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FEI Supply World's Most Powerful S/TEM to Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan™ scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world’s most powerful c...

16 Nov 2007

Casimir Force to Assist in Creating Nanomachines

A pioneering team from the University of Leicester is seeking to harness a force of nature only measured accurately a decade ago - to help develop the technology of tomorrow. Their work will have applications in what ...

15 Nov 2007

Microfluidic Device Shows How Bacteria Self Arrange in Protective Biofilms

Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming anti...

14 Nov 2007

Worldwide Nanotech Art Competition Launched

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will...

12 Nov 2007

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy One Hundred Times Faster With New Technique

Using an existing technique in a novel way, Cornell physicist Keith Schwab and colleagues at Cornell and Boston University have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) - which can image individual atoms on a surface...

9 Nov 2007

Off the Shelf Camera and High Tech Custom Equipment Team Up to Produce Images of Proton Radiactive Decay

Radioactivity, discovered more than 100 years ago and studied by physicists ever since, would seem to be a relatively closed subject in science. However, since the 1960s, the pursuit of at least one open question about h...

9 Nov 2007

Synchrotron Used to Examine Secrets of Babies Amniotic Sac

Researchers at the University of Reading, School of Pharmacy have developed an important new technique to study one of the most common causes of premature birth and prenatal mortality. The findings are published in the N...

8 Nov 2007

High-Resolution 3D TEM Imaging of Large Biological Molecules for Structural Characterization and Validation of Biopharmaceuticals

NanoImaging Services, Inc. has commenced operation of a new business providing high-resolution, three-dimensional transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging services to manufacturers of large molecule biopharmaceutic...

7 Nov 2007

Nanoanalysis Project for Next Generation Seminconductor Chip Development Opened

The companies AMD, Carl Zeiss SMT and Qimonda are launching a cooperation within the framework of the joint “Nanoanalysis“ project which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMB...

7 Nov 2007

New High Speed Piezo-Z Objective Steppers from Physik Instrumente

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. -- the inventor of high-speed Piezo-Z objective steppers--introduces the new P-737 PIFOC® Piezo-Z Stage, the highest performance nanopositioning Z control system on the market. $$IMAG...

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 7 Nov 2007