jeff Brinker, UNM School of Engineering dean Catalin Roman, UNM Cancer Center director Cheryl Willman and other administrators explained to three New Mexico state representatives, sitting in an adjacent bubble-like room, why the $2 million the state had contributed to the new facility was a good idea.

Brinker, who spearheaded the drive to create the 5,000-square-foot lab, spoke first: “I used to be content in making materials, but as my wife used to say: ‘Have you saved anyone’s life today? What have you really done?’”

Prominently displayed on the wall was work led by Brinker, published in the most highly respected science journals. Most prominent was a paper detailing the creation by the Brinker group of pore-riddled nanospheres they termed ‘protocells,’ capable of encapsulating and delivering unusually large amounts of cancer-destroying chemicals directly to a cancerous cell.

The protocell work, said Willman, has led to numerous calls from drug companies near Boston and in San Diego, “but we prefer to start a company in New Mexico to bring these achievement to market.”

She pointed out to the legislators that, because of the Cancer Center’s joint work with Brinker and Sandia, UNM is a member with three other institutions — Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — of the National Cancer Institute’s Nanotechnology Alliance, which has brought millions of federal dollars into New Mexico. The nanobio-nanomedicine lab should help produce more medical breakthroughs from New Mexico, she said.

The lab contains areas to continue work on cancers and low-level pathogens, and to create and analyze new nanomaterials. “For commercial purposes, we have to demonstrate good manufacturing practices that show dosage control, purity, reproducibility and other factors in our protocells,” said UNM post-doctoral student Carlee Ashley, who led development of the nanoscale medicine transporters as part of her doctoral project under Brinker’s tutelage. “And we have to demonstrate removal of toxins that can contaminate our work, before applying to the [Food and Drug Administration] for human trials.”

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