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Display Features Images Taken by Scientists from Various Disciplines

Acclaimed scientists and photographers from around the world will share their scientific research, discoveries and observations of natural wonders in an international photography exhibition opening next month at Rochester Institute of Technology.

12 Oct 2008

NanoDynamics Energy to Deliver two SOFC Operating at 35-Percent Efficiency

NanoDynamics Energy Inc. announced today that it delivered two solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) operating at 35-percent efficiency on propane for use in the Department of Defense Research & Engineering's (DDR+E) Wea...

12 Oct 2008

NeoBiocon and Abraxis BioScience Launch Abraxane for Treatment of Breast Cancer

NeoBiocon, a recently established biotechnology company and Abraxis BioScience, Inc., a fully integrated biotechnology company, today announced the launch of ABRAXANE® (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectab...

12 Oct 2008

The Environmental Impact of Nanotechnology

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara (CNS-UCSB) helped to win the new University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), a...

11 Oct 2008

Ames Lab Researchers Team Up to Probe Iron-Arsenic Superconductors

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the &qu...

11 Oct 2008

PI Releases New Catalog Focusing on Tools for Microscopy and Imaging

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

11 Oct 2008

Company Continues to Invest in Next Generation Nanotechnology Products

API Nanotronics Corp., a leading supplier of electronic components, nano-optics and nanotechnology research and development to the defense and communications sectors, today announced first quarter operating results for t...

11 Oct 2008

Breakthrough in Single-Electron Device Fabrication

Laptop computers that are lighter and generate less heat. Portable memory devices the size of a thumbnail or a quarter that can store the equivalent of hundreds of movies.

11 Oct 2008

Giving Students a View of Growing Career Opportunities in Nanotechnology

Amid the growing number of nanotechnology-related career opportunities in the Capital Region and New York State, more than 300 elementary, middle- and high-school students got an inside look at the high-tech workplace of...

11 Oct 2008

Nanowire Sensors to be Used for Point-of-Care Disease Detection

Yale scientists have created nanowire sensors coupled with simple microprocessor electronics that are both sensitive and specific enough to be used for point-of-care (POC) disease detection, according to a report in Nano...

11 Oct 2008

Auto SE from HORIBA Scientific Wins 2008 IC Industry New System Award

HORIBA Scientific is pleased to announce the unique Auto SE as the winner of the 2008 IC Industry New System Award.

From HORIBA 10 Oct 2008

Bruker Announces Worldwide Webinar on Complete Molecular Confidence

Bruker Corporation today announced an upcoming worldwide webinar October 28 to brief scientists on its new Complete Molecular Confidence(TM) NMR-LC/MS based integrated solution for on-the-fly molecular formulae determination and automated or interactive structure verification for small molecules.

10 Oct 2008

Catalyst Allowing Carbon Dioxide to be Used as a Versatile Synthetic Chemical

RIKEN chemists have developed a catalyst that should allow carbon dioxide to be used as a versatile synthetic chemical. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is produced whenever fossil fuels are burned, and it is a powerful greenhous...

10 Oct 2008

New Design Concept for Tiny Metallic Lens Tipped to Revolutionize Imaging of Nanoscale Objects

Researchers in Japan have developed a design concept for a device that allows imaging at scales previously impossible for optical instruments. Their advance is based on novel imaging techniques that allow optical imaging in the subwavelength regime, where the wavelength used is larger than the smallest features of the object being imaged.

10 Oct 2008

Breakthrough in Modern Microscopy - The THz Nanoscope

Contrary to textbook wisdom, the unusually long illuminating wavelength of 118 µm did not at all preclude researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) to resolve details as small as 40 nm (= 0.0...

10 Oct 2008