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Nanoscale Mass Sensor Can be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules

There's a new "gold standard" in the sensitivity of weighing scales. Using the same technology with which they created the world's first fully functional nanotube radio, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley have fashioned a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) that can function as a scale sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold.

29 Jul 2008

Venture Promotes Development in Nanomaterials for High Performance Engineering Industry

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), the UK’s primary knowledge-based network for Micro and Nanotechnologies, has launched the HiPerNano Sector Focus Group. This new venture will raise awareness...

29 Jul 2008

Program Intended to Provide Better Understanding of What Nanomaterials Being Produced

Six months after launching its voluntary nanotechnology reporting program for nanomaterial producers, EPA has made virtually no information public about the limited number of submissions it has received. As a result, the...

29 Jul 2008

Partnership to Drive Acceleration of Semiconductor Technology Development

SEMATECH, the international consortium of semiconductor manufacturers that conducts and sponsors cooperative research and development of advanced semiconductor technology, and UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry,...

29 Jul 2008

Scaling the Technology Down Further into the Realm of Quantum Physics

Over the past three decades researchers have been competing to reduce the size of basic electronic devices. Intel has been leading the commercial effort with its recent announcement of the 'Atom' processor which incorporates transistors on the scale of tens of nanometres.

29 Jul 2008

PATRIC Focuses on Nanofiber Technology for Biomedical Devices

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) through the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority awarded $1,255,500 to Philadelphia University to establish the Pennsylvania Advanced Text...

29 Jul 2008

Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market Will Reach $12 Billion in 2013

According to NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) market will grow from almost $2.4 billion ($US) in revenues in 2008 to over $12 billion in 2013. By 2015, NanoMarke...

29 Jul 2008

Dynamic Frustration Leads to Better Understanding of Glass in Nature

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are dealing with an entirely new type of frustration, but it's not stressing them out. Dynamic frustration has been found to be the cause o...

29 Jul 2008

New Instrument Combines Traditional Computer-Chip Technology with Microfluidics

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip.

29 Jul 2008

New Fabrication Method for Making Recyclable Nanostructured High Performance Magnets

Until now, producing Samarium Cobalt has been a difficult and expensive multi-step process. Northeastern University researchers have broken new ground with an innovative invention of a rapid, high-volume and cost-effective one-step method for producing pure Samarium Cobalt rare earth (RE) permanent magnet materials

29 Jul 2008

BudgetSensors Introduce AFM Probes with 4 Different Cantilevers on a Single Holder Chip

BudgetSensors, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces the commercial introduction of the “All-In-One AFM Probe&rdquo...

29 Jul 2008

Research and Markets Announces Availability of Introduction to Microfluidics Report

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Introduction to Microfluidics" report to their offering. Microfluidics is a young discipline which enables scientists and engineers to handle fluids i...

28 Jul 2008

Elegant Material Developed by World Leader in Fine Ceramics

Kyocera Corporation is pleased to announce that it has developed a new fine ceramic with a color that closely resembles 18-karat gold. The material has been created by raising the brightness level approximately 5% (approx. 3.6 points) above previous gold ceramic products. It is a beautiful reflection of the materials development and manufacturing technologies that Kyocera has accumulated in its five decades of R+D in fine ceramics.

28 Jul 2008

Bacteria in Sewage Sludge Prevent Certain Nanoparticles Clumping Together

In a conventional sewage works, nanoparticles should really be bound in the sludge and should not represent a major problem in the aqueous effluent. This is not true, however, as shown by a new study of the ceramic model material cerium dioxide. An astonishing amount was able to leave an experimental sewage works and thus could possibly enter bodies of water.

28 Jul 2008

How Nanotechnology is Helping Address Growing Energy Needs

A research team from Purdue University's Discovery Park will travel to India next month to lead a joint India-United States workshop on how advancements in nanotechnology are helping address growing energy needs. ...

28 Jul 2008