A breakthrough in nanotechnology by researchers at Boston College and MIT could lead to increased economic interest in solar panels. Researchers have improved the efficiency of solar-thermal flat pane…

British nanotechnology company Peratech has received £1.1 million in funding from YFM Group.
"The funds… will be invested into ultra thin, quantum effect touch sensors, designed to repla…

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Toronto-based Vive Nano has received $3.8 million in funding from the Province of Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation.
"Vive Nano expects to create 19 new high-skil…

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North Carolina-based nanotech company PureLux has received a $100,000 grant from the North Carolina Green Business Fund. Founded in March of 2007, the company is a spin-out from th…

Two Pennsylvania-based startups have received grants from the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center.
"Philadelphia-based Arkema Inc. is getting $275,000 of funding from the Air Fo…

Nanotube manufacturer SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. this week announced $3 million in funding from Michigan's Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP.
"Insight will manage the fund which wi…

ZettaCore, Inc. yesterday announced that it had raised $21 million in Series C financing from a wide range of investors, including Globis Capital Partners, Itochu Technology Ventures, Yasuda Enterpri…

"I'm scared of anybody with nano in their name."

That quote from Kevin Landis, who manages investments at Firsthand Capital Management in California, is the sound-bite-du-jour in the na…

More than $9.5 billion was spent on nanotechnology research and development worldwide in 2005, a considerable rise as compared to 2004. But $9 billion of that was from governments and corporations, s…

Jack Uldrich, author of Investing in Nanotechnology: Think Small, Win Big, has written an article at The Motley Fool entitled Big Business Gets Small.

In the article, Uldrich cites fellow author Step…