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Researchers Examine Whether Gold Nanorods Could Readily Pass from Water to the Marine Food Web

Too tiny to see or touch, manmade nanoparticles are increasingly becoming a by-product of industry and chemical and pharmaceutical technology. But once these super small materials enter the water supply, do they ...

22 Jun 2009

New Micro-Tool Allows Researchers to Gauge How Cells' Minute Mechanical Forces During Tissue Development

A University of Pennsylvania-collaboration of bioengineers studying the physical forces generated by individual cells has created a tiny micron-sized device that allows researchers to measure and manipulate cellular forces as assemblies of living cells reorganize themselves into tissues.

22 Jun 2009

Director of NTU's Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics Wins W. Wallace McDowell Award

Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, who also heads the Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has won the prestigious 2008 W. Wallace McDowe...

22 Jun 2009

New and Precise Inspection System for the Semiconductor and Electronics Industry

The new series of Nikon LSI inspection microscopes, Eclipse L200N and L200ND, is now available. Building on the high resolution and precision of the Eclipse L200 and L200D series, the L200N and L200ND offer improved observation and operating performance, providing images with greater contrast and higher resolving power.

22 Jun 2009

Report Examines Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications: Technologies, Players + Opportun...

From Research and Markets 22 Jun 2009

3M and SUSS MicroTec Signs Agreement

3M, a leading supplier of advanced materials to the semiconductor industry, and SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of semiconductor processing equipment, today announced an agreement to expand access to 3M Wafer Support System (WSS) equipment for temporary wafer bonding of ultrathin wafers required for 3-D packaging.

From SUSS MicroTec AG 22 Jun 2009

Nanotechnology Researchers Create World's Smallest Standing Statue of a Musician

Imagine how passionately this 0.00007 metre short musician blows his instrument toward the sky at dawn to make sound volume with his tiny breast.

22 Jun 2009

Automatic Supply of Water Immersion During Experiments

Leica Microsystems has now launched a Water Immersion Micro Dispenser that is easy to retrofit and can be used with water immersion objectives even for long term experiments of living organisms and screening experiments in live cell research.

22 Jun 2009

NanoViricides CEO to Speak at NanoBio 2009

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy, announced today that its CEO, Dr. Eugene Seymour, has been in...

From NanoViricides, Inc 22 Jun 2009

Experts to Present on Industry Trends, Technical and Manufacturing Solutions

A lineup of recognized technical and manufacturing experts from SEMATECH and International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) will offer a series of lectures and workshop sessions from July 14-16, 2009 at SEMICON West in San Francisco.

22 Jun 2009

Global Market for Nanomemory Expects to Reach $15.4 Billion by 2015

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Nanomemory market. Nanomemory is a technology that is capable of providing efficient memory storage solutions for new age devices. The technology is expected ...

From Global Industry Analysts 22 Jun 2009

Professor Receives 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from EPA

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will receive the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environm...

22 Jun 2009

Inhibitor Molecules Could Become Drugs to Block Deadly Poison

Botulism toxins are among the deadliest known poisons. Minute quantities in improperly canned goods can cause a fatal form of food poisoning. Recently, some forms have been used in medical settings to smooth facial wrinkles and to quell bladder spasms to stem urinary leakage. But fear of their use as a bioterror weapon has made the toxins notorious — and the push for developing antitoxin drugs or vaccines a high priority.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 21 Jun 2009

Physicists Devise New Method to Detect Quantum Mechanical Effects in Ordinary Objects

At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways.

20 Jun 2009

Handbook on the Reliability of MEMS

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Reliability of MEMS" to their offering. This fir...

From Research and Markets 19 Jun 2009