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Carl Zeiss ORION Helium-Ion-Microscope Receives Prestigious R+D 100 Award

Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, was honored recently with a prestigious R+D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products i...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 4 Nov 2008

New Method to Measure How Strain Affects Thin Films of Silicon

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics. Silicon is the ind...

4 Nov 2008

Top Institutes to Use World's Most Powerful Cryo-TEM to Study Molecular Machinery of Biological Systems

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, announced today that three of the top life sciences research centers in Asia--National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University (Beijing), and the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)aEUR-have selected the Titan Krios(TM) transmission electron microscope (TEM) to support their research programs in structural molecular biology.

4 Nov 2008

Researchers Discover New Method for Overcoming Two Major Hurdles Facing Solar Energy

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power.

4 Nov 2008

NIMP Get Extended Capabilities for Nano-Structured Thin Film Deposition

Surrey NanoSystems will be extending the possibilities of research into thin film deposition following a sputtering tool order from the Low Dimensional Systems Laboratory of Romania's National Institute of Materials ...

4 Nov 2008

Freescale MEMS Accelerometers Ideal for Cell Phones and Portable Media Players

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced two advanced 3-axis digital accelerometers to help mobile device developers meet the demand for sleeker, more sophisticated portable electronics products. Based on Freescale's p...

3 Nov 2008

JAIST Selects Cray XT5 Supercomputer to Accelerate Nanotechnology Research

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has selected the new Cray XT5 supercomputer as the main system for its high-performance computing facility. This will be the first Cray XT5 system in Japan to utilize Cray's recently introduced ECOphlex liquid-cooling technology.

3 Nov 2008

Global Microplate Instrumentation + Supplies Market to Reach $5.0 Billion by 2015

Playing a pivotal role in laboratory automation and simplification of research process, microplate technology has come to replace conventional micro test tubes and cuvettes for running medium-to-high throughput assays. E...

From Global Industry Analysts 3 Nov 2008

Nanotools Market in US Projected to Exceed $2.15 Billion by 2012

Nanotools enable imaging, quantification, fabrication, and modeling of a substance/material at the nano level. Several institutions and enterprises including government, private investors, corporate, and academic organiz...

From Global Industry Analysts 3 Nov 2008

World Nanomagnetics Market Revenues to Reach $16.4 Billion by 2012

World Nanomagnetics market was an estimated US $7.6 billion in 2007 and revenues are projected to reach US$16.4 billion by the end of the year 2012. United States currently leads the global market accounting for an estim...

From Global Industry Analysts 3 Nov 2008

The Hunt for Antimatter - Matter's Arch Nemesis

Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter - matter's arch nemesis - left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult.

3 Nov 2008

CAS Physicist Wins Richard Geller Prize

Dr. SUN Liangting from the CAS Institute of Modern Physics has been awarded the Richard Geller Prize for his outstanding contributions to the development of Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources, especially an all-permanent magnetic one.

3 Nov 2008

Genome-Wide Platform to Study How Specialized Proteins Regulate RNA in Living Cells

DNA, it has turned out, isn't all it was cracked up to be. In recent years we learned that the molecule of life, the discovery of the 20th century, did not -- could not -- by itself explain the huge differences in co...

3 Nov 2008

Community Day at CNSE Draws Crowd of Hundreds to Explore Nanotechnology

A crowd consisting of hundreds of children, adults and families participated in Community Day today at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany, the first in a series of events that are part of CNSE's unprecedented community and educational outreach initiative known as NANOvember.

3 Nov 2008

Using a Two-Pronged Attack, A Novel Designer Molecule Fights Malignant Melanoma

By playing it safe and using a two-pronged attack, a novel designer molecule fights malignant melanoma. It was created and tested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bonn. On the one hand, th...

3 Nov 2008