Scientists in Japan have jointly succeeded in the atomic level analysis of the reactivity and selectivity of the dimerization reaction of fullerene molecules.

Solar cells, or photovoltaic cells, are used to convert sunlight into electrical power. As traditional power sources grow scarce, other forms of producing electrical power are gaining firm footing in the power supply mix. Solar cells are already widely used in a variety of applications - from spacecraft, to small portable devices, to farm installations, to roadway signs. As energy prices increase, public demand for solar power has surged. In order to meet the longevity, yield, and price requirements of consumers and industry, public and private sector research has increased dramatically. While traditional tools are helpful to investigate and improve solar cells, AFM/SPM offers metrology, topography and roughness analysis at much higher resolution than with optical techniques.

The program committee invites all discussions of anthropological, cultural, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical, political, and sociological aspects of nanosciences and emerging technologies.

Life Technologies Corporationhas announced early stage results from its single molecule sequencing (SMS) technology.

PerkinElmer, Inc. today announced the launch of the NexION 300 Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for elemental analysis at PITTCON 2010.

Bruker BioSpin announces the new Fourier 300, an innovative, easy-to-use 300 MHz high-resolution spectrometer that brings Fourier transform (FT) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy within every chemist's reach.

Scientists from the Functional Materials Group at the University of Kent's School of Physical Sciences have expanded the potential uses of glass by developing an experimental technique that reveals more clearly how atoms in glass vibrate.

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it has shipped two wafer bonding systems to the University of Michigan's Lurie Nanofabrication Facility.

New RFID-compatible EEPROMs simplify lifetime management and enable new features and capabilities.

Rice University and IBM today unveiled a new high-performance computing (HPC) initiative for biomedical and life sciences research that features one of the most powerful supercomputers in the Texas Medical Center. Rice scientists will use the supercomputer in collaboration with researchers from across the medical center to study cancer, AIDS and other complex diseases.

The company was honored with this highly coveted award for its innovative CoMoCAT nanotube production process.

Tested on fathead minnows - an organism often used to test the effects of toxicity on aquatic life - nanosilver suspended in solution proved toxic and even lethal to the minnows. When the nanosilver was allowed to settle, the solution became several times less toxic but still caused malformations in the minnows.

Longtime Purdue University professor James Cooper has been named interim director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, a Discovery Park facility he helped lead during its startup.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. today launches the Evolution Array, a new UV-Visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometer driven by photodiode array (PDA) technology that offers dramatic improvements in laboratory throughput.

The company today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received approximately $8.5 million in solar orders for its diffusion processing systems from two new customers in Asia and one new customer in Europe.

The contract provides funding to complete studies required to file an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with the FDA for the company's lead human papillomavirus (HPV)-cancer product late in 2010.

Microfluidic technology increases efficiency, reduces costs, and could be a boon for synthetic biology.

Dr. Valery Felmetsger will speak on Tegal's latest AlN PVD process advances for electro-acoustic device fabrication and for other piezoelectric MEMS applications.

A new study reveals that thermocells based on carbon nanotube electrodes might eventually be used for generating electrical energy from heat discarded by chemical plants, automobiles and solar cell farms.