New material is environmentally responsible, cost-effective, soy-based and free of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent.
Rolith Receives License for Nano-Patterning Methods to Make Transparent Conductive Electrodes
Rolith has announced that it has received an exclusive license to methods of micro and nano-patterning substrates to make transparent conductive electrodes.

New all-polymer memory devices developed
A research team from KAUST in Saudia Arabia have fabricated all-polymer nonvolatile bistable memory devices with potential for use in flexible and transparent electronics.
Dow Announces Completion of 30 KTA Liquid Epoxy Resin Expansion at Stade Site
Dow Epoxy has completed its 30 KTA Liquid Epoxy Resin (LER) expansion at its fully back-integrated Stade, Germany site.
Altuglas, NatureWorks Collaborate to Market New High Performance Biopolymer Alloys
Materials will be marketed by Altuglas International as Plexiglas/Altuglas Rnew biopolymer alloys.

IEDM 2012: imec Addresses Key Challenges of Scaling beyond Silicon-Channel finFETs
At the recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs.

New MPIE Department to Study Structure and Nano-/Micromechanics of Materials
New department at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung will be headed by Prof Gerhard Dehm.
Nanophotonics system allows optoelectrical single chip integration
IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.

Mimicking porcupine quills to improve medical equipment
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.
Carbon nanotubes lower nerve-damaging chloride in cells
A nanomaterial engineered by researchers at Duke can help regulate chloride levels in nerve cells that contribute to chronic pain, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.