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Researchers Developed Small Portable MRI Scanners

The term "MRI scan" brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their services in the field: for instance to examine ice cores.

3 Jul 2008

Quantum Dot Nanoparticles Penetrate Skin Through Abrasion

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that quantum dot nanoparticles can penetrate the skin if there is an abrasion, providing insight into potential workplace concerns for healthcare workers or indiv...

3 Jul 2008

Hydrogen Fuel Cells Emerging as Major Alternative Energy Source in Transportation

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Solid-state hydrogen storage: Materials and chemistry" report to their offering. Hydrogen fuel cells are emerging as a major alternative energy source...

2 Jul 2008

Camera Gives Unique Insight into Nanoscale Biomedical Events

Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced the availability of a new technical report* demonstrating the considerable utility of a simultaneous framing and streak camera system in visualising nanoscale biomedical events.

2 Jul 2008

Rohm and Haas Announces Availability of Second-Generation VaporStation Central Delivery System

Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials today announced that a second-generation VaporStation(TM) central delivery system, which provides several enhancements to the highly-capable original version, is now available. The new systems use the latest version of the IvMB(TM) inverted mini bubbler, optimized control software and an improved panel layout.

2 Jul 2008

NanoZoomer Shows High-Resolution Images of Cells and Tissue

"TIGA," the new high-tech imaging center at the University of Heidelberg founded in cooperation with the Japanese company Hamamatsu, provides deep insights: a high-tech robot makes it possible for the first time to automatically reproduce and evaluate tissue slices only micromillimeters thick - an important aid for researchers in understanding cancer or in following in detail the effect of treatment on cells and tissue.

2 Jul 2008

Science Summer Institute Providing Students Insight into Nanotechnology

Twenty-five middle-school students from the Capital Region will spend their summer vacation immersed in nanotechnology as they attend the first-ever Excelsior Scholars Nanoscale Science Summer Institute, a partnership be...

2 Jul 2008

Thin-Film Technology Poised to Take Significant Market Share

After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent technology. Thin-fil...

2 Jul 2008

Angiogenesis Inhibitor Formulated Through Nanotechnology Shows Promising Anticancer Results

The first oral, broad-spectrum angiogenesis inhibitor, specially formulated through nanotechnology, shows promising anticancer results in mice, report researchers from Children's Hospital Boston. Findings were published online on June 29 by the journal Nature Biotechnology.

2 Jul 2008

Researchers from ORNL Received Recognition in Nanotechnology

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced materials indu...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Jul 2008

The Few Remaining Unsolved Problems of Quantum Mechanics

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.

2 Jul 2008

Nanotechnology to Help Diagnose, Treat and Monitor Cancer

Speakers from MIT and other institutions described the promise of nanotechnology to help diagnose, treat and monitor cancer at the annual symposium hosted by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT on Friday, June 27.

2 Jul 2008

New Grant Program to Promote the Use of AFMs

Veeco Instruments, a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today introduced the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program, designed to stimulate the generation of new scientific investigation for researchers in the atomic force microscopy community.

2 Jul 2008

Semiconductor Industry Rates SUSS MicroTec Very Highly

SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry has been ranked again among the best suppliers in the 2008 VLSI Research 10 BEST Customer Satisfaction Awards. Customers rate...

2 Jul 2008

Researchers Develop Technique for Generating Atom Clusters

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a whole new branch of chemistry.

1 Jul 2008