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Nanolito 2012 Workshop Held in San Sebastian

CIC nanoGUNE gathered over 70 international experts in lithography between the 13 and 15 November during the Nanolito 2012 workshop held at the centre’s installation in San Sebastián.

16 Nov 2012

Nanobiotix Raises Fund Through IPO

More than a decade ago while conducting research at UB, Laurent Levy committed himself to a field that other scientists were just starting to understand: nanomedicine, the use of nanotechnology to address biomedical chal...

16 Nov 2012

New Study Shows Heat Flows Like Waves in Nanostructures

Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation through structures called superlattices.

16 Nov 2012

EV Group Wafer Bonding System Installed at Texas State University

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced it has installed an EVG501 wafer bonding system at Texas State University.

16 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Miniature Bio-Bots Using Hydrogel and Heart Cells

They're soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long – and, incredibly, able to walk by themselves. Miniature "bio-bots" developed at the University of Illinois are making tracks in synthetic biology.

16 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Wax-Filled Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power during contraction than the same size natural muscle, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international team from Australia, China, South Korea, Canada and Brazil.

16 Nov 2012

New Study Provides Insights to Understand Graphene’s Full Potential

In the 1950s, when MIT researchers were helping to invent the discipline of computer science, they didn't think of themselves as computer scientists; they thought of themselves as electrical engineers or physicists or mathematicians.

16 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Supercharged Atoms Using X-Ray Laser

Supercharging is a technique no longer confined to automotive enthusiasts.

16 Nov 2012

MIT Researchers Fabricate 3D Lightweight Metamaterial Lens

In many respects, metamaterials are supernatural. These manmade materials, with their intricately designed structures, bend electromagnetic waves in ways that are impossible for materials found in nature.

16 Nov 2012

New Mask Defect Review Tool from Advantest for Advanced Photomasks

Advantest Corporation today announced that it has developed a new mask defect review tool, the Mask DR-SEM E5610, for reviewing and classifying ultra-small defects in photomask blanks.

16 Nov 2012

Researchers Create Diamond Nano-Tips for Thermal Processing

One of the most promising innovations of nanotechnology has been the ability to perform rapid nanofabrication using nanometer-scale tips.

16 Nov 2012

Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Show Promise to Prevent Oxidative Damage to DNA

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have provided evidence in the laboratory that single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) may help protect DNA molecules from damage by oxidation.

16 Nov 2012

Nanoparticle Technology Handbook's Extended and Updated Second Edition Published

A new updated and expanded second edition of the Nanoparticle Technology Handbook, published by Elsevier, is now available. This second edition includes sixteen new chapters providing a much broader reference scope than ...

From Elsevier B.V 16 Nov 2012

NaturalNano Announces Presentation of Nanobiotechnology Report at World CTC Summit

NaturalNano, Inc. announced that Dr. Michael King of Cornell University will present their recent work at the World CTC Summit, November 15, 2012, Boston, MA.

16 Nov 2012

Universal Method to Efficiently Measure Graphene Thickness Using Optical Microscope

The remarkable properties and subsequent applications of graphene have been well-documented since it was first isolated in 2004; however, researchers are still trying to find a quick, cheap and efficient way of measuring its thickness.

16 Nov 2012