Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the North Dakota State University (NDSU) have together shown the linkage between the durability and flexibility of carbon nanotube coatings and films and their electronic properties.
Nano-composites and polymer nano-films are utilized in a broad range of applications from packaging of food to sports equipment to aerospace and automotive applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jan 2012
Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. D.O.E and Berkeley’s Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology from the University of California, Paul Alivisatos has been honored with the Wolf Foundation Prize in the field of Chemistry for the year 2012.
Researchers from Children’s Hospital, Boston and Harvard University-based Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have discovered "smart" injectable nanotherapeutics that can be selectively programmed to transmit drugs to pancreatic cells.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jan 2012
XTIO2 has launched its personal protection coating product called XTI-Mobile nano-coating at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jan 2012
The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit from just 12 atoms for each bit and 96 atoms for 8 bits i.e. 1 byte was designed by German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and IBM scientists.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jan 2012
Baolab Microsystems has announced that it will have evaluation kits of its recently announced 3D NanoCompass™ available at the end of February 2012.
Teijin Fibers Limited, the core company of the Teijin Group’s polyester fibers business, announced today that it has decided to commercialize a new version of its Nanofront high-strength polyester nanofiber with a diameter of 400 nanometers.
Vistec Lithography, B.V. is pleased to announce today that Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Wuhan, P.R. of China signed off its electron-beam lithography system Vistec EBPG5000pES.
KU Leuven researcher Ventsislav Valev and an international team of scientists have developed a new method for optical manipulation of matter at the nanoscale.
Using 'plasmonic hotspots' - regions with electric current...
The Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) engineers have designed silicon-based micromechanical valves utilizing process technologies of semiconductor materials. These silicon microvalves belong to the MEMS category.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Jan 2012
A research team led by Todd Emrick from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed an experimental process to perform nano-scale repairs on damaged surfaces based on a theoretical prediction of Anna Balazs from the University of Pittsburgh.
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a novel software to measure friction of graphene, a one-atom-thick carbon material.
WiSpry, a company specializing in tunable RF semiconductor products, has declared that its dynamically tunable antenna technology is the basis of the first bulk-produced RF-MEMS-enabled handset.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Jan 2012
Nanopores are being used for analyzing the behavior of biomolecules, such as proteins, RNA and DNA. However, interference between proteins utilized as nanopores and the test molecules is a major issue for the quantitative analysis.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
13 Jan 2012