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New Instrument Combines Traditional Computer-Chip Technology with Microfluidics

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

29 Jul 2008

New Fabrication Method for Making Recyclable Nanostructured High Performance Magnets

Until now, producing Samarium Cobalt has been a difficult and expensive multi-step process. Northeastern University researchers have broken new ground with an innovative invention of a rapid, high-volume and cost-effective one-step method for producing pure Samarium Cobalt rare earth (RE) permanent magnet materials

29 Jul 2008

BudgetSensors Introduce AFM Probes with 4 Different Cantilevers on a Single Holder Chip

BudgetSensors, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces the commercial introduction of the “All-In-One AFM Probe&rdquo...

29 Jul 2008

Research and Markets Announces Availability of Introduction to Microfluidics Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Introduction to Microfluidics" report to their offering. Microfluidics is a young discipline which enables scientists and engineers to handle fluids i...

28 Jul 2008

Elegant Material Developed by World Leader in Fine Ceramics

Kyocera Corporation is pleased to announce that it has developed a new fine ceramic with a color that closely resembles 18-karat gold. The material has been created by raising the brightness level approximately 5% (approx. 3.6 points) above previous gold ceramic products. It is a beautiful reflection of the materials development and manufacturing technologies that Kyocera has accumulated in its five decades of R+D in fine ceramics.

28 Jul 2008

Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping Together

In a conventional sewage works, nanoparticles should really be bound in the sludge and should not represent a major problem in the aqueous effluent. This is not true, however, as shown by a new study of the ceramic model material cerium dioxide. An astonishing amount was able to leave an experimental sewage works and thus could possibly enter bodies of water.

28 Jul 2008

How Nanotechnology is Helping Address Growing Energy Needs

A research team from Purdue University's Discovery Park will travel to India next month to lead a joint India-United States workshop on how advancements in nanotechnology are helping address growing energy needs. ...

28 Jul 2008

Primitive Fish Points to More Effective Human Body Armor

Scientists seeking to protect the soldier of the future can learn a lot from a relic of the past, according to an MIT study of a primitive fish that could point to more effective ways of designing human body armor.

28 Jul 2008

Eka Set to Cater to Customers from Nanotechnology to Drug Design

From nanotechnology to weather modeling, drug design to aerospace — Eka, the super computer built by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a subsidiary of Tata Sons, is set to cater to global customers. Af...

27 Jul 2008

Research Part of Ontario's Plan to Build an Innovation Economy

Research aimed at quickly detecting contamination in food, water and soil and improving early childhood learning for children with mathematical and reading difficulties are two of the 10 projects at The University of Wes...

27 Jul 2008

Smaller and Faster are Two Goals in Today’s Electronics Market

Smaller and faster are two goals in today's electronics market and an article in an international trade publication shows how North Dakota State University researchers, Fargo, design and build such electronics packages.

26 Jul 2008

One-Step Repeatable Method for Producing Functional Nanoscale Patterns

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "p...

26 Jul 2008

Researchers Discover New States of Electrons that Behave Like Light

A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.

26 Jul 2008

Australian Government Identifies Emerging Nanotechnology Issues

Two new documents released identify areas for further work and the way the Australian Government will address emerging nanotechnology issues. "The Government is committed to capturing the benefits of nanotechnology,...

26 Jul 2008

Paving the Way for New Approaches to Developing Anti-Cancer Drugs

A fruitful collaboration between chemists and biologists has made it possible to identify the effects of a new class of molecules, polyoxometalates (1), primarily composed of metals and oxygen. These molecules are very powerful inhibitors of a specific protein kinase, CK2, an enzyme that is overactive in a number of cancers.

26 Jul 2008