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Visualizing Individual Gold Nanoclusters on Iron Oxide Surfaces

For most of us, gold is only valuable if we possess it in large-sized pieces. However, the "bigger is better" rule isn't the case for those interested in exploiting gold's exceptional ability to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions, including the oxidation of poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) into harmless carbon dioxide at room temperatures.

6 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology and Industry Set to Meet at Top Industry Event

With more than 60 specialist presentations and a comprehensive exhibition, MiNaT will attract specialist visitors from many areas of industry from 7th to 9th October. The trade fair for precision engineering, ultra preci...

5 Sep 2008

Bilayer Clusters of Atoms Less Than a Nanometer in Dimension Found to be Responsible for Vital Oxidation Reaction

Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses - money, medals, jewelry and more - gold's potential as a catalyst lay hid...

5 Sep 2008

Navy Contract Aims for Real-Time Laboratory-Quality Capabilities in Rugged Battlefield Instrument

Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc. has received a $900,000, 3-year contract from the Department of the Navy to apply its optoacoustic technology to the real-time detection of blood borne pathogens and biological warfare ...

5 Sep 2008

New Microscope Uses Helium Ions to Generate Signals

Just as test pilots push planes to explore their limits, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are probing the newest microscope technology to further improve measurement accuracy at the nanoscale. Better nanoscale measurements are critical for setting standards and improving production in the semiconductor and nanomanufacturing industries.

4 Sep 2008

Spectroscopy, with Amplitude

MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since Nobel Prize-winning physic...

4 Sep 2008

Precise Molecular Ruler Could Play Role in Development of New Drugs

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have won an $800,000 EUREKA award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop MADMAX, a precise molecular ruler for measurin...

4 Sep 2008

FEI's New MLA 600F an Important Step Toward Implementing Automated Mineralogy at Operational Sites

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today released the MLA 600F system, a high-speed automated mineralogy analyzer used in the mining industry to optimize the performance of m...

3 Sep 2008

Researchers Develop Porous Complex That Acts Like Crystalline Molecular Test Tube

Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse into these pores and are sufficiently mobile to react with e...

2 Sep 2008

Leading Manufacturer of Nanoanalytic Instrumentation Launches New Website

JPK Instruments, one of the world's leading manufacturers of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce a completely re-designed web site at www.jpk.com. Th...

2 Sep 2008