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CNSE, SEFCU and SUNY Issue Final Call for 2013 New York Business Plan Competition

Supporting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s leadership in expanding educational opportunities that enhance New York’s innovation-enabled economy, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), together with Title Sponsors SEFCU and the State University of New York (SUNY), today issued a final call for students to compete in the 2013 New York Business Plan Competition, which features a major statewide expansion and $500,000 in total prizes, with the final round of competition to be held on April 26 at CNSE.

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 6 Mar 2013

EPFL Researchers Study Drug-Resistant Bacteria with Anasys AFM-IR system

Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland are measuring the mechanical properties of proteins, cells and tissues. To date, AFM has been the main tool but is now complemented with the arrival of a nanoIR™ AFM-IR system from Anasys.

5 Mar 2013

A Revolution in Observation at the Nanoscopic Scale

Attolight, EPFL’s spin-off, is looking towards the rising sun. While a Singapore based research institute has placed its first order, other sales are being approved in China and a contract with a Japanese distributor is under negotiation. Samuel Sonderreger is the CEO of this young company created in 2008, and he reveals to us the secrets of his entry into the Asian market.

5 Mar 2013

IU Nanoscience Researcher Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Indiana University Bloomington chemists Erin Carlson and Sara Skrabalak have been named Sloan Research Fellows, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced. They are among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers to receive the fellowships for 2013.

5 Mar 2013

NanoSight Launch New NS300 Platform For Fluorescence and Rheology Applications

The NS300 utilizes the latest version of NanoSight's particle characterization technology, Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA). This elegant new instrument offers all the unique benefits scientists have come to expect from NanoSight in an easy to use and compact format.

5 Mar 2013

Researchers Employ SANS to Study Effects of Ions Moving into Nanoscale Pores

The adsorption of ions in microporous materials governs the operation of technologies as diverse as water desalination, energy storage, sensing and mechanical actuation.

28 Feb 2013

Leti and Menapic Announce Project to Develop Picosecond Acoustic Analysis of Nanomaterials

CEA-Leti and Menapic, a French startup that enables physical characterization of thin films, today announced a joint-development program (JDP) to apply colored picosecond acoustics to materials analysis. Menapic&rsquo...

From CEA-Leti 27 Feb 2013

University of Nottingham Researchers Study Nanotubes and Nanofibrils with JPK AFM and Tip Assisted Optics Module

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the research studies of Dr Ioan Notingher, associate professor in the faculty of science at the University of Nottingham. With a research interest in the development of new optical and spectroscopic methods for studying biomaterials, he is applying JPK's atomic force microscope (AFM) system, the NanoWizard®, and tip assisted optics module (TAO).

From Bruker BioAFM 27 Feb 2013

Velcro-Like Nanoscale Technology Helps Isolate Single Cancer Cells

Researchers at UCLA report that they have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements to their device, which uses a Velcro-like nanoscale technology, they can now detect and isolate single cancer cells from patient blood samples for analysis.

From University of California, Los Angeles 26 Feb 2013

Researchers Discover Mechanism by Which Single Molecules Grow Into Microtubes

A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, unexpectedly found the mechanism by which tiny single molecules spontaneously grow into centimeter-long microtubes by leaving a dish for a different experiment in the refrigerator.

25 Feb 2013