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New Method to Electrically Characterize Individual Carbon Nanotubes

A single batch of carbon nanotubes -- molecular carbon cylinders that may one day revolutionize electronics engineering -- often includes more than 100 types of tubes, each with different optical and electrical properties. Individual electrical measurements of the molecules typically require such slow and expensive methods as electron-beam lithography.

15 Dec 2008

Overview of the Global Market for Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology continues to be a thriving area of R&D in 2008. Public funding of nanotechnology worldwide in 2008 was approximately $6.7 with over US$5 billion initially committed by the Russian government and a raft...

14 Dec 2008

Researchers Overcome Challenges with Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material

14 Dec 2008

New Applications of Graphene Attract Large Grants form EPSRC

Five-year grants totalling £20m will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science ...

14 Dec 2008

Alberta Center for Advanced MNT Products Installs Top Maskless Laser Patterning System for Fabrication of Microfluidics and Biosensors

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of a G101 table top maskless laser patterning system to the Alberta Center for Advanced MNT Products, Canada. System will be used for prototyping and fabrication of various devices including biosensors and microfluidics.

14 Dec 2008

Recreation of Stars in the Lab Leads to Further Development in Nuclear Fusion

Astronomers are recruiting the physics laboratory to unravel the high energy processes involved in formation of stars and other critical processes within the universe. Experiments with high energy radiation and plasmas i...

14 Dec 2008

Novel X-Ray Technique Allows Never Seen Before Observation of Molecular Motion

A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Result...

14 Dec 2008

Nano-Coated Lens System Receive Optical Laboratories Association (OLA) 2008 Award of Excellence

The Shield Lens Protection System distributed by Hilco Eyewear that won an Optical Laboratories Association (OLA) 2008 Award of Excellence, was developed by Aculon, Inc. Aculon, Inc., is a leading developer of nanotechno...

14 Dec 2008

Heidelberg Announce Development of Advanced MOEMS with Chinese Counterpart

Heidelberg Instruments announced the sale of an advanced DWL 66FS maskless laser lithography system to the Zhejiang Normal University, located in Jinhau, China. System will be used in fabrication of Micro Optical Electro Mechanical Devices, as well as photomask production.

14 Dec 2008

Partial-Wave Spectroscopy Detecting Nanoscale Changes in Cells

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer. The researchers have sho...

11 Dec 2008