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Researchers Find that Unique Nano-Scale DNA Signature Could be Common to All Cancers

Researchers from the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) have found a distinctive nano-scale DNA signature that seems to be common to all cancers.

5 Dec 2018

Paul Scherrer Institute Receives World’s First 200mm PhableR Photolithography System from EULITHA AG

EULITHA, a Swiss startup company offering innovative lithography equipment and services for the nanotechnology, photonics and optoelectronic markets announced today that it has delivered its first PhableR photolithography system capable of patterning 200mm wafers to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland.

From Eulitha AG 5 Dec 2018

Graphene Could Revolutionize the Development of Wearable Electronic Devices

Thanks to the application of the wonder material graphene, the quest for producing durable, affordable, and mass-produced “smart textiles” has been given a new push.

4 Dec 2018

New Method Enables More Rapid Tracking of Microelectromechanical Systems

It is not known how long small gears and other tiny moving parts will last before they wear out, and there are no warning signs on when these components are going to fail, which may probably occur in just a few tenths of a second.

3 Dec 2018

Study Reveals How to Boost Graphene’s Performance and Harness its Extraordinary Potential

Why hasn’t the “supermaterial” graphene redefined electronics as promised? A new study reveals the answer and also demonstrates how to increase its performance by two-fold and harness its unique potential.

30 Nov 2018

Researchers Create Economical Wound Dressing for Speedy Healing

University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have created a new, economical wound dressing that could greatly speed up healing in an amazing way.

30 Nov 2018

Novel Nanoparticle-Based Technology Could Improve Speed and Effectiveness of Pneumonia Diagnosis

Several different microbes, such as viruses and bacteria, could be responsible for causing pneumonia, a respiratory disease that takes the lives of nearly 50,000 people in the United States each year.

30 Nov 2018

Novel Dark-Field Microscopy System Developed for Observing Motions of Kinesin

Motions of protein molecular motors can be observed using optical microscopy while they are at work in the biological systems. It would be possible to track the motions of individual molecules by labeling molecules of interest with suitable probes.

29 Nov 2018

Nanoscale Blood Test Method to Speed up Early Diagnosis of Cancer

A method to gain more information from the blood of cancer patients than formerly possible has been formulated.

29 Nov 2018

Bruker Launches New Dimension XR Family of Scanning Probe Microscopes

Bruker today announced the release of the Dimension XR™ family of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs). These new systems incorporate major AFM innovations, including Bruker’s proprietary and exclusive DataCube nanoelectric...

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 28 Nov 2018

First Graphene Receives Commercial Scale Order for PureGRAPH™ Products

FGR is in receipt of what it believes to be the largest single order for the commercial supply of bulk graphene materials to date, thereby signalling that the commercialisation of graphene has gone beyond a concept to...

From First Graphene Ltd. 28 Nov 2018

Graphene Can Be Stretched to Serve as a Tunable Ion Filter

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations advocating that graphene, along with its many other beneficial properties, can be altered with special pores to serve as a tunable strainer or filter for ions (charged atoms) in a liquid.

27 Nov 2018