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NSF Commits $25 M for X-ray Laser Study of Atomic Structure of Proteins

Rice University will help probe the structure of ever-smaller molecules as part of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) consortium that was announced today.

7 Nov 2013

AVS Selects Nanotechnology Researchers Among Major Award Winners for 2013

The AVS has selected its major award winners for 2013. The AVS established an annual awards program to encourage excellence in research and innovation in technical areas of interest to the AVS.

6 Nov 2013

NPL Leads European Metrology Research Programme's Nanostrain Project

A new international research collaboration will deliver highly accurate measurements of strain in materials at the nanoscale to drive innovation in next generation electronic devices. The European Metrology Research Programme's Nanostrain project, led by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), brings together public institutions from across Europe supported by global industry leaders including IBM.

6 Nov 2013

Polish Academy of Sciences Use NanoSight's NTA to Characterize Inorganic Nanopowders and Colloids

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being implemented for the characterization of various inorganic nanopowders and colloids synthesized in the Institute of High Pressure Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

6 Nov 2013

H2W Technologies Launch New, Redesigned Website

H2W Technologies is excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website, which went live today. It is located at the same address: www.h2wtech.com.

From H2W Technologies 6 Nov 2013

Unique Collaboration to Develop Tools for Characterisation of Nano-Strain

A new international research collaboration announced today will deliver highly accurate measurements of strain in materials at the nano-scale to drive innovation in next generation electronic devices. The European Metrology Research Programme's Nanostrain project brings together public institutions from across Europe supported by global industry leaders including IBM.

5 Nov 2013

New Method Improves Low-Resolution Crystallographic Data

“Function follows form” might have been written to describe proteins, as the M. C. Escher-esque folds and twists of nature’s workhorse biomolecules enables each to carry out its specific responsibilities. Technology’s workhorse for determining protein structures is X-ray protein crystallography, in which a beam of x-rays sent through a crystallized protein is scattered by the protein’s atoms, creating a diffraction pattern of dots that can be reconstructed by computer into a 3D model

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 5 Nov 2013

PI Announce New Version of the P-736 Z-Axis Piezo Nanopositioning Stage

The nanopositioning system for high-resolution microscopy from PI (Physik Instrumente) is characterized by a large clear aperture of 160 mm × 110 mm, high positional stability, and rapid settling times.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 4 Nov 2013

GE Global Research Center and XEI Scientific Publish Paper on In-Situ Plasma Cleaning with EVACTRON Systems

XEI Scientific Inc, manufacturer of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, is pleased to announce the publication of a paper in collabo...

From XEI Scientific 4 Nov 2013

Researchers Study Atomic Level Reaction of Metallic Nanoparticles with the Environment

Crucially, the research led by the University of York and reported in Nature Materials, shows that oxidation of metals - the process that describes, for example, how iron reacts with oxygen, in the presence of water, to form rust - proceeds much more rapidly in nanoparticles than at the macroscopic scale. This is due to the large amount of strain introduced in the nanoparticles due to their size which is over a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

4 Nov 2013