IMS Forecasts Global Pharmaceutical Market Growth of 5-8% Annually through 2014

Peak years of patent expiries shift growth toward generics

23-Apr-2010 - IMS Health reported that the size of the global market for pharmaceuticals is expected to grow nearly $300 billion (ex manufacturer prices) over the next five years, reaching $1.1 trillion in 2014. The 5 - 8 percent compound annual growth rate during this period reflects the impact of leading ...

Study shows that size affects structure of hollow nanoparticles

15-Apr-2010 - A new study from North Carolina State University shows that size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles. The researchers focused on nickel nanoparticles, which have interesting magnetic and catalytic properties that may have applications in fields as diverse ...

A more sensitive sensor

TAU pioneers sensor technology for industry using nano-sized carbon tubes

25-Mar-2010 - Electro-mechanical sensors tell the airbag in your car to inflate and rotate your iPhone screen to match your position on the couch. Now a research group of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Engineering is making the technology even more useful. Prof. Yael Hanein, Dr. Slava Krylov and their ...

Christina Roth Awarded Adolf Messer Prize

05-Mar-2010 - In the evening of 2th March 2010 Junior Professor Dr. Christina Roth received the Adolf Messer Prize, which comes with prize money of €50,000, for her research into new materials for fuel cells. The Adolf Messer Prize is the most valuable scientific prize of the TU Darmstadt and is awarded each ...

Scientists glimpse nanobubbles on super non-stick surfaces

Could lead to design of water-shedding materials for applications in energy, medicine and more

03-Mar-2010 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface. Detailed information about the size and shape of these bubbles — and the non-stick material the scientists ...

NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program Underway at Dakota County Technical College

25-Feb-2010 - NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced that its NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program is currently underway at Dakota County Technical College (DCTC), in Rosemount, Minn. Once completed, students enrolled in the DCTC program, will possess ...

CU physicists use ultra-fast lasers to open doors to new technologies unheard of just years ago

24-Feb-2010 - For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors Margaret ...

Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

Ames Laboratory researchers discover repulsive Casimir effect

14-Dec-2009 - Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames ...

China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS

26-Nov-2009 - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) reports that China's patent office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications in chemistry. China trailed Japan's patent office, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

Nanoparticles used in common household items caused genetic damage in mice

18-Nov-2009 - Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles, found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. The TiO2 nanoparticles induced single- ...