Park Systems' XE-Bio helped researchers at Stanford University discover a vulnerable step in the virus' reproduction process that in lab testing could be effectively targeted with an obsolete antihistamine.

The thin-film silicon PV cell developed by Mitsubishi Electric has a triple junction structure that utilizes a majority of the solar spectrum for higher efficiency.

Malvern Instruments will focus on its range of analytical instrumentation for life science applications, with an emphasis on the company's comprehensive solutions for characterizing proteins and other macromolecules.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it has set two world records for photoelectric conversion efficiency in polycrystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells, achieved by reducing resistive loss in the cells.

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the appointments of Robert Schueren as vice president and general manager, Genomics; and John Fjeldsted, Ph.D., as general manager, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry.

Solar-powered splitting of water promises an attractive, clean energy source and numerous research projects around the world are working on making this process sufficiently efficient - reducing the systems' cost and extending their lifetimes - to be able to compete with dirty carbon fuels on an industrial scale. Natural photosynthesis uses chlorophyll to absorbe visible light and many solar hydrogen cells are imitating this process by using light-sensitive organic dye molecules as light absorbers and then transfer the absorbed energy to a catalyst that reduces protons to hydrogen. Researchers in the UK have now shown that an inexpensive and environmentally benign inorganic light harvesting nanocrystal array can be combined with a low-cost electrocatalyst that contains abundant elements to fabricate an inexpensive and stable system for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production.

Arkema will present its two product lines dedicated to nanomaterials at the Tokyo Nano tech tradeshow from February 17th to 19th, 2010.

Das Interferenzmuster, das Elektronen einer Nanostruktur erzeugen, haengt von ihrer Spinorientierung ab.

At next week's SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, to be held February 22 - 26 in San Jose, California, imec technologists contribute in a record number of over 30 papers showing their newest breakthroughs in advanced semiconductor lithography research.

The new hub, which includes equipment and infrastructure acquired from NXP Semiconductors' facility in Caen, offers comprehensive failure analysis and reliability testing for semiconductor companies in Europe and Israel.

Seattle-based Modumetal has received a contract award from NAVAIR for an advanced nanolaminated coating that is expected to replace vapor-deposited cadmium in a high temperature, high impact environment.

At the 2010 Mobile World Congress, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and ARM unveiled new details on their leading-edge System-on-Chip (SoC) platform technology for powering the next generation of wireless products and applications.

Challenges in developing cost-effective, efficient and stable solar energy systems are being tackled by two government-led solar research projects.

Ultra thin, quantum effect touch sensors are smart replacements for old fashioned switches in mobile phones, robotics and many other devices.

Toshiba Corporation and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced joint development of a mask pattern optimizing technology that improves the accuracy of lithography for LSIs by approximately 20%.

The Supervisory Council of RUSNANO has approved a project to produce nanodrugs with targeted delivery for treatment of malignant neoplasms. Total budget for the project is 3.9 billion rubles of which RUSNANO will invest 1.299 billion rubles.