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Heavier Atoms Vibrate at Lower Frequencies and Reduce Friction at the Nanoscale

A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at th...

2 Nov 2007

NIH Recognizes Clemson Nanotechnology for Molecule Tracking

The National Institutes of Health has awarded two Clemson chemistry faculty nearly $1 million to detect, track and image the interior of cells. Jason McNeill and Ken Christensen will receive the $960,000 grant to develop...

1 Nov 2007

New Magnet Design to Revolutionise Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Research

Engineers at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor resea...

1 Nov 2007

Self Selection and Evolution in the Nano World

The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions whi...

31 Oct 2007

Cell Tractor Beam Could Be Used to Manipulate Tiny Things on Chips

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other ob...

31 Oct 2007

Helium Ion Microscope from Carl Zeiss Wins Wall Street Journal 'Technology Innovations Award'

Dr. Nicholas P. Economou and Bill Ward from Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts, recently received the Wall Street Journal “Technology Innovation Award” 2007. The award was presented in the category ...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Oct 2007

Piezo Step Linear Motors for Ultra-High Precision Applications New Brochure Released by PI

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

29 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology Inspired by Eyes of Moths and Wings of Cicadas to Lead to Anti-Reflective and Water Repellant Coatings and Better Solar Cells

Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. Peng Jiang, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, is drawing i...

29 Oct 2007

Fabrication Method Demonstrated for Making INdustrial Grade Nanowire Devices

In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires - tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms - have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics. But befo...

29 Oct 2007

Process of How Buckyballs Form Captured in Video Simulation

The birth secret of buckyballs - hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA - has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and compute...

29 Oct 2007