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Advanced Molecule-Specific Imaging Method Provides New Insights into Cell Membrane Organization

Sight would dramatically alter a blind man's understanding of an elephant, according to the old story. Now, a look directly at a cell surface is changing our understanding of cell membrane organization.

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 29 Jan 2013

Nanotech Researchers Harness Barkhausen Effect to Study Insides of Magnetic Materials

(Edmonton) Almost 100 years after the initial discovery, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton have harnessed the Barkhausen Effect as a new kind of high-resolution microscopy for the insides of magnetic materials.

18 Jan 2013

New INRS Infrastructure Combines DTEM with Advanced Nanosecond Laser Technologies

Professor Federico Rosei, Director of the INRS Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Centre, will soon have access to a Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (DTEM). Unique in the world for its configuration, this equipment will fill a gap in dynamic materials imaging by simultaneously providing very high spatial and temporal resolution, a first that could revolutionize materials research.

17 Jan 2013

Oxford Instruments Launches LayerProbe Layer Thickness Measurement Option for FIBs and SEMs

Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis, a world leader in microanalysis software and systems, has announced the launch of LayerProbeTM, an exciting new software tool for the characterisation of thin layers on a substrate. An option for the Oxford Instruments’ AZtec® EDS microanalysis system, LayerProbe is faster, more cost-effective and higher resolution than dedicated film measurement tools.

From Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis 11 Jan 2013

Complex Nanomachine Mimics How Molecules Are Made in Nature

An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in nature.

11 Jan 2013

XEI Scientific Evactron Plasma Cleaning System Used by RJ Lee Group for Specimen Cleaning

XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, reports on how leading contract materials characterization laboratory, RJ Lee Group, Inc., have used an Evactron® specimen cleaning chamber to clean samples ahead of analysis in electron microscopes.

From XEI Scientific 9 Jan 2013

WaferGen Completes Proof-of-Concept Study Using Nano-qPCR Technology

WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. today announced the successful completion of a proof-of-concept study using its newly-developed proprietary nano-qPCR technology for sample preparation prior to targeted re-sequencing on Next-Gen platforms.

9 Jan 2013

Silvaco ATLAS Device Adopted for Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell Simulations by Tokyo Institute of Technology

Silvaco Japan Co., Ltd. (Silvaco) has announced that it has won a competitive bid to have its ATLAS device simulator used for the development of silicon nanowire solar cells from the Konagai and Miyajima Laboratory in the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Silvaco's ATLAS simulation software will be used at the Fukushima Top-level United center for Renewable Energy research - PhotoVoltaics Innovation (FUTURE-PV) project with additional support provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

9 Jan 2013

Nanotech Researchers Reveal Poroelasticity Behavior of Animal Cells

Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published today in Nature Materials.

8 Jan 2013

Discovery of Molecular Levers Helps Develop More-Efficient Materials

In a forced game of molecular tug-of war, some strings of atoms can act like a lever, accelerating reactions 1000 times faster than other molecules. The discovery suggests that scientists could use these molecular levers to drive chemical and mechanical reactivity among atoms and ultimately engineer more efficient materials.

From Duke University - Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics 24 Dec 2012

Nanoanalysis News

Advanced Molecule-Specific Imaging Method Provides New Insights into Cell Membrane Organization

Nanotech Researchers Harness Barkhausen Effect to Study Insides of Magnetic Materials

New INRS Infrastructure Combines DTEM with Advanced Nanosecond Laser Technologies

Oxford Instruments Launches LayerProbe Layer Thickness Measurement Option for FIBs and SEMs

Complex Nanomachine Mimics How Molecules Are Made in Nature

XEI Scientific Evactron Plasma Cleaning System Used by RJ Lee Group for Specimen Cleaning

WaferGen Completes Proof-of-Concept Study Using Nano-qPCR Technology

Silvaco ATLAS Device Adopted for Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell Simulations by Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nanotech Researchers Reveal Poroelasticity Behavior of Animal Cells

Discovery of Molecular Levers Helps Develop More-Efficient Materials

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