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EDAG’s Automotive Light-Weighting Study Demonstrates Potential of NanoSteel’s Material

The NanoSteel® Company, a leader in nano-structured steel materials design, today announced the results of an automotive light-weighting study conducted by EDAG, Inc., a globally-recognized independent engineering firm, demonstrating the potential for the company’s Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) to enable a 30% reduction of weight in the BIW structure of a mass market sedan.

7 Aug 2013

Z-Axis Nanopositioning System with Extended Positioning Range by PI (Physik Instrumente)

High precision positioning of microscope objectives along the optical axis has just made a giant leap forward: While piezo actuation has always been the undisputed choice in optical positioning when dynamics and accuracy matter most, some applications could have benefitted from more travel range.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 7 Aug 2013

Granular Material Offers Potential New Approach to 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. SOURCE: - Mmit.edu ...

6 Aug 2013

Novel Device Chemically Identifies Single Molecules Using Terahertz Radiation

Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of Pittsburgh physicists.

6 Aug 2013

National Nanotechnology Initiative to Hold Workshop for Stakeholders and Public in September

What: The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) will hold this workshop to facilitate stakeholder discussion of key elements needed to assess, manage, and communicate potential risks associated with use of nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled products.

6 Aug 2013

ORSAY PHYSICS and TESCAN Merge to Form TESCAN-ORSAY

TESCAN, a leading global supplier of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations, and ORSAY PHYSICS, a world leader in customized focused ion beam and electron beam technology, have merged to form TESCAN-ORSAY HOLDING. Cooperating since 2007, ORSAY PHYSICS has been the sole supplier of ion beam technology to TESCAN.

From Tescan Group 6 Aug 2013

ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1 Fluorescence Microscope System Wins R&D 100 Award 2013

Lightsheet Z.1 from ZEISS is one of the winners of the 51st R&D 100 Award. An independent jury and the publisher of the R&D Magazine recognize and celebrate the top 100 technology products every year. The official award ceremony will take place on 7 November in Orlando, Florida, as part of a gala event.

6 Aug 2013

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

Nanotechnology News

EDAG’s Automotive Light-Weighting Study Demonstrates Potential of NanoSteel’s Material

Z-Axis Nanopositioning System with Extended Positioning Range by PI (Physik Instrumente)

Granular Material Offers Potential New Approach to Controlling Acoustic Waves

Novel Device Chemically Identifies Single Molecules Using Terahertz Radiation

National Nanotechnology Initiative to Hold Workshop for Stakeholders and Public in September

ORSAY PHYSICS and TESCAN Merge to Form TESCAN-ORSAY

ZEISS Lightsheet Z.1 Fluorescence Microscope System Wins R&D 100 Award 2013

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"

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