Archive for the ‘Market’ Category
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Nanotechnology is likely to have a big impact to the non-volatile memory market in the next few years as the further scalabilty of flash memory becomes more difficult. One interesting solution developed by Hewlett Packard last year is the memristor, a nanoscale circuit element theoretically proposed in 1971 but only recently realized. The memristor ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
The annual Nanotech conference (NSTI 2009) was held this past week in Houston, Texas. Some of the highlights include:
Bayer discussed their FDA approval of their multiwall carbon nanotubes called Baytubes(R) which they have reported to be producible at a 60 metric ton annual capacity. (link)
Angstron Materials and Vorbeck Materials presented their competing ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
As the economy continues to spiral downward one remaining hope is that the fundamental nanoscience research of the past few decades can be translated into cheaper, cleaner and more efficient technologies capable of restoring economic growth. At the upcoming 2009 TechConnect Summit the opportunity exists to make the connections and alliances necessary for this to take ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Anyone familiar with the novel Atlas Shrugged will recognize some similarities between the events of the novel and the current economic predicament. In the novel the devaluation of the ideas of innovators in comparison to the needs of the masses eventually leads to economic decline followed by government bailouts followed ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The memristor was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top inventions of 2008 and could revolutionize non-volatile memory by replacing transistor based memory cells with a new type of nanoscale resistance switch. In addition, there has been some speculation that the memristor may be a key ingredient to a ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
With the recent decline of the stock market, the reduction of lending, and the dearth of IPOs in 2008 things may look bleak for emerging technologies such as nanotech. But, while near term projections may look bad, in the long term economic decline could actually be extremely beneficial to technological developments involving nanomaterials. Here are ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
When most people think of nanotechnology the first thing to come to mind may be an image out of the movie Fantastic Voyage or of the theoretical "nanorobots" from Michael Crichton's novel Prey. Similarly the topics of robotics and virtual reality are often first thought about in terms of images from popular science fiction movies. However, ...
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
While a bailout plan is being debated in Congress in response to the recent financial meltdown of the housing markets, it is questionable whether the short term relief provided to Wall Street will be worth the increased government control of the economy. Ultimately economic recovery is more likely to come from the creation of new industries and new markets and ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Many of the proposals for carbon nanotubes implementation in display applications have taken advantage of nanotubes capability to act as electron emitting materials for field emission displays. An alternative use of carbon nanotubes for displays is as a replacement for the transparent electrode materials such as ITO used in liquid ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Carbon nanotubes and related carbon-based nanostructures/thin films are of particular interest as electron emission materials for flat panel display devices and have been the focal point for some litigation. In this article the litigation between Nano-Proprietary and Canon concerning the licensing of surface emission display technology is reviewed. In a recent decision by the ...
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