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Texas A&M Professor Named ASM International Fellow for Nanostructured Materials Research

Dr. Haiyan Wang, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, was named Fellow of the world's largest association of materials scientists and engineers, ASM International.

12 Sep 2014

Nanonex will sponsor the 2014 Cornell CNF annual meeting and host nanoimprint application workshop

Nanonex Corporation, the inventor of nanoimprint lithography and the world’s leading provider in nanoimprint lithography solutions with the longest history, is proud to sponsor the 2014 Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) Annual Meeting, and will host a nanoimprint application workshop during the event.

From Nanonex Corporation 11 Sep 2014

Experimental Interferometer Helps Prove Magnetic Field for Light

In electronics, changing the path of electrons and manipulating how they flow is as easy as applying a magnetic field.

11 Sep 2014

Nanorobotic Techniques and AFM Help Study Pathology of Autoimmune Skin Disease

University at Buffalo researchers and colleagues studying a rare, blistering disease have discovered new details of how autoantibodies destroy healthy cells in skin. This information provides new insights into autoimmune mechanisms in general and could help develop and screen treatments for patients suffering from all autoimmune diseases, estimated to affect 5-10 percent of the U.S. population.

11 Sep 2014

Chemical Composition of Lithium Iron Phosphate Nanocrystals Mapped Using Ptychography

A record-setting X-ray microscopy experiment may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a collaboration of researchers used low energy or “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size.

11 Sep 2014

Electron Tomography Helps Analyze 3D Macromolecular Architecture of Plant Cell Walls

Comparison of 3D TEM imaging techniques reveals never-seen-before details of plant cell walls, according to a study published September 10, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Purbasha Sarkar from University of California, Berkeley and colleagues.

11 Sep 2014

Carbon Nanotube-Based Transparent Conductors Making a Quiet Comeback in Asia

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Transparent Conductor Markets 2014-2021

11 Sep 2014

Nanofiber Eye Drop Holds Promise for Treatment of Glaucoma

Northwestern Medicine® scientists have discovered a novel cause of glaucoma in an animal model, and related to their findings, are now developing an eye drop aimed at curing the disease. They believe their findings will be important to human glaucoma.

11 Sep 2014

Antibody-Studded Iron Nanoparticles Help Treat Heart Attack Damage

Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute infused antibody-studded iron nanoparticles into the bloodstream to treat heart attack damage. The combined nanoparticle enabled precise localization of the body's own stem cells to the injured heart muscle.

11 Sep 2014

3D Ptychography Helps Peer into Layer Structure of Coated Tandem Solar Cell

The sharp X-ray vision of DESY's research light source PETRA III paves the way for a new technique to produce cheap, flexible and versatile double solar cells.

11 Sep 2014

Indium Corporation Announces New EZ-Pour™ Gallium Trichloride

Indium Corporation announces the release of a revolutionary new product called EZ-Pour™ Gallium Trichloride (GaCl3). Gallium trichloride is a unique material that is sometimes difficult to use because it is a solid at room temperature and transfer from one container to the next requires heating.

From Indium Corporation 10 Sep 2014

JPK Reports on the Use of the NanoTracker Optical Tweezers System at the University of Leiden to Study the Organisation of Genomic DNA

Dr Rosalie Driessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, a part of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. She is studying the organization and dynamics of bacterial chromatin having received her doctorate from the University for her thesis entitled “The architects of crenarchaeal chromatin.”

From Bruker BioAFM 10 Sep 2014

SUNY CNSE / SUNYIT Named as SUNY Polytechnic Institute

The State University of New York Board of Trustees today voted unanimously to approve SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) as the new name for the recently merged SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE)/SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT).

10 Sep 2014

Innovative Micro Technology MEMS Foundry Signs MoU with CIT-China

Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. (IMT), the largest pure-play Micro-Electro-Mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry in the US, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China R&D Center for Internet of Things based in Wuxi, China (CIT-China).

From Atomica Corp. 10 Sep 2014

Senesco Technologies Changes Name to Sevion Therapeutics

Senesco Technologies, Inc., a clinical-stage company which discovers, develops and acquires next-generation biologics for the treatment of cancer and immunological diseases, announced today a corporate rebranding under which the Company will change its name to Sevion Therapeutics, Inc.

10 Sep 2014