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Researchers Trying to Flip Electron Spin Find Electron Switch

University of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds (a trillionth of a second) instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin -- knowledge that may prove us...

29 May 2008

Rice Alliance Life Science Venture Forum Names CytoViva “Most Promising Life Science Technology Company”

CytoViva, Inc. was named one of the top ten most promising Life Science companies at the 7th Annual Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship Life Science Venture Forum in Houston last week. Life Science compan...

29 May 2008

Amyloids Have Have Potential as a Nanomaterials

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they have potential as a nanomaterials.

29 May 2008

Atomic Force Microscope from Nanosurf Lands Successfully on Mars

Nanosurf AG is proud to contribute the first space-adapted atomic force microscope (AFM) for NASA's current Mars Mission named Phoenix. The goal of the Phoenix Mission is to answer important questions such as whether water exists in forms that support life

28 May 2008

World’s First Graduate in NanoEconomics Comes From UAlbany NanoCollege

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that a doctoral degree has been awarded to a CNSE student who is the world's first graduate in Nanoeconomics

28 May 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanofiber Fabrics Rendering Toxic Chemicals Harmless

Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applicati...

28 May 2008

Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science

28 May 2008

Superhard Nanocrystalline Iron Also Able to Withstand High Temperatures

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a substance far stronger and harder than conventional iron, and which retains these properties under extremely high temperatures – opening the door to a w...

28 May 2008

Magnetic Nanoparticles Shown to Seek Out and Identify Cancer Cells

Scientists have found that magnetic nanoparticles can be especially helpful in locating cancerous cell clusters during MRI scans. Like teeny guide missiles, the nanoparticles seek out tumor cells and attach themselves to them. Once the nanoparticles bind themselves to these cancer cells, the particles operate like radio transmitters, greatly aiding the MRI's detection capability

28 May 2008

Researchers Create Self Assembled Carbon Nanotubes

Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice can...

28 May 2008

Nanotechnology Safety and How Buckyballs Invade Cells

A new study into the potential health hazards of the revolutionary nano-sized particles known as ‘buckyballs’ predicts that the molecules are easily absorbed into animal cells, providing a possible explanatio...

28 May 2008

New Book on Nanotechnology and Nanotubes Set to Make the Complex World of the Super Small Easy to Understand

When Sandia's Francois Leonard explains the physics of carbon Leonard has written a book on the subject to be published later this summer

28 May 2008

Specialist Microscope Shows HIV Virus Forming

A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude -- and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and ...

27 May 2008

New Calibration Standards for AFM Height Introduced by BudgetSensors

As a response to the increased demand for affordable high-quality AFM calibration standards, 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 2 different AFM height calibration standards - the HS-100MG and the HS-20MG

27 May 2008

Records Set in Fabrication of Largest Thin Film Solar Cell Module

Signet Solar, a manufacturer of silicon thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, today, announced the fabrication of the industry’s first ever Gen 8.5 (5.7 m2) silicon thin film solar PV module at its new factory near ...

27 May 2008