Dr. Cameron Chai

Articles from Cameron

Researchers Demonstrate Ferroelectricity in Glycine Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

A team of multi-institutional researchers led by Andrei Kholkin from the University of Aveiro has for the first time experimentally demonstrated the existence of ferroelectricity in glycine, a basic amino acid, using piezoresponse force microscopy developed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

21 Apr 2012

Sigma-Aldrich Inks Licensing Deal to Offer MSPs for Nanodisc Technology

Sigma-Aldrich has signed a licensing deal with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to offer two membrane scaffold proteins (MSPs) for use in nanodisc technology devised by Stephen Sligar, who serves as the Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the university.

21 Apr 2012

Comprehensive Report on Global MEMS Accelerometer Industry

Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘Global MEMS Accelerometer Market 2011-2015’ to its catalogue.

21 Apr 2012

Innovation Prize IT 2012 Award for Swiss Nano-Cube Project

At the CeBIT exposition, Initiative Mittelstand granted the Innovation Prize IT 2012 award to Swiss Nano-Cube, a web platform, in the e-learning category.

21 Apr 2012

MEMSCAP Unveils High Voltage Electrostatic MEMS Variable Optical Attenuator

MEMSCAP, a company specializing in MEMS-based solutions, announced that the company’s high voltage electrostatic MEMS variable optical attenuator has successfully completed Telcordia qualification by meeting all mechanical, environmental and operational stress tests described in GR-1221 and GR-1209 standards for passive optical components.

21 Apr 2012

New Faster and More-Efficient Technique to Generate Single Photons

Georgia Tech professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Yaroslav Dudin have devised a new faster and more-efficient technique based on a phenomenon called Rydberg blockade to generate single photons that can be utilized to explore the disorder and dynamics in specific physical systems and in optical quantum information processing.

21 Apr 2012

New Nanochain Targeted Delivery System for Effective Cancer Treatment

A research team led by Efstathios Karathanasis from the Case Western Reserve University has developed a novel nanochain targeted delivery system that delivers an anti-cancer medicine into hard-to-reach areas of tumor.

20 Apr 2012

Scientists Create Prototype of 2D Graphene Electron Lens

An international team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a new prototype lens using graphene.

20 Apr 2012

New X-Ray Microscope Provides Nano-Scale Structural Details in 3D

A new full field transmission X-ray microscope (TXM), developed and installed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab), enables the Brookhaven Lab researchers to rapidly capture and integrate thousands of 2D images to create digital 3D constructs with high accuracy.

20 Apr 2012

DNA Origami Nanoplate Serves as Smart Lid for Solid-State Nanopore Sensor

Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) researchers have used DNA origami to improve the capabilities of solid-state nanopores. They have combined new capabilities for sensing of single-molecules.

20 Apr 2012