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US School Receives SEM Gift from FEI

Blast off for inner space. Philadelphia’s Central High became the first high school in the nation to open deep inner space exploration to students with the arrival of a new Phenom™ table top scanning electron...

20 Nov 2007

Hydrogen Experiment Reveals Transition Between Quantum and Microscopic Worlds with Implications for Quantum Computing

An international investigation involving the participation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has reproduced the experiment of Thomas Young in a molecule of hydrogen, the smallest molecula...

16 Nov 2007

FEI Supply World's Most Powerful S/TEM to Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan™ scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world’s most powerful c...

16 Nov 2007

Microfluidic Device Shows How Bacteria Self Arrange in Protective Biofilms

Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming anti...

14 Nov 2007

Novel Uranium Based Hydrocarbon Molecule Created

Chemists at the University of Virginia have prepared the first uranium methylidyne molecule ever reported, despite the reactivity of uranium atoms with other molecules. This new molecule is a hydrocarbon containing a ura...

14 Nov 2007

Synchrotron Used to Examine Secrets of Babies Amniotic Sac

Researchers at the University of Reading, School of Pharmacy have developed an important new technique to study one of the most common causes of premature birth and prenatal mortality. The findings are published in the N...

8 Nov 2007

Nanoanalysis Project for Next Generation Seminconductor Chip Development Opened

The companies AMD, Carl Zeiss SMT and Qimonda are launching a cooperation within the framework of the joint “Nanoanalysis“ project which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMB...

7 Nov 2007

New High Speed Piezo-Z Objective Steppers from Physik Instrumente

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. -- the inventor of high-speed Piezo-Z objective steppers--introduces the new P-737 PIFOC® Piezo-Z Stage, the highest performance nanopositioning Z control system on the market. $$IMAG...

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 7 Nov 2007

How Big Does a Cluster of Metal Atoms Actually Have to be Before it Starts Acting Like a Metal

How big does a cluster of metal atoms actually have to be before it starts acting like a metal: ductile, malleable and a conductor? The emergence of metallic attributes, usually referred to as the transition to metal...

5 Nov 2007

Low Cost, Precision Microtools for Life Sciences and MEMs Applications

Teneo Micro Instruments LLC, an IP2Biz company, announced the launch of the Teneo TM70xx line of mechanically actuated microtools. The tool set, created by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, offers a div...

5 Nov 2007