Nanotechnology News

RSS

New Development Paves Way For Silicon Based Spintronics Devices

In a rapid follow-up to their achievement as the first to demonstrate how an electron's spin can be electrically injected, controlled and detected in silicon, electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and ...

29 Oct 2007

Fabrication Method Demonstrated for Making INdustrial Grade Nanowire Devices

In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires - tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms - have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics. But befo...

29 Oct 2007

Process of How Buckyballs Form Captured in Video Simulation

The birth secret of buckyballs - hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA - has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and compute...

29 Oct 2007

ThalesNano and ETH Zurich Collaborate on Flow Chemistry Technologies

ThalesNano Inc. and ETH Zurich, ThalesNano today announced collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) on flow chemistry applications. The agreement will focus on the application of c...

From ThalesNano Nanotechnology Inc, 26 Oct 2007

New Residual Gas Analyser Range from Hiden Analytical for Basic Diagnostics Through to Precision Gas Analysis

The Hiden Analytical family of residual gas analysers features three system types optimised to accommodate applications from basic HV vacuum diagnostics through to precision gas analysis and fast-event UHV/XHV studies. ...

From Hiden Analytical 26 Oct 2007

Nanostellar Shaves Nanomaterials Development Time and Brings Product to Market Faster Than Ever Before

Nanostellar, Inc., a leader in nano-engineered catalyst materials, reported today that its Rational Catalyst Design process has enabled it to significantly reduce research and development time for new diesel-emissions ca...

26 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology Alliance to Combine Best of Metals with Best of Polymers

DuPont announced an alliance with Canada-based Morph Technologies Inc., Integran Technologies Inc., and U.S.-based PowerMetal Technologies to develop and commercialize a nanocrystalline metal/polymer hybrid technology th...

26 Oct 2007

ApNano Materials to Make Optically Black Coatings for Solar and Optical Applications

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a new line of nanotechnology-based non-reflective, optically black coatings. The new coatings will be used, in the first phase, in sola...

26 Oct 2007

BioLED Technology Patent Granted to Acrongenomics and Molecular Vision

Acrongenomics Inc. & Molecular Vision, Ltd., an Imperial College spin-out company, are pleased to announce that the fundamental patent for their BioLED technology for low cost, stand-alone diagnostic devices based on...

26 Oct 2007

Three Super Heavy Isotopes of Magnesium and Aluminum Created

Researchers at Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, have created three never-before-observed isotopes of magnesium and aluminum. The results not only stake out new territ...

26 Oct 2007

Moving and Sorting Particles Using Light with Microfluidics and Optical Trapping Integrated in New Lab-on-a-Chip

Researchers at Cornell University for the first time have integrated optical functions with microfluidic ones, enabling the sorting of particles by light. Reported in the Oct. 29 issue of Optics Express, due out Monday, ...

26 Oct 2007

Scandinavian Nano Centers Collaborate to Promote the Development and Commercialization of Nanotechnology

The nano centres of the universities in the Øresund Region - University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark and Lund University - together with MC2 at Chalmers University of Technology and the Imgeo Insti...

26 Oct 2007

Next generation High Temperature GPC System Launched by Viscotek

The Viscotek Model 350 High Temperature GPC (HT-GPC) System is a revolutionary advanced detector system specifically designed for the characterisation of polyolefins, and other synthetic polymers that are soluble only at...

25 Oct 2007

JPK Instruments Named Fastest Growing Nanotech Company in Deloitte's "Technology Fast 50"

JPK Instruments AG, the market leader in BioSPM, is the No. 1 and hence the fastest growing company of the nanotech industry on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking, which has been established for the fifth consecutiv...

From Bruker BioAFM 25 Oct 2007

Ultrafast Confocal Raman Imaging Introduced by Witec as Optional Feature

WITec, specialist in high-resolution optical and scanning probe microscopy, introduces the "Ultrafast Raman Imaging Option" for the alpha300 R Confocal Raman Microscope. With this option the acquisition time fo...

From Oxford Instruments WITec 25 Oct 2007