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Molecular Imprints Secures $8.5M in Additional Funding

Molecular Imprints has announced it has secured $8.5 million in venture debt financing from BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P. This furthers MII’s commitment to deliver its proprietary Step-and-Flash Imprint Lithograp...

4 Apr 2007

Liquid-State-Field-Effect Transistors Promise Improvements for "Lab on a Chip" Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today's - and tomorrow's - sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control microdrops of liquid on a surface. This effect, called elect...

4 Apr 2007

Cooling Carbon Nanotubes

As the electronics industry continues to churn out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New research published ...

2 Apr 2007

Bubble Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Nanobubbles

Using a microscope and some extreme 'snapshot' photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have u...

2 Apr 2007

Formation of Nanobubbles in Boiling Water Captured Witnessed

Using a microscope and some extreme “snapshot” photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University ha...

2 Apr 2007

Ultra-High Resolution XYZ Piezo-Scanner Reaches 25 Picometer Resolution

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for biotechnology / nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications offers a new ultra-h...

30 Mar 2007

NanoOpto and Sumitomo Metal Mining Ship First Commercial Loads of Telecommunication Products

NanoOpto Corporation, which is applying novel design methods and proprietary nano-fabrication technology to produce a broad range of unique optical components that enable higher quality, low-cost optical components and s...

29 Mar 2007

Never-Before-Seen Configurations of Metal Crystals

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in bios...

29 Mar 2007

Nanomechanical Oscillators Provide New Way to Read Nanoscale Vibrations

Nanomechanical oscillators -- tiny strips of vibrating silicon only a few hundred atoms thick -- are the subject of extensive study by nanotechnology researchers. They could someday replace bulky quartz crystals in elect...

29 Mar 2007

Georgia Tech Produces 3D Polymer Line Structures Using New Two-Photon Absorbing Molecules

Producing three-dimensional polymer line structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths, allowing researchers t...

29 Mar 2007