Corrosion protection provided by metalworking fluids remains a top concern during the manufacturing of tubular goods. Since pipe products are vulnerable to multiple conditions that can lead to oxidation, corrosion can unknowingly occur in production or during storage. As a consequence, the pipe producer is at risk for significant financial losses in non-conforming products, scrap, and/or rework costs.
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are involved in constructing a microscope which will enable analysis of synthetic and biological materials while examining the surface’s physical and chemical properties both on and underneath it.
By Stuart Milne
11 Aug 2015
Professor Patrick Regan and NPL's Radioactivity Group helped nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili recreate Otto Hahn's famous atom-splitting nuclear fission experiment from 1938.
Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. announced today that its Senior Scientific, LLC unit, a nanobiotechnology company for the early detection and localization of cancer and other human diseases, has been granted an additional United States Patent for its MRX™ cancer detection technology. U.S. Patent No. US 9,095,270 B2 entitled "Detection, measurement, and imaging of cells such as cancer and other biologic substances using targeted nanoparticles and magnetic properties thereof." The patent provides a method as well as an apparatus for detecting and measuring cancer cells, using magnetic nanoparticles.
Life may be as unpredictable as a box of chocolates, but ideally, you always know what you’re going to get from a quantum dot. A quantum dot should produce one, and only one, photon—the smallest constituent of light—each time it is energized. This characteristic makes it attractive for use in various quantum technologies such as secure communications. Oftentimes, however, the trick is in finding the dots.
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) worked with 20 laboratories across the globe to examine one of the most significant issues in Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS): the matrix effect. A new algorithm has been developed to overcome this effect allowing for better analysis of images in the future.
NanoViricides, Inc., (the "Company"), a nanomedicine company developing anti-viral drugs, reports that the dramatic improvements in clinical symptoms associated with herpes simplex virus infection were reproduced in an animal model in a different laboratory. These studies were performed by TransPharm Preclinical Solutions ("TransPharm"), a pre-clinical services company in Jackson, MI.
Researchers at the Nanoparticles by Design Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have developed a novel method by encapsulating noble metal nanoparticles within a porous metal oxide shell to prevent them from compacting. They conducted the research along with the SLAC National Laboratory in the USA and the Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis. The latest breakthrough holds promise in the field of nano-catalysis for the development of more efficient fuel cells. The study has been published in Nanoscale.
Bruker today announced the release of the Opterra II™ Multipoint Scanning Confocal Microscope, which represents the next generation of quantitative live-cell microscopes.
To gain even deeper insights into the smallest of worlds, the thresholds of microscopy must be expanded further. Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the TU Dresden, in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, have succeeded in combining two established measurement techniques for the first time: near-field optical microscopy and ultra-fast spectroscopy.
A Rice University-led consortium of industry, university and government partners has been chosen to establish one of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Engineering Research Centers in Houston to develop compact, mobile, off-grid water-treatment systems that can provide clean water to millions of people who lack it and make U.S. energy production more sustainable and cost-effective.
People with diabetes mellitus often suffer from impaired wound healing. Now, scientists in Egypt have developed antibacterial nanofibres of cellulose acetate loaded with silver that could be used in a new type of dressing to promote tissue repair. They reveal details of the new materials and their properties in the International Journal of Nanoparticles.
Scientists at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed the first perovskite nanowire-graphene hybrid phototransistors.
By Beth Ellison
10 Aug 2015
NanoMech, Inc. expanded its storage and distribution capacity by leasing 12,000 square feet of additional warehouse and office space near its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted Orphan Drug Designation to DCR-PH1, the company's therapeutic candidate for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1). PH1 is a severe, rare, inherited disorder of the liver that often results in kidney failure and for which there are no approved therapies.