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Archived North Carolina Nanotechnology News (in reverse calendar order) Researchers exploring the molecular aspects of medicine are thinking big about its potential economic impact on North Carolina, including providing incentives to startup companies. Officials at several research universities are trying to build statewide support for the N.C. Translational NanoMedicine Institute. March 31, 2008 - Winston-Salem Journal Nextreme Thermal Solutions™, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, has received a 2007 Product of the Year award from Electronic Products Magazine for its miniature, thin-film embedded thermoelectric component (eTEC™) technology. The award was presented during a ceremony at Nextreme’s new manufacturing and R&D facility in Durham, NC. March 31, 2008 - Nextreme Scientists and economic developers got an update of North Carolina's position in the emerging nanotechnology field Thursday during the final day of the N.C. Nanotech Conference. The annual event, held at Salem College, brings together scientists who develop the technology in fields such as biomedicine, electronics,apparel and lighting, and entrepreneurs who can morph the science into a marketable product March 28, 2008 - Trading Markets Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, announces that it has been awarded US Patent 7,342,169 for “Phonon-Blocking, Electron-Transmitting Low-Dimensional Structures” technology that has the potential to significantly impact energy conservation and thermal management – two major drivers in the world economy today. March 27, 2008 - Nanotechwire In order to help people better understand emerging research on the safety of the tiny substances called nanoparticles, the National Science Foundation has awarded North Carolina State University's Dr. David Berube a ".4 million grant to determine how the public absorbs scientific information on the emerging technology and other technical issues. March 21, 2008 - Nanowerk News Liquidia Technologies announced today that it has appointed Neal F. Fowler as Chief Executive Officer. Founded in 2004, Liquidia is developing precisely engineered nanoparticles for novel therapeutics, and designing nano-featured films for optics and displays applications. March 5, 2008 - The Earth Times Nanotechnology is already part of the process through which silicon-based photovoltaic solar cells - which make up some 95 percent of the solar cell market today - produce electricity. Nanotechnology is also the focus of research and development of a new generation of solar power technology that includes organic and inorganic solar cells derived from nanocrystals that can convert sunlight into electricity at a fraction of the cost of silicon solar cells. March 4, 2008 - Nanowerk At some point during our growing up, most of us were told, “out of little acorns, tall oaks grow.” What we could not imagine back then is just how miniscule, and powerful, those metaphoric acorns would become in the 21st century. Nanotechnology is a relatively new field but is already an important part of many scientific disciplines. March 2008 - Charlotte Medical News Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto will speak about nanotechnology and sustainability at Greensboro’s two state universities, North Carolina A&T State University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 27-28. February 15, 2008 - University Relations, UNC Greensboro HPC Announces Contract With North Carolina State University to Complete (ISO) 9001:2000 Quality Management System Implementation In response to customer requests and in preparation for proposed new Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) revenue accounts, HPC has been developing a comprehensive quality management system to better ensure effective process identification and controls for customers and potential customers. February 4, 2008 - CNNMoney.com Professor Joseph DeSimone, Liquidia Technologies founder and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named a Triangle Impact Entrepreneur for his contributions to innovative nanoparticle therapeutics and a targeted drug delivery platform at Liquidia Technologies. January 16, 2008 - Earthtimes - London,UK nCoat, Inc. today announced that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in Greensboro, North Carolina, and nCoat, Inc. have established a technical collaboration agreement for characterization and development of nanotechnology based materials and industrial coatings. January 15, 2008 - CNNMoney.com In September 2007, [Andrews Toolworks] commercialized its research and formed Fusion-Tech Inc. (http://www.fusiontechnanogies.com/), a Raleigh-based company that uses nano-technology programs to increase total fuel economy and reduce wear in capital equipment and minimize atmospheric emissions. January 2008 - Metro Magazine NC State postdoctoral research associate Dr. G. Kevin Hyde has been working with a research team to show that the innovative application of atomic layer deposition to alter the properties of fibers can have a level of control previously unknown in research or industry.. December 5, 2007 - North Carolina State University A consortium of Piedmont Triad institutions has been awarded a "00,000 planning grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to establish the state's first Center of Innovation (COI), focusing on the emerging field of nanobiotechnology. November 2, 2007 - North Carolina Biotechnology Center Nextreme, a manufacturer of micro-scale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, is relocating and expanding its North American corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility within Research Triangle Park. Increasing Nextreme’s production capacity, the 14,000 square-foot, state-of-the art facility includes semiconductor grade clean rooms and an advanced application laboratory to better serve customer needs as Nextreme enters product qualification, pilot production and ultimately volume production. October 23, 2007 - Nextreme Gonsalves is helping to organize the Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine Conference. The Nov. 4 event will explore nanotechnology’s potential impact on medicine. In this interview, Gonsalves discusses the potential of new nanotechnology-driven medical breakthroughs, increasing the public’s awareness of nanotechnology and which short-term and long-term projects