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Study Enables ASTM to Revise Guidelines for Nanoparticle Sizing in Solutions

As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, w...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

New Calibration Technique Improving Reliability and Stability of Microhotplate

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the microhotplate.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Ytterbium Giving Time Standards Community More Options in Development of Next-Generation Atomic Clocks

An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation’s civilian time standard, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report in Physical Review Letters.*

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Engineers for the First Time Control All Degrees of Particle's Motion

Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions. For years, scientis...

11 Aug 2009

Researchers Develop New Laser Technique for Searching Unusual Isotopes

One single atom of a certain isotope of hafnium found on Earth would prove that a supernova once exploded near our solar system. The problem is how to find such an atom - among billions of others. Researchers at the Univ...

11 Aug 2009

University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Announces Winners of Photography Competition

A picture of the moment at which a vehicle which photographs deep-sea life was lowered into the murky depths for the first time has won this year's photography competition at Cambridge University's Department of Engineering.

11 Aug 2009

Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity Expected to Grow 56 Percent in 2009

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research and consulting and part of the NPD Group, is expanding its business to include solar market research. DisplaySearch has been tracking the solar industry sinc...

11 Aug 2009

Nanometrics Wins 2009 R+D 100 Award

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs as well as adva...

11 Aug 2009

Synthesis of Uniform, Unilamellar Vesicles by Means of Microfluidics

A team led by Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo (Japan) has now developed a simple, highly efficient method for the production of vesicles. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it is based on microfluidic T junctions.

11 Aug 2009

Company Wins R+D 100 Award for Nanocrystal Solar Cell

The editors of R+D Magazine have named Solexant Corp., developer of third-generation ultrathin-film PV technology, a winner of its 47th Annual R+D 100 Awards for the most technologically significant products introduced i...

11 Aug 2009

Companies Hit Manufacturing Milestone Taking Advantage of 34nm NAND Process to Deliver 32-Gigabit Density

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE:MU) today announced the development of a new 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, leveraging their award-winning 34-nanometer (nm) NAND process.

11 Aug 2009

Clear Insulating Roof Nanotechnology Coating Increases Lifespan of Shingle Roofs

Industrial Nanotech, provided a follow up to their earlier product announcement for Nansulate Crystal, a clear protective roof coating for sloped roofs which provides thermal insulation, as well as resistance to UV and mold and mildew.

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 11 Aug 2009

Research Opens Door to Extremely Sensitive Chemical Sensors that can be Produced in a Cost-Effective Way

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). This opens the door to extremely sensitive chemical sensors that can be produced in a cost-effective way.

11 Aug 2009

Scientists Develop Liquid-Crystalline Particles Only Micrometers Across

To move your arm or leg, certain muscles need to change shape, to either lengthen or contract. Now scientists have made liquid-crystalline particles that can change shape in a similar way, but which are only micrometers ...

11 Aug 2009

New Method for Electrically Measuring Quantum State of a Semiconductor Artificial Molecule

Under a targeted basic research program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Hiroshi Imamura of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Nobuhiko Yokoshi of JST have d...

11 Aug 2009