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Multi-Wavelength Instrument Improves Nanoparticle Analysis Specificity

Analytik has launched the next generation ZetaView® QUATT, with a multi-wavelength video tracking microscope for rapid analysis of size, concentration, fluorescence, electrophoretic mobility and sub-populations of individual nanoparticles.

From Analytik Ltd 24 Jun 2019

Study Illustrates Current Status and Future Prospects of Ice Lithography

Nanofabrication facilitates nanoscience and nanotechnology. One of the founding stones of nanofabrication is electron-beam lithography (EBL), which involves making patterns down to a few nanometers.

24 Jun 2019

Advanced NMR Exposes New Facts About Nanoparticle Structures

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods have exposed unexpected details about the structure of a core group of materials in nanotechnology — mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) — and the placement of their active chemical sites.

21 Jun 2019

Preventing Corrosion of Oil Pipeline by Identifying a Nanoscale Problem

Steel pipes tend to rust and sooner or later fail. To anticipate disasters, oil companies and others have developed computer models to foretell when replacement is necessary.

7 Jun 2019

Researchers Successfully Record Previously Unexplained Behavior of Hydrogel Microspheres

Scientists at Shinshu University have succeeded in recording earlier unsolved behavior of hydrogel microspheres (microgels) with the help of a newly tailored tool: the temperature-controlled high-speed atomic force microscopy (TC HS AFM).

31 May 2019

Researchers Discover Molecular Nanomachines with High Efficiency and Low Energy Loss

In every person, there are trillions of very small molecular nanomachines carrying out various essential tasks to keep the person alive.

23 May 2019

New Technology Images Molecules in 3D

Engineering researchers have developed a new platform that can image single molecules in 3D, allowing deeper probes into the inner workings of cells.

22 May 2019

Minute Droplets Pave Way to In-Flight Imaging of Proteins

For the first time, scientists have shown the creation of a beam of nanodroplets that can deliver a range of biological samples, from cell organelles to single proteins, nearly free from any contaminations, to the focus of an X-ray laser which can be employed to image them.

6 May 2019

A Classic 19th-Century Paradox is Revisited for Designing Innovative Nanostructures

When a box filled with Mikado sticks is shaken up, do the sticks within the box spread uniformly? Such a question touches Bertrand’s paradox—a standard in mathematics.

29 Apr 2019

New Method Could Help Estimate the Amount of Negative Pressure Produced by Liquid Crystals in Nanopores

In addition to governing the quantum vacuum or the Universe, negative pressure, despite being of a different nature, also appears in liquid crystals restrained in nanopores.

25 Apr 2019