Nanotech-Now

Iranian researchers succeeded in the production of a new type of sensitive hydrogen peroxide biosensor with appropriate level of detection and high level of repeatability.

Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals. The...

A dramatic leap forward in the ability of scientists to study the structural states of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution has been achieved by a pair of researchers with the...

The macroscopic effects of certain nanoparticles on human health have long been clear to the naked eye. What scientists have lacked is the ability to see the detailed movements of individual particle...

TMC, a unit of AMETEK Ultra Precision Technologies and the world leader in precision floor vibration control, has appointed Murugesh Thimmanna as National Sales Manager, India, with responsibility for...

Piezo motion specialist Physik Instrumente (PI) has added a new member to its PiezoMove® family of motion-amplified, flexure-guided piezo linear actuators. The new P-604 model was designed with em...

Atomic Force Microscopy-Coupled Microcoils for Cellular-Scale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Charilaos Mousoulis,1 Teimour Maleki,2 Babak Ziaie,1,2,3 and Corey P. Neu1,a 1 1Weldon Sch...

Conventional data memory works on the basis of electrons that are moved around and stored. However, even by atomic standards, electrons are extremely small. It is very difficult to control them, for e...

FEI (NASDAQ: FEIC) today announced that it has reached a milestone of more than 200 automated mineralogy systems installed worldwide. FEI's Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) and QEMSCAN® automated min...

Sensimed AG, announced today that 10 scientific publications reporting outcomes of clinical studies investigating the use of SENSIMED Triggerfish® will be presented at ARVO 2013. The company developed...

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that its President and CEO, Dr. Chris Anzalone, will present at Master Investor, the UK's leading invest...

The National Space Society announces the selection of four new additions to its leadership team: Dr. Stanley G. Rosen to the newly created position of Vice Chairman of the Society's Board of Director...

"When designing next generation solar energy conversion systems, we must first develop ways to more efficiently utilize the solar spectrum," explained Lane Martin, whose research group has done just t...

The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes how a bright blue pigment used 5,000 years ago is giving moder...

Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, will host a new webinar on May 22 - "Getting Started with AFM in Biology - It's Easier Than You Think". Asylum Applications Scientist Dr. Iréne Re...

There's big news in the world of tiny things. New research led by University of Cincinnati physics professors Howard Jackson and Leigh Smith could contribute to better ways of harnessing solar ener...

Amazing new computer chips are in the works, with American chip makers, universities and the federal government teaming up in an effort to develop the next generation of semiconductors.

Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France, have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that ca...

"Shallow acceptor complexes in p-type ZnO" Authors: J.G. Reynolds, C. L. Reynolds, Jr., J.F. Muth, J.E. Rowe and D.E. Aspnes, North Carolina State University; A. Mohanta and H.O. Everitt, U.S. Army...

An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the qua...