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New Material Shows Promise for Nerve Guides

New Material Shows Promise for Nerve Guides

In the clothing industry it's common to mix natural and synthetic fibers. Take cotton and add polyester to make clothing that's soft, breathable and wrinkle free.

16 Jun 2009

Bright, Stable and Bio-Friendly Nanocrystals Act as Individual Investigators of Activity within Cells

Bright, Stable and Bio-Friendly Nanocrystals Act as Individual Investigators of Activity within Cells

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Jun 2009

Important Similarity Between Behavior of Polycrystalline Materials and Glasses

Important Similarity Between Behavior of Polycrystalline Materials and Glasses

Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence* of an important similarity between the behavior of polycrystalline materials-such as metals and ceramics-and glasses.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Reduction in Mechanical Strain at Crystal Grains Boundaries Significantly Improve Performance of HTS

Reduction in Mechanical Strain at Crystal Grains Boundaries Significantly Improve Performance of HTS

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance of high-temperature superconductors (HTS).

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Nano Robots Ready to Compete in RoboCup Games

Nano Robots Ready to Compete in RoboCup Games

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be serving up "soccer under glass"-the glass of a microscope lens-when nanosoccer makes its second appearance at the RoboCup games at the international competition in Graz, Austria, from June 29 to July 5, 2009.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Shape Matters in the Case of Cobalt Nanoparticles

Shape Matters in the Case of Cobalt Nanoparticles

Shape is turning out to be a particularly important feature of some commercially important nanoparticles-but in subtle ways. New studies* by scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) show that changing the shape of cobalt nanoparticles from spherical to cubic can fundamentally change their behavior.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Biophysicists Create Nonstick Gold Surfaces and Laser-Safe Gold Nanoposts

Biophysicists Create Nonstick Gold Surfaces and Laser-Safe Gold Nanoposts

Biophysicists long for an ideal material-something more structured and less sticky than a standard glass surface-to anchor and position individual biomolecules. Gold is an alluring possibility, with its simple chemistry and the ease with which it can be patterned.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

Virginia Tech Professor Recognised for Thermoelectric Materials Research

Virginia Tech Professor Recognised for Thermoelectric Materials Research

Jeremiah T. Abiade, assistant professor in materials science and engineering and in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award for his research to increase the electrical output of thermoelectric (TE) materials and devices.

16 Jun 2009

Nanoparticles Could Someday Target and Destroy Tumors

Nanoparticles Could Someday Target and Destroy Tumors

Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.

16 Jun 2009

MEMtronics Receives DARPA Development Contract

MEMtronics Corporation, privately-held company focused on the commercialization of RF micromachined switch technology, today announced it has received a development contract from the Defense Advance Research Projects Age...

From MEMtronics Corporation 16 Jun 2009

UK's National Measurement Institute Offers UK Businesses Independent Materials Advice Over the Phone

UK's National Measurement Institute Offers UK Businesses Independent Materials Advice Over the Phone

Materials companies now have somewhere to turn for instant measurement advice. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has launched a new materials hotline, GEMM (Gateway to Expertise in Materials Metrology), to give companies access to its materials expertise.

16 Jun 2009

Engineers Describe New Technique to Continue Scaling in HKMG Transistors

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the world's first truly global leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company, today described an innovative technology that could overcome one of the key hurdles to advancing high-k metal gate (HK...

From GlobalFoundries 16 Jun 2009

Fully Tested and Qualified Wafer-Level Lenses Use Reflow Compatible Materials to Streamline Production and Assembly of Camera Modules

Nemotek Technologie, manufactures customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today announced its Wafer-Level Optics (WLO) solutions are fully qualified and now available to customers. Producing thousands o...

16 Jun 2009

Company Delivers 10 Kilometers of Carbon Nanotube Yarn to Fortune 100 Aerospace Customer

Company Delivers 10 Kilometers of Carbon Nanotube Yarn to Fortune 100 Aerospace Customer

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., today announced it has produced and delivered 10 kilometers of its CTex™ CNT yarn to one of its Fortune 100 aerospace customers.

From Huntsman International LLC 16 Jun 2009

Protein Structures Can Provide Keys to Understanding and Preventing Diseases of Catastrophic Proportions

In the rarified world of protein crystal hunters, Fluidigm's TOPAZ® system is the tool that has helped researchers solve the structures of proteins from the Ebola Virus and Avian Flu Influenza. Now Fluidigm is in...

From Standard BioTools 16 Jun 2009

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