• Nanotechnology commercialization efforts go statewide [NTI]
• Pennsylvania’s Nanotech Players Pursuing Giga-Scale Impact
• Nanobiotix and Thomas Jefferson University Start Research Collaboration
• PA Nanotechnology 2012: Nanotech’s Role in Advancing PA’s Economy Set for June 5th at Harrisburg University
• Air Products Completes Acquisition of DuPont’s Stake in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials
• PCAST Report Recommends Increased Funding For Nanotech Research
• A Tiny Approach to Green: New Nanotechnology Applications
• Nanotech creating Rust Belt jobs
• New Nanotechnology Center Opens in Little Rock
• FDA proposes rules for nanotechnology in food

Nanotechnology commercialization efforts go statewide …

Philadelphia Business Journal by Peter Key

Friday, March 30, 2012

The Nanotechnology Institute is taking its show on the road.

The group will use part of the $1.16 million in state funding it was recently awarded to take its nanotechnology ommercialization efforts statewide in conjunction with a similar organization in Pittsburgh.

“A lot of the work that we did in the past six months working with Harrisburg was to encourage them to support the programs that focus on commercialization,” said Anthony P. Green, vice president of technology commercialization for Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, which co-founded the NTI in 2000 with Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania’s Nanotech Players Pursuing Giga-Scale Impact

keystoneedge – Rebecca VanderMeulen | Thursday, April 12, 2012

Researchers across Pennsylvania are discovering new ways to apply nanotechnology.

Nanobiotix and Thomas Jefferson University Start Research …

MarketWatch

Nanomedicine and Medical Education leaders are joining their forces in the United States to accelerate the development of NanoXray

PARIS & PHILADELPHIA, May 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nanobiotix, a company developing novel cancer nanotherapeutics and Thomas Jefferson University, one of Philadelphia’s premier medical and health sciences universities, today announced that they have entered into a research collaboration to accelerate the development of Nanobiotix’ lead compound NBTXR3 in the US.

PA Nanotechnology 2012: Nanotech’s Role in Advancing PA’s Economy …

Your-Story.org

Harrisburg, PA, April 19, 2012 – April 20, 2012 | Author: straightlinepr | Posted in Nanotechnology

The PA Nanotechnology conference explores viable nano-based strategies, programs, and resources to assist economic development via education and job creation and retention.

Air Products Completes Acquisition of DuPont’s Stake in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials

Posted on: Apr 5th, 2012

(Nanowerk News) Air Products has announced it had completed the acquisition of DuPont’s interest in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC (DA NanoMaterials), the two companies’ 50-50 joint venture serving the global semiconductor and wafer polishing industries. …nanotechnology business news article

PCAST Report Recommends Increased Funding For Nanotech Research

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has a catalytic and substantial impact on the growth of the U.S. nanotechnology industry and should be continued with increased funding from the office of management and budget, according to a new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The report provides several other recommendations for improving the NNI and updates progress on some of the key recommendations PCAST made in 2010. Read more…

Source: SSTI Weekly Digest for the Week of May 2, 2012

A Tiny Approach to Green: New Nanotechnology Applications

April 23rd, 2012 | Author: Tracey Schelmetic

While it doesn’t garner as many column inches as other industries – probably because it still seems like sci-fi to most people – the nanotechnology industry continues to expand out of the lab and into practical applications. Nanotechnology, the creation and use of devices that are between one and 100 nanometers wide (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter), is today worth an estimated $24 billion according to some research, and that figure is expected to rise steadily.

May 7, 2012

Nanotech creating Rust Belt jobs

New York State is not waiting for the federal government to create an economic turnaround; it’s creating one in a nanotech lab at Albany’s new College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, CBS News reports.

New Nanotechnology Center Opens in Little Rock

Nanotechnology News (press release)

Little Rock, AR | Posted on May 7th, 2012

UALR – The University of Arkansas at Little Rock – has opened its new home for the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences. The five-story, $15 million building is a working symbol of Arkansas’ major stake in atomic-sized technology that will …

FDA proposes rules for nanotechnology in food

Apr 21, 2012 – WASHINGTON (AP) – Regulators are proposing that food companies that want to use tiny engineered particles in their packaging may have to provide extra testing data to show the products are safe.