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SUSS MicroTec Installs World’s Most Advanced 300mm Wafer Level Reliability Semiconductor Test System

SUSS MicroTec AG today announced the installation of its PM300WLR, the world’s most advanced 300 mm wafer-level reliability (WLR) test system, at a leading Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor devices. It will be...

8 Apr 2008

Synthetic Bone Coating Leads to More Successful Dental Implants

Research present in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inderscience Publishers suggests that coating dental implants with a synthetic bone material prior to implantation allows suc...

7 Apr 2008

University Research Team Uses Nanotechnology Tool to Etch Logo on a Human Hair

Researchers from the Engineering Department at McMaster University have used an ion beam microscope to etch the universtiy logo on a human hair

7 Apr 2008

Electron and Ion Microscopy Revealing Secrets of Antimicrobial and Healing Clays

Mud may be coming to a medicine cabinet or pharmacy near you. Scientists in Arizona report that minerals from clay could form the basis of a new generation of inexpensive, highly-effective antimicrobials for fighting MRSA infections that are moving out of health care settings and into the community. Their study will be presented in April at the American Chemical Society national meeting in New Orleans.

7 Apr 2008

Veeco AFM to Probe Spintronics and other Small-Scale Electrical Measurements

The Veeco EnviroScope will be used by 'Unite mixte de Physique' (UMP), a joint laboratory between the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and Thales Group for cutting-edge research into spintronics and other small-scale electrical measurements.

3 Apr 2008

Nanobiocapsules Hold and Release Drugs Within the Body Without the Need for Anti-Rejection Drugs

Living Cell Technologies Limited today announced that Dr Paul Tan, LCT CEO and Dr Anil K Anal, LCT Material Scientist, presented data at a session on nanotechnology at the NZBio 2008 Conference in Auckland, N...

2 Apr 2008

Researchers Make Nanosized, Softball Shaped Dodecahedron From DNA

For quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A nanotechnology research team has now made a dodecahedron (a geometric shape with twelve surfaces) from DNA building blocks.

2 Apr 2008