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Trends in Nanotechnology 2013 Begins in Seville on September 9th - Last Few Days to Register

Seville (Spain) will host the 14th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT 2013) from the 9th until the 13th of September 2013. Currently, 42 keynote speakers from all over the world are ...

3 Sep 2013

Three New Research Papers Published by Users of Anasys nanoIR

Anasys Instruments reports on three user groups who have published peer reviewed papers where nanoIR is being applied to look at characterization challenges in semiconductors, polymers and healthcare.

13 Aug 2013

Mini Mona Lisa Created Using AFM and ThermoChemical NanoLithography

The world’s most famous painting has now been created on the world’s smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have “painted” the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width of a human hair.

6 Aug 2013

NIST Use Anasys Nanoscale AFM-IR Imaging to Characterize Plasmonics

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how to make nanoscale measurements of critical properties of plasmonic nanomaterials.

23 Jul 2013

Researchers from Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier Use JPK AFMs to Characterize Living Bacteria

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how researchers from the Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier have used the new QI mode of AFM imaging to quantitatively characterize living bacteria without any immobilization.

From Bruker BioAFM 16 Jul 2013

Researchers Successfully Create Perfect One-Dimensional Molecular Wires

Researchers of MESA+, the research institute for nanotechnology of the University of Twente, in cooperation with researchers of the University of Strasbourg and Eindhoven University of Technology, are the first to successfully create perfect one-dimensional molecular wires of which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field at room temperature.

5 Jul 2013

Novel Technique to Coat Glass with Antibacterial Silver Ions

The antibacterial effects of silver are well established. Now, researchers at Yonsei University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, have developed a technique to coat glass with a layer of silver ions that can prevent growth of pathogenic bacteria including Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and Campylobacter jejuni.

28 Jun 2013

Scientists Use AFM Microscope to Take Atomic-Scale Picture of Chemical Bonds

Every chemist’s dream – to snap an atomic-scale picture of a chemical before and after it reacts – has now come true, thanks to a new technique developed by chemists and physicists at the University of California, Berkeley.

3 Jun 2013

Researchers Engineer Graphene Nanostructures from Bottom up

When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled approach to chemical reactions, the first result was a surprise: spectacular images of individual carbon atoms and the bonds between them.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 31 May 2013

PeakForce QNM may help Address Growing Medical Concerns Around Nanotoxicology

Professor Dr M. N. V. Ravi Kumar and Dr Dimitrios Lamprou, of the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, believe an advanced form of atomic force microscopy, known as PeakForce QNM, could boost developments in the field of nanomedicines, the encapsulation of potent drugs in tiny particles measuring billionths of a meter in diameter. They described how this detailed imaging approach may also help scientists address growing concerns in the medical world around "nanotoxicology", the build-up of microscopic particles in people's tissues.

30 May 2013