The winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 has been announced. This year the award goes to Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, Taisuke Ohta and Thomas E. Beechem both from the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for their paper: “Strain and charge carrier coupling in epitaxial graphene”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235422 (2011).
The UK’s leading manufacturer of high purity single-wall carbon nanotubes Thomas Swan has announced a 4 year, £625K collaboration with the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College Dublin to develop a scalable manufacturing process for high purity graphene.
The Information Network has published a new report titled ‘The Global Market for Equipment and Materials for IC Manufacturing.’
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Apr 2012
AKHAN Technologies, a specialist in designing sophisticated diamond electron devices, has declared that Adam Khan, the company’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, will deliver a presentation at the Nanostructured Carbon Materials for MEMS/NEMS and Nano-Electronics Symposium at the upcoming XXI International Materials Research Congress (IMRC) 2012.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Apr 2012
A team of researchers from the University of Arkansas and Nanjing University has developed a new experimental technique to control the strain or mechanical property of freestanding graphene sheets suspended over small square meshes of copper.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
4 Apr 2012
A research team from the Cornell University has devised a new technique to fabricate porous metal films with an electrical conductivity 1000 folds higher than that can be achieved by earlier methods.
Research and Markets has included a new report titled ‘The 2012 European Flow Cytometry Market: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK’ to its catalogue.
NANOSENSORS has unveiled the first two models of its new SPM probe line of highly conductive and wear resistant atomic force microscopy (AFM) tips.
Anasys Instruments has been chosen to receive a Best Paper Award for 2011 for a talk given at ANTEC 2011.
A research team from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) has identified a new phenomenon pertaining to the fluid dynamics when microdroplets traverse microfluidic channels.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Apr 2012
Eighteen major research and industrial partners have teamed up in a European Union (EU) Fast Track project to develop high-efficiency thin-film silicon solar modules using nanotechnology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
3 Apr 2012
Bruker Nano Surfaces Division (Tucson, AZ) has shipped 100 DektakXT™ Stylus Surface Profiling System since the product launched last April.
Dr. Debra Rolison, a scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), has been felicitated with two awards for advancements in the field of chemistry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
NanoString Technologies will introduce three new kits for the nCounter Analysis System, a completely automated, simple-workflow, multi-purpose digital detection and counting system, at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting to be conducted from March 31, to April 4, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois.
A research team headed by Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo from the University of Toronto has discovered a new quantum encryption technique to provide protection against the most advanced hackers.