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Pioneering Nanobiodevice Could Quickly Isolate Cancer Biomarkers with High Resolution

Like DNA, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a type of polymeric biomolecule essential for life, playing important roles in gene processing. Short lengths of RNA called microRNA are more stable than longer RNA chains, and are found in common bodily fluids.

9 Mar 2017

FSU Professor Takes Big Step Forward in Understanding Nanotech-Based Drugs

Nanotechnology has become a growing part of medical research in recent years, with scientists feverishly working to see if tiny particles could revolutionize the world of drug delivery.

9 Mar 2017

Researchers Develop Nanocomposite Material with Exceptional Optoelectronic Properties

Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are less stable.

9 Mar 2017

Scientists Define Smart Way to Induce Large-Amplitude Vibrations in Graphene

Graphene, the one-atom-thick material made of carbon atoms, still holds some unexplained qualities, which are important in connection with electronic applications where high-conductivity matters, ranging from smart materials that collectively respond to external stimuli in a coherent, tunable fashion, to light-induced, all-optical networks.

9 Mar 2017

Young Nanoscientist India Award 2017 Winner Announced

The Nanotechnology Forum for Indian Scientists (NT Forum) has recently announced Dr Narayan Pradhan as the winner of its ‘Oxford Instruments Young Nanoscientist India Award 2017’.

8 Mar 2017

Multilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Enhances Capabilities of Electronic Devices

A promising strategy that has recently gained an increased amount of interest in both industry and academia is the use of two dimensional (2D) layered materials to enhance the capabilities of electronic devices.

8 Mar 2017

New Graphene-Based Technique for Allowing Control of Terahertz Waves

The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for instance, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which are used, among others applications, in Wi-Fi connections).

8 Mar 2017

Research to Study Motion of Vortex Domain Walls in Ferromagnetic Nanowires

From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout human history.

8 Mar 2017

Artificial Intelligence Powers Major Content Expansion of Nature Research’s Nano

Nano, a Nature Research solution, has just been given a boost by artificial intelligence (AI), increasing the information available to users by sourcing data from over 400,000 relevant research papers.

7 Mar 2017

SiP Alignment Engine is Lightwave Innovation Reviews Award Winner

PI’s automated high-speed alignment engine is honored with a 2017 Lightwave Innovation Reviews Award given for unique solutions in optical communications.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 7 Mar 2017

Bubble-Recoil Facilitates Cooling of Microchips Even in Space

The bubbles forming on a heated surface tend to create a tiny recoil when they leave it, similar to the kick from a gun shooting blanks.

7 Mar 2017

Scientists Use Graphene to Make Heat Energy Convertor More Efficient

Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional power stations to help them convert heat to electricity more efficiently, meaning we would need less fossil fuel to burn for power.

7 Mar 2017

French Geologists Use Renishaw’s Raman-in-SEM Solution to Probe the Nanoworld

Researchers at BRGM (the French Geological Survey in Orleans, France) study the physical, chemical, and structural properties of minerals. BRGM is a public agency which produces and disseminates geological information for government departments, foreign countries, industry and academic research in France and across the world.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 6 Mar 2017

OEM Driver for Miniature Positioning Systems is Small and Affordable

Inexpensive, versatile, compact: PI’s E-872 stick-slip motor driver has it all for OEM applications.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 6 Mar 2017

New Method to Remotely Control Folding of 2D Sheets into 3D Structures

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a new method to remotely control the process employed by a two-dimensional (2D) sheet to fold itself into a three-dimensional (3D) structure. The team came up with this discovery by drawing inspirations from origami.

6 Mar 2017