in the field excite him the most. November 2007 -- North Carolina Biotechnology Center Liquidia Technologies has received a $2 million award from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP). The award supports innovative research and development projects across a range of technologies including medical diagnostics, alternative energy, transportation, and nanotechnology. October 2, 2007 - CarolinaNewswire Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy Philly cheesesteak sandwich. September 19, 2007 - UNC News Services Triad's Research Parks Team Up The Triad’s two research parks are working on a plan that will combine some of their marketing and recruitment efforts. The Piedmont Triad Research Park, in Winston-Salem, and Gateway University Research Park, in Greensboro, have been circulating the plan among area economic developers to get feedback. August 8, 2007 - Winston-Salem Journal Wake Forest University said yesterday that it has formed two startup companies that will develop nanotechnology products locally. The two companies, FiberCell and PlexiLight, are the first companies created from research developed by the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Wake Forest officials said. July 21, 2007 - Winston-Salem Journal nCoat, Inc. Whitsett, NC, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the capital stock of Metallic Ceramic Coatings Inc. (MCCI), doing business under the brand of JET-HOT Coatings. The combination of MCCI/ JET-HOT and other nCoat operating companies, at current annual revenue levels, should achieve approximately two times nCoat's current revenue run-rate. June 21, 2007 - Small Times Media Advanced Liquid Logic announced today that it has been awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2007 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award for the advancement of both the company and its unique lab-on-a-chip technology. June 6, 2007 - Advanced Liquid Logic Nextreme, the leading manufacturer of advanced thin film thermoelectric components designed and produced to address the thermal management and power generation needs of the electronics, photonics, bio-tech and defense/aerospace industries, has recently appointed Dr. Paul A. Magill as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. May 31, 2007 - Nextreme Nextreme, a leading manufacturer of advanced thermoelectric components that address thermal management and power generation needs of the semiconductor, photonics, test-and-measurement and defense/aerospace industries, has enhanced its miniature embedded thermoelectric component (eTEC™) material. May 15, 2007 - Nextreme A nanotechnology school planned for Guilford County should get nearly $4 million to begin its development, state House leaders recommend in a budget unveiled Monday. The proposed spending delighted local leaders, who see the school as a potential magnet for new jobs. The center would be a joint project between UNCG and N.C. May 8, 2007 - Greensboro News & Record nCoat, Inc. (OTCBB: NCOA) ("nCoat" or the "Company") today responded to industry and investor questions concerning uses of nanotechnology products under development. nCoat released information on three development projects currently in testing that are exploring the efficacy and performance of nano-scale coating (surface treatment materials) developed at the company. April 30, 2007 - SYS-CON Media nCoat, Inc. says that the North Carolina-based nano-coating application facility operated by its wholly owned subsidiary High Performance Coatings, Inc. (HPC) has achieved targeted operational efficiencies. Utilizing protocols and systems designed with Six Sigma process focus and calculated for sustained increases in production capacity and product quality, the plant is now serving many high volume OEM and individual customers April 3, 2007 - Small Times Media As made evident by the shrinking sizes of iPods, laptops and digital cameras, small is clearly in. But the emergence of such gadgets tends to pose problems of efficiency and cooling within their tiny confines. A two-day workshop at Duke University's Erwin Mills last Thursday and Friday, "Nanotechnology and the Emerging Global Knowledge Economy: Challenges and Opportunities," focused on the advent of nanotechnology in a global and regional context. April 2, 2007 -- The Chronicle A promising Morrisville company with technology that would improve delivery of solar power and cancer drugs has attracted "6 million in funding led by a blue-chip venture capital fi rm. Although the cash alone is big news for a two-year-old startup with 22 employees, the deal could be even more signifi cant for the region. March 7, 2007 - News & Observer Founding a center where scientists learn to change matter at its most basic level would change the fabric of Greensboro for the better, a group of business leaders told legislators Wednesday. A $65 million investment by taxpayers in the N.C. A&T-UNCG project would pay dividends by attracting corporations to the city and fostering new businesses, executives traveling with The Greensboro Partnership said Wednesday. March 1, 2007 - Greensboro News & Record Wachovia Supports New Forsyth Technical Community College Program Forsyth Technical Community College said yesterday that it got $500,000 from the Wachovia Foundation to support its new nanotechnology program. February 27, 2007 - Winston-Salem Journal Nextreme Thermal Solutions, a manufacturer of advanced thin film thermoelectric components designed and produced to address the thermal management needs of the electronics, photonics, bio-tech and defense/aerospace industries, has recently appointed Dr. Seri Lee as Chief Technology Officer. February 1, 2007 - Nextreme Thermal Solutions Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leading manufacturer of thin film thermoelectric components designed to address the most advanced thermal management needs of the electronics, photonics, bio-tech and defense/aerospace industries, has recently named Dr. Phil Deane as Senior Technology Fellow. January 22, 2007 - Nextreme Thermal Solutions The Board of Directors of NanoLume, Inc. has appointed Jerry Soderquist of Tryon, North Carolina as an Officer and Corporate Secretary of the company. NanoLume, Inc. is an early-stage nanotechnology company located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle region. January 8, 2007 - NanoLume Andrews Toolworks, a Raleigh, NC engineering and supply chain management company, announced today the licensing of US patent 6,423,669 describing a nano-ceramic compound for the treatment of "friction causing pairs" such as bullets in barrels, pistons in cylinders, bearings, bushings and bearings. January 2, 2007 - Nanotechnology Now The Triad may become the home for a school of nanotechnology and nanoengineering, The Carolina Journal reported on Thursday. