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New Two-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy Study Helps Understand MS Nerve Damage

High-resolution real-time images show in mice how nerves may be damaged during the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis. The results suggest that the critical step happens when fibrinogen, a blood-clotting protein, leaks into the central nervous system and activates immune cells called microglia.

28 Nov 2012

New Vacuum-Compatible X-Ray Detector Enables Size Determination of Low-Contrast Nano-Objects

Microvesicles are smallest cell elements which are present in all body fluids and are different, depending on whether a person is healthy or sick. This could contribute to detecting numerous diseases, such as, e.g., carcinomas, at an early stage, and to treating them more efficiently.

28 Nov 2012

Enpirion Announces Key Milestone in Micro-Fabrication and Materials Technology

Enpirion, the leader of integrated power IC solutions, announced the successful commercialization of a new magnetic alloy, which enables the miniaturization of passive magnetic components and their assimilation with integrated circuits at wafer level. So-called wafer level magnetics (WLM) present a leap in traditional technology, which will take magnetic components from their 3-dimensional discrete shape to a planar 2-dimensional thin-film form that can be deposited with standard wafer processes on top of CMOS wafers.

28 Nov 2012

Bourns College Professor Named IEEE Fellow for Nanotechnology Work

Alexander A. Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering and founding chair of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside has been named an IEEE Fellow for 2013. IEEE is the world's leading professional organization for advancing technology for humanity.

28 Nov 2012

First Step Towards Building Graphene-Based Components

Now, Helmholtz Centre Berlin's Dr. Andrei Varykhalov, Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader and his team of physicists has taken the first step towards building graphene-based components, in collaboration with physicists from St. Petersburg (Russia), Jülich (Germany) and Harvard (USA). According to their report on 27. November 2012 in Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2227), they successfully managed to increase the graphene conduction electrons' spin-orbit coupling by a factor of 10,000 – enough to allow them to construct a switch that can be controlled via small electric fields.

28 Nov 2012

New-Generation Age Control Body Cream from Nanotechnology Company BIONOVA

Many people are concerned with changes in their body shape as they age. Changes related to the aging process cause structural transformation of proteins in deep layers of the skin, promoting skin dryness, reduction of skin thickness, papery look, sagginess and other typical for aging processes symptoms. The best solution is to prevent and slow down the skin structural changes.

28 Nov 2012

New Report Analyzes Toxic Effects of Nanomaterials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Toxic Effects of Nanomaterials" book to their offering.

From Research and Markets 28 Nov 2012

Innovative Graphene/Nanotube Hybrid Material for Energy Storage and Electronics Applications

A seamless graphene/nanotube hybrid created at Rice University may be the best electrode interface material possible for many energy storage and electronics applications.

28 Nov 2012

Research on Nanotube-Based Fabric that Repels Biological and Chemical Agents

Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to wearers thanks to research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and several other institutions who are developing a nanotube-based fabric that repels chemical and biological agents.

28 Nov 2012

SouthWest NanoTechnologies to Showcase New Carbon Nanotube Products at MRS 2012

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc., a leading developer of high quality carbon nanotubes, will be exhibiting new Carbon Nanotube products at the 2012 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit, November 27-29, in booth 1116 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

27 Nov 2012

Bruker Releases New Line of IRIS TERS Probes

Bruker announced today at the 2012 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting the release of a new line of IRIS TERS Probes. By enabling Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS), the new IRIS TERS probe tips provide users a complete path to non-destructive, label-free chemical detection at the nanoscale. As sharp, solid-metal cones, IRIS TERS Probes are designed to deliver the highest Raman enhancement, which translates to highest sensitivity and spatial resolution. Together with Bruker’s Innova-IRIS system, and third-party research Raman systems, IRIS TERS Probes can create the highest-performance complete commercial TERS solution.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 27 Nov 2012

Princeton Power Systems Designs New High-Frequency Nano-Crystaline Transformer-Integrated Inverter

Princeton Power Systems announces the development of a 2MW inverter for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Incubator program. The newly designed six-port inverter reduces the overall cost of solar installations and balance of systems components to help the DOE achieve its goal of a $1.00/watt total installed cost of solar.

27 Nov 2012

Bruker's Innovative AFM Mode PeakForce Tapping Achieves Key Milestone

Bruker announced today at the 2012 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting that its exclusive PeakForce Tapping™ technology has recently surpassed the 100 peer-reviewed publication mark. This rate of adoption is even greater than Bruker’s TappingMode™, which since its launch in the early 1990s, has been considered the primary imaging mode of scanning probe microscopy.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 27 Nov 2012

Grafoid Signs Research and Development Deal for Advanced LFP-Graphene Batteries

Grafoid Inc., a privately owned graphene development company announced today the signing of the three-year research and development agreement with Hydro-Québec's Research Institute for the development of next generation rechargeable batteries using graphene with lithium iron phosphate materials.

27 Nov 2012

New Study Helps Design Super-Hydrophobic Materials and Novel Microfluidic Devices

The wetting model is a classical problem in surface science and biomimetic science. Professor LIU Jianlin and his collaborators from China University of Petroleum, Wuhan University and Fourth Military Medical University approached this old and classical problem from a new direction. They stressed that it is the triple contact line and not the contact area of the droplet/solid interface that determines the macroscopic contact angle.

27 Nov 2012