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IVAM Microtechnology Network to Present at Largest Asian Fair for Nanotechnology

IVAM Microtechnology Network will be present at nano tech, the largest Asian fair for nanotechnology, to promote the innovations of its about 300 member companies and institutes, ranging from nanoanalytics to tool manufa...

30 Jan 2009

Oxford Instruments' New Large Area Silicon Drift Detector for SEM Exceeds Expectations

Customers looking for improved productivity and increased accuracy have realised that size really does matter! Orders for Oxford Instruments' new large area silicon drift detector for the SEM have exceeded expectations, and smashed previous records for new product launches.

From Oxford Instruments plc 30 Jan 2009

SPECS Acquires Leading Developer and Manufacturer of Nanotechnology Control Equipment

SPECS GmbH, which provides surface analysis tools and UHV equipment, announced today that it has acquired privately held Nanonis GmbH, based in Switzerland, a leading developer and manufacturer of nanotechnology control ...

From SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH 30 Jan 2009

Carl Zeiss Installs 1,500th GEMINI-Class Scanning Electron Microscope

Carl Zeiss SMT today officially put into service the 1,500th GEMINI®-class scanning electron microscope. The customer is the "Center for Non-Destructive Nano Evaluation nanoeva®" in Dresden, a joint fac...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Jan 2009

Samsung Develops World's Highest Density DRAM Chip using Nanotechnology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world's first fou...

30 Jan 2009

Report is an Enlightening Picture of Government Activity in Nanotechnology

Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research today released the annual report for the Australian National Nanotechnology Strategy. "The report is an enlightening picture of government ...

30 Jan 2009

Researchers Discover Unexpectedly Large Recoil of 'Free' Electrons Emitted from a Simple Metal

Photoelectron spectroscopy is a powerful technique for studying the composition and physical properties of a material. Despite its maturity, Yasutaka Takata from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima, and colleagues have discovered that there are still new things to learn about the physical phenomena on which it is based.

29 Jan 2009

Non-Coding RNAs Play A Role in Regulating Expression of Genes in Yeast

Much debate has surrounded the mostly unknown function of non-coding RNAs, which have recently been shown to constitute a surprisingly large proportion of gene transcripts, rather than encoding proteins. Now, as reported in Nature*, a research team led by Kunihiro Ohta of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, has discovered a new role for such non-coding RNAs in gene expression in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

29 Jan 2009

Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Strains of Bacteria

Scientists at NanoBio Corp. and the University of Michigan have demonstrated in the laboratory that their novel topical nanoemulsion kills the highly resistant strains of bacteria that cause chronic illness and death amo...

29 Jan 2009

Individuals and Startup Companies Now Have Another Avenue to Move Innovations to the Marketplace

Individuals and startup companies now have another avenue to move their Purdue innovations to the marketplace through a new fund established by the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University.

29 Jan 2009

Report Identifies Trends and Opportunities in CIGS Photovoltaic Materials

There will be setbacks but according to a just-published report from NanoMarkets, an industry analysis firm based here, CIGS -- a photovoltaic material technology made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium -- will fulfill it...

29 Jan 2009

Creating Large-Scale Graphene Films using Water Lilies as Inspiration

In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. But in order to construct new materials and devices, researchers first ...

29 Jan 2009

Collaboration Focuses on Developing Drug Delivery Nanocarriers

Nanobiotix, an emerging nanomedicine company, announced today that it will collaborate with, among others, Philips, Erasmus University Medical Center (The Netherlands), the University of Münster (Germany) and the Un...

29 Jan 2009

NEXX Systems Become Member of SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chip-makers, and NEXX Systems, Inc., a leading provider of process equipment for advanced wafer-level packaging applications, today announced that NEXX Systems has become a member of SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect Program located at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany.

29 Jan 2009

New Phase of Elemental Boron Discovered

The new structure can be viewed as a NaCl-type structure, with anionic and cationic positions occupied by two different clusters of boron atoms (B12 and B2). The difference of the electronic properties of these clusters ...

29 Jan 2009