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Nanogen to Close Array Business and Focus on Two High Growth Product Lines

Nanogen, Inc., developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that the Company plans to close commercial operations of the array business and reduce staff by approximately 20%. Today’s announcement foll...

From Nanogen 13 Nov 2007

Record Breaking Hydrogen Storage Material Points to Fuel Cell Vehicle Reality

Scientists at the University of Virginia have discovered a new class of hydrogen storage materials that could make the storage and transportation of energy much more efficient - and affordable - through higher-performing...

13 Nov 2007

Prototype Smart Dust Released in French Laboratory

Tiny probes packed with instrumentation have been turned loose in a laboratory in France. The marble-sized devices are an important step on the road to long-anticipated miniaturized machines known as smart dust (picture ...

13 Nov 2007

Laser Based System Can Diagnose Decompression Sickness in a Seconds

It may not rank among the top 10 causes of death, but decompression sickness can be fatal. Instead of waiting for symptoms to appear, a University of Houston professor is developing a laser-based system that can diagnose...

13 Nov 2007

Clean, Carbon Neutral Hydrogen Almost Ready to Hit the Market

Hydrogen as an everyday, environmentally friendly fuel source may be closer than we think, according to Penn State researchers. "The energy focus is currently on ethanol as a fuel, but economical ethanol from cel...

13 Nov 2007

Worldwide Nanotech Art Competition Launched

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will...

12 Nov 2007

New Raman Scanning Technologies from Horiba, SWIFT and DuoScan Deliver Fast Scanning Raman Technology

HORIBA Jobin Yvon have introduced two new fast Raman scanning technologies. SWIFT and DuoScan now make incredibly fast Raman imaging a reality. SWIFT - Scanning With Incredibly Fast Times enables unmatched per p...

12 Nov 2007

Micro Microwaves Bring Pinpoint Heating to Miniature Laboratory Work

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world’s smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism that can heat a pinhead-s...

12 Nov 2007

Inkjet Printed Sensor to Detect Hazards Including Carbon Monoxide, Harmful Industrial Solvents and Explosives

A tiny “electronic nose” that MIT researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and explosives. Led ...

12 Nov 2007

Leading Deposition Provider, AIXTRON, Purchases Nanometrics VerteX PL Mapping System

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced metrology equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that AIXTRON AG, a leading provider of deposition tools used in the worldwide production of adva...

From AIXTRON SE 9 Nov 2007

Nanofibres and Stem Cells Form Bone and May Bring a Revolution in Orthopedic Science

Research on stem cell interaction with new biomaterial has yielded three (3) successful publications in international scientific journals by National University of Singapore and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative ...

9 Nov 2007

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy One Hundred Times Faster With New Technique

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) - which can image individual atoms on a surface...

9 Nov 2007

Off the Shelf Camera and High Tech Custom Equipment Team Up to Produce Images of Proton Radiactive Decay

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about h...

9 Nov 2007

Risks of Nanotechnology Addressed in New Blog

Are nanoparticles safe to breathe? Do carbon nanotubes behave like asbestos? What does the public think about nanotechnology's risk-benefit trade-offs? You can find the answers to these questions and more in an exciti...

9 Nov 2007

Nanoelectronic Biosensors Detecting and Treating Deadly Staphylococcus Aureus, Golden Staph

University of Idaho researchers are crossing academic and geographical bounds to develop more effective defenses against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and other deadly pathogens. One of the goals of that effort is to...

9 Nov 2007