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Max Planck and Leica to Provide Molecular Scale Resolution with Light Microscopy

Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer agency of the Max Planck Society, Germany’s leading basic research organization, has signed a co-exclusive license agreement with Leica Microsystems and Carl Zeis...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 24 May 2007

Hyphenated Systems Develop Confocal/Atomic Force Microscope on One Platform

Hyphenated Systems, a world-wide provider of hybrid microscopy solutions for three-dimensional (3D) imaging and metrology in micro- and nanotechnology, today announced the development of a combined advanced confocal/atom...

22 May 2007

Bose-Einstein Condensate Makes Sensitive Magnetometer

Capturing the coldest atoms in the universe within the confines of a laser beam, University of California, Berkeley, physicists have made a device that can map magnetic fields more precisely than ever before. Doctors ...

22 May 2007

Five Cities Lead Nanotech Activities in The USA

With nanotechnology poised to be the globe’s next big economic driver, five U.S. cities have emerged as the country’s top “Nano Metro” locations-areas with the nation’s highest concentration...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 18 May 2007

Consumer Products Using Nanotechnology Double, from 212 to 475

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufactur...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 16 May 2007

Optical Properties of Fluorescent Nanoparticles Open Possibilities for Cellular Imaging

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succ...

9 May 2007

The Evolution of Nanotechnology

UC Santa Barbara professor of history W. Patrick McCray takes a close look at the evolution of nanotechnology in the May issue of Nature Nanotechnology. McCray, a member of UCSB’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society, ar...

8 May 2007

On-Line Registration Available for Veeco's Seeing at Nanoscale V Conference

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced on-line registration for the "Seeing at the Nanoscale V" conference to be held at the University of California, Santa ...

8 May 2007

Veeco and Leica Integrate AFM and Microscope to Create BioScope II AFM

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, a leading designer and manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have finalized a product...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 7 May 2007

Platinum Nanocrystals Provide Increase Catalytic Activity

A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity per unit area ...

5 May 2007