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Viscosity of Water in Nanoscopic Channels Depends on Container's Material Properties

Water pours into a cup at about the same rate regardless of whether the water bottle is made of glass or plastic.

20 Sep 2013

New Ink-Jet Printing Technology for Fabrication of Nanostructures

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries.

17 Sep 2013

NPL Contributes Nanoscale Images to Guardian's Nanotechnology Blog

Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have contributed nanoscale images of bleached hair, gold nanoparticles and the impact of cluster guns to the Guardian's nanotechnology blog, Small World.

11 Sep 2013

Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Research Fellowship to University of Bristol Academic

A University of Bristol research assistant from the Interface Analysis Centre has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship.

5 Sep 2013

Trends in Nanotechnology 2013 Begins in Seville on September 9th - Last Few Days to Register

Seville (Spain) will host the 14th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT 2013) from the 9th until the 13th of September 2013. Currently, 42 keynote speakers from all over the world are ...

3 Sep 2013

Three New Research Papers Published by Users of Anasys nanoIR

Anasys Instruments reports on three user groups who have published peer reviewed papers where nanoIR is being applied to look at characterization challenges in semiconductors, polymers and healthcare.

13 Aug 2013

Mini Mona Lisa Created Using AFM and ThermoChemical NanoLithography

The world’s most famous painting has now been created on the world’s smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have “painted” the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width of a human hair.

6 Aug 2013

NIST Use Anasys Nanoscale AFM-IR Imaging to Characterize Plasmonics

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how to make nanoscale measurements of critical properties of plasmonic nanomaterials.

23 Jul 2013

Researchers from Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier Use JPK AFMs to Characterize Living Bacteria

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on how researchers from the Université de Paris-Sud and CNRS Montpellier have used the new QI mode of AFM imaging to quantitatively characterize living bacteria without any immobilization.

From Bruker BioAFM 16 Jul 2013

Researchers Successfully Create Perfect One-Dimensional Molecular Wires

Researchers of MESA+, the research institute for nanotechnology of the University of Twente, in cooperation with researchers of the University of Strasbourg and Eindhoven University of Technology, are the first to successfully create perfect one-dimensional molecular wires of which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field at room temperature.

5 Jul 2013