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Measuring Charge States of Individual Gold and Silver Atoms

Scientists in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have successfully measured the charge states of individual gold and silver atoms using an innovative approach to atomic force microscopy (AFM).

12 Jun 2009

Nanoscience Milestone Opens Up New Possibilities in Molecular Electronics

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of individual atoms using noncontact atomic force microscopy.

12 Jun 2009

Innovatech Labs Helping Ensure Product Cleanliness and Composition with FTIR Testing

Innovatech Labs, a contract materials testing lab specializing in materials characterization, is helping ensure product cleanliness and composition for engineers and manufacturers with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectros...

11 Jun 2009

Partnership Results in Promising New Tool for Fighting Infections

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it&#39...

10 Jun 2009

A Widely Tunable Bandgap in Bilayer Graphene

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: graphene has no bandgap.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 10 Jun 2009

JPK Announces Installation of NanoTracker Optical Tweezers System at Leiden University

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce the installation of its unique NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system in the laboratory of Dr. Remus Dame at Leiden University.

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Jun 2009

Completely New Material Having Significance in Carbon-Carbon Composite Field and Other Applications

JenLaur Ltd., LLC is announcing the discovery of a template for creation of amino acids, nucleosides, and RNA through a proprietary patent pending method of metallofullerene production.

10 Jun 2009

FRT Introduces New Optical Film Thickness Measuring Tool

FRT, a trusted partner for industry-proven metrological surface measuring systems, presents a new optical film thickness measuring tool at this year's Laser 2009 in Munich. The new MicroSpy FT non-destructively measu...

From Fries Research + Technology GmbH 8 Jun 2009

Researchers Use Synchrotron's Infrared Microscope to Identify Tissue Afflicted with Barrett's Esophagus

Canadian Light Source (CLS) staff scientist Luca Quaroni and Dr. Alan Casson, Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) used the synchrotron's infrared microscope to identify tissue afflicted with a condition known as Barrett's Esophagus from chemical fingerprints associated with the disease.

8 Jun 2009

Multichannel Images Captured Simultaneously with Maximum Resolution

The new software is aimed at life scientists, such as cell biologists, virologists and physiologists, and allows the simultaneous acquisition of images from two cameras and their synchronization within nanoseconds.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 6 Jun 2009