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New Method to Calculate Polymer Translocation Time Through Nanopores

Polymer strands wriggle their way through nanometer-sized pores in a membrane to get from here to there and do their jobs. New theoretical research by Rice University scientists quantifies precisely how long the journey takes.

30 Jul 2010

Hexagonal Boron Nitride Sheets Hold Promise in Nanoscale Electronics

What researchers might call "white graphene" may be the perfect sidekick for the real thing as a new era unfolds in nanoscale electronics.

30 Jul 2010

Brookhaven Lab Recognized for Innovative Nanotechnology Equipment

Autodesk has named Brookhaven National Laboratory - a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy - as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for July in recognition of its innovative nanotechnology equipment.

30 Jul 2010

Calculating Binding Energy Between Hyperon Particles Contributes to Understanding New Type of Neutron Star

In 2009, physicists from Japan’s KEK high-energy proton accelerator announced the sighting of a rare event: an unusually bulky beryllium nucleus that, in addition to four protons and five neutrons, contained two pa...

30 Jul 2010

Carl Zeiss and SEMATECH Achieve Key Milestone in Lithography Program

SEMATECH and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) division from Carl Zeiss announced today that Zeiss’ next-generation photomask registration and overlay metrology system has successfully passed a key development milestone.

30 Jul 2010

ESI’s New Laser System Improves Productivity in 40nm DRAM Processes

Electro Scientific Industries (NASDAQ:ESIO), a leading supplier of innovative laser-based manufacturing solutions for the microtechnology industry, today announced shipment of its new 9850TPIR+ laser link processing syst...

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 30 Jul 2010

Carbon Nanotechnologists to Discuss at Buckyball Discovery Conference

The biggest names in nanotechnology are preparing to gather this fall at Rice University, and everyone is welcome to join them.

30 Jul 2010

Strain-Induced Pseudo-Magnetic Fields in Graphene Nanobubbles

In the current issue of the journal Science, a multi-institutional team of researchers headed by Michael Crommie, a faculty senior scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, reports the creation of pseudo-magnetic fields far stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever sustained in a laboratory – just by putting the right kind of strain onto a patch of graphene.

29 Jul 2010

OmniGuide Marks Ten Years of Achievement

OmniGuide® Inc, pioneer of the world’s most precise flexible surgical scalpel for minimally invasive surgery, recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

29 Jul 2010

Scientists Create Zinc Oxide Nanostructures for PV Applications

Processes which lend materials new characteristics are generally complicated and therefore often rather difficult to reproduce. So surprise turns to astonishment when scientists report on new methods which not only produce outstanding results despite the fact that they use economically priced starting materials but also do not need expensive instrumentation.

29 Jul 2010