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Ames Lab Researchers Team Up to Probe Iron-Arsenic Superconductors

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are part of collaborative team that's used a brand new instrument at the DOE's Spallation Neutron Source to probe iron-arsenic compounds, the &qu...

11 Oct 2008

PI Releases New Catalog Focusing on Tools for Microscopy and Imaging

Nanopositioning specialist PI has released a new catalog entitled "Tools for Microscopy and Imaging", available for download in PDF format.

11 Oct 2008

New Design Concept for Tiny Metallic Lens Tipped to Revolutionize Imaging of Nanoscale Objects

Researchers in Japan have developed a design concept for a device that allows imaging at scales previously impossible for optical instruments. Their advance is based on novel imaging techniques that allow optical imaging in the subwavelength regime, where the wavelength used is larger than the smallest features of the object being imaged.

10 Oct 2008

Breakthrough in Modern Microscopy - The THz Nanoscope

Contrary to textbook wisdom, the unusually long illuminating wavelength of 118 µm did not at all preclude researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) to resolve details as small as 40 nm (= 0.0...

10 Oct 2008

Engineering Materials that Act as Superconductors at the Nanoscale

One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been engineering materials that act as superconductors at the nanoscale - the realm of billionths of a meter. Such nanoscale superconductors would be useful in devices such as superconductive transistors and eventually in ultrafast, power-saving electronics.

9 Oct 2008

Discovery of New Material Allows the Use of Hydrogen as a Clean Fuel

A team of scientists from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has designed a material with such high ion conductivity that it allows the use of hydrogen as a clean fuel. The research work has been published in th...

7 Oct 2008

WaferGen Signs Distribution Agreements for SmartSlide Micro-Incubation System in Europe and Asia

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for the comp...

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 7 Oct 2008

Fluorescent Proteins Making it Possible to Track Nerve Cell Communication

Thought processes made visible: An international team of scientists headed by Mazahir Hasan of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in optically detecting individual action potentials in the brains of living animals.

7 Oct 2008

Leading Supplier for MEMS Market Receives Multiple Orders for EVG Systems

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that three European universities -- Southampton University, University...

7 Oct 2008

Nanotech Device that Resembles Flippers on a Pinball Machine

With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices on and off? In an advance toward giving humans that control, scientists in The Netherlands are reporting use of an external electrical signal to control an atomic-scale mechanical device that looks like the flippers on a pinball machine.

6 Oct 2008