| Patterned Surfaces Mimicking Nano-Scale Structure of Butterfly Wings Can Produce Impressive Optical Effects Many animals, including birds, beetles, fish and butterflies, get their beautiful colors not only from pigments, but also from nano-scale structures that manipulate light. Now, such natural wo... |
| Nanocrystal Synthesis: Breaking Down Barriers At the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR, in Singapore, Jun Yang and Jackie Ying* have developed a new protocol for the synthesis of tiny metal and semiconductor... |
| Narrow-Width Graphene Ribbons Having Strong Effect on Elastic Properties Graphene sheets are strong and stable, and have highly mobile charge carriers that could make them prime components in nanometer-scale electronics. In particular, very narrow graphene ribbons ... |
| 5th Annual Livingston Nanotechnology Conference Will Return to New York City Livingston Securities LLC today announced that its 5th annual Livingston Nanotechnology Conference will return to New York City, being held at the Lighthouse Center on Monday, December 7th... |
| Getting Custom-Shaped Microparticles to Interact and Self-Assemble in a Controlled Way Chemists and physicists have succeeded in getting custom-shaped microparticles to interact and self-assemble in a controlled way in a liquid crystal. The research, federally funded by the Nati... |
| HRL Laboratories Issued Its 500th Patent HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today that it has obtained its 500th patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. An independent research and development company located in Malibu, CA, ... |
| Understanding the Chemical Analysis and Biological Sensing on the Molecular Scale Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences lead by Prof. Yuanhua Shao's group have recently studied the kinetics of several ion transfer (IT) reactions at the water/1,2-dichloroethane ... |
| Carl Zeiss Performs Initial Installations of Platform Shuttle+Find Together with several pilot customers, Carl Zeiss has started application development for correlative microscopy in materials analysis and performed the initial installations of the platform S... |
| Suspect Nano-Ingredients Found in Big Name Cosmetics Testing commissioned by Friends of the Earth has found nanoparticles in foundations and concealers sold by big name brands, including Revlon, Clarins, Clinique, Max Factor, the Body ... |
| Article Focuses on CVD's Solutions for Depositing Transparent Conductive Oxide on Glass CVD Equipment Corporation (CVD) (NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that an article about the Company was published in the November issue of Photovoltaics World magazine titled "Off-line APCVD ... |