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First Live Action Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action

Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal.

26 Mar 2009

Experimental Protocols for Measuring Hydrodynamic Particle Diameters of Less than 1 nm

In a paper published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Volume 10, number
5, May 2008), scientists working at Malvern
Instruments presented experimental protocols for measuring hydrodynamic
particle diameters of less than 1 nm, with a precision of 0.1 nm.

26 Mar 2009

Carbon Nanotubes New Make BASF Plastic Conductive

As a first, BASF
is launching a plastic containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) onto the market.

From BASF 26 Mar 2009

Computer Simulations to Quantify the Effect of Heating Nanoparticles with Lasers to Kill Cancer Tumors

Two lasers may be better than one when attacking cancer cells, according to a paper by Rice University scientists. Yildiz Bayazitoglu, Rice's H.S. Cameron Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an authorit...

25 Mar 2009

Cheap Solar Cells Can Become a Reality Through R+D in Organic Electronics

Flexible display screens and cheap solar cells can become a reality through research and development in organic electronics. Physicists at Umeå University in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

25 Mar 2009

PANalytical Reinforces its Reputation for Complete Solutions at ACHEMA

Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical (Almelo, the Netherlands) will reinforce its reputation for complete solutions at this year’s ACHEMA conference and exhibition (11 - 15 May 2009; Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

25 Mar 2009

Preparation of Semiconductor Nanocrystals with High Photoluminescence Efficiency

Norio Murase and his colleagues of the Nano-structured Photonic Device Group, the Photonics Research Institute, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), have developed indium phosphide (InP) photoluminescent NCs.

25 Mar 2009

Technique Holds Promise for Mass-Produced Nanoparticles

Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from Duke University and the University of Massachusetts have created a unique set of conditions in which tiny particles within a solution will consistently assemble themselves into these and other complex shapes.

24 Mar 2009

Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount of light reflected directly off the needle point of an atomic force microscope probe.

24 Mar 2009

Noliac Piezoelectric Actuators are Ideally Suited to Atomic Force Microscopes

Applying 60 volts grants you 0.01 mm of motion with a 5x5x10 mm multilayer
piezoelectric actuator from Noliac.
A multilayer piezoceramic actuator is thus perfect for many applications, e.g.
in atomic force microscopy.

24 Mar 2009