Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Hosokawa Micron Ltd announce the launch of the NanoCreator FCM-Mini, a continuous nano-particle production system for metal oxides. High purity particles are created by the build up method that allows particles to be adjusted from a few nm to a few hundred nm.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Ever wonder what something looks like up close and personal? ASPEX wants your samples! ASPEX, makers of the Personal Scanning Electron Microscope (PSEM), kicked off its 'Send Us Your Sample' campaign, encouraging people to send in samples to be scanned by one of their PSEMs.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
On behalf of its parent company SiMPore, Inc., TEMwindows.com is pleased to introduce the SepCon Spin Column, a revolutionary separation device that makes it possible to separate nanoparticles that differ in size by 5 nm or less.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Nano ePrint Ltd, the pioneer in planar nano-electronics, announced that it has secured a Grant for Research and Development to demonstrate Nano ePrint's unique printed programmable logic architecture.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTI) has announced that it has filed three new PCT patent applications to protect our intellectual property worldwide. The patents are for Flow-Through Cavitation Assisted Rapid Modification of Crude Oil, Modification of Beverage Fluids, and Method for Cavitation Assisted Refining, Degumming and Dewaxing of Oil and Fat, for its Nano Cavitation Technologies.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
This week's most interesting nanotechnology news.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
ClassOne Equipment, Inc., a leading supplier of refurbished equipment for the semiconductor and nanotechnology markets, has recently purchased all of the equipment assets of Colibrys' MEMS facility in Stafford, Texas, outside of Houston.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
The University of California Board of Regents on Nov. 19 named Paul Alivisatos director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is managed by the university.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
A new application note, freely available on the Malvern Instruments' website, describes how the new ZEN1010 high concentration zeta potential cell for the company's market-leading Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system, overcomes a major hurdle in measuring the zeta potential of high concentration samples.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Energieeffiziente und umweltfreundliche Technologien ruecken immer mehr in den Mittelpunkt. Welchen Beitrag die Mikro- und Nanotechnologie dabei leisten kann, zeigt eine Veranstaltung am 1. Dezember in Dortmund auf.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
To develop tools for tracking histone acetylation in live cells, Minoru Yoshida of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako paired his knowledge of histone acetylation with colleague Kazuki Sasaki's expertise in fluorescent biosensor design.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
CRAIC Technologies, the leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions for science and industry, announced Windows 7 compatibility of its MINERVA microspectrometer control and spectral analysis software.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Stanislaus S. Wong, a scientist with a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, has won the Buck-Whitney Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Eastern New York Section.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Physikern der Empa ist es zusammen mit Chemikern des Max-Planck-Instituts fuer Polymerforschung nun erstmals gelungen, ein graphenaehnliches Polymer mit atomarer Genauigkeit zu synthetisieren.
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Posted on: Nov 20th, 2009
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Spectrographic data taken from an Ocean Optics spectrometer has helped NASA confirm the presence of water ice on the moon.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Scientists at the University of Michigan have determined the atomic-level, three-dimensional structure of a SEVI precursor known as PAP248-286 and discovered how it damages cell membranes to make them more vulnerable to infection with HIV.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures to the nanometer scale while preserving long-lived vibrations.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, scientists from Empa's nanotech@surfaces laboratory have for the first time succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like polymer with well defined pores
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. - the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems - has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 micrometer in XY and XYZ.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Asylum Research, the technology leader in Scanning Probe and Atomic Force Microscopy (SPM/AFM), has announced a new grant program for early adopters to explore the capabilities and applications of the unique new Band Excitation technique. Existing or new Asylum AFM users are encouraged to apply for grants valued at up to $50,000 USD.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors that could do just this.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Toshiba Corporation has announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
New nanoscale materials and devices are required to replace the silicon transistor that's at the heart of today's semiconductors, but to build these new devices, researchers will have to be able to measure the thickness - if that's the right word - of layers consisting of only a few atoms
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used in many everyday products such as sunscreens, cosmetics and electronics.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Including technology in the curriculum in early childhood could help to raise the interest of both girls and boys in science and technology, according to recently published, EU-funded research.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic circuits.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
A RUSNANO delegation headed by CEO Anatoly Chubais will visit Sweden on November 19-20, 2009 to study the support that government offers for innovative developments, share with Sweden's business and scientific communities the goals and principles that guide RUSNANO's activities and discuss opportunities to collaborate in commercialization of nanotechnologies with their Swedish counterparts.
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Posted on: Nov 19th, 2009
WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced a new, innovative service for gene-expression profiling of thousands of genes using the SmartChip Real-Time PCR System.
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