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Leica Microsystems Announces Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) System with Cryo Fixation and Fluorescence Capabilities

Leica Microsystems launches Leica EM Cryo CLEM, a system that facilitates correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM).

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 19 Mar 2015

Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic Solid Featuring an Si20 Dodecahedron

The discovery of the soccer ball-shaped C60 molecule in 1985 was a milestone for the development of nanotechnology. In parallel with the fast-blooming field of research into carbon fullerenes, researchers have spent a long time trying in vain to create structurally similar silicon cages.

19 Mar 2015

OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have demonstrated a more robust method for controlling single, micron-sized particles with light.

19 Mar 2015

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

As the precision, energy, and output of scientific instruments such as particle colliders, light sources, and microscopes increases, so does the volume and complexity of data generated.

19 Mar 2015

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

A research group led by Chengsi Pan and Tsuyoshi Takata at NIMS Global Research Center for Environment and Energy Based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), and Kazunari Domen at The University of Tokyo newly developed a water-splitting photocatalyst that is operable over a wider range of the visible light spectrum than before.

19 Mar 2015

Coating Scaffold with Self-Assembling Nanofibers Decreases Inflammation

A new technique to create tissue-engineered bladders has been shown to decrease scarring and significantly increase tissue growth. The bladders are produced using scaffolds coated with anti-inflammatory peptides.

19 Mar 2015

AACR Annual Meeting: Three Abstracts on BIND Therapeutics’s Accurins to be Presented

BIND Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called Accurins, today announced the online availability of three abstracts that will be presented during the April 18-22 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

19 Mar 2015

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

In 1996, a trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene - soccer-ball-shaped spheres of 60 joined carbon atoms that exhibit special physical properties.

19 Mar 2015

LamdaGen Opens Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan

LamdaGen Corporation, a nano-technology platform company that provides LSPR based plasmonic sensors and systems for In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD), announced the opening of a wholly-owned subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan Co., LTD. (LamdaGen Taiwan).

19 Mar 2015

Global Forecast Report on Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market

According to a new market research report "Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market by Product (Biochip, Implant Materials, Medical Textiles, Wound Dressing, Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices, Hearing Aid), Application (Therapeutic, Diagnostic, Research) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, the Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market is was valued at around $5 Billion in 2014 and expected to reach around $8.5 Billion by 2019 with a CAGR of around 11-12% during the forecast period 2014 - 2019.

19 Mar 2015

JPK's Optical Tweezers Used for Life Science and Soft Matter Research at Illinois Institute of Technology

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of their NanoTracker™ optical tweezers system to study collagen fibrils at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

From Bruker BioAFM 18 Mar 2015

Geometric Relationship between Graphene and Substrate Determines Shape of Emerging Islands

Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the geometric relationship that exists between graphene and the substrate determines the manner in which the shapes of the islands emerge.

18 Mar 2015

Researchers Triple CO2-Scrubbing Capacity of MOFs by Appending a Diamine Molecule

A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today has been discovered by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

18 Mar 2015

Study on Carbon Nanotube Membrane Technology for Water Purification Wins Elsevier Atlas Award

Carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes have a bright future in addressing the world’s growing need to purify water from the sea, researchers say in a study published in the journal Desalination.

18 Mar 2015

Cadence and Intel Partner to Deliver 14nm Library Characterization Reference Flow

Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Intel Corporation today announced that the two companies have delivered a 14nm (nanometer) library characterization reference flow for customers of Intel Custom Foundry, continuing their collaboration on enabling digital and custom/analog flows for the Intel 14nm platform.

From Cadence Design Systems 18 Mar 2015

Nanotechnology News

Leica Microsystems Announces Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) System with Cryo Fixation and Fluorescence Capabilities

Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic Solid Featuring an Si20 Dodecahedron

OIST Demonstrates More Robust Method for Controlling Single, Micron-Sized Particles with Light

Supercomputing 2014 Conference: Brookhaven Presents Project on Nanostructure Complex Materials Modeling

Newly Developed Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Can Operate Over a Wider Range of Visible Light Spectrum

Coating Scaffold with Self-Assembling Nanofibers Decreases Inflammation

AACR Annual Meeting: Three Abstracts on BIND Therapeutics’s Accurins to be Presented

Buckyballs Turned Into Buckybombs to Fight Cancer

LamdaGen Opens Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, LamdaGen Nanotechnology Taiwan

Global Forecast Report on Nanotechnology in Medical Devices Market

JPK's Optical Tweezers Used for Life Science and Soft Matter Research at Illinois Institute of Technology

Geometric Relationship between Graphene and Substrate Determines Shape of Emerging Islands

Researchers Triple CO2-Scrubbing Capacity of MOFs by Appending a Diamine Molecule

Study on Carbon Nanotube Membrane Technology for Water Purification Wins Elsevier Atlas Award

Cadence and Intel Partner to Deliver 14nm Library Characterization Reference Flow

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