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Copying Cellular Construction in Nature to Make Complex Nanostructures

Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be use...

7 Mar 2008

Nanoscopic Materials with Fissures That can be Opened and Closed Useful for Nanoelectronics and Nano Sized Machines

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close - on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises&rdqu...

7 Mar 2008

Nanoscopic Rings Have the Potential to Form into Nanocomposite Materials

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Micha...

7 Mar 2008

Call for Papers Issued for nanoTX USA '08 Conference and Expo

Call for Papers, Abstracts for nanoTX USA '08, due April 30, 2008. Presentations should contain current results from investigations, new theories and planned investigations, and be 20 minutes in length including Q&am...

6 Mar 2008

High Performance, Lower Cost Raman Microscope Launched by HORIBA

Horiba Scientific the world leaders in Raman spectroscopy have introduced a new high performance, lower cost Raman microscope. The XploRA is a new concept in Raman microscopy bringing Raman chemical identification directly to your microscope.

From HORIBA 6 Mar 2008

Locking Computer Chips to Prevent Forgeries

Hardware piracy, or making knock-off microchips based on stolen blueprints, is a burgeoning problem in the electronics industry. Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comp...

6 Mar 2008

Quantum Computers Set to Render Current Computing Standards Like Security Encryption Obsolete

An unusual observation in a University of Central Florida physics lab may lead to a new generation of “Quantum Computers” that will render today’s computer and credit card encryption technology obsolete...

6 Mar 2008

Virus Image Captured at Highest Resolution Ever

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

6 Mar 2008

World's Largest Solar Conference Is Coming to America

Solar Promotion International GmbH, Freiburg Management und Marketing International GmbH (FMMI) and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) announce the debut of the Intersolar North America exhibition...

6 Mar 2008

Nano-Proprietary Enter Settlement Agreement in Litigation Case

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement in connection with its litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The agreement covers all defendan...

6 Mar 2008

Silicon Spintronics Research Wins Professor NSF Career Award

Ian Appelbaum, University of Delaware assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his research on spintronics.

5 Mar 2008

Microelectronics Improvements Lead to 2007 Jean-Pierre Noblanc Award for Excellence

Two projects – ONOM@TOPIC and SilOnIS – shared the 2007 Jean-Pierre Noblanc Award for Excellence for the most innovative and sustainable project in the EUREKA MEDEA+ microelectronics Cluster. ONOM@TOPIC+ deve...

5 Mar 2008

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Partners With Stanford University in Academic Excellence Alliance Program

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Stanford University today announced their partnership in the Academic Excellence Alliance (AEA), designed to establish joint research, collaborate in the des...

5 Mar 2008

SUSS Microtec Launch Toolset for Mask Aligners

SUSS MicroTec has launched an advanced nanotechnology toolset for its Mask Aligners. The new Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) tool enables SUSS Aligners to print resist thicknesses from less than 100 nanometers to a few hundred microns with a printing resolution down to a few nanometers.

5 Mar 2008

New Method for Detecting Weaknesses in Structures Down to the Nanoscale

A patent has been awarded to Southeastern Louisiana University through one of its faculty that holds the potential to identify weaknesses in structures ranging from massive bridge construction to the tiniest elements of ...

5 Mar 2008