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Sandia Observe Buckyball Birth - Confirm Smalley's Hypothesis

Almost everyone in the scientific community has heard of buckyballs, but no one until Sandia's Jianyu Huang has seen one being born. Buckyballs - more formally known as buckminsterfullerene C-60 - are carbon-linke...

From Sandia National Laboratories 22 Nov 2007

Optimizing Magnet Manufacture using Nanotechnology

Magnetic materials, also known as magnets, have a wide range of applications in daily life. They are part of the core of electric engines, from those used in cars to CD systems. Computers´ hard disks are made of a ...

22 Nov 2007

FED-TVs With Carbon Nanotube Technology Could Supersede Plasma and LCD Flat Screens

Just as silicon is the wonder material for the computer age, carbon nanotubes will most likely be the materials responsible for the next evolutionary step in electronics and computing. Their extraordinary properties have...

21 Nov 2007

US School Receives SEM Gift from FEI

Blast off for inner space. Philadelphia’s Central High became the first high school in the nation to open deep inner space exploration to students with the arrival of a new Phenom™ table top scanning electron...

20 Nov 2007

FEI Supply World's Most Powerful S/TEM to Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan™ scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world’s most powerful c...

16 Nov 2007

Casimir Force to Assist in Creating Nanomachines

A pioneering team from the University of Leicester is seeking to harness a force of nature only measured accurately a decade ago - to help develop the technology of tomorrow. Their work will have applications in what ...

15 Nov 2007

Microfluidic Device Shows How Bacteria Self Arrange in Protective Biofilms

Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming anti...

14 Nov 2007

Worldwide Nanotech Art Competition Launched

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will...

12 Nov 2007

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy One Hundred Times Faster With New Technique

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) - which can image individual atoms on a surface...

9 Nov 2007

Off the Shelf Camera and High Tech Custom Equipment Team Up to Produce Images of Proton Radiactive Decay

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about h...

9 Nov 2007