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Best-Performing Microscopes in Europe Devoted to Studying Matter at the Atomic Scale

The Institut de physique et de chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on 9 January 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.

16 Jan 2009

Nuclear Materials Shaping National Collaborations

In Kumar Sridharan's laboratory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering campus, just one ill-timed sneeze might have catapulted his next three years' worth of nuclear reactor materials research into ob...

15 Jan 2009

HORIBA's SA-9600 Brings Exceptional Confidence to Surface Area and Pore Volume Analysis

HORIBA's breakthrough SA-9600 surface area technology brings exceptional convenience and confidence to surface area and pore volume analysis. Now you can perform single-point surface area, multi-point surface area and total pore volume measurements with push-button ease.

From HORIBA 15 Jan 2009

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Chevron Sign Fuel Research Agreement

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed a research agreement with Chevron to develop the next generation of catalysts for production of clean, more efficient fuels from crude oil. The research will focus on...

13 Jan 2009

Gold Nanocages Minimize Invasive Surgical Lymph Node Biopsy Procedures

Information obtained from a new application of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is worth its weight in gold to breast cancer patients. For the first time, Lihong Wang, Ph.D., Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in th...

13 Jan 2009

Result Signals Significant Step Forward in Tools for Nanotechnology

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.

13 Jan 2009

Mapping Local Strain and Cracks of Nanoscale Dimensions

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

11 Jan 2009

Visualization and Manipulation of Atoms Using Nanotechnology and AFM

An international team of scientists, among them researchers from the department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), present a new method to manipulate atoms. Nanot...

9 Jan 2009

TIRF Ideal for Reproducible Microscopic Examinations of Near-Cell Membrane Processes

With Laser TIRF 3, Carl Zeiss infuses its imaging system for Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy with an entirely new level of quality. The TIRF system is suitable for reproducible microscopic examinations of near-cell membrane dynamic processes and interactions of single molecules in cell-free systems with high time resolution.

8 Jan 2009

Breakthrough in Nanowire Growth Control

Scientists in Sweden have discovered new ways to control the growth and structure of nanowires at the single-atom level. Their findings, which provide major insights into materials physics, have come out of the NODE (' Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics') project, funded with approximately EUR 9.5 million under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

5 Jan 2009