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Worlds Smallest Trophy to be Awarded on SuperBowl Sunday

The smallest trophy ever made will be awarded as the prize for the Physics Central Nano Bowl Video Contest.

10 Jan 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Created for use as Reference Standards in Biomedical Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community — literally “gold standards” for labs studying the biological effects of nanoparticles.

10 Jan 2008

The Future of Nanoelectronics May Lie in Clusters of Silver Nanoparticles

Nanoscopic “lumps” of atoms, known as clusters, are the specialty of a research team headed by Dieter Fenske from the University of Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The production and characteri...

10 Jan 2008

Increased Efficiency in Solar Energy Generation with Nanostructured Thin Films

In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit nanostructures--materials engineered on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Usi...

9 Jan 2008

Veeco Introduce Automated 3-D Atomic Force Microscope

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its new InSight 3D Automated Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) Platform.

8 Jan 2008

Aperiodic Crystals Phase Change Behaviour May Lead to Technological Advances in Devices from Computer Displays to Hard Drives

All of us break the rules from time to time - even crystals. "There are all sorts of rules about what crystals can do during phase transitions," said Mark D. Hollingsworth, associate professor of chemistry a...

4 Jan 2008