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Enhanced-Performance Universal Testing Machine that Offers Highly Accurate Nanomechanical Characterization Capabilities

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced an easy-to-use, enhanced-performance universal testing machine (UTM) that offers highly accurate nanomechanical characterization capabilities.

1 Dec 2009

Veeco Introduces MultiMode 8 High-Performance Scanning Probe Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes (AFM/SPMs) to the Research and Industrial communities, announced today the release of the MultiMode® 8 High-Performance Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM), bringing extensive new capabilities to the world's highest resolution, most widely-used and field-proven SPM.

From Veeco 1 Dec 2009

Veeco Introduces Two Patent-Pending AFM Scan Modes

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscope (AFM) instrumentation to the Research and Industrial communities, announced today the introduction of two patent-pending AFM scan mod...

From Veeco 1 Dec 2009

New Research Offers Clues to How Shells Grow in Nature

Single crystals of the mineral calcite -- the chief material in limestone -- are predictable, homogeneous and, well, a little boring. But scientists have long marveled at how biological crystals of calcite grow together with other organic materials to form, for example, shells and sea urchin spines.

30 Nov 2009

Monolithic Laser Combiner System for Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy

Agilent Technologies Inc., (NYSE: A) today introduced its monolithic laser combiner system for confocal and fluorescence microscopy applications. The MLC400 monolithic laser combiner brings Agilent's patented complex...

30 Nov 2009

Micromeritics Announces Instrument Grant to the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas

After careful consideration by a special Grant Selection Committee appointed by the president of the company, Micromeritics' grant award winner for the third quarter of 2009 has been selected. An ASAP 2020 Accelerated Surface Area and Porosimetry System has been awarded to the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX.

From Micromeritics International Sales 30 Nov 2009

Project to Improve NMR for Structural Biology

In structural biology, the only technique available to predict the three dimensional structure of large complex molecules in solution, such as proteins and DNA, is NMR spectroscopy. To catalyze improvements in the techniques behind these predictions, the "eNMR" project has launched a new initiative.

30 Nov 2009

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Signs European XFEL Agreement

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies CEO Anatoly Chubais to sign the European XFEL GmbH shareholder agreement in Hamburg on the 30th November, 2009. Also a convention on the construction and operation of the European ...

27 Nov 2009

Patterned Surfaces Mimicking Nano-Scale Structure of Butterfly Wings Can Produce Impressive Optical Effects

Now, such natural wonders have inspired Hong Yee Low and colleagues at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering of A*STAR, Singapore*, to make polymer structures similar to butterfly wings. Their structures produce optical effects that could prove useful in various electronic devices.

24 Nov 2009

Understanding the Chemical Analysis and Biological Sensing on the Molecular Scale

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences lead by Prof. Yuanhua Shao's group have recently studied the kinetics of several ion transfer (IT) reactions at the water/1,2-dichloroethane (W/DCE) interface by nanopipette voltammetry collaborated with Prof. Hubert H. Girault (EPFL, Switzerland).

24 Nov 2009