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Scientists Fabricate Ultra-Thin Membranes

Researchers at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the University of Manchester have created the thinnest membranes possible: They consist of only a single layer of carbon atoms, called ...

14 Mar 2007

Johns Hopkins Researchers Create Tiny Analyzer to Study Depletions of Plasma in the Ionosphere

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., in conjunction with scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force Academy, have developed a tiny a...

14 Mar 2007

Gold Nanorods Self-Assemble into Rings

Rod-shaped nanocrystals normally arrange themselves parallel to each other. Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas now report in the journal Angewandte Chemie completely unexpected behavior of nano-objects: the...

14 Mar 2007

Veeco's BioScope II AFM Aids Cell Biology Researchers at University of Pennsylvania

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, today announced that its new BioScope(TM) II Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is aiding in advanced biophysics research at the Univ...

13 Mar 2007

Virginia Tech Researcher Aims to Develop Imaging with Resolution of One Nanometer

Producing optical images at resolutions as low as one nanometer is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Yong Xu, who has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Developmen...

12 Mar 2007

Cambridge Scientists Produce Live Video Showing How Carbon Nanotubes Form

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

FEI Demonstrates Table-Top Scanning Electron Microscope for Advancing Science Education

FEI demonstrated the world's first tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) designed specifically for education on Capitol Hill last week. The Phenom-Ed provides magnification up to 20,000x -- far beyond the range...

6 Mar 2007

New Super-Thin Technology

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs. Physicists at The Univers...

6 Mar 2007

Nanostripes and Superconductivity Gridlock

Superconductivity -- the conduction of electricity with zero resistance -- sometimes can, it seems, become stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." A possible explanation why is offered by new research a...

6 Mar 2007