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NanoBusiness Alliance Announces Opening Day Line-Up and Industry Luminaries for 2009 Conference

The NanoBusiness Alliance today announced its Opening Day line-up and industry luminaries for its 8th annual NanoBusiness 2009 conference and exhibition. Tuesday's line-up also has a special track designed for compan...

7 Sep 2009

Nanotechnology Pioneer to Appear at British Science Festival

Sumio Iijima who shared the first Kavli Prize in nanoscience with Louis E. Brus in 2008, will be appearing at the British Science Festival on the 7th of September. Iijima of Meijo University in Japan, is one of the world's leading figures at the forefront of nanotechnology research.

7 Sep 2009

Highly Sensitive Nanosensor that Can Detect Possible Mutations in DNA

Researchers from the Basque technological centre CIDETEC-IK4, the Higher Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of Berkeley (U.S.) have developed a highly sensitive electrochemical sensor that can detec...

7 Sep 2009

Results Could Lead to New High-Precision Nanomechanical Tools in Nanofabrication

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially be used in the development of next generation, more advanced computer chips that have higher performance and smaller feature sizes.

7 Sep 2009

Advanced Techniques for Materials Characterization

Research and Markets , the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Advanced Techniques for Materials Characterization" report to their offering. ...

From Research and Markets 7 Sep 2009

Scientists Achieve New State in Quantum Physics

EU-funded researchers in Austria investigating ultracold atomic physics have generated an exotic state wherein atoms are aligned in a one-dimensional structure, creating a stable 'many-body phase' with new quantum mechanical states. Their findings, published in the journal Science, open up a new area of study in quantum physics.

7 Sep 2009

Report Offers Wealth of Up-to-Date Information on Micro and Nanosystems

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Smart Materials and Micro/Nanosystems" report to their offering. Selected, peer...

From Research and Markets 7 Sep 2009

Carl Zeiss Opens New West Coast Tech Center

Carl Zeiss IMT opens new West Coast Tech Center in Irvine, California. "We are dedicated to supporting the high-tech industry on the West Coast, by providing customers easy access to our most modern and advanced technology," said Andy Sisler, Vice President of Sales at Carl Zeiss IMT.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 7 Sep 2009

Zemetrics Introduces ZeMapper to the Precision Engineering and R+D Market

Zemetrics, an optical metrology product company founded last year to provide new concept surface metrology systems, has brought its first system, ZeMapper, to the precision engineering and R and D market.

7 Sep 2009

New Carbon Nanotube Packaging Helps Customers Reduce Shipping Costs by 70 Percent

Nanocyl announced today it is now offering a large packaging for its NC 7000 multiwall carbon nanotubes that will help its customers reduce shipping costs, and safely optimize the compounding process. "Switching...

From NANOCYL SA 7 Sep 2009

Mapping Nanotechnology

The burgeoning research fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology are commonly thought to be highly multidisciplinary because they draw on many areas of science and technology to make important advances.

7 Sep 2009

Cobalt-Free Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Secondary Batteries

Researchers developed two types of cobalt-free oxides, that can be used as cathode materials for lithium ion secondary batteries. Approximately 20% of the total amount of transition metals in the oxide materials is iron, which is abundant and inexpensive.

7 Sep 2009

Scientists Reveal Function of Microscopic Network of Tubules Found in Neurons

Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have elucidated the function of a microscopic network of tubules found in neurons. This structure modulates the strength of connections between two neurons, thereby contributing to our ability to learn and to adapt to new situations.

7 Sep 2009

World's First Commercially Available Portfolio of Cell Adhesive Micropattern Products

CYTOO SA, a provider of innovative enabling technologies and products for high content cell analysis, premiered what it believes is the world's first and most comprehensive commercially available portfolio of cell adhesive micropattern products to the cell biology research community at the EMBO Meeting last week in Amsterdam.

7 Sep 2009

Using Bacteria to Make Stronger and More Durable Bone Implants

Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more durable bone implants. Professor Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham this week (7-10 September) presented work to the Societ...

7 Sep 2009