Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
Researchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
A University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous technology allowed.
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Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
Using nanostructures which are based on semiconductors with special properties, the novel device will have 400 times higher gain than THz quantum cascade lasers, the only coherent T-ray sources existing today.
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Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
STS and Aviza brands to be unified as SPP Process Technology Systems.
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Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
The specialist product development consultancy, Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to lead the UK arm of a collaboration with a major research institution in the Middle East in a multi-million pound environmental nanotechnology endeavour.
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Posted on: Oct 19th, 2009
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation has adopted Cadenc Litho Physical Analyzer and Cadence Litho Electrical Analyzer to more accurately predict the impact of stress and lithographic variability on the performance of 65- and 45-nanometer semiconductor designs.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
Researchers have discovered a new material that allows a PEM fuel cell, known as a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell, to work at a higher temperature.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
The VivaTome for fluorescence microscopes from Carl Zeiss is an optimal tool for developmental and cell biologists to examine the dynamics of living specimens without extensive prior know- ledge of optical sectioning.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
ELYRA product family combines PAL-M and SR-SIM technology.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
With the LSM 780, Carl Zeiss is now adding a new member to its family of LSM 7 laser scanning microscopes. The use of the new GaAsP detector technology has almost doubled the sensitivity of the currently leading LSM 710.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of 'superresolution', a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution.
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Posted on: Oct 17th, 2009
New line of adhesives is stronger and less expensive than current conventional aerospace adhesives.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
It may look like little more than fishing line, but thin, tough and flexible plastic optical fibre promises to revolutionise high-speed, last-mile communications networks, enable new sensing devices and even add sparkle to clothing. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, today presented results at the SOI Industry Consortium workshop in Leuven, Belgium, that prove SOI-based planar CMOS meets requirements for low-power, 22nm node devices, offering a practical route to further feature shrink and enabling a significant jump for 'green' products.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Cancer Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology business incubator with a specific emphasis on disruptive cancer treatments and nanotechnology, announced today it has signed a letter of intent to acquire another 26 percent interest in NanoTherapies, LLC which would give Cancer Therapeutics a total of 51 percent and controlling interest of NanoTherapies.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
The EU executive plans to respond positively to the European Parliament's call for a number of EU policies and regulations covering health and environmental safety issues related to nanomaterials to be reviewed.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Contributing to the poster presentations at the 2009 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition (8-12 November 2009: Los Angeles, USA), researchers from Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc and Malvern Instruments will present details of a study to examine particle size, shape and distribution data for equivalency testing of a highly cohesive drug substance manufactured at two different sites.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world's fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Farfield is a proud partner in the European FP7 programme ASMENA, which held its first annual project review meeting recently in Budapest.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of 'persistent current', a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.
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Posted on: Oct 16th, 2009
A group of scientists could show that the optical near-field can be used as actuator and sensitive probe for nanomechanical oscillators.
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Posted on: Oct 15th, 2009
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube.
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Posted on: Oct 15th, 2009
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today.
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Posted on: Oct 15th, 2009
NanoBio Corporation today announced compelling preclinical data for NB-401, a nebulized nanoemulsion-based agent that kills highly drug-resistant strains of bacteria commonly found in cystic fibrosis patients.
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