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Report Analyzes the Worldwide Markets for Nanomagnetics in US$ Million

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. World Nanomagnetics Market report analyzes the worldwide markets for Nanomagnetics in US$ Million. The major product segments...

24 Mar 2009

Conference Discusses Carbon Nanocarbons from Biological to Biomedical and Environmental Effects

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), discovered in 1991, have amazing mechanical, thermal and electrical conductivity, as well as excellent field emission properties. Actual uses of CNT are already about to be numerous (car industry, sport accessories, etc.), and future applications are foreseen to be in constant development.

24 Mar 2009

Nanolane Joins International Experts Group WG1PG8

In the framework of its total quality policy, NANOLANE has joined as French member the international experts group WG1PG8 ‘Terminology for nanoscale measurement and instrumentation' headed by Dr John Miles (Nat...

From NANOLANE 24 Mar 2009

Noted Scientist to Present at 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry

Dr. Clive Willis, President of CWIC Inc. will make a keynote presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry, presented by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, June 2...

24 Mar 2009

New Surface Treatment Boosts Efficiency for Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009

Splitting Water with Visible Light - Not All TiO2 is Equal

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be presenting at this year's American Chemical Society 2009 Spring Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. The following talk will o...

24 Mar 2009

A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly

To be useful in real-world applications, a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of molecules on a surface must have a stable and controllable geometry. Researchers at Penn State and the Sigma-Aldrich company have found a way t...

24 Mar 2009

Magnetism A Pivotal Factor Governing Physical Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors

Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials' unusual properties remains elusive. But a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may be close to the answer.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 24 Mar 2009

Carbon Nanostructures as Catalysts to Store and Release Hydrogen

A team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Savannah River National Laboratory have identified that carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and...

24 Mar 2009

Probing the Mysteries of Superfluidity

If physicists lived in Flatland-the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel-some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just thinner) than those in our world.

24 Mar 2009

Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount of light reflected directly off the needle point of an atomic force microscope probe.

24 Mar 2009

Noliac Piezoelectric Actuators are Ideally Suited to Atomic Force Microscopes

Applying 60 volts grants you 0.01 mm of motion with a 5x5x10 mm multilayer
piezoelectric actuator from Noliac.
A multilayer piezoceramic actuator is thus perfect for many applications, e.g.
in atomic force microscopy.

24 Mar 2009

New Malvern Products to Make Their ACHEMA Debut in May

A number of Malvern Panalytical
products will make their first ACHEMA appearances this year (11-15 May 2009,
Frankfurt, Germany), with the company exhibiting on two stands, one focusing
on analysis in the laboratory and the other in the process sector.

From Malvern Panalytical 24 Mar 2009

mPhase Meets with Key Members of Congress and Influential Members of the Nanotechnology Community

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL) attended the NanoBusiness Alliance Public Policy Tour and participated in the Product Showcase on Thursday March 19 in Washington, DC. mPhase took advantage of this event as an opportunity to meet with key members of Congress and other influential members of the nanotechnology community.

From MyPebble 24 Mar 2009

Ohio State University to Evaluate Novel Nanoparticle Delivery Technology With Lorus' Oncology Drugs

Lorus Therapeutics Inc. (TSX:LOR) ("Lorus" or the "Corporation"), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research and development of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the managemen...

24 Mar 2009