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Supplier Profile

Gearing Scientific was formed in 1995 to specialize in certain areas of polymer and other materials analysis, based on 25 years experience of selling and supporting polymer analysis apparatus...

PI (Physik Instrumente) LP

Supplier Profile

PI is a privately held company that designs and manufactures world-class precision motion and automation systems including air bearings, hexapods, and piezo drives at locations in North America,...

Construction of World's Smallest Controllable Gear Sets the Stage for New Nanoscale Mechanical Devices

News - 4 Nov 2009

Picture the ultimate in miniaturization-functional machines built out of individual molecules, mere atoms in size. In a breakthrough development, researchers led by Christian Joachim from the A*STAR...

Rice Gears Up for Second International Nanocar Race with New Single-Molecule Racecars

News - 27 Oct 2020

Nanomechanics at Rice University and the University of Houston are getting ready to rev their engines for the second international Nanocar Race. While they'll have to pump the brakes for a bit...

Contactless Magnetic Gears Have Potential Applications in Nanotechnology, Microfluidics

News - 18 Feb 2016

The new milk frother you are using to prepare your cappuccino is likely using magnetic gears. Magnetic gears transmit rotary motion like mechanical gears but instead of teeth they use magnetic...

Nanoscale Gears Generate Large Forces Inside Cells

News - 18 Jan 2013

To live is to move. You strike to swat that irritable mosquito, which skilfully evades the hand of death. How did that happen? Who moved your hand, and what saved the mosquito? Enter the Molecular...

Spectroscopy Can Act as Super-Sensitive Spy Gear

News - 12 Jan 2011

Whether the object of attention is a novel aspect of the universe or an enigmatic and distant colleague, listening is key to nearly any effort to seek understanding. And not just with your ears....

ELI Gears Up for Laser Beam Infrastructure Launch

News - 5 Nov 2009

Can an intense laser rip photons into electron-positron pairs? Seeking to shed light on this burning question is the ELI ('Extreme light infrastructure') project, which received EUR 6 million...

Nanotechnology-Based Lubricant Significantly Decreases Damaging Wear Pits on Gear Teeth

News - 23 Apr 2009

ApNano Materials, Inc., a cleantech company and provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced that new test conducted at the FZG Gear Research Centre of the Technical University of...

Nanotechnology Swimsuits Gear Up to Become the Biggest Revolution in Swimwear Since the Bikini

News - 22 Feb 2009

A long awaited advancement in swimwear, Sun Dry Technologies, a division of Solestrom International, has launched a line of swimwear that dries itself instantly. Sun Dry Swim™ features quick dry...