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Hiden Analytical Award Winning Mass Spectrometer Technology Provides Highly Detailed Information on Reaction and Catalytic Chemistry

Hiden Analytical share in a prestigious R+D 100 Award for 2008 for successful development of the Spatially Resolved Capillary Inlet Mass Spectrometer technology.

From Hiden Analytical 30 Jul 2008

NIRS Puts a Stop to Global Counterfeit Drug Sales from Reaching $75 Billion by 2010

The counterfeiting of medicines has been known of since around 1990 and is a growing problem—in both developing and developed countries. Counterfeit medicines are estimated as more than 10% of the global medicines ...

30 Jul 2008

Scientists Created 3-D Images of Nanofoam to Determine its Strength and Potential Applications

Researchers have created a 3D image of a material referred to as "liquid smoke." Aerogel, also known as liquid smoke or "San Francisco fog," is an open-cell polymer with pores smaller than 50 nanometers in diameter.

30 Jul 2008

ICMS Selects FEI Company to Develop Unique Imaging Facility

India’s International Centre for Material Science (ICMS) in Bangalore has selected FEI Company and its Mumbai-based agent, Icon Analytical Equipment Private Limited, to develop a unique imaging facility. It will be...

30 Jul 2008

Nanoscale Mass Sensor Can be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules

There's a new "gold standard" in the sensitivity of weighing scales. Using the same technology with which they created the world's first fully functional nanotube radio, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley have fashioned a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold.

29 Jul 2008

Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping Together

In a conventional sewage works, nanoparticles should really be bound in the sludge and should not represent a major problem in the aqueous effluent. This is not true, however, as shown by a new study of the ceramic model material cerium dioxide. An astonishing amount was able to leave an experimental sewage works and thus could possibly enter bodies of water.

28 Jul 2008

Measuring Atomic Spacings Down to a Few Picometres

Julich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters determining the physical properties of materials directly on an atomic level in a microscope. Knut Urban from Forschungszentrum Julich, a member of the Helmholtz Association, reports on this in the latest issue (25 July) of the scientific high-impact journal Science.

25 Jul 2008

Sandia National Lab to Demonstrate New Hyperspectral Confocal Fluorescence Microscope

Sandia National Laboratories will demonstrate a new hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscope Friday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. MDT in Bldg. 897 on Kirtland Air Force Base. This patent-protected and patent-pending t...

From Sandia National Laboratories 23 Jul 2008

New Near-Infrared Imaging Camera Ideal for Spectroscopy and Infrared Analysis

Electrophysics has introduced a new near-infrared imaging camera for use with spectroscopy, laser beam profiling and infrared analysis in the wavelength range from visible to 2 microns. The new MicronViewer 7292M is extr...

22 Jul 2008

First STM Spectroscopy of Graphene Flakes Yields New Surprises

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of graphene flakes equipped with a "gate" electrode.

22 Jul 2008