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Nanotech Researchers Discover Cancer Cells "Feel" Much Softer Than Normal Cells

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples by utilizing a modified form of atomic...

17 Jan 2008

Nanotech Coating Company Collaborates on Advanced Composites, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocoatings

nCoat, Inc. today announced that North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in Greensboro, North Carolina, and nCoat, Inc. have established a technical collaboration agreement for characteriz...

16 Jan 2008

PANalytical Open Refurbished Offices in The Netherlands

PANalytical's newly refurbished offices were opened by Dr. Hugo Rietveld, a pioneer in the field of diffraction analysis.

15 Jan 2008

Gene Detection Platform Made From Self Assembled DNA Nanostructures

Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results could have broad implications for gene chip technology and may also revolutionize the way in which gene expression is analyzed in a single cell.

11 Jan 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Created for use as Reference Standards in Biomedical Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community — literally “gold standards” for labs studying the biological effects of nanoparticles.

10 Jan 2008

The Future of Nanoelectronics May Lie in Clusters of Silver Nanoparticles

Nanoscopic “lumps” of atoms, known as clusters, are the specialty of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The production and characteri...

10 Jan 2008

Increased Efficiency in Solar Energy Generation with Nanostructured Thin Films

In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit nanostructures--materials engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Usi...

9 Jan 2008

Flexure-Based Piezo Actuators for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Applications

Piezo specialist PI’s flexure-based piezo actuators such as the P-601 series provide up to 10 times larger travel ranges than classical piezo stack actuators a in low profile package, with virtually unlimited resol...

8 Jan 2008

Swiss Biology Researchers Select Veeco Bioscope Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced today that the M.E. Muller Institute for Structural Biology (MSB) at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland, has selecte...

4 Jan 2008

Spin Excitations May Explain What Binds Electrons During High Temperature Superconductivity

A team of Boston College researchers led by Asst. Prof. Vidya Madhavan (Physics) has identified an alternative explanation for the microscopic origins of the “glue” that binds electrons during high-temperatur...

21 Dec 2007