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Formation of Nanobubbles in Boiling Water Captured Witnessed

Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University ha...

2 Apr 2007

BioForce Nano eNabler Performing Well at University of Limerick

BioForce Nanosciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc., in January sold a Nano eNabler™ molecular printer to the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland. The University P...

2 Apr 2007

Nanometrics Install Photoluminescence Mapping System at Philips Electronics Microsystems Plaza

Nanometrics Incorporated, the leading supplier of both advanced integrated and standalone metrology equipment for the semiconductor and related industries, today announced the successful installation of its recently intr...

30 Mar 2007

Ultra-High Resolution XYZ Piezo-Scanner Reaches 25 Picometer Resolution

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for biotechnology / nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications offers a new ultra-h...

30 Mar 2007

Industrial Nanotech's Lead Encapsulation Technology Chosen for Commercial Office Project

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, announced today that its Nansulate® LDX lead encapsulation coating has been chosen for a commercial office project by Southern Environmental Ser...

29 Mar 2007

Calls for More Resaerch into Potential Risks of Nanotechnology

The Council for Science and Technology—the British government’s top-level advisory body on science and technology issues—criticized the slow progress being made in providing needed support for focused r...

29 Mar 2007

NanoOpto and Sumitomo Metal Mining Ship First Commercial Loads of Telecommunication Products

NanoOpto Corporation, which is applying novel design methods and proprietary nano-fabrication technology to produce a broad range of unique optical components that enable higher quality, low-cost optical components and s...

29 Mar 2007

Never-Before-Seen Configurations of Metal Crystals

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in bios...

29 Mar 2007

Iron Containing Nanoparticles Found to be Toxic to Nerve Cells

Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested for use in several biomedical applications can be toxic to nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their signal-transmit...

29 Mar 2007

Teaching Nanoscience to the Blind

At the root of scientific study are observations made with the eyes; yet in nanoscience, our eyes fail us. The smallest object we can see still looms thousands of times larger than a typical nano-sized structure. Eve...

29 Mar 2007

Copper Nanoparticles Provide More Efficient Catalysts for Improving Performance of Fuel Cells

X-ray studies at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are pointing the way to less costly and more efficient catalysts for improving the performance of fuel cells. The studies, which w...

29 Mar 2007

Nucleobase-Containing Triblock Copolymers as Templates for the Dispersion of Guest Molecules at the Nanoscale

Virginia Tech researchers announced last year that they had created a nanostructured membrane that incorporates DNA base pairs in order to impart molecular recognition and binding ability to the synthetic material. This ...

29 Mar 2007

Nanomechanical Oscillators Provide New Way to Read Nanoscale Vibrations

Nanomechanical oscillators -- tiny strips of vibrating silicon only a few hundred atoms thick -- are the subject of extensive study by nanotechnology researchers. They could someday replace bulky quartz crystals in elect...

29 Mar 2007

Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles Used to Label Endothelial Progenitor Cells

To the delight of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, living cells gobbled up fluorine-laced nanoparticles without needing any coaxing. Then, because of the unusual meal, the cells were ...

29 Mar 2007

Georgia Tech Produces 3D Polymer Line Structures Using New Two-Photon Absorbing Molecules

Producing three-dimensional polymer line structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths, allowing researchers t...

29 Mar 2007