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Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead

In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the or...

2 Aug 2007

The Perfect Summer Combination: Beer and Physics

John Page is a leading expert on the use of multiply scattered acoustic waves to study changes in physical systems and the movement of particles through a medium — in this case, bubbles in a glass of beer. He direc...

2 Aug 2007

Department of Defense Awards $1.6 Million for Implantable Biochip Research

The Department of Defense has awarded $1.6 million to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable biochip that could relay vital health informa...

2 Aug 2007

Spintronics, The New Horizon For Electronics

Spintronics has the potential to have as profound an impact on electronics as the development of the transistor had 50 years ago. This exciting and challenging area of nanotechnology will come under the international ...

2 Aug 2007

Nanotechnology Team Discovers How To Turn a Magnet On and Off

An international research team, led by scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), has found a way to switch a material’s magnetic properties from ‘hard’ to ‘soft’ and back aga...

2 Aug 2007

Nanoethics Anthology Tackles Full Range of Nanotechnology Issues Facing Society

The Nanoethics Group today announced that it has released a collection of papers that is the first to address both urgent and distant issues related to nanotechnology’s impact on society. Published by John Wiley &a...

2 Aug 2007

Callibration Services for Nanotechnology Metrology Instruments from CEMMNT

The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT) has expanded its measurement, characterisation and design capabilities for industry to provide extensive calibration and test services throug...

2 Aug 2007

Carbon Nanohorns Make Efficient Hydrogen Fuel Storage Units

Hydrogen is a promising alternative to fossil fuels, but the main problem is to encourage its development by finding efficient means of storing it. An international team, co-ordinated by CSIC researcher Javier Bermejo, a...

2 Aug 2007

Meeting to Benefit Those Using Micro and Nano Technologies to Accelerate New Products and Processes

The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT), the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and The Innovation Advisory Service South East (IASSE) are hosting a one-day meeting which will bene...

1 Aug 2007

FEI Encourages Nano-Awareness through Video Games

As governments and corporations around the world continue to increase investments in nanoscale research and development, there is an alarming decline in the number of students who choose to pursue studies in science and ...

1 Aug 2007

Scientific Journal Endorses Increased Durability of DiabeCell Cell Therapy

Living Cell Technologies Limited today announced the publication of a scientific paper endorsing the micro-encapsulation technology used in the cell-based therapeutic product, DiabeCell®. Micro-encapsulation techn...

1 Aug 2007

Molecule with a Split Personality as Porphyrinoid Switches Between Huckel and Mobius Topologies

If you take a strip of paper, twist one end by 180° and then stick the two ends together to form a ring, the result is called a Möbius strip, a geometric shape with only one surface and one edge. You can prove t...

1 Aug 2007

Micrologic’s NanoToolBox (NTB) is Adopting OpenAccess

Micrologic Design Automation, Inc., an EMVELCO Company and leading provider of design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions for nanometer IC design, today announced its NanoToolBox™, nanometer productivity tools suite ...

1 Aug 2007

Imago To Introduce New Atom Probe, The LEAP 3000X HR

Imago are expected to announce a new atom probe later this week at the Microscopy & Microanalysis meeting in Fort Lauderdale. The new atom probe is the LEAP 3000X HR. The "HR" acronym designates t...

1 Aug 2007

New Version PANalytical Software Makes Advanced X-Ray Reflectometry Analysis Accessible To All

PANalytical’s X’Pert Reflectivity 1.2 is a new version of the company’s powerful software tool for the analysis of X-ray reflectometry data, important in thin film production and thin film processing re...

1 Aug 2007