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Goodrich’s MEMS Gyroscope Passes CryoSat-2 In-Orbit Test for Space Navigation

Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) gyroscopes have successfully passed inorbit testing on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite during a mission to detect shifts in global ice cover. Th...

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Create an Alternative to Conventional Logic Gates Using Silicon

In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates."

17 Nov 2010

FDC and AUO Collaborate to Advance Mixed Oxide Transistor Technology

The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University today announced that AU Optronics (AUO) has become an industry partner of the FDC. The two companies will collaborate on the development of mixed oxide thi...

17 Nov 2010

Industrial Nanotech Expands Sales of Nansulate Liquid Insulation Technology

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company is successfully expanding its sales of patented Nansulate® liquid insulation technology into the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) market. Nansulate® is the Company's patented product line of award winning, nanotechnology based specialty coatings which are well-documented to provide the combined performance qualities of thermal insulation, corrosion prevention, resistance to mold growth, fire resistance, chemical resistance and lead encapsulation in an environmentally safe, sustainable, water-based coating formulation.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 17 Nov 2010

Chinese Physicists Design Artificial EM Black Hole Using Nanoparticles

While our direct knowledge of black holes in the universe is limited to what we can observe from thousands or millions of light years away, a team of Chinese physicists has proposed a simple way to design an artificial e...

17 Nov 2010

Researchers Discover New Imaging Tool to Screen Nanotubes

Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for rapidly screening structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes, possibly hastening their use in creating a new class of computers and electronics that are faster and consume less power than today's.

17 Nov 2010

Risk Analysis Review Says Carbon Nanotubes May Be Hazardous to Humans

While offering great promise in a host of new applications, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could be harmful to humans and a new risk review suggests that product designers and others should provisionally treat CNTs “as if...

17 Nov 2010

Impact of Nanotechnology on Agriculture Industry

Using particles that are 1/100,000 the width of a human hair to deliver drugs to cells or assist plants in fighting off pests may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but these scenarios may be a common o...

17 Nov 2010

Nikon Announces Availability of N-STORM Super Resolution Microscope

Nikon Instruments Inc., an innovator of advanced optical instruments, announced today that the N-STORM Super Resolution microscope system is now available for purchase and delivery.

17 Nov 2010

Nikon Instruments to Showcase N-SIM Super Resolution Microscope at Neuroscience 2010

Nikon Instruments, Inc., an innovator of advanced optical instruments, announced today that its N-SIM Super Resolution microscope is now available for purchase and delivery.

17 Nov 2010

Nikon Instruments Releases New Microscopy System with NIS-Elements C Software

Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced optical instruments, today introduced the C2 Confocal Laser Point Scanning Microscope, which incorporates the newest release of NIS-Elements C software -Version 3.2.

17 Nov 2010

Imec Creates New Neural Probe

Imec, together with its partners within the European FP6 Program NeuroProbes, has created a new neural probe enabling electrical and chemical recording and stimulation of single neurons in the brain.

From IMEC 17 Nov 2010

Nanoelectronics Research Centre Jointly Develops Innovative Slice-Tilting Instrument for In-Vitro Research on Brain Tissue

The nanoelectronics research centre imec and Peira, a Belgium-based manufacturer of pharmaceutical and chemical research instruments, jointly developed an innovative slice-tilting instrument for in-vitro research on brai...

From IMEC 17 Nov 2010

Crystalline Two-Dimensional DNA Origami Arrays

DNA is more than just a carrier for our genetic information; DNA is also an outstanding nanoscale building material, as researchers led by Ned Seeman discovered thirty years ago.

16 Nov 2010

Nanotechnology College Establishes Collaborations with Japan's Leading Educational and Technological Institutions

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany today announced the establishment of partnerships with a trio of Japan's leading educational and technological instituti...

16 Nov 2010