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Light Microscopy and SEM Come Together

The "Shuttle + Find" solution from Carl Zeiss for correlative microscopy in materials analysis is an easy-to-use interface. It connects upright and inverted light microscopes of type SteREO Discovery, Axio Imager and Axio Observer, featuring a motorized stage, with all ZEISS scanning electron microscopes such as EVO, SIGMA, SUPRA, ULTRA and MERLIN, as well as the CrossBeam (FIB-SEM) workstations AURIGA, NVision and NEON.

31 Aug 2009

Previously Undetectable Bending of Carbon Nanotubes Caught on Video

The wiggling rainbows are pretty to look at, and what they represent is certainly intriguing. Rice scientists have created a video of bending and flexing carbon nanotubes to show once-undetectable characteristics that may someday be tuned for medical and industrial use.

31 Aug 2009

Rutgers Wins Multi Million Grants for Energy Resources Using Bio and Nanotechnology

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 million to fund graduate research in clean and sustainable energy resources using biotechnology and nanotechnology. The foundatio...

31 Aug 2009

Control over Single Electrons Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer

Researchers of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the TU Delft have succeeded in getting a grip on the environment of a quantum particle, thereby increasing the control over single electrons. With this result, the tea...

31 Aug 2009

High End Wool Product Incorporates Gold and Silver

A Victoria University scientist has won a prestigious innovation award for turning pure New Zealand Merino wool into gold. Professor Jim Johnston was this week awarded one of five 2009 Bayer Innovators Awards for develop...

31 Aug 2009

Neo Material Technologies Completes Acquisition of Recapture Metals

Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX: NEM) (the "Company" or "Neo") announced the closing today of the acquisition whereby Neo has acquired 100% of all issued and outstanding shares of Recapture Metals...

31 Aug 2009

Gold-Platinum Nanocatalysts for Industrial Applications

Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week with a polym...

31 Aug 2009

Huntsman to Purchase Titanium Dioxide Assets from Tronox

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) today announced that it signed a "stalking horse" asset and equity purchase agreement pursuant to which its wholly-owned subsidiary Huntsman Pigments LLC has agreed to acquire t...

From Huntsman International LLC 31 Aug 2009

Dow Corning Experts Host Successful Forum on Silicone Glazing Technology

Dow Corning experts, Larry Carbary, Andreas Wolf, and Patrice Sauro moderated the first ever forum for architects, with leadership from Professor Knaack from the Delft University of Technology, at the 2009 Glass Performa...

From Dow Corning 31 Aug 2009

Metallofullerenes can Form Ordered Supramolecular Structures

Small, smaller, “nano” data storage! Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes – carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds – as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers at Empa have discovered that metallofullerenes are capable of forming ordered supramolecular structures with different orientations.

31 Aug 2009

Master Bond's Silicone Conformal Coating Protects Electronic Circuits

Moisture-curing silicone conformal coatings are ideally suited as protective coatings for sensitive board components in demanding environments. However, electronic manufacturers avoided the use of silicone coatings in electronic packaging due to their long cure schedule that did not allow rapid assembly. Master Bond has developed a rapid tack free, ready-to-use silicone conformal coating called Master Sil 773, formulated to provide excellent protection to electronic circuitry in high humidity environments as well as upon exposure to shock and vibration.

From Master Bond Inc. 31 Aug 2009