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Micromeritics to Participate in Carbon2010 as Gold Sponsor

Micromeritics is participating as a "Gold" sponsor in Carbon2010 - the Annual World Conference on Carbon. The American Carbon Society will hold Carbon2010 in the United States at the Conference Center and Inn at Clemson University, located on the shores of beautiful Lake Hartwell in the foothills of South Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.

From Micromeritics International Sales 23 Jun 2010

World First for Quantum Memory Storage

An ANU-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured by the laws of physics.

23 Jun 2010

Malvern Zetasizer Nano Being Used to Support Water Treatment Plant Operators

An advanced particle characterization system from Malvern Panalytical is being used to support water treatment plant operators in their optimization of treatment processes, and is removing the need to wait for external l...

From Malvern Panalytical 23 Jun 2010

New Tools for New Light Source at Brookhaven Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is constructing the world's most brilliant light source, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). In a recent decision, DOE has approved a new project to begin conceptual design of NSLS-II experimental tools, named NEXT.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 23 Jun 2010

Veeco Announces BioScope Catalyst Perfusing Stage Incubator to Facilitate Cell Biology Studies

Veeco Instruments Inc., the leading provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to the nanoscience community announces the BioScope™ Catalyst™ Perfusing Stage Incubator to facilitate cell biology studies using simultaneous AFM and optical methods.

From Veeco 23 Jun 2010

Dance of Water Molecules

Using Terahertz spectroscopy, RUB-chemists recently detected the surprisingly long-ranged influence of solvated biomolecules on the "dance" of surrounding water molecules. With extensive simulations on a supercomputer, they now succeeded in describing this choreography in detail.

23 Jun 2010

Attaching Water-Soluble Polymer Layer to Nanometer-Sized Silica Spheres Improves Mobility

Porous silica can form stable and biocompatible nanometer-sized hollow spheres, or vesicles, that are suitable for transporting and delivering drugs to their targets in the body. The clinical use of silica vesicles, howe...

23 Jun 2010

Tracking Single Molecules Without Modifying Them

Scientists can detect the movements of single molecules by using fluorescent tags or by pulling them in delicate force measurements, but only for a few minutes. A new technique by Rice University researchers will allow t...

23 Jun 2010

MunEDA's WiCkeD Solution Chosen for TSMC’s 65nm RF RDK 2.0

MunEDA's tool suite WiCkeD(TM) has been validated for TSMC’s RF Reference Design Kit (RDK) 2.0 as part of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform(TM). WiCkeD covers a wide range of topic in interactive and automatic specification-driven custom circuit design, including design centering, circuit sizing for performance and yield, performance analysis, statistical circuit analysis.

23 Jun 2010

Fumed Silica Nanoparticles Help in Developing Consumer Products

A Kansas State University chemical engineer has developed and patented a chemical structure to make all-natural personal care products and purer pharmaceuticals in the laboratory. K-State's Peter Pfromm, in ...

23 Jun 2010

Portable Photovoltaics Project Focuses on Advancing Thin-Film Flexible Solar Cells

The University of Delaware Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) is part of an industry-academic team that has been awarded $3.8 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development office of the U.S. Department of Defense, to demonstrate solar cells that can stand up to battle conditions and environmental extremes.

23 Jun 2010

TLi Selects AFS Platform for Nanometer SPICE Accuracy

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the Analog FastSPICE™ unified circuit verification platform (AFS Platform), today announced that Technology Leaders & Innovators (TLi), a leading fabless developer of display semiconductor products, has selected the AFS Platform for full-circuit verification and device noise analysis of its complex mixed-signal ICs for display applications.

23 Jun 2010