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Low-Dose Electron Diffraction Helps Study Structures of Nanocrystalline Pharmaceuticals

A team of researchers from several European countries has used a low-dose electron diffraction technique to determine the structures of nanocrystalline pharmaceuticals.

1 Mar 2016

University of Tokyo Uses a Renishaw inVia to Study Nanomaterials

The Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo uses a Renishaw inVia confocal Raman microscope to study graphene and other nano-materials in the development of energy related devices such as solar cells.

From Renishaw plc - Spectroscopy 29 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop New Parallel-Computing Approach by Combining Nanotechnology and Biology

A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a new parallel-computing approach based on a combination of nanotechnology and biology that can solve combinatorial problems. The approach is scalable, error-tolerant, energy-efficient, and can be implemented with existing technologies. The pioneering achievement was developed by researchers from the Technische Universität Dresden and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden in collaboration with international partners from Canada, England, Sweden, the US, and the Netherlands.

29 Feb 2016

Researchers Study Superlubricity of Graphene Nanoribbons on Gold Surfaces

The versatile potential of the wonder material graphene, a modified version of carbon, has been widely explored in numerous fields, including electronic switches and coating machine components.

26 Feb 2016

New Way to Separate, Organize Cells Suspended in Fluid Samples

Researchers at UCLA have developed a new way to separate and organize cells suspended in fluid samples by their subtle biochemical differences.

26 Feb 2016

Inductively Coupled Plasma System Promises Etching Capabilities Far Superior to Traditional Ion Milling

The need for a more precise process to etch devices used in magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), seen as a potential “universal memory” technology, has spawned a novel process involving researchers at Cornell.

26 Feb 2016

Copper Nanophotonic Components can Operate Successfully in Photonic Devices

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that copper nanophotonic components can operate successfully in photonic devices - it was previously believed that only gold and silver components have the required properties for this.

26 Feb 2016

UTSW Researchers Develop Microscope Capable of Creating High-Resolution, 3D Images of Living Cancer Cells

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have designed and built a microscope capable of creating high-resolution, 3-D images of living cancer cells in realistic, controllable microenvironments.

26 Feb 2016

New System Could Scale-Up Production of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are very small particles, found in many products, ranging from high-definition television sets and drug delivery formulations, to pollution control on cars.

25 Feb 2016

New Etching Process for Magnetic RAM Developed by Cornell NanoScale Facility and Oxford Instruments Plasma Technolog P

The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), a leading university research facility located at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), UK have collaborated to develop a novel etching process targeted specifically at magnetic random-access memory MRAM based device fabrication.

25 Feb 2016

Magnetic 2D Metal in Artificial Oxide Material Holds Potential for Better Transistors

An international research group led by physicists at the University of Arkansas created magnetic two-dimensional metal in an artificial oxide material that could be used to make better transistors.

25 Feb 2016

Next-Generation EUV Photomask from Toppan Printing for Advanced Semiconductors

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (hereafter Toppan Printing; head office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President & Representative Director: Shingo Kaneko) has developed a next-generation EUV photomask for leading-edge semiconductors.

25 Feb 2016

New Visual Readout Method Enables Cell-Phone Camera to Quantify Single Nucleic-Acid Molecules

Diagnostic health care is often restricted in areas with limited resources, because the procedures required to detect many of the molecular markers that can diagnose diseases are too complex or expensive to be used outside of a central laboratory.

25 Feb 2016

Researchers Make Images of NanoLayer Beneath Droplet When It Impacts on Surface

Water droplets on a very hot plate don’t evaporate but levitate and move around: this is known as the Leidenfrost effect and it always guarantees beautiful images. For the first time, researchers of the Physics of Fluids group of the University of Twente (MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology) have made images of the tiny layer beneath the droplet, when it impacts on the surface.

25 Feb 2016

Researchers Develop Scissor-Like Nanoplasmonic System that can be Opened Using UV Light

Nanomachines could take over a variety of tasks in future. Some day they may be able to perform medical precision work in the human body or help analyze pathogens and pollutants in mobile laboratories.

25 Feb 2016

Nanotechnology News

Low-Dose Electron Diffraction Helps Study Structures of Nanocrystalline Pharmaceuticals

University of Tokyo Uses a Renishaw inVia to Study Nanomaterials

Researchers Develop New Parallel-Computing Approach by Combining Nanotechnology and Biology

Researchers Study Superlubricity of Graphene Nanoribbons on Gold Surfaces

New Way to Separate, Organize Cells Suspended in Fluid Samples

Inductively Coupled Plasma System Promises Etching Capabilities Far Superior to Traditional Ion Milling

Copper Nanophotonic Components can Operate Successfully in Photonic Devices

UTSW Researchers Develop Microscope Capable of Creating High-Resolution, 3D Images of Living Cancer Cells

New System Could Scale-Up Production of Nanoparticles

New Etching Process for Magnetic RAM Developed by Cornell NanoScale Facility and Oxford Instruments Plasma Technolog P

Magnetic 2D Metal in Artificial Oxide Material Holds Potential for Better Transistors

Next-Generation EUV Photomask from Toppan Printing for Advanced Semiconductors

New Visual Readout Method Enables Cell-Phone Camera to Quantify Single Nucleic-Acid Molecules

Researchers Make Images of NanoLayer Beneath Droplet When It Impacts on Surface

Researchers Develop Scissor-Like Nanoplasmonic System that can be Opened Using UV Light

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