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Researchers Take A Look Deep Inside Metals

Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals.

27 Feb 2009

Symposium Focusing on Drug and Gene Delivery

The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) held an international symposium on February 27th, entitled "Frontiers in biomaterials-based drug and gene delivery", featuring a forum on drug and gene delivery, tissue...

27 Feb 2009

Innovative Water Repelling Swimsuits Combine Nanotechnology with Unparalleled Comfort

A long awaited advancement in sports wear, Sun Dry Technologies, a division of Solestrom International, has launched a line of active wear fabric that repels wetness and dries within moments. Sun Dry Swim™ features quick dry nanotechnology enhanced active wear fabric that sheds water as naturally as skin.

27 Feb 2009

Carl Zeiss Sending its Latest Mmicroscope Systems on Tour of Universities and Institutes Throughout Europe

Carl Zeiss is sending its latest microscope systems on a tour of universities and institutes throughout Europe. The ZEISS on Your Campus Tour gives microscope users the opportunity to become familiar with the systems and...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 27 Feb 2009

Cabot Microelectronics Announces Acquisition of Epoch Material

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq: CCMP), the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and growing CMP pad supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced toda...

27 Feb 2009

Teleportation to Transfer Quantum State Over Significant Distance

Although their achievements haven't yet risen to the sophistication of the Starship Enterprise's transporter room, physicists in recent years have learned how to fully transfer the identity of one particle onto another particle at a separate location--a form of teleportation made possible by the strange rules of quantum mechanics.

26 Feb 2009

NexPlanar Achieves ISO 9001:2000 Certification

NexPlanar, the semiconductor CMP pad technology company, has achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification, a designation demonstrating the organization's commitment to quality-of-service standards.

26 Feb 2009

Research Advances Nanowire Technology for Large-Scale Applications

Researchers at Northeastern created a network of nanowires that can be scaled up more efficiently and cost-effectively to create displays such as the NASDAQ sign in New York City's Times Square. Using Gallium nit...

26 Feb 2009

IBM and PDF Solutions to Develop Manufacturing Process Complexity at 32-, 28-, and 22-Nanometer Dimensions

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: PDFS) have announced an agreement to develop an integrated circuit (IC) design platform to mitigate the effects of escalating design and manufacturing process complexity at the 32-, 28-, and 22-nanometer (nm) dimensions.

26 Feb 2009

NanoDimension to Invest in Selecta Biosciences

NanoDimension Management Limited, Grand Cayman, is pleased to announce that NanoDimension Limited Partnership has invested into Selecta Biosciences Inc. Watertown, Massachusetts (USA). NanoDimension Limited Partnersh...

26 Feb 2009

Lifting Single Polymers from a Gold Surface

The research team of Leonhard Grill at Freie Universität Berlin - in collaboration with the synthetic chemistry group of Stefan Hecht from Humboldt University of Berlin and the theoretical physics group of Christian...

26 Feb 2009

First Hearing to Examine Toxics Law in 111th Congress

Today the U.S. House of Representatives began the process of re-examining the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA). According to the the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, "The hearing will address critical gaps in the statute and explore how these gaps hinder effective chemical safety policy in the United States."

26 Feb 2009