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<title>Agilent Announces Availability of a New, More Powerful Version of its Popular Nanosuite Software Package</title>
<description>Agilent Technologies Inc. 
  (NYSE: A) today announced the availability of a new, more powerful version 
  of its popular NanoSuite software package (formerly known as TestWorks). Designed 
  for u...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12605</link>
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<title>Handbook on the Reliability of MEMS</title>
<description>Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and 
  market data, has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book 
  Reliability 
  of MEMS to their offeri...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12166</link>
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<title>Engineers Identify What Causes Concrete to Gradually Deform</title>
<description>MIT civil engineers 
  have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building 
  material on earth - concrete - to gradually deform, decreasing its durability 
  and short...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=12056</link>
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<title>Book Covers in Detail the Tools and Methods for Determining Reliability of Microelectromechanical Materials</title>
<description>Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and 
  market data, has announced the addition of handbook on the "reliability 
  of MEMS" to their offering. 
This first book...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=11742</link>
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<title>Leica Microsystems Presents Innovative LED Illumination Modules at SMT 2009</title>
<description>Swift and accurate identification of ultra fine structures, defects, scratches 
  or dust particles in incident light demands a high-performance stereomicroscope, 
  trained eyes and top quality ill...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=11209</link>
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<title>Cost-Effective Micro Hardness Measuring Instrument Enables Economic Quality Testing in Industrial Nanotechnology</title>
<description>Under the term nanotechnology, specialists develop and realize coatings or 
  objects with thicknesses or dimensions of only a few nanometers. Due to their 
  special, physical properties, the coati...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=11108</link>
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<title>Nanovea Announces Breakthrough Development in Nanoindentation Testing</title>
<description>Nanovea has now combined 
  their, PRVision, machine vision camera option to Nanoindentation testing that 
  allows auto-recognition of precisely chosen features with little to no user 
  interacti...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=10927</link>
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<title>Discovery Leads to New Understanding of Nanoscale Plasticity</title>
<description>Plasticity in certain semiconductor materials at the nanoscale is actually 
  linked to phase transformation rather than dislocation nucleation, as previously 
  thought. This is shown by the result...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=10673</link>
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<title>CETR Introduces Next Generation Nano-Mechanical Test Instrument </title>
<description>CETR announced this week 
  the launch of its newest test instrumentation - Apex.

Apex is the next generation nano-mechanical test instrument providing industry-leading 
  sensitivity, control an...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=10212</link>
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<title>NDSU Professor Named Recipient of CAREER Award by NSF </title>
<description>Chung-Souk Han, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering at North 
  Dakota State University, Fargo, has been named a recipient of the Faculty 
  Early Career Development award (CAREER) by th...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=10019</link>
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<title>Agar Scientific Now in Position to Supply Kleindiek Micromanipulator to UK and Irish Markets</title>
<description>Agar Scientific 
  is pleased to announce that they are now in a position to supply the Kleindiek 
  micromanipulator to the UK and Irish markets.
In recent years, the Kleindiek MM3A-EM micromanipu...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=9825</link>
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<title>Asylum Research Scientists to Present Work in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy at MRS Spring Meeting</title>
<description>Asylum 
  Research scientists will be presenting their recent work in Piezoresponse 
  Force Microscopy (PFM) at the upcoming MRS Spring Meeting, Session JJ, in San 
  Francisco, CA on April 15-17,...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=9818</link>
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<title>Asylum Research Sponsors Free Atomic Force Microscopy Workshop at Georgia Institute of Technology</title>
<description>Asylum 
  Research will sponsor a free atomic force microscopy (AFM) Workshop on February 
  12 and 13, 2009 in the Pettit Building/Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC) 
  on the Georgia Institu...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=9758</link>
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<title>Asylum's MFP-3D NanoIndenter Selected as Top Five Products Exhibited at AVS Symposium </title>
<description>AVS and Asylum 
  Research have announced that Asylum's MFP-3D&#8482; NanoIndenter has 
  been selected as one of the top five products exhibited at the AVS International 
  Symposium in October. A...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=9332</link>
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<title>New Report on Nanocomposites and Nanoporous Materials</title>
<description>Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanocomposites 
  and Nanoporous Materials VIII" report to their offering. 
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 8th International Symposiu...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=9079</link>
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<title>New Testing Methods Can Help Optimize the Application of Nano-Composite Coatings for Automakers</title>
<description>Lightweight polycarbonate (PC) glazing technologies from SABIC 
  Innovative Plastics' Exatec* organization can offer automakers solutions 
  that reduce weight and can assist in reducing CO2 emissi...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=8652</link>
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<title>Nanovea's Patent Pending Non-Contact Technique for Scratch and Hardness Testing</title>
<description>Prior to this new advancement any testing would require mechanical surface 
  contact, which was impossible during sample movement, to take in account substrate 
  and machine compliance. Now with t...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=8217</link>
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<title>UWM Researcher Creates Smart Nanocoatings that Fortify Materials</title>
<description>Put steel under a powerful microscope, revealing its microstructure, and prepare 
  to be surprised. Known for its strength, the metal will appear pitted and pocked."It 
  is intrinsic to the materi...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=8196</link>
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<title>Asylum Research to Present Session on NanoIndenter System at AVS Conference</title>
<description>Asylum 
  Research announced that it will present a session on its NanoIndenter System 
  at the AVS Conference and Exhibition in Boston, MA on October 21 at 12:20 in 
  the Exhibitor Workshop area...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=8149</link>
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<title>Putting the Squeeze on Thin Films of Polystyrene </title>
<description> From buttons to storage bins, the molding of polymers is big business. At 
  the nanoscale, processes such as nanoimprint lithography squeeze polymers to 
  form patterns during the manufacture of ...</description> 
<link>http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=7940</link>
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