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Protea Launches Web-Based Commercial Mass Spectrometry Service, ProteaScope

Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. ("Protea") announced today that it has launched a new web-based commercial mass spectrometry service, named ProteaScope, that enables researchers to navigate across their tissue sections using high resolution microscopy to pinpoint specific morphological structures for mass spectrometry analysis.

4 Jul 2013

Research and Markets Adds Report on Smart Textiles and Nanotechnologies to its Offering

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Smart Textiles & Nanotechnologies: Applications, Technologies and Markets - 2013" report to their offering.

4 Jul 2013

OSU Researchers Use Ethylene Glycol for Making Thin-Film Solar Cells

A process combining some comparatively cheap materials and the same antifreeze that keeps an automobile radiator from freezing in cold weather may be the key to making solar cells that cost less and avoid toxic compounds, while further expanding the use of solar energy.

4 Jul 2013

Korean Researchers Develop Bio-Inspired Carbon Nanotube-Based Catalyst for Electric Vehicles

Affordable and scalable process of a carbon nanotube-based catalyst outperforming platinum for electric-automobiles

4 Jul 2013

ASU Researchers Fabricate Nanotweezers for Accurate Control of Enzymes

Tweezers are a handy instrument when it comes to removing a splinter or plucking an eyebrow.

4 Jul 2013

Laser and Nanotechnology Packed Device Reads Bacteria’s Metabolic Activity

Nano and laser technology packed into small device tests antibiotic treatment in minutes

3 Jul 2013

Ultrafast Fluorescence Spectroscopy Reveals Solvent Interfere with Electron Transfer

EPFL scientists have shown how a solvent can interfere with electron transfer by using unprecedented time resolution in ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy.

3 Jul 2013

Research Enables Design of Nanoscopic Materials with Specific Band Gap Energy

The ultimate dream come true for material scientists is to have the ability to make materials that can take on properties and behaviors to best suit our needs. New materials could provide efficient ways to capture solar energy and help us significantly advance the way motors, generators and other devices critical to improving our energy needs are made.

3 Jul 2013

Powerful Electron Microscopes Reveal Important Changes in Evolution of Colour

The high-tech solution to one of the great mysteries of palaeontology will be revealed by University of Bristol scientists when they showcase their latest research at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

3 Jul 2013

New Dynamic Online Tool for Selecting, Comparing and Quoting RF Probes

Cascade Microtech, Inc., a leader at enabling precision measurements of integrated circuits at the wafer level, today announced the launch of a new dynamic online tool for selecting, comparing and quoting probes from a wide variety of RF frequencies and pitches for different applications and device types.

From FormFactor 3 Jul 2013

Asian OSAT Company Places Repeat Order for Ultratech Lithography System

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) announced that it has received a repeat order from a leading outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) company in Asia.

3 Jul 2013

Nikon Partners with SUNY’s CNSE to Develop Next Generation Lithography Technology

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Nikon Corporation, a world leader in digital imaging technology and computer chip development, has partnered with SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in a $350 million investment to develop the first of its kind next generation lithography technology on 450mm wafer and create 100 high-tech jobs.

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 3 Jul 2013

Positive Results from Novavax Phase 1 Trial of Nanoparticle RSV Vaccine

Novavax, Inc. today announced positive top-line safety and immunogenicity data for its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine candidate from a dose-ranging Phase 1 study in elderly adults. All subject groups receiving the recombinant fusion (F) protein nanoparticle vaccine candidate exhibited antibody responses against RSV at 28 and 56 days post-immunization, with rises in serum anti-F immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels.

From Novavax Inc. 3 Jul 2013

Novel Nanofiber Mesh Simultaneously Realizes Thermotherapy and Chemotherapy of Tumors

A research team headed by Dr. Mitsuhiro Ebara, a MANA Scientist of the Biomaterials Unit of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA, NIMS) developed a new nanofiber mesh which is capable of simultaneously realizing thermotherapy (hyperthermia) and chemotherapy (treatment with anticancer drugs) of tumors. Using this nanofiber mesh, the team succeeded in efficiently inducing natural death (apoptosis) of epithelial cancer cells.

From National Institute for Materials Science 3 Jul 2013

Graphene 2014 Dates and Venue Announced - 6th to 9th May 2014 in Toulouse

The organizers of Graphene 2014 (4th edition - Graphene conference series) are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference on Graphene to be held in Toulouse (France), home of Airbus. The event will be held...

2 Jul 2013