Sharing Nanotechnology Knowledge

• PI Unveils New Nanopositioning System to the Market
  Hybrid Nanopositioning Z-Stage Combines Advantages of Piezoelectrics and Servo Drives
• NSTI’s Nanotech 2006 Reports Record Attendance
  10th Annual Nanotech Event Comes to Santa Clara, California May 20 – 25, 2007
  
• TechConnect Speeds Lab-to-Marketplace Road via Community Event to Unite Innovators, Users, VCs
  The road from lab-to-marketplace may get much smoother thanks to a new community-building event designed to bring together inventors, commercial customers and investors.
  Nano World News reports on the first TechConnect Summit, where executives from BASF, Ford, Merck, Motorola and many other firms met up-close with start-ups from various industry sectors, including energy, electronics, materials, and biotechnology.
  Nano World News also sits down with Marcos Gomez, Innovation Manager for BASF Future Business within BASF Venture Capital America Inc., and TechConnect board member, to discuss what emerging tech sectors BASF says are hot in 2006 – and how start-ups can get attention for their IP.
  By Vance McCarthy
• NSTI’s Nanotech CancerNano 2006 Symposium Helps Researchers Take Nano’s Cancer Fight Beyond the Lab
  Nano World News Speaks Exclusively to Mansoor Amiji, PhD, One of the Driving Forces of the CancerNano Symposium.
  By Vance McCarthy

• Mission to the Inside of a Living Cell
  Today, researchers are beginning to harness advances in nanotechnology to analyze some extremely small and nearby objects – individual cells.
  Special collaborative feature with National Cancer Institute - By Joe Alper
• University Engineers in America’s Heartland Create Unique High-Resolution Touch Nano-Sensor Which Could Prove to Be A Breakthrough Tool for Surgeons
  Dr. Ravi Saraf of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tells NWN More About This Novel Device
  By Jennifer Rocha

• Fujitsu Partners With Several of the World’s Largest Electronics Companies to Standardize Semiconductor Process Technology
  NWN Hears from Fujitsu About This Partnership and What It Means for Next Generation LSI
  By Jennifer Rocha
• Georgia Tech and IBM Claim Chip Speed Record in the Lab
• China Wants Increased Chip Cooperation with the U.S.

• NSTI Announces Three Winners of NSTI Nanotech Venture Awards To Top Early Stage Companies
  NSTI Also Honors Individuals in Nanotechnology Community with Inaugural NSTI Fellow Awards at Ceremony in Boston
• Nanotech Company Signs Agreement With One of South America’s Largest Industrial Supply Companies
• TechConnect Summit Names Winners of 2006 TechConnect Emerging Technology Awards
  The three 2006 TETA recipients offered disruptive technologies for medicine, energy and electronics.

• Nanotechnology Holds Promise For Increasing Fuel Production From Oil Fields
  UniQuest, Pty Ltd, Winner of a TechConnect 2006 Emerging Technology Award, Has Developed This Exciting Technology
• Carbon Nanotubes Created by Federal Lab Could Hold the Key to Inexpensive Water Desalination
  NWN Learns More About This Promising Research From Olgica Bakajin, PhD, Lead Scientist for the Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - By Jennifer ROcha
• US Company Begins Shipping Smaller Version of Proprietary NanoMask