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Imaging System Maps the Mechanical Properties of Materials and Could Revolutionise Design of New Materials

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials - how stiff or stretchy they are, for example - at scales on the order of...

13 Dec 2007

Fibrils, Super Strong Reinforcing Nanomaterials That Are Completely Natural and Made by Trees

Their day job is to keep trees upright. But now the forest's tiniest building blocks are on their way into fancy products for the future. Imagine a packaging material that kills bacteria and keeps food longer in g...

12 Dec 2007

Using Light to Sort Individual Cells

Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light. The system, which can s...

11 Dec 2007

Nanorings Made from Double-Stranded DNA

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Micha...

7 Dec 2007

Cryo-Electron Tomography Allows Closest Ever View of Human Tissue and Shows Molecular Organisation of Skin

Seeing proteins in their natural environment and interactions inside cells has been a long-standing goal. Using an advanced microscopy technique called cryo-electron tomography, researchers from the European Molecular Bi...

6 Dec 2007

DOE Contract Awarded for Scaleable Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Based Field Emission Sources for use in Scanning Electron Microscopes and Transmission Electron Microscopes

Xidex Corporation, an Austin-based nanotechnology company, has been awarded a new contract from the Department of Energy (DOE) for scaleable manufacturing of carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission sources for use in ...

5 Dec 2007