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3D Microscopy Allows Accurate Tracking of Microfluidic Devices

Counting and tracking particle movement in 3D is one of today’s biggest imaging challenges. Using powerful 3D analysis and holographic imaging technology, Resolution Optics’ new DIHM series has successfully tackled these challenges

12 Oct 2010

Study on Physical Virology Opens Door for Development of Artificial Nanocontainers

Wouter Roos and Gijs Wuite, respectively FOM researcher and FOM workgroup leader at VU University Amsterdam, discuss recent developments in the area of 'physical virology' in the journal Nature Physics. This n...

12 Oct 2010

New Microscopy Technique Detects Lung Cancer by Identifying Changes in Cheek Cells

Early detection is critical for improving cancer survival rates. Yet, one of the deadliest cancers in the United States, lung cancer, is notoriously difficult to detect in its early stages.

8 Oct 2010

Catalyst and Hydrogen Interaction Helps Growth of Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes -- long, hollow cylinders of carbon billionths of a meter in diameter -- have many potential uses in nanotechnology, optics, electronics, and many other fields. The exact properties of nanotubes depen...

6 Oct 2010

New Microscopy Technique Enables Early Detection of Lung Cancer

Researchers from Northwestern University and NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) have developed a method to detect early signs of lung cancer by examining cheek cells in humans using pioneering biophotonics t...

6 Oct 2010

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Provides Clear Picture of Operating Fuel Cell

Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating the details of an electrochemical device while it's operating is x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

6 Oct 2010

Agar Scientific Announces Availability of 1070 NanoClean System from Fischione Instruments

Agar Scientific, a leading supplier of microscopy accessories and consumables, announces the new 1070 NanoClean system from Fischione Instruments.

From Fischione Instruments 5 Oct 2010

New X-Ray Microscope Images Small Structures Within Microchips

Many different applications of X-rays are known from everyday life. For example, at airports or in medicine X-rays enable fortunately non-destructive views into objects. In today’s nanotechnology however, X-ray ...

4 Oct 2010

New Way to Study Inner Workings of Proteins

A cheetah lies still in the grass. Finally, a gazelle comes into view. The cheetah plunges forward, reaches sixty-five miles per hour in three seconds, and has the hapless gazelle by the jugular in less than a minute. Then it must catch its breath, resting before eating.

1 Oct 2010

Advances in Magetization Dynamics Using Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "X-Rays in Nanoscience: Spectroscopy, Spectromicroscopy, and Scattering Techniques" to their offering. (http://www.re...

29 Sep 2010