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ThinFilmID

ThinFilmID software determines in-situ composition and thickness of thin film structures.
18 June 2010

Safety first with UV light

New Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010, brought into law in Great Britain on 27th April 2010, the occupational UV light exposure limits specified by the EU Optical Radiation Directive 2006/25/EC
13 May 2010

Semiconductor nanowire devices

In the past ten years the idea of using self-assembled nanostructures to overcome the limitations of top-down fabrication approach was the driving force behind the tremendous interest in semiconducting nanowires and nanotubes.
27 November 2008

Carbon nanotube-based neat fibers

Macroscopic fibers containing only Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) will yield great advances in high-tech applications if they can attain a significant portion of the extraordinary mechanical and electrical properties of individual CNTs.
27 November 2008

Spiderman gloves

Theoretical van der Waals gloves could generate an adhesion force comparable to the body weight of 500 men.
27 November 2008

Nanoparticle-modified polyelectrolyte capsules

The concept of polyelectrolyte capsules as multifunctional carrier systems is described. The walls of a capsule can be functionalized with fluorescent, magnetic, and heatable colloidal nanoparticles and also biological macromolecules, while its cavity can be loaded with cargo molecules. Potential applications of this carrier system for delivery and sensing in cells are discussed.
10 June 2008

Self-assembling peptide nanotubes

Biological proteins and peptides have the intrinsic ability to self-assemble into elongated solid nanofibrils, which may give rise to amyloid diseases or inspire applications ranging from tissue engineering to nanoelectronics.
10 June 2008

Novel nanostructures for SERS biosensing

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful analytical tool for chemical and biological sensing applications. However, one feature which has limited its use in biosensing applications is the difficulty involved in producing uniform, highly sensitive, and reproducible SERS substrates.
10 June 2008

Block copolymer nanostructures

One of the most important classes of synthetic systems for creating self-assembled nanostructures is amphiphilic block copolymers.
10 June 2008

Cantilever dynamics in atomic force microscopy

Dynamic atomic force microscopy, in essence, consists of a vibrating microcantilever with a nanoscale tip that interacts with a sample surface via short- and long-range intermolecular forces. Microcantilevers possess several distinct eigenmodes and the tip-sample interaction forces are highly nonlinear.
28 February 2008

Magnetic sensitive force microscopy

High-resolution magnetic imaging down to the atomic scale is of utmost importance to understand magnetism on the nanoscale and below.
28 February 2008

Protein-nanoparticle interactions

The key role of protein-nanoparticle interactions in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity has begun to emerge recently with the development of the idea of the nanoparticle-protein ‘corona’.
28 February 2008

The toxicological impact of nanoparticles

Nanotechnology is a relatively new and vast field.
28 February 2008

A tale of opportunities, uncertainties, and risks

Nanoscience and nanotechnologies are expected to change industrial production and economics over the decades to come. This new field is also exciting since it sweeps away the traditional barriers between disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and biology.
28 February 2008