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Spiky Nanoparticles May Enhance Test Sensitivity

Rods, cones, cubes and spheres - move aside. Tiny gold stars, smaller than a billionth of a meter, may hold the promise for new approaches to medical diagnoses or testing for environmental contaminants.

7 Nov 2008

New Product Targets PET and Radiation Detection Applications

Vertilon Corporation announced today that it has launched the SIB2316 sensor interface board for the SensL SPMArray 16 element silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array.

6 Nov 2008

Researchers Develop an Ultrafast Oscilloscope on a Chip

As photonics -- using beams of light in place of electricity for communications and computing -- becomes more common, engineers need new tools for troubleshooting. Now researchers at Cornell have created a way to plot the waveform of an ultrashort-lived optical signal with a resolution of less than a trillionth of a second.

6 Nov 2008

New Type of Deformable "Liquid Mirror" Based on Ferrofluids

Scientists in Canada are reporting progress toward a new type of "liquid mirror" - mirrors made with highly reflective liquids - whose shape can be changed to provide superior optical properties over conventional solid mirrors.

6 Nov 2008

Malvern Demonstrate New Application for Foreign Particle Determination on Filters

Malvern Panalytical will demonstrate a new application for foreign particle determination
on filters, and will show new systems for protein characterization and rheology
measurement at the 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition (17-20 Nov, Atlanta,
USA).

From Malvern Panalytical 6 Nov 2008

Semiconducting Nanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes Used for Efficient LEDs and Photovoltaic Devices

The Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanoscience) collaborates together with the University of Hamburg in the development of composite materials based on semiconductor nanoparticles an...

5 Nov 2008

Testing Validates Shock-Resistance Performance of New MEMS Component that Powers PicoP Engine

Microvision, Inc., a global leader in innovative ultra-miniature projection display and image capture products for mobile devices, today announced that it has received external validation of key shock-resistance suscepti...

4 Nov 2008

Nanosec Introduces the World's Smallest and Fastest Table-Top Laser Personalization Machine

Nanosec GmbH introduces the "IDForce" the world's smallest and fastest table-top laser personalization machine at the 2008 Cartes & IDentification Exhibition in Paris, France this week. The new machine ...

4 Nov 2008

NIMP Get Extended Capabilities for Nano-Structured Thin Film Deposition

Surrey NanoSystems will be extending the possibilities of research into thin film deposition following a sputtering tool order from the Low Dimensional Systems Laboratory of Romania's National Institute of Materials ...

4 Nov 2008

New Scaffold Approach Could Also Aid Engineering of Other Tissues

Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. The idea is that living heart cells or stem cells seeded onto such a scaffold would develop into a patch of cardiac tissue that could be used to treat congenital heart defects, or aid the recovery of tissue damaged by a heart attack.

3 Nov 2008