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Resolution Testing and Calibration Samples for Scanning Electron Microscopes

Agar Scientific provides a broad range of tin on carbon and gold on carbon SEM resolution test specimens which have been specially developed in their laboratory for SEM and FEGSEM resolution testing and calibration.

21 Apr 2008

Self Repairing Materials Use Tiny Technologies to Fix Themselves

Will the day come when cracks in buildings close up without external help and before they get to the stage where they cause damage to the component? This might appear utopia, but it already occurs in nature. When a person suffers a minor wound, the human body reacts to close the opening, sending the blood platelets needed to the affected area – and with no need in many cases for any external coagulant substance to be employed.

18 Apr 2008

Nano Sized Magnets to Offer Gene Therapy Treatment for Cancer

A revolutionary cancer treatment using microscopic magnets to enable 'armed' human cells to target tumours has been developed by researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (B...

18 Apr 2008

Scientists Now Understand What is Behind the Pollution Threat of Plutonium Nanoclusters

For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected, increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals. It was known nanometer sized clu...

18 Apr 2008

Physicists Ask What Happens When You Pop a Quantum Balloon

When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics" The question is deceptively complex, since quantu...

18 Apr 2008

Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Electronics the Result of Nanotechnology Research Discovering Electricity Conducting Carbon Molecules

University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain circumstances and, in turn, conduct electricity as well as met...

18 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Use Graphene to Create the World's Smallest Transistor

Researchers have used the world’s thinnest material to create the world’s smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. Reporting their peer-reviewed findings in the latest issue of the journal S...

18 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Company pSivida Proposing to Reincorporate in the US

pSivida Limited today announced that it proposes to reincorporate in the United States. The reincorporation, which is subject to Australian Federal Court and shareholder approval, will occur in mid-2008. This reincorpora...

From EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18 Apr 2008

Australian Team Leading the World in the Production of Single Photons

The world’s first commercial source of individual photons using diamond based quantum technology has been developed by Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) within the School of Physics at The University of Melbour...

18 Apr 2008

Investors Getting Fired Up by Nanotechnology

Speakers representing university labs and exhibiting firms in the nanoTX USA’08 Conference/Trade Expo will introduce nanotechnology to a field of investors estimated to number 2000 at Money Fair sponsored by the BI...

18 Apr 2008

BioForce Nanosciences Included in the Ludlow Biotech Index

BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., a producer of integrated biological and mechanical systems for life science researchers at the micro and nano scales, today announced that the company has been added as a component o...

18 Apr 2008

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals - REACH - Report Takes Critical View of Nanotechnology and Nanoparticle Risks

Based on a review of SEC filings, including detailed analysis of individual company annual reports for 2006 and 2007, major industrial and other sectors affected by product toxicity risks are doing a poor job of informin...

18 Apr 2008