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University of Surrey to Investigate Techniques Using High-Power, Short-Pulsed Lasers for Production of Nanomaterials

With the predicted ramping up of nanotechnology based materials over the next decade, expectations are high that demand for high-tech materials will also skyrocket. Already the evidence is present for a revolution in the...

18 Mar 2008

New Nanotechnology Facility to Begin Bulk Manufacturing of Fullerenes

The unique complex designed and built from several units by specialists of the Closed Joint-Stock Company “Innovations of the Leningrad Institutes and Enterprises” (St. Petersburg) enables to produce kilogram...

18 Mar 2008

Superfast Computers That Use Light Rather Than Electrons a Step Closer as IBM Develops World’s Tiniest Nanophotonic Switch

IBM scientists today took another significant advance towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footpri...

17 Mar 2008

New Range of Non-Magnetic, Vacuum Compatible, Fast Compact Ceramic Piezo Motors and Nanopositioning Actuators from PI

PI's new line of compact ceramic piezo motors & nanopositioning actuators replaces classical actuators & motion control components in precision motion control applications such as found in the semiconductor, photonics and nano-biotechnology. High-speed motors, high force actuators and zero-wear flexure designs are available.

17 Mar 2008

Physicists Show How Fundamental Particles Lose Quantum Mechanical Properties Through Environmental Interactions

In today’s Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, researchers report a series of experiments that mark an important step toward understanding a longstanding fundamental physics prob...

14 Mar 2008

Training Scanning Probe Microscope for Mac OS (Apple) Users

NT-MDT offers a training scanning probe microscope solution that can work with MAC OS. This is the first SPM system in the world that can work with MAC OS.

14 Mar 2008

Single Semiconductor Crystal Inside Optic Fiber Brings Electronic Capabilities to Optical Fibers

An international science team from Penn State University in the United States and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom has developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber. The device adds new electronic capabilities to optical fibers, whose performance in electronic devices such as computers typically is degraded by the interface between the fiber and the device.

13 Mar 2008

New Ultra Low Volume, Disposable UV Transparent Microfluidic Cuvettes for Life Science Research

ALine's newest family of ultra-low volume, disposable UV transparent micro-fluidic cuvettes for fluorescence, the FluoroVetteTM, and absorbance, the SpecVetteTM, offer unparalleled functionality, robust design, and versatility through customization with membranes, electrodes, and valves.

12 Mar 2008

Researchers Develop Method for 'Seeing' Neutrons That is at Least 100 Times More Powerful Than Existing Detectors

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a new optical method that can detect individual neutrons and record them over a range of intensities at least a hundred times greater than existing detectors.

11 Mar 2008

Thermo Fisher Boosts Proteomics Mass Spectrometer Performance With ETD and MALDI Capabilities

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced that its award-winning Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap® hybrid series of mass spectrometers are now available with electron transfer dissociation (ETD) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) capabilities.

11 Mar 2008

Nanooptics and Nanophotonics News

University of Surrey to Investigate Techniques Using High-Power, Short-Pulsed Lasers for Production of Nanomaterials

New Nanotechnology Facility to Begin Bulk Manufacturing of Fullerenes

Superfast Computers That Use Light Rather Than Electrons a Step Closer as IBM Develops World’s Tiniest Nanophotonic Switch

New Range of Non-Magnetic, Vacuum Compatible, Fast Compact Ceramic Piezo Motors and Nanopositioning Actuators from PI

Physicists Show How Fundamental Particles Lose Quantum Mechanical Properties Through Environmental Interactions

Training Scanning Probe Microscope for Mac OS (Apple) Users

Single Semiconductor Crystal Inside Optic Fiber Brings Electronic Capabilities to Optical Fibers

New Ultra Low Volume, Disposable UV Transparent Microfluidic Cuvettes for Life Science Research

Researchers Develop Method for 'Seeing' Neutrons That is at Least 100 Times More Powerful Than Existing Detectors

Thermo Fisher Boosts Proteomics Mass Spectrometer Performance With ETD and MALDI Capabilities

Biochar-Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites for Enhanced Water Treatment

New Nanocage Material Removes Up to 90% of Toxic PFAS from Water

Enhancing Chitosan Films with Silanized Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Sustainable Applications

Gold Nanoparticles to Restore Vision in Retinal Disorders

Study Shows Potential for New Treatments for Neurological and Inflammatory Diseases

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

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