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Mini Mona Lisa Created Using AFM and ThermoChemical NanoLithography

The world’s most famous painting has now been created on the world’s smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have “painted” the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width of a human hair.

6 Aug 2013

New Tool to Add Strong, Unbreakable Bonds Between Two Points in Proteins

Proteins are the workhorses of cells, adopting conformations that allow them to set off chemical reactions, send signals and transport materials. But when a scientist is designing a new drug, trying to visualize the processes inside cells, or probe how molecules interact with each other, they can't always find a protein that will do the job they want. Instead, they often engineer their own novel proteins to use in experiments, either from scratch or by altering existing molecules.

6 Aug 2013

ZEISS Launches Nanoscale X-ray Microscopy Solution That Increases Imaging Throughput by 10 Times

ZEISS is introducing a new X-ray microscopy (XRM) solution that increases throughput for three-dimensional imaging at the nanoscale by up to 10 times. Using a series of technical innovations to achieve better contrast, and in turn faster acquisition, the new ZEISS Xradia 810 Ultra revolutionizes the X-ray imaging model in scientific and industrial research labs worldwide.

6 Aug 2013

Small Intestine Uses More Cells to Absorb Large Microspheres Containing Therapeutic Protein Drugs

The small intestine employs more cells and mechanisms than scientists previously thought to absorb relatively large particles, such as those that could encapsulate protein-based therapeutics like insulin, according to a new study. The findings, published the week of Aug. 5, 2013, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, open another window for drug makers to increase absorption of medicines taken by mouth.

6 Aug 2013

Certain Bacteria Deploy Aggression on the Nanoscale

A nano-machine cell killer: EPFL researchers decipher the attack strategy of certain bacteria, including the infamous Staphylococcus aureus.

6 Aug 2013

Novel Technique to Improve Stretchability of Graphene

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas have revealed more about graphene’s mechanical properties and demonstrated a technique to improve the stretchability of graphene – developments that should help engineers and designers come up with new technologies that make use of the material.

From North Carolina State University 6 Aug 2013

M&M 2013 Launch Of Zephyr™ Cleaning Technology From XEI Scientific

XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular Classic EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, announces the release of Zephyr - turbo-pumped remote plasm...

From XEI Scientific 5 Aug 2013

CNSE Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Eric Lifshin Chosen To Receive 2013 “Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis"

Exemplifying Governor Andrew Cuomo’s high-tech paradigm for educational excellence and world-class research, SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Eric Lifshi...

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 5 Aug 2013

NanoViricides Enters Non-Disclosure Agreement with the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

NanoViricides, Inc. (the "Company") said it has signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (“LRRI”). The Company intends to enter into a Master Services Agreement with LRRI for the IND-enabling efficacy studies of both its broad-spectrum injectable and oral FluCide® drug candidates. These studies will employ multiple unrelated subtypes and strains of Influenza A, including the novel H7N9 strain, the subtype which is currently circulating in China.

From NanoViricides, Inc 5 Aug 2013

Two-Dimensional Arrays of Micrograins Provide New Way of Controlling Acoustic Waves

In some ways, granular material — such as a pile of sand — can behave much like a crystal, with its close-packed grains mimicking the precise, orderly arrangement of crystalline atoms. Now researchers at MIT have pushed that similarity to a new limit, creating two-dimensional arrays of micrograins that can funnel acoustic waves, much as specially designed crystals can control the passage of light or other waves.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Aug 2013

New Report Predicts MEMS Market Will Double over Next Six Years

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Status of the MEMS Industry 2013" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 5 Aug 2013

National Physical Laboratory Becomes Lifetime Member of Graphene Stakeholders Association

The Graphene Stakeholders Association (GSA) announced today that the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has joined the association as a lifetime member. The GSA (www.graphenestakeholders.org) and NPL (www.npl.co.uk/graphene) will work closely together on fulfilling the association's mission of promoting the responsible development of graphene and graphene-enabled technologies and applications.

5 Aug 2013

XMC to License Spansion's Floating Gate NOR Flash Technology

Spansion Inc., a global leader in Flash memory-based embedded systems solutions, and XMC, China's fastest growing 300mm semiconductor foundry, today announced an agreement for XMC to license Spansion's floating gate NOR Flash technology. The agreement expands the companies' 300mm manufacturing partnership of Spansion's proprietary 65nm, 45nm and 32nm MirrorBit® Flash memory technology.

3 Aug 2013

Forecast Report on Global Graphene Market

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Graphene to 2020" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 3 Aug 2013

MAST Awarded Contract to Evaluate Nanoparticle Tracers for Secondary Oil Recovery Operations

Micromem Technologies Inc. (the "Company") through its wholly owned subsidiary Micromem Applied Sensor Technologies Inc. (MAST), is pleased to announce that a second, American based, oil company has awarded MAST a USD $4,000,000 contract to evaluate our nanoparticles as a potential tracer element in their secondary oil recovery operations. Under the agreement, MAST will develop and deliver a client specific, proof of concept.

3 Aug 2013

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Mini Mona Lisa Created Using AFM and ThermoChemical NanoLithography

New Tool to Add Strong, Unbreakable Bonds Between Two Points in Proteins

ZEISS Launches Nanoscale X-ray Microscopy Solution That Increases Imaging Throughput by 10 Times

Small Intestine Uses More Cells to Absorb Large Microspheres Containing Therapeutic Protein Drugs

Certain Bacteria Deploy Aggression on the Nanoscale

Novel Technique to Improve Stretchability of Graphene

M&M 2013 Launch Of Zephyr™ Cleaning Technology From XEI Scientific

CNSE Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Eric Lifshin Chosen To Receive 2013 “Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis"

NanoViricides Enters Non-Disclosure Agreement with the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute

Two-Dimensional Arrays of Micrograins Provide New Way of Controlling Acoustic Waves

New Report Predicts MEMS Market Will Double over Next Six Years

National Physical Laboratory Becomes Lifetime Member of Graphene Stakeholders Association

XMC to License Spansion's Floating Gate NOR Flash Technology

Forecast Report on Global Graphene Market

MAST Awarded Contract to Evaluate Nanoparticle Tracers for Secondary Oil Recovery Operations

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