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Regents Professor Wins 2007 Medal of Science for His Contributions in Nanotechnology

Mostafa El-Sayed, Regents Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has just been awarded the 2007 Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor in the field.

3 Sep 2008

Nano-Soldering Technique Receives 2008 Nano 50 Award by Nanotech Briefs

You should have so much patience to solder nanowires to nanoelectrodes. Talk about fine work. (A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.) That’s why a new electroplating process that simultaneously joins many silic...

3 Sep 2008

PI Introduces World's Smallest Electro-Mechanical, High-Force Hexapod 6-Axis Micropositioning System

Nanopositioning specialist PI has introduced the world’s smallest commercially available electro-mechanical, high-force Hexapod 6-axis micropositioning system.

3 Sep 2008

Researchers Developed System Eliminating Need for Antibiotics in Production of Biopharmaceuticals

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) have developed a system that eliminates the need for antibiotics and resistance genes in the engineering of industrial and medical products. The method involves safer, le...

3 Sep 2008

DuPont Plans to Expand Production Capacity of High-Performance Tedlar Films

As a leading supplier of materials to the photovoltaic solar industry, DuPont today announced its intent to expand production capacity for its high-performance DuPont(TM) Tedlar(R) films. Scope and site selection work is under way, targeting start-up in late 2009, pending final project approval.

3 Sep 2008

ESI’s Korea Demo Center Showcases Cignis and Other Semiconductor Products

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, today announced the opening of its new demonstration center in Anyang, Korea, situated...

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 2 Sep 2008

Teradyne to Acquire Leading Provider of Semiconductor Test Products

Teradyne, Inc. and Eagle Test Systems, Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Teradyne will acquire Eagle Test. Teradyne is a world leader in System-On-a-Chip (SOC) semiconductor...

2 Sep 2008

Researchers Develop Porous Complex That Acts Like Crystalline Molecular Test Tube

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse into these pores and are sufficiently mobile to react with e...

2 Sep 2008

Graphene Scientists Wins 2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize

The European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division is proud to announce the award of the 2008 EPS CMD Europhysics Prize to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester for discovering and isolatin...

2 Sep 2008

Leading Manufacturer of Nanoanalytic Instrumentation Launches New Website

JPK Instruments, one of the world's leading manufacturers of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce a completely re-designed web site at www.jpk.com. Th...

2 Sep 2008

IMEC and CEA-LETI Announce Launch of ePIXfab

IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and ...

From CEA-Leti 2 Sep 2008

Work Could Aid in Diagnostics and Drug Testing

In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite attacks red blood cells.

2 Sep 2008

Quantum Coding to Overcome the Qubit Loss Error

Inspired by quantum mechanics, people have been dreaming of a new type of computers to revolutionize computing technique - quantum computers. Such dream machines will take advantage of the fact that the quantum bit (qubit), the fundamental unit of quantum information, can be in a superposition state and thus is able to store massive data and solve complicated problems at an incredible speed beyond the capacity of classical computers.

2 Sep 2008

A Real-Time Analysis of Early Diagnosis of Cancer Markers

A research project entitled "A real-time analysis of the early diagnosis of cancer markers", undertaken by the CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), recently passed the acceptance check by an exp...

2 Sep 2008

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Awarded Grants to Boost Nuclear Engineering Education and Research

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission awarded two grants totaling $850,000 to boost nuclear engineering education, research, and workforce development at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The competitive grants, awar...

2 Sep 2008