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Bio-Inspired Aerodynamic Designs for Nano-Scale Vehicles

Ever since the Wright brothers, engineers have been working to develop bigger and better flying machines that maximize lift while minimizing drag.

15 Dec 2012

Wells Fargo Refinances $54 Million for Valley Christian Schools for Nanotech Research

Wells Fargo & Company said it has refinanced $54 million for Valley Christian Schools – known for its Microlab experiments aboard the International Space Station – and providing capital funds enhancing the San Jose educational institution’s continued growth.

11 Dec 2012

Researchers CT-Scan Ceramic Composites under Controlled Loads at Ultrahigh Temperatures

Advanced ceramic composites can withstand the ultrahigh operational temperatures projected for hypersonic jet and next generation gas turbine engines, but real-time analysis of the mechanical properties of these space-age materials at ultrahigh temperatures has been a challenge – until now.

11 Dec 2012

FDA Clears Nanosphere’s C.difficile Test

Nanosphere, Inc., a leader in the development and commercialization of advanced molecular diagnostics systems, announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 510(k) clearance permitting marketing of its C.difficile test on the automated sample-to-result Verigene® System.

11 Dec 2012

New Data on Proton Interior Spatial Structure

Physicists from NCBJ in Œwierk and École Polytechnique (EP) in Paris have theoretically analysed some specific case of electron-proton collisions to help to design an experiment that could deliver new data on proton interior spatial structure.

11 Dec 2012

New Microscopy Tool to Explore Solar-to-Electric Energy Conversion

If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for examining those objects. Information about nanoscale chemistry and interactions with light—the atomic-microscopy equivalent to color—is tantalizingly out of reach to all but the most persistent researchers.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 7 Dec 2012

Ferrotec Temescal’s Novel Deposition Process Improves Uniformity in Wafer-Coating Applications

The Temescal Division of Ferrotec Corporation, a global supplier of materials, components, and precision system solutions and the leading manufacturer of electron beam evaporative coating systems, today announced a major process breakthrough in electron beam metallization for lift-off compound semiconductor applications.

6 Dec 2012

Organic Metamaterial Demonstrates Mechanical Meta-Properties

A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape.

5 Dec 2012

NASA Funds Project to Develop High-Powered Microscope for Astrobiology Research

Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? That’s the type of broad but poignant question NASA likes to ask, according to Chandran Sabanayagam, associate scientist in the Bioimaging Center at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI). And he would know, because he’s preparing to help answer it.

4 Dec 2012

Bruker Reports Over $7 Million in Orders for SP9900+ High-Throughput HDI Substrate Metrology System

Bruker announced today that it has already received more than $7 million in orders for its new Bruker SP9900+ high-throughput high density interconnect (HDI) substrate metrology system, and has begun shipping the product in volume.

From Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology 4 Dec 2012