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October 2011 Issue

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In This Issue: Event News | Innovation & Investment | Chemicals & Materials | Electronics & Microsystems | Health Sciences & Biotech/Pharma | Energy & Cleantech| TechConnectNews

Event News

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TechConnect Summit and Expo 2012 June 18-21,
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, US.

Innovation & Investment:

Venture Capital Activity Declines in Third Quarter of 2011 - Double digit decrease in both number of deals and total investments when compared to Q2 2011... Read more

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President Obama Honors Twelve Researchers with National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology and Innovation - More than half of the recipients honored this month are working with emerging technologies in areas of nano, clean, and biotech... Read more

  Chemicals & Materials

Motorola Creates World’s Thinnest Smart Phone - New phone is only 7.1 mm-thick, and includes a nano-enabled water resistant coating...Read more

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Nano Materials 101: Researchers Develop Design Rules for Nanoparticles - Lead author Dr. Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University and research team create rules that enable scientists to make any structure for almost all applications...Read more

  Electronics & Microsystems

Physicists to Develop New Way of Electronic Computing - UC Riverside’s Roland Kawakami leads a four-year $1.85 multicampus research project aimed at speeding up applications that process large amounts of data...Read more

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Crocus Technology and IBM Announce Joint Development Agreement - Agreement encompasses both a technology license and mutual access to patents...Read more

  Health Sciences & Biotech/Pharma

Tiny stamps for tiny sensors - Researchers at MIT develop new glass stamp that may make cheaper, more precise biosensors...Read more

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Ontochem and Priaxon Join Forces to Increase Stress Tolerance of Crops - New approach shall minimize growth losses without genetic engineering...Read more

  Energy & Cleantech

Researchers at National University of Singapore Create Energy-Storing Membrane - Proprietary membrane could perform better than traditional batteries and be more cost effective...Read more

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Tokyo Electron and UK’s Nanoco Extend Joint Development Deal for Solar Panels - Both companies came together in 2010, and have completed the first stage of the project with success...Read more

  TechConnect News

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