Queensgate Instruments – an Elektron Technology brand – unveiled its revolutionary new Dual Sensor Technology™ at this year’s European Microscopy Congress.

http://nanopositioning.com/news/queensgate-launch-dual-sensor-technology-emc2012

Raymor Industries, Inc. and NanoIntegris Tech- nologies, Inc. have completed a business combination to integrate the world leading single-walled carbon nanotube growth company (Raymor) with the leader in carbon nanotube purification and separation (NanoIntegris). Over the next year, Raymor and NanoIntegris will integrate the carbon nanotube supply chain, lower the costs of production, and develop applications with strategic partners.

The group will initially expand its product mix, scale up its separation process, and develop applications with partners. Raymor’s SWCNT production capacity is approaching 1 ton per year at a price point of $10/gram. Low cost intermediate and high purity grades will be launched this fall. Additionally, Nano- Integris is continuing to scale up its separation process to launch new semiconducting and conducting inks with significant price reductions. Through its two divisions, AP&C and Raymor Nanotech, Raymor Industries Inc. is a leading manufacturer of spherical titanium (and other high melting point metal) powders and of SWCNTs. NanoIntegris Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Raymor Industries Inc., is a leading manufacturer of high purity semiconducting and metallic CNT materials.

http://www.raymor.com http://www.nanointegris.com

RUSNANO and Lilliputian Systems, Inc. announced the closing of $40 million of a planned $60 million equity financing round, led by a $25 million investment from RUSNANO, headquartered in Moscow. RUSNANO, which focuses on the development of the Russian nanotechnology industry through co-investments in nanotechnology projects, joins Lilliputian’s current blue chip investors including Intel Corporation, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altira Group, Stata Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, and Fairhaven Capital.

http://www.lilliputiansystems.com http://www.rusnano.com

Scientists at CRANN, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded nanoscience institute based at Trinity College Dublin, have partnered with world-leading brewing company SABMiller on a project to increase the shelf life of bottled beer in plastic bottles. The new deal will see SABMiller invest in the project over a two year period. Professor Jonathan Coleman and his team in CRANN are using nanoscience research methods to develop a new material that will prolong the shelf-life of beer in plastic bottles. Current plastic bottles have a relatively short shelf life, as both oxygen and carbon dioxide can permeate the plastic and diminish the flavour.