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Nanoscopic Materials with Fissures That can be Opened and Closed Useful for Nanoelectronics and Nano Sized Machines

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close - on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises&rdqu...

7 Mar 2008

Nanoscopic Rings Have the Potential to Form into Nanocomposite Materials

What appear under an atomic force microscope to be tiny rings with little bits missing are actually nanoscopic rings made of double-stranded DNA with a little gap in the form of a short single-stranded fragment. As Micha...

7 Mar 2008

High Performance, Lower Cost Raman Microscope Launched by HORIBA

Horiba Scientific the world leaders in Raman spectroscopy have introduced a new high performance, lower cost Raman microscope. The XploRA is a new concept in Raman microscopy bringing Raman chemical identification directly to your microscope.

From HORIBA 6 Mar 2008

Virus Image Captured at Highest Resolution Ever

A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved.

6 Mar 2008

Nanomedicine Set to Improve and Enhance the Effectiveness of Injectable Drugs

In an article featured on the cover of the March issue of “Nature Nanotechnology,” Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston presented a proof-of-concept study on a new...

4 Mar 2008

Acquisitions and Innovations Revealed at Pittcon for Agilent

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire TILL Photonics GmbH and has completed the acquisition of Colloidal Dynamics. Both companies will join the recently created Materials Science Solut...

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 4 Mar 2008

New Scanning Electron Microscope is Kinder to the Environment

The TM-1000 Tabletop Microscope from Hitachi High-Technologies is measurably kinder to the environment than the company's previous entry-level scanning electron microscope. As part of an evaluation across Hitachi&#39...

29 Feb 2008

Researchers Reveal Electronics Structure of DNA

Utilizing a technique that combines low temperature measurements and theoretical calculations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic structure of single DNA ...

29 Feb 2008

Quantum Technologies Set for Revolution as World's First Source of Single Photons Hits the Market

The world’s first commercial source of individual photons (particles of light) using diamond based quantum technology has been developed by Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) within the School of Physics at The ...

29 Feb 2008

Secrets of How Plants Build Cell Walls to Benefit Nanotechnology and BioFuels

When plant cells divide, they assemble molecular building blocks into new cell walls made of carbohydrate and protein, but scientists know almost nothing about how this process occurs. A team of researchers including Mau...

28 Feb 2008