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina A&T are seeking $65 million from the UNC Board of Governors for the project. November 9, 2006 - WRAL LocalTechWire Mark Wiesner wants to save the planet, one molecule at a time. A nanotechnology expert who joined Duke this semester as a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Wiesner is committed to managing the environmental risks of a growing industrial revolution before any damage is done. October 26, 2006 - Office of News & Communications, Duke University Thanks to the help of Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05), Dr. Richard Czerw, CEO of Yadkinville’s NanoTechLabs, Inc. (NTL) proudly announced that his firm will partner with Foster-Miller, a Waltham MA based Defense engineering firm, on a $ 1.5 million grant from the Defense Department. October 25, 2006 - NanoTechLabs Nextreme Thermal Solutions, a Research Triangle Park, N.C., developer of technology for solid-state thermal management in electronics and semiconductors, announced that it has signed an exclusive option to license new, thin-film thermoelectric technology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). October 16, 2006 - Small Times Media After the Semiconductor Industry Association's board created the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in 1982, they started hunting for a headquarters location independent of the heavy hitters in the industry. With three major universities, a strong electronics advocate in Gov. Jim Hunt and the newly formed Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, the Triangle -- Durham, specifically -- became the SRC's home. October 19, 2006 -- The News & Observer Michael Falvo rose from his chair on a rainy Thursday night at the Broad Street Cafe, and a palpable eagerness spread through the crowd. Nearly three dozen people had packed into the coffee house and watering hole in west Durham to sip beer, munch on hors d'oeuvres and wax scientific. The Museum of Life and Science and the Duke University chapter of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, were holding a Science Cafe on nanotechnology. October 3, 2006 - The News & Observer It might not be far from reality if local scientists and economic developers have anything to say about it. The Triad is made up of three cities with numerous resources that would feed into a nanotechnology park. October 1, 2006 - High Point Enterprise Imagine a world where you take smaller doses of pain medication to get rid of that headache. Imagine a world where cancer patients have a safer, more effective alternative to chemotherapy. That world isn’t too far down the road, experts say, thanks to developments in nanotechnology. October 1, 2006 - High Point Enterprise In a nondescript laboratory on Deacon Boulevard, scientists work to build machines that are smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. The laboratory is part of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University, a program that is developing products such as flexible solar-energy panels, microscopic devices that can identify and attack diseases, and therapies for drug-resistant illnesses. September 29, 2006 - Small Times Media, reprinted from the Winston-Salem Journal Entrepreneur Magazine ranked North Carolina seventh on its list of best states for entrepreneurs. Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill ranked second, and Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill ranked third, on its list of best metro areas for entrepreneurs. Rankings were determined by the National Policy Research Council, which uses the Entrepreneurial Activity Index to measure the best places to start and grow a company. August 30, 2006 - Entrepreneur Magazine Wake Forest University is laying plans to form a new nanotechnology business alliance as efforts ramp up statewide to promote the commercialization of the cutting-edge industry. August 11, 2006 - Triad Business Journal Commerce Sec. Jim Fain today unveiled a state task force report that shows how North Carolina can nurture the emerging science of nanotechnology – which operates on the tiniest scale of atoms and molecules – to provide secure, high-paying jobs and a strong economy well into the 21st century. August 9, 2006 - North Carolina Department of Commerce Gov. Mike Easley today announced that High Performance Coatings, a Utah-based company that uses nanotechnology to produce coatings for a variety of industries, will open a facility in Whitsett in Guilford County. The company expects to create 214 jobs and invest $3.5 million during the next three years. August 9, 2006 - Governor's Press Office Consistent scores across the board rather than any single standouts put North Carolina in the Top 10. Its 2005 performance was supported by biotech and semiconductor applications, and its historical funding levels helped tip it into the Top 10. July/August 2006 -- Small Times Media (see pages 38-39) One of the more promising aspects of nanotechnology is the potential for creating new materials with enhanced properties. However, some of the same properties that make nanomaterials unique could potentially also pose a hazard. Consequentially, nanotechnology presents somewhat of a challenge for regulators. Two North Carolina attorneys provide their opinions here. June 2006 -- Business North Carolina About 20 percent of all nanotechnology research activity in the United States takes place in the South, and North Carolina is leading the pack, according to a report released Tuesday by the Southern Growth Policies Board. April 4, 2006 - Triangle Business Journal The October 14, 2005 -- Museum of Life and Science The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill will focus on the fabrication of “smart” or targeted nanoparticles and other nanodevices for cancer therapy and imaging. October 3, 2005 -- Small Times Media Small Times magazine's annual ranking is considered the benchmark of the industry. North Carolina ranks 9th in 2005 ranking. March 14, 2005 -- Small Times Media |