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Acquisition Expands Agilent's Growing Portfolio of Particle Analysis Solutions

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it has acquired Particle Sizing Systems, a privately held company that designs and manufactures instruments that measure the particle size and stability in materials ranging from...

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 9 Jul 2008

Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market will Produce 26 Gigawatts by 2015

According to NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) market will produce the equivalent of 26 gigawatts (GW) by 2015 and will generate well over $20 billion in revenues...

8 Jul 2008

Sensor Will Be Useful in Airports and Other High-Risk Areas

Chemical and Environmental Engineering Professor Yushan Yan is part of a multidisciplinary team working to develop an "electronic nose" - an ultra-sensitive sensor system that is designed to quickly detect trace quantities of explosives in high-traffic high-risk security areas, such as airports.

8 Jul 2008

Amorphous Materials Deform and Flow Through Collective Movement of Their Particles

Scientists at CNRS-affiliated laboratories(1) in Bordeaux, Lyon and Paris have provided the first proof that amorphous materials, also known as soft glasses, deform and flow through a collective movement of their particles.

8 Jul 2008

Nanoparticle Carrying Payload of Chemotherapy Homes in on Metastasis

A new treatment strategy using molecular "smart bombs" to target metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to sur...

8 Jul 2008

Mapping Electrical Properties with Nanoscopic Detail

A new way to help technologists develop efficient and inexpensive plastic electronic devices, such as plastic solar cells and a new type of transistor was showcased by physicist Andrea Liscio, who is supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the EUROCORES programme SONS 2 (Self-Organised NanoStructures), at the EMRS (European Material Research Society) Spring Meeting held in Strasbourg, France at the end of May.

8 Jul 2008

New Range of SEMs from FEI Offer Sub-Nanometer Resolution

With its announcement today of the Magellan Family, FEI Company introduced a new class of instruments called extreme high-resolution scanning electron microscopes (XHR SEMs). The Magellan XHR SEM allows scientists and engineers to quickly see things they could not see before, such as 3D surface images at many different angles and at resolutions below one nanometer.

8 Jul 2008