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Why GPS-SEC is the Only Light Scattering Technique for Molecular Weight Determination
A newly available application note from Malvern Instruments explains why, when measuring samples using Gel Permeation Chromatography/Size Exclusion Chromatography (GPC/SEC), low angle light scattering...
Study Looks at Detecting Silver Nanoparticles Released from Antibacterial Fabric Products
A recent study by researchers at National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) in Thailand has provided the data on detecting silver released from antibacterial fabric products using...
New Mill from Hosakawa Micron Produces Sub-Micron Particles
Hosokawa Micron Ltd announces the launch of the Micron Pulvis, dry agitating bead mill for high efficiency milling of sub-micron sized particles. Capable of producing...
AIXTRON Receives New Order from Neo-Neon International
AIXTRON AG (FSE: AIXA; NASDAQ: AIXG), a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced a new order...
Ascent Solar Unveils New Series of Flexible, Light-Weight CIGS Modules
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today the launch of its new WaveSol™ series of five meter long...
Smartphone Market Benefits from Samsung’s New High-Performance Memory Chips
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today introduced high-performance 8-gigabyte (GB) and 16GB moviNAND™ embedded memory chips for use in...
New iLS-X1 System from BT Imaging Inspects 3,600 Solar Wafers Per Hour
BT Imaging Pty Ltd (BTi), the world's leading supplier of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for the photovoltaic manufacturing industry, today announced the iLS-X1...
UL Certification Awarded to SoloPower's Flexible CIGS Modules
In a watershed breakthrough for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, SoloPower, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of flexible, thin-film solar PV cells and modules, today announced...
Overview of Global Atomic Force Microscope Market
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ba68a3/the_world_market_f) has announced the addition of the "The World Market for Atomic Force Microscopes and AFM Probes" report to t...
Imec Presents High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells at PVSEC
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%. Two types...

Neo-Neon Orders Ten More AIXTRON MOCVD Systems for LED Production
AIXTRON AG today announced a new order for ten more CRIUS 31x2-inch configuration deposition systems from Neo-Neon International Ltd.
Study looks at silver nanoparticle release from antibacterial fabrics into sweat
A recent study by researchers at National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) in Thailand has provided the data on detecting silver released from antibacterial fabric products using...
Edible gas storage
Porous metal-organic framework made from food-grade natural products.
First Single-port EpiCurveTT for Showerhead Reactors Installed at Fraunhofer Institute
LayTec is happy to announce a successful installation of EpiCurveTT on an Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD system at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid...
EpiCurveTT AR for Advanced Curvature Resolution in Planetary Reactors
Recently, LayTec launched EpiCurveTT AR (advanced resolution) for measurements of the aspherical curvature component during epitaxial growth.
DNA-assisted solution processing for high-performance thin-film transistors
Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) based thin film transistors (TFTs) could be at the core of next-generation flexible electronics - displays, electronic circuits, sensors, memory chips,...
Bruker Introduces Icon, a High-Performance Desktop MRI System for Easy-to-Use and Easy-to-Site Preclinical and Molecular Imaging
At the 2010 World Molecular Imaging Congress in Kyoto, Bruker Corporation today announces the introduction of the Icon, a new easy-to-use 1 Tesla desktop MRI...
Ascent Solar Adds New Series of Products to its BIPV/BAPV Product Portfolio
Launches 5 meter long modules with 320 watts output and easy to install design.
Oerlikon Solar Breaking Two World Records: Lowest Module Production Cost and Highest Lab Cell Efficiency
Oerlikon Solar launched today the new production line 'ThinFab' for manufacturing thin film silicon modules, which will achieve record breaking production costs of EUR 0.50...
U.S. launch for DEK Solar's New Eclipse PV Metallization Technology at Solar Power International 2010
DEK Solar, a leading solar cell manufacturing technology specialist, is preparing to launch its brand new photovoltaic metallization platform in the US at this year's...

Graphene electronics move closer
UCLA researchers have made the best graphene transistor yet
Pushy hydrogen boosts molecular microscopy
Physicists explain scanning-tunnelling microscope mystery
DNA helps turn graphene into a chemical sensor
Affordable device could act as an electronic 'nose'
Tuning transitions in quantum dots
New technique could expand the potential applications of semiconducting quantum dots
Semiconductor nanocrystals make ideal optical thermometers
Washington team has made a new kind of highly sensitive thermal imager
Tuning the electronic state in fullerenes
Technique could be used to measure spin transport in nanodevices
'Quantum simulators' revealed in fresh detail
Researchers locate individual particles in an optical lattice
Graphene helps make a new kind of LED
Wonder material joins forces with vertical arrays of GaAs nanorods
Nano update: detect, image, treat
A look at the latest advances in arterial plaque ablation, ultrasensitive imaging, wound dressings and tumour therapy
Multiple excitons could improve solar cells
Lead selenide quantum dots show new behaviour

THE SUPERIOR NANO MATERIAL: Nano Graphene Platelets (NGP) outperforms Carbon NanoTubes (CNT)

The Nano Graphene Platelets (NGP) material discovered in 2004 has been studied for a number of years. It has many of the same characteristics as...
Working as a Team, Bacteria Spin Gears

The process, though not efficient, is a step toward the development of hybrid biological and micromechanical machines.
Potential for New Nanoparticle-Based Cancer Detection

Standard methods of screening men for prostate cancer leave much to be desired, particularly in terms of their inability to have much effect on prostate...
Research team exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia to battle cancer

Forget surgery. One team of Kansas State University researchers is exploring nanoparticle-induced hyperthermia in the battle against cancer.
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Mapping Tumor Heterogeneity With Quantum Dots

A research team from Emory University has developed a method for mapping the molecular heterogeneity of human prostate tumor biopsies obtained from cancer patients using...
Advances in Polymeric Micelles for Drug Delivery and Tumor Targeting – Accepted Manuscript

Abstract: Plethora of the formulation techniques were reported in literature for targeting the drug to specific site. Polymeric micelle can be targeted to tumor site...
H.P. Sees a Revolution in Memory Chip

So-called memristors could replace today’s transistors and lead to a new class of computing devices, Hewlett-Packard scientists say.
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The nanoscopic range and the effect of architecture on nano-properties – Accepted Manuscript
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine – Articles in Press
Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and Biofuels: What does the public think?

Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is...
Team’s Work Uses a Virus to Convert Methane to Ethylene

The nanoscience-based approach could herald the arrival of a set of new technologies representing a synthesis of molecular...

New self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably...
Cheaper, better solar cell is full of holes
A new low-cost etching technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer...
Engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller....
Researchers develop simple technique to visualize atomic-scale structures
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique -- using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick -- to...
Piezotronics: Researchers create new class of piezoelectric logic devices using zinc oxide nanowires
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field...
Quantum dots track who gets into cell nucleus
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Berkeley researchers Karsten Weis, Jan Liphardt, and colleagues have used fluorescent probes called quantum dots to determine which molecules get into the...
Sensor measures yoctonewton forces fast
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at...
The perfect nanocube: Precise control of size, shape and composition
(PhysOrg.com) -- With growing interest in using nanoparticles for everything from antibacterial socks to medical imaging to electronic devices, the need to understand the environmental,...
Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses,...
Developments in nanobiotechnology point to medical applications
Two new groundbreaking scientific papers by researchers at UC Santa Barbara demonstrate the synthesis of nanosize biological particles with the potential to fight cancer and...

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