Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Asylum Research, a technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), in collaboration with LENS (Laboratory for Energy and Nano Science), MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology, was recently invited to showcase the MFP-3D AFM at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2010 in Abu Dhabi.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering secures additional $1.5 million in private investment and attracts Magnolia Solar Corporation as first corporate partner for iCLEAN initiative.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
In an ongoing effort to mirror the ability of biological tissues to respond rapidly and appropriately to changing environments, scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have provided the first clear demonstration that the theory of quantum mechanics applies to the mechanical motion of an object large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Their work satisfies a longstanding goal among physicists.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
University of Florida engineering researchers have found they can ignite certain nanoparticles using a low-power laser, a development they say opens the door to a wave of new technologies in health care, computing and automotive design.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
JEOL USA and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) today jointly announced the University's acquisition of the new JEOL atomic resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The new ARM200F is an aberration-corrected TEM that achieves better than 1 Angstrom resolution in STEM and TEM and chemical analysis at the atomic level.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Keith Blakely has been selected as the new Chief Executive Officer of NanoMech, a Springdale-based designer and manufacturer of application-specific nanoparticle additives, coatings and coating deposition systems.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
An international team of scientists, with Spanish participation, has shown for the first time that living organisms are able to manufacture biominerals with organisation of up to eight levels.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Molecular and cellular image manipulation software, Voxel Tracker is first-of-its-kind.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
This project to produce equipment capable of detecting explosives and narcotics for security systems recently won approval by the Supervisory Council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Fraunhofer FIT offers complete turnkey systems for biomolecular analysis, diagnosis and screening in medical and pharmaceutical research. At HANNOVER MESSE the researchers present the latest generation of their devices and imaging analysis software.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Iosil Energy Corporation, an innovator in the production of high-purity solar grade polysilicon for the photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has secured $13.5 million in equity financing in an oversubscribed round.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Analytica, March 23 through 26, 2010, at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, has developed into one of world's largest trade fairs for laboratory technology, analysis, and biotechnology. Micromeritics, located in Halle A1, Stand 121 will introduce significant developments in material characterization instrumentation.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
NanoHorizons Inc., a leader in the creation of nanoscale antimicrobial performance additives for textile, health care, industrial, and consumer products, announced that the Small Business Commerce Association of San Francisco has awarded them the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Chemical Additives category.
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Posted on: Mar 18th, 2010
Filmetrics has announced the opening of film thickness measurement Application Labs in Tainan, Taiwan and Munich, Germany.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have devised a molecular 'LEGO toolkit' which can be used to assemble a vast number of new and functional chemical compounds.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Imagine packing skis into a suitcase, skis that never need wax or skis that hold a perfect line in all snow conditions. That's just what University of Nevada, Reno students in Kam K. Leang's mechanical engineering senior design course do, they imagine the possibilities of design using nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Researchers have created the first examples of DNA nanotubes that encapsulate and load cargo, and then release it rapidly and completely when a specific external DNA strand is added.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Duke University researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
The features on computer chips are getting so small that soon the process used to make them, which has hardly changed in the last 50 years, won't work anymore. One of the alternatives that academic researchers have been exploring is to create tiny circuits using molecules that automatically arrange themselves into useful patterns.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Wissenschaftlern ist eine quantitative Beschreibung von DNA-Ringen gelungen, sodass nun molekulare Eigenschaften wie etwa die Steifigkeit und der DNA-Durchmesser in nanoskopische Groessen wie Form und Ausdehnung des Polymerrings uebersetzt werden koennen.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Elliot Scientific has announced that it is now distributing superior quality laser optics from leading US manufacturer Spectral Optics of Putnam, Connecticut.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Thomson ISI has announced that Nano Research, an English-language journal jointly published by Springer and Tsinghua University Press, is now listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E).
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Through several Space Act Agreements, the newly formed group is positioned to take a leading role in bringing into the commercial/private sector, proprietary NASA technologies including advancements in energy production, battery (Storage) technologies, nanotechnology and health related advancements.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Mentor Graphics Corp., a leader in electronic design automation, and STMicroelectronics one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers, today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Novellus Systems today announced the establishment of a joint development program with the IBM Corporation to design a manufacturing-worthy, copper-based, three dimensional semiconductor Through-Silicon Via process using Novellus' SABRE copper electroplating and VECTOR plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition systems.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
Exponent Testing's preliminary results show better-than-anticipated performance for EcoloCap's Nano Lithium Battery.
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Posted on: Mar 17th, 2010
A promising cure for ovarian cancer seeking funding to begin clinical trials; a person-to-person car-sharing program that could reduce carbon emissions; a device to enable power-generation facilities to save billions of dollars annually - these were the winning ventures
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