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Applying Capillary Forming Process to Carbon Nanotubes Create New 3D Shapes

Twisting spires, concentric rings, and gracefully bending petals are a few of the new three-dimensional shapes that University of Michigan engineers can make from carbon nanotubes using a new manufacturing process.

20 Oct 2010

Research Underway to Mass Produce Cheap, High-Quality Graphene

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to the two scientists who first isolated graphene, one-atom-thick crystals of graphite. Now, a researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is trying to ...

20 Oct 2010

Georgia Tech Physicists Develop New Quantum Communication Device

When the military needs to send the key to encrypted data across the world, it can't necessarily rely on today's communication lines, where the message could be covertly intercepted. But physicists at the Geor...

From Georgia Institute of Technology 20 Oct 2010

Understanding Inner Level Structure of Single-Molecule Magnet

In the world of the very small, researchers at Shanxi University in China have announced progress in understanding the single-molecule magnet, which combines the classical macroscale properties of a magnet with the quant...

20 Oct 2010

New Hand-Held Sensor for Detecting High-Powered Explosive

University of Illinois chemists have developed a simple sensor to detect an explosive used in shoe bombs. It could lead to inexpensive, easy-to-use devices for luggage and passenger screening at airports and elsewhere...

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 20 Oct 2010

Researchers Study How Specialized Protein Reacts to External Stimuli

Some bacteria react to the cold by subtly changing the chemistry of their outer wall so that it remains pliable as temperatures drop.

20 Oct 2010

UW-Madison Professor's New Technique Ideal for Nanoelectronic Applications

In cold weather, many children can't resist breathing onto a window and writing in the condensation. Now imagine the window as an electronic device platform, the condensation as a special conductive gas, and the l...

20 Oct 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Hydrogen Atom Removal Process with Scanning Tunneling Microscope

The long-held dream of creating atomically precise three-dimensional structures in a manufacturing environment is approaching reality, according to the top scientist at a company making tools aimed at that ambitious goal...

From Zyvex 20 Oct 2010

Malvern Zetasizer Nano Provides Protein Characterization to Help Grow Tooth Enamel

Malvern Panalytical Zetasizer Nano delivers high quality DLS and zeta potential measurements in a single instrument. The combination of these techniques, and the reliability of results, makes the instrument ideal for protein characterization.

From Malvern Panalytical 19 Oct 2010

Conserving Resources: Producing Circuit Boards with Plasma

There is a large growth market for flexible circuits, RFID antennas and biosensors on films. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST are presenting a new technology at K 2010, the international trade fair for plastics and rubber (Hall 3, E91): the experts can now apply conductive metal circuits to plastic substrates in a process that is energy- and material-conserving and thus more sustainable.

19 Oct 2010

Easily Transport Small Amounts of Liquid Nitrogen and Argon Using the Micromeritics LN2

Micromeritics’ Model 021 LN2 Transfer System is useful for any number of tasks where frequent needs arise for relatively small volumes of liquid nitrogen or argon. The LN2 Transfer System makes it easy to fill Dewars with liquid cryogen for laboratory or general purposes.

From Malvern Panalytical 19 Oct 2010

Nobel Team Reunites for Rice's Buckyball Discovery Conference

One simple conversation may have spread the legend of the buckyball farther and wider than the nearly quarter-century of learning and teaching that preceded it.

19 Oct 2010

Use of Gold Nanoparticles to Create Self-Assembling Crystals

Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity.

19 Oct 2010

Eni-MIT Alliance Focuses on Developing Nano-Scale Materials to Clean Up Oil Spills

Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of the Italian energy company Eni, met today at MIT to review the progress of the Eni-MIT Alliance, an ambitious five-year r...

19 Oct 2010

JPK Instruments Announces Availability of 2010 Accessories Handbook

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation in life sciences and soft matter report on the benefits of a broad accessory range to enable SPM researchers reach their goals. The 2010 accessories handbook is now available.

From Bruker BioAFM 19 Oct 2010