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First Live Action Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action

Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal.

26 Mar 2009

Veeco Instruments Announces Winners of Labs Research Grant Program

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of scanning probe microscopes (SPM) to the nanoscience community, today announced the winners of the first phase of the Veeco Labs Research Grant Program.

From Veeco 25 Mar 2009

Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount of light reflected directly off the needle point of an atomic force microscope probe.

24 Mar 2009

Noliac Piezoelectric Actuators are Ideally Suited to Atomic Force Microscopes

Applying 60 volts grants you 0.01 mm of motion with a 5x5x10 mm multilayer
piezoelectric actuator from Noliac.
A multilayer piezoceramic actuator is thus perfect for many applications, e.g.
in atomic force microscopy.

24 Mar 2009

New Malvern Products to Make Their ACHEMA Debut in May

A number of Malvern Panalytical
products will make their first ACHEMA appearances this year (11-15 May 2009,
Frankfurt, Germany), with the company exhibiting on two stands, one focusing
on analysis in the laboratory and the other in the process sector.

From Malvern Panalytical 24 Mar 2009

World's First Metallic Needle AFM Probes Now Available from Nanoscience Instruments

Nanoscience Instruments, a premier distributor of nanotechnology instrumentation and supplies, today announced the worldwide distribution of NaugaNeedles' new line of metallic atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes.

24 Mar 2009

Vistec Lithography Receives Major Order from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Vistec Lithography Inc., a global supplier of electron-beam lithography systems, announced that they have received a major order from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin-Adlershof for one of its Vistec EBPG5000plus electron-beam lithography systems.

23 Mar 2009

Block Copolymer Vesicles from Protein and Sugar Components

The basis of all life forms are vesicles: membrane-enclosed, liquid-filled "bubbles" made of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates. Cells, which are separated from the surrounding medium by their cell membrane, are really just big vesicles. Small vesicles play a critical role in the intracellular transport of biomolecules.

23 Mar 2009

Nanopoint Recognized by Frost and Sullivan for its Pioneering Cell Imaging Solution

Based on its recent analysis of the cell imaging solutions market, Frost + Sullivan presents Nanopoint, Inc. with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation of the Year. The company's c...

From Frost and Sullivan 23 Mar 2009

Quantum Tunneling May Aid the Quest for Accurate Low-Cost DNA Sequencing

A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collaborators at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University.

22 Mar 2009