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Japanese-German Nanotechnology Business Forum a Huge Success

With over 300 participants from Japan, the Japanese-German Micro/Nano Business Forum at the Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS on July 30 in Tokyo was a huge success.

6 Aug 2008

Harvard and Oxford Nanopore Announces Agreement to Progress Nanopore Science

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd today announced an agreement to progress nanopore science by integrating Harvard discoveries with technology in development a...

From Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd 6 Aug 2008

New KITA-Spectroscopy Allows Real-Time Observation How Proteins and Water Interact

For the first time, chemists of Prof. Martina Havenith's and Prof. Martin Gruebele's group have "picturised" the spectacle of protein folding in water by THz spectroscopy. Recently, new developed KITA-spectroscopy (Kinetic Terahertz Absorption Spectroscopy) was applied to protein folding with a resolution of one picture per millisecond and combined with other biophysical methods, such as X-ray diffraction (SAXS), fluorescence and CD spectroscopy.

5 Aug 2008

Scientists from Europe and Canada are Studying Tiny Gold Nanoparticles

Scientists from Germany, Canada and the Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms.

5 Aug 2008

UK NanoFinance Event to Address Current Business Climate in Nanotechnology Market

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), the UK’s primary knowledge-based network for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has announced that the first UK NanoFinance event will take place on Thursday 25th S...

5 Aug 2008

Zetasizer Nano from Malvern an Essential Tool for Optimising Water Treatment

The Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Panalytical has become an essential tool at a water treatment production facility in the US.

From Malvern Panalytical 5 Aug 2008

New Research into How Interactions Between Oil and Water Work

When oil and water are poured together they meet each other head-on to form a strong and rigid boundary between each other, says new research into how interactions between oil and water work, out this week in Physical Re...

5 Aug 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Improve Performance of Solar Cell

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Scientists Developed Process for Cleaning a Transmission Electron Microscope

A process for cleaning a transmission electron microscope without disassembling has been developed. Contaminants in the electron microscope are removed, and 100% performance is demonstrated. The accuracy and reliability of analyzing organic and polymeric materials at the nanometer level are improved.

5 Aug 2008

2008 Simon Memorial Prize Awarded to Key Members of NEC's Nano Electronics Research Lab

NEC Corporation announced today that Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai, key members of NEC's Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, have been jointly awarded with the 2008 Simon Memorial Prize for their contributi...

5 Aug 2008

Study Answers Key Questions About Role of Particle Shape and Size in Nanomedicine

A team of researchers led by Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Stephanie Gratton, a graduate student in DeSimone's lab, have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.

5 Aug 2008

Eliminating Metal Nanoparticles Result in a More Corrosion-Resistant Alloy

Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor. Oxide scales...

5 Aug 2008

UC Santa Barbara Professors to Lead Open Forum on Green Nanotechnology

UC Santa Barbara's Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) invite the community to attend a casual public forum called "Nano-Meeter" to discuss the use and...

5 Aug 2008

ORION PLUS from Carl Zeiss Redefines What's Possible in High End Microscopy

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 meeting and exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT, a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment, introduced a new, improved Helium Ion Microscope called the ORION® PLUS.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Offering Additional Argon Ion Beam Column to NVison 40

To enable the production of highly polished TEM lamellas Carl Zeiss SMT now offers an additional Argon ion beam column to its successful NVison 40 CrossBeam workstation.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Aug 2008