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FLASH Opens View Through Water Window

The free-electron laser FLASH (Free-Electron Laser in Hamburg) has set a new record: this weekend, the FLASH accelerator team operated the FEL with an electron energy of 1.25 Giga electronvolts, thus reaching a wavelengt...

29 Sep 2010

New Technique Allows 3-D Visualization Of Quantum Property

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that maps the magnetic vector potential — one of the most important electromagnetic quantities an...

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 28 Sep 2010

Malvern Particle Size Analyzer Being Used to Study Transport of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Environments

Researchers in the new environmental nanoscience laboratory at Baylor University’s Department of Geology (Texas, USA) hail the Zetasizer Nano from Malvern Panalytical as an indispensable laboratory instrument. Run by Dr. Boris Lau, the new laboratory addresses cutting edge research focusing on the fate and transport of nanomaterials in an aquatic environment.

From Malvern Panalytical 28 Sep 2010

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Ships Ionfab500 to Key Customer in Asia.

Leaders in etch, deposition and growth systems and processes, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, will shortly be shipping an Ionfab500 ion beam system to a key customer in Asia. Designed for ultra high quality optic...

28 Sep 2010

Hosokawa Micron Launches New Alpine Air Jet Sieve

Hosokawa Micron Ltd announce the launch of a new Alpine Air jet Sieve e200 LS, this new version of an established industry standard, for particle quality control by dry sieving, now features additional functions includin...

27 Sep 2010

Breakthrough Enables Ability to Actually Record, Study and Visualize Magnetism of Individual Atoms at Staggering Speeds

Today IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique in the peer-reviewed journal Science that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the ability to record, study and "visualize" extremely fast phenomena inside these atoms.

24 Sep 2010

Nanotechnology Institute Researchers Develop New Portable MicroKit System

A portable MicroKit system developed by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, enables mass health screenings to be conducted at strategic locations such as airports, immigration checkpoints and train stations.

24 Sep 2010

Laser Spectroscopy Exposes Unique Organization of Water Molecules under Model Membrane Surfaces

The behavior of water molecules as they contact biological substances has long puzzled scientists. The first few layers of interfacial water can display complex arrangements that distinctly influence biochemical reactivi...

23 Sep 2010

TUM Researchers Develop New Nano-Tomography Method

A novel nano-tomography method developed by a team of researchers from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the Paul Scherrer Institute and the ETH-Zurich opens the door to computed tomography examinations of minute structures at nanometer resolutions.

23 Sep 2010

Berkeley Lab Scientists Reveal Path to Protein Crystallization

By assembling a crystalline envelope around a cell, surface-layer (S-layer) proteins serve as the first point of contact between bacteria, extremophiles and other types of microbes and their environment.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Sep 2010