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Virginia Tech Researcher Aims to Develop Imaging with Resolution of One Nanometer

Producing optical images at resolutions as low as one nanometer is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Yong Xu, who has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Developmen...

12 Mar 2007

Cambridge Scientists Produce Live Video Showing How Carbon Nanotubes Form

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

FEI Demonstrates Table-Top Scanning Electron Microscope for Advancing Science Education

FEI demonstrated the world's first tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) designed specifically for education on Capitol Hill last week. The Phenom-Ed provides magnification up to 20,000x -- far beyond the range...

6 Mar 2007

New Super-Thin Technology

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs. Physicists at The Univers...

6 Mar 2007

Nanostripes and Superconductivity Gridlock

Superconductivity -- the conduction of electricity with zero resistance -- sometimes can, it seems, become stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." A possible explanation why is offered by new research a...

6 Mar 2007

Live Video Footage of Carbon Nanotube Formation Produced by Cambridge University

6 Mar 2007

Scientists Measure the Magnetic Interaction Between Single Atoms

It is a vision of information technology to store data in the smallest available units - single atoms - thus enabling the development of novel mass storage devices with huge capacities but compact dimensions. It is cruci...

6 Mar 2007

Argonne Lab Develop Advanced Concept in Nanoscale Catalyst Engineering

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering - a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring polymer e...

6 Mar 2007

Microfluidic Chip Solves Biological Mystery

Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Advance Online Pu...

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Dots Detect Metastatic Lesions

By injecting quantum dots into tumors, investigators at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to image sentinel lymph nodes in animals using near-infrared light. These results could lead to a simple, non-invasive met...

27 Feb 2007