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Carl Zeiss SMT Showcases a New Class of SEM at Microscopy Exhibition

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting and Exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT is introducing a new class of SEM: SIGMA. Growing customer demand for ease of use and class leading X-ray and analytical geometry took center stage when the product was developed.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Aug 2008

Carl Zeiss SMT Introduces Major Upgrade to LIBRA 120 EFTEM

At the Microscopy and Microanalysis Meeting and Exhibition being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carl Zeiss SMT is introducing a major upgrade of its LIBRA® 120 Energy Filter Transmission Electron Microscope (EFTEM).

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 5 Aug 2008

World's First All-Integrated Sensor Circuit Based on Nanowire Arrays

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

5 Aug 2008

Speculation That The First Atomic Force Microscope on Mars Has Found Evidence of Life on Mars

Overnight the internet has been awash with speculation that the instruments, including the Atomic Force Microscope from Nanosurf, held in the MECA suite on the Phoenix Mars Lander has found life on Mars

5 Aug 2008

Funding to Increase Production and Enhance Market Penetration of Quantum Dot Lasers

Innolume, the leading provider of quantum dot (QD) laser diodes and modules covering the 1000 nm to 1320 nm optical spectrum, today announced that it secured a Series C round of financing for €8.6 million. The round...

5 Aug 2008

Patent Represents Cornerstone of Midatech's Nanotechnology IP Portfolio and Position

Midatech Group, a world leader in the production and application of synthetically produced nanoparticles, has received a US grant on its proprietary patent application (US09,622253), protecting the Company’s novel ...

5 Aug 2008

Testing Device Generates Great Interest in Nanofiber Industry

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has developed a novel testing device for understanding the tensile properties of single nanofibers. In addition to the ability to test a single nanofiber, the technology allows...

5 Aug 2008

DEBA Textile Plant Using Nansulate EPX to Reduce Energy Consumption

Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology, today announced that the Company’s Turkish Distributor, Kolorgen, Ltd., intends to replace the balance of the order for the Denizli Basma ve B...

4 Aug 2008

FEI and Max Planck Institute Announces Collaboration on Correlative Microscopy Solution

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, a leading biochemical research institution, announced today their collaboration on a correl...

4 Aug 2008

Using Neutrons to Study Materials at the Atomic Level

The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons were detected by the Inter instrument at 1308 BST. ISIS, the world-renowned neutron facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

4 Aug 2008

Key Figures to Discuss Prospects and Priorities for Public Funding of Nanotechnology

Key figures from around the world will gather to discuss the prospects and priorities for public funding of nanotechnology at Nanotech Northern Europe 2008. The global nanotechnology debate will be co-moderated by Busine...

4 Aug 2008

Insight into the Most Fast-Moving and Trail-Blazing Scientific Disciplines of Today

Small Matters: Exploring the World of Microscopy will be officially opened by the University of Sydney's new Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence, on Wednesday, 6 August, 2008. The exhibition will investig...

4 Aug 2008

Researchers Revealed Structures of Uncharged Gold Nano Particles for First Time

If someone is charged up, the colour of their face might change, but they don't immediately pull off one of their arms, only to reattach it as a third leg. With some molecules, however, the situation is quite different - for example, in a gold cluster with seven atoms.

2 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology Making a Valuable Contribution to Solving and Deterring Gun Crimes

Criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future, thanks to an ingenious new bullet tagging technology developed in the UK. The tiny tags – just 30 microns* in diameter and invisible...

2 Aug 2008

Certain Sizes of Nanostructures More Susceptible to Size-Specific Fractures

Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. That is the result of new research by LLNL's Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National Laboratory that appea...

2 Aug 2008

Nanotechnology News

Carl Zeiss SMT Showcases a New Class of SEM at Microscopy Exhibition

Carl Zeiss SMT Introduces Major Upgrade to LIBRA 120 EFTEM

World's First All-Integrated Sensor Circuit Based on Nanowire Arrays

Speculation That The First Atomic Force Microscope on Mars Has Found Evidence of Life on Mars

Funding to Increase Production and Enhance Market Penetration of Quantum Dot Lasers

Patent Represents Cornerstone of Midatech's Nanotechnology IP Portfolio and Position

Testing Device Generates Great Interest in Nanofiber Industry

DEBA Textile Plant Using Nansulate EPX to Reduce Energy Consumption

FEI and Max Planck Institute Announces Collaboration on Correlative Microscopy Solution

Using Neutrons to Study Materials at the Atomic Level

Key Figures to Discuss Prospects and Priorities for Public Funding of Nanotechnology

Insight into the Most Fast-Moving and Trail-Blazing Scientific Disciplines of Today

Researchers Revealed Structures of Uncharged Gold Nano Particles for First Time

Nanotechnology Making a Valuable Contribution to Solving and Deterring Gun Crimes

Certain Sizes of Nanostructures More Susceptible to Size-Specific Fractures

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