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World's Most Advanced Electron Microscopes for Nanotechnology Research

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials science and engineering.

7 Mar 2009

Particle Measuring Systems Introduces A World Class Particle Sampling System

Particle Measuring Systems announced this week the introduction of the Nano-ID™, a world class particle sampling system providing the capability to selectively size and capture a wide range of ultra-fine and nanopa...

6 Mar 2009

New Way to Greatly Increase Luminescence Efficiency of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Chemists at the University of Connecticut have found a way to greatly increase the luminescence efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could have significant applications in medical imaging and ot...

6 Mar 2009

Diamond Biosensor for Specific Sequence of DNA with Ultra-high Sensitivity

Hiroshi Uetsuka and Nianjun Yang, the Diamond Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have fabricated vertically aligned nanowire structure with 10 nm lateral spacing on conductive diamond surfaces, and succeeded in highly sensitive detection of DNA (2 pM) using an electrochemical sensor with the nanowire-structured diamond electrodes.

6 Mar 2009

Alnylam Publishes In Vivo Research on Systemic Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, today announced the publication of new data in the journal Molecular Therapy by Alnylam scientists and collaborators from the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

6 Mar 2009

Scientist-Entrepreneurs Honored at Inventors Reception

An antibody with the potential to stop breast cancer in its path. A nanoparticle that can address a side effect of the treatment that hemophiliacs cannot live without. A "quantum dot" with the potential to trea...

6 Mar 2009

Nanotubes Turning Carbon Dioxide into Methane

Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.

5 Mar 2009

Inorganic Nanoparticles With Layer of Hydrophilic Polymer Chains Aggregate into Complex Nanostructures

Researchers at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg (Germany) led by Horst Weller and Stephan Förster have now produced amphiphilic hybrid particles made of a water-insoluble inorganic nanoparticle at the core surrounded by a bristle-like layer of hydrophilic polymer chains.

5 Mar 2009

Veeco Receives Initial Multi-Million Dollar Order from Korean Company for CIGS Equipment

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Daiyang Metal Co., Ltd. of Korea, a leader in the production of cold rolled stainless steel, to be its supplier of equipment to manufacture CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) solar cells.

From Veeco 5 Mar 2009

Magnetic Nanoparticles Dramatically Increases Efficiency of Gene Transfer

Scientists of the national German metrology institute, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), have developed a highly sensitive measuring method with which the efficiency of gene transfer in cases if cardiovasc...

5 Mar 2009