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Nanotechnology Scientist Wins Buck-Whitney Award

Stanislaus S. Wong, a scientist with a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, has won the Buck-Whitney Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Eastern New York Section.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 19 Nov 2009

Berkeley Lab Researchers Uncover Atomic-Level Action of Ring-Shaped Protein Motors

The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) using a state-of-the-art protein crystallography beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 19 Nov 2009

PI Announces Two New Multi-Axis Stages for Super-Resolution Microscopy Applications

Piezo system specialist PI has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 µm in XY and XYZ.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 19 Nov 2009

Scientists Determine Atomic-Level, 3-D Structure of an HIV Accomplice

Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of thwarting its ...

19 Nov 2009

Applied Nanotech Inkjet Printed Nanoparticle Copper Inks onto Paper

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: APNT) announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic ...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 19 Nov 2009

Toshiba Corporation Developed High Resolution Photoresist

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology.

19 Nov 2009

Researchers Succeed in Damping Acoustic Vibrations in Gold Nanoparticles

Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures to the nanometer scale while preserving long-lived vibrations.

19 Nov 2009

Lumerical Solutions Donates 10 Simulation Engine Licenses of FDTD Software to Compute/Calcul Canada

A Canadian software company and a leading provider of high performance nanophotonic design software, Lumerical Solutions Inc., is donating 10 simulation engine licenses of its finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) softwar...

From Ansys 19 Nov 2009

Synthesizing Graphene-Like Polymer with Well Defined Pores

Physicists at Empa, Switzerland, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like porous polymer with atomic accuracy.

19 Nov 2009

NIEHS Increasing Investment in Understanding Potential Health, Safety and Environmental Issues Related to Nanomaterials

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to t...

19 Nov 2009

Artificially Introduced Defects in Nanotubes Can Aid the Development of Supercapacitors

Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors that could do just this.

19 Nov 2009

WaferGen Biosystems Announces New Service Using SmartChip Real-Time PCR System

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC:WGBS) (BULLETIN BOARD: WGBS) , a leading developer of state-of-the-art genetic analysis systems, today announced a new, innovative service for gene-expression profiling of thousands of gene...

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 19 Nov 2009

Ground-Breaking Research into Molecular Depleted Uranium Chemistry

A scientist at The University of Nottingham has been recognised for his outstanding and creative early career research with a prestigious €1m (£893,775) grant to study speculative and ground-breaking research ...

19 Nov 2009

K.U.Leuven and IMEC Honour Former CEO of Xilinx

On 24 November, Rector Mark Waer will confer the degree of doctor honoris causa on Willem P. Roelandts. Willem P. Roelandts is the former chair of the Board of Governors and CEO of Xilinx, one of the world's leading ...

From IMEC 19 Nov 2009

Research in Energy Storage Could Help Speed Development of Renewable Energy

There's one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn't shine at night, the wind doesn't always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. That's why many researchers have been pursuing ways of storing the power generated by these sources so that it can be used when it's needed.

19 Nov 2009