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Optimal Control of Quantum Rings by Terahertz Laser Pulses

The research team from the Physics of Materials group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the UPV/EHU Mixed Centre Physics of Materials group and the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), led ...

8 May 2007

Veeco and Leica Integrate AFM and Microscope to Create BioScope II AFM

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, a leading designer and manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have finalized a product...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 7 May 2007

NaturalNano and Cascade Engineering to Jointly Develop Nanocomposite Additive

NaturalNano, Inc., an innovative materials science company, today announced that it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Cascade Engineering, a leading developer and manufacturer of innovative plasti...

7 May 2007

Alberta Attempts to Gain Some of the Nanotech Market Share

Edmonton... Investing in 'the science of small' will help generate huge returns for Albertans, said Premier Ed Stelmach, unveiling the province's strategy to capture a $20-billion market share of the world&#3...

7 May 2007

Platinum Nanocrystals Provide Increase Catalytic Activity

A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity per unit area ...

5 May 2007

NEC, JST and RIKEN Demonstrate World's First Quantum Bit, Qubit, Circuit

NEC Corporation, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) have together successfully demonstrated the world's first quantum bit (qubit) circuit that can co...

5 May 2007

Nano-Proprietary Receive No Additional Compensation in Canon Litigation

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. announced that the jury has reached a verdict in its litigation against Canon, Inc. In its verdict, the jury decided that Nano-Proprietary was due no additional damages beyond those already receive...

4 May 2007

IBM Use Air Gaps to Provide Insulating Vacuums Around Nano-Scale Wires

Taking a cue from seashells, IBM is using a pattern-creating process found in nature to manufacture its latest computer chips. The company has adapted the process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth to ...

4 May 2007

NIST Nanoscale Science and Technology Accepting Research Proposals

University, industry, government and other researchers who need access to state-of-the-art and beyond-state-of-the-art facilities to study a wide range of nanotechnology topics now have a new resource. The Commerce Depar...

4 May 2007

pHILIP, A New Way to Target and Treat Tumors

Research teams at Yale University and the University of Rhode Island have demonstrated a new way to target and potentially treat tumors using a short piece of protein that acts like a nanosyringe to deliver “tags&r...

4 May 2007

University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Establishes New Endowment

Fifty years after becoming the youngest male graduate at the University at Albany, Dr. Clinton Ray Carpenter made history again today as the first alumnus to establish an endowment to support UAlbany's College of Nan...

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 3 May 2007

Nanostructured Catalyst Splits Water Using Sunlight

Cheap source of energy Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatlytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructu...

3 May 2007

Electrodes on a Chip Simultaneously Monitor Thousands of Molecules

It's electric A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis is making molecules the new-fashioned way - selectively harnessing thousands of minuscule electrodes on a tiny computer chip that do chemical reactions...

3 May 2007

Breakthrough Method for Quantum Dot Production May Result in Cheaper Solar Cells

Rice University scientists today revealed a breakthrough method for producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way for better, cheaper solar energy panels. The r...

3 May 2007

Multinozzle Nanoelectrospray Emitter Array to Accelerate Proteomics Research

In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the proteins that genes encode....

3 May 2007