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Lower Cost Carbon Nanotubes and a New Website for Cheap Tubes

Cheap Tubes announces new lower prices for their high quality, low cost CNTs as well as a new website

From Cheap Tubes Inc. 12 Jun 2008

Nanoglassblowing Creates Nanosized Fluidic Devices for Isolating and Studying Molecules

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have found beauty in a new fabrication technique called “nanoglassblowing” that creates nanoscale fluidic devices used to isolate and study single molecules in solution

12 Jun 2008

New Way of Bending X-Rays Could Lead to Better Telescopes and Computer Chips

Gratings used to manipulate X-rays for future space telescopes and other applications, like tiny miniaturized venetian blinds, were created using an interference lithography patterning tool, called the nanoruler.

12 Jun 2008

Fairfax County Middle School Science Selects MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids to Teach School Students About Nanotechnology

Bourne Research LLC today announced that Fairfax County Middle School Science has selected the award-winning book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids, to provide background knowledge on nanotechnology for their middle scho...

12 Jun 2008

Quantum Dot Distribution Agreement Between Nanoco and KISCO

Nanoco Technologies and KISCO Ltd will be shaping the future together with the signing of a distribution agreement appointing KISCO as the exclusive Asian distributor of Nanoco’s advanced quantum dots materials

12 Jun 2008

Nanomotors Made from Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires

The ability to shuttle nanometer-sized cargo controllably could have implications in nanoscale loading and delivery applications in biotechnology. In their article in ACS Nano, Prof. Joseph Wang and co-workers describe t...

11 Jun 2008

Rapid, Standard Assessment Tool For Evaluating Toxicity of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

Due to their unique properties, nanoparticles have shown promise in biological and biomedical applications, including as diagnostic agents and in therapeutic applications. However, the toxicity of nanoparticles in certai...

11 Jun 2008

Cheap and Efficient Solar Cells with PbSe Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

For solar cells to be useful, they need to be cheap, cover a large area, and be physically flexible, which are benefits of using solution-processed photovoltaics. Much of the current research in solution-processed photov...

11 Jun 2008

Scientists Using Nanotechnology Techniques to Learn More About Old Master Artworks

More than 30 years ago, when Northwestern University chemist Richard Van Duyne developed a powerful new sensing technique, he never thought he would be using it to learn more about treasures in the Art Institute of Chicago's collection

11 Jun 2008

Microballoons Set to Carry Hydrogen, Deliver Drugs, Filter Gases and Detect Nuclear Proliferation

What looks like a fertilized egg, flows like water, gets stuffed with catalysts and exotic nanostructures and may have the potential of making the current retail gasoline infrastructure compatible with hydrogen-based vehicles of the future – not to mention also contributing to arenas such as nuclear proliferation and global warming?

11 Jun 2008

New Nanopositioning Microscope Stages Released by Physik Instrumente

PI (Physik Instrumente) has extended its line of piezo stages for scanning microscopy applications. The P-737 Piezo Z-Focusing Stage is offered along with the stiffer, P-726 high performance microscope lens focusing system for large NA microscope objectives and the redesigned P-686 XY piezo motor positioning stage providing long travel ranges to 25x25 mm

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 11 Jun 2008

Spintronics Key Held by Common Industrial Dyes

Commonly used industrial dyes hold the key to advancing the new science of 'spintronics', say researchers working on a new £2.5 million study. Spintronics holds out the possibility of a range of future applications, s...

11 Jun 2008

Nano-Dispersed Biopolymer to Substitute Wax Emulsions in Super Hydrophobic Paper and Cardboard Packaging

TopChim releases TopScreen DS13, an environmental friendly, patented, nano-dispersed biopolymer to substitute wax emulsions in super hydrophobic paper and cardboard packaging. The packaging industry is seeking easy re...

11 Jun 2008

IMPULSE, the Latest Integrated Metrology System from Nanometrics

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology equipment, today announced the introduction of its latest integrated metrology (IM) system, IMPULSE™. Following the innovative 9...

10 Jun 2008

Piezo Stage Controller from PI Provides Better Trajectory Control for Nanopositioning Systems with up to 6 Axes

Piezo system specialist PI’s new E-712 digital piezo stage controller was designed for the most demanding accuracy and dynamic-performance requirements of multi-axis piezo nanopositioning systems. Its highly modular design allows flexible configuration, easy upgradeability and adaptation to changing requirements in any scanning or positioning application

10 Jun 2008

Nanotechnology News

Lower Cost Carbon Nanotubes and a New Website for Cheap Tubes

Nanoglassblowing Creates Nanosized Fluidic Devices for Isolating and Studying Molecules

New Way of Bending X-Rays Could Lead to Better Telescopes and Computer Chips

Fairfax County Middle School Science Selects MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids to Teach School Students About Nanotechnology

Quantum Dot Distribution Agreement Between Nanoco and KISCO

Nanomotors Made from Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires

Rapid, Standard Assessment Tool For Evaluating Toxicity of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

Cheap and Efficient Solar Cells with PbSe Quantum Dot Photovoltaics

Scientists Using Nanotechnology Techniques to Learn More About Old Master Artworks

Microballoons Set to Carry Hydrogen, Deliver Drugs, Filter Gases and Detect Nuclear Proliferation

New Nanopositioning Microscope Stages Released by Physik Instrumente

Spintronics Key Held by Common Industrial Dyes

Nano-Dispersed Biopolymer to Substitute Wax Emulsions in Super Hydrophobic Paper and Cardboard Packaging

IMPULSE, the Latest Integrated Metrology System from Nanometrics

Piezo Stage Controller from PI Provides Better Trajectory Control for Nanopositioning Systems with up to 6 Axes

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