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New Method to Electrically Characterize Individual Carbon Nanotubes

A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different optical and electrical properties. Individual electrical measurements of the molecules typically require such slow and expensive methods as electron-beam lithography.

15 Dec 2008

Microbial Ecosystem Sheds New Light on Climate Change

MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work, reported in the January print i...

15 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

Creating Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines More Quickly and Accurately than Previously Possible

In a pioneering effort, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Queensland in Australia have successfully demonstrated* that they can count, size and gauge the quality of virus-like particle-based (VLP) vaccines much more quickly and accurately than previously possible.

11 Dec 2008

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have sho...

11 Dec 2008

Ambios Technology Introduces NEW Q-Scope White Light Interferometer/SPM

Q-View is a micro-interferometer module that has been seamlessly integrated into the Q-Scope SPM. This combination provides two synergistic technologies on a single platform. With the addition of interferometric technology to the Q-Scope SPM, Ambios is enabling the research community of AFM users.

10 Dec 2008

PI Receives U.S. Patent for its Development of Innovative Multilayer Ceramic Actuators

PI's exclusive PICMA® piezo-ceramic actuators are based on the novel stress reduction and encapsulation technologies which increase lifetime by several orders of magnitude both in static and dynamic applications, addressing key lifetime mechanisms common to other piezoelectric actuators.

10 Dec 2008

Image Contest Recognizes Continuing Contributions of SPMs to Advances in Nanotechnology

To recognize the continuing contributions that Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) have made to advances in Nanotechnology, the second edition of the International Scanning Probe Microscope Image Prize (SPMAGE' 09) is announced to identify remarkable SPM images.

10 Dec 2008

Improving the Nanometers-Thick Layer of Polymer Used to Coat Cardiac Stents

Using the Canadian Light Source, a team of researchers from Quebec's Laval University and Australia's La Trobe University has discovered how to improve the nanometers-thick layer of polymer used to coat cardiac stents.

9 Dec 2008

eBioscience Announces Commercial Launch of eFluor Organic Dyes

eBioscience Corporation, a leading global provider of innovative, high-quality cell analysis reagents, announced today the expansion of its eFluor(TM) brand with the commercial launch of the eFluor(TM) Organic Dye produc...

8 Dec 2008