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Coating Uses Sunlight to Clean Building Exteriors

Imagine the exterior of your house always looking good, without cleaning or giving it a new coat of paint. This is now possible with paint that can maintain itself and get rid of accumulated dirt on its own.

26 Nov 2008

PI Selects Avago Technologies' Miniature Reflective Encoder for Its Ultrasonic Piezomotors

Avago Technologies has announced that Physik Instrumente (PI), a German manufacturer of piezo ultrasonic drives, has selected its miniature AEDR-8320 high resolution reflective encoder for use in their M-664KCEP vertical drive used in bio-handling dispenser applications.

26 Nov 2008

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Cost-Effective Diffuse Reflectance Accessory

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new Thermo Scientific Diffuse Reflectance Accessory, specially designed to complement the powerful Evolution(TM) 300 UV-Visible spectrophotometer.

25 Nov 2008

Rice University Nanophotonics Pioneer Wins High-Profile National Security Award

Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has been named a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) by the Department of Defense. Halas is one of just six fellows chosen from more than 650 nominees this year for the prestigious program.

25 Nov 2008

Novel Accessory Creates 'Two-in-One' Reflection- and Transmission High-Temperature XRD System

Modern materials science demands sophisticated tools to perform investigations in defined environments and under controlled temperature conditions. Non-ambient X-ray diffraction (XRD) is established for a wide range of industrial and research applications.

From PANalytical 24 Nov 2008

New Ways of Squeezing Out Greater Efficiency from Solar Photovoltaic Cells

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.

24 Nov 2008

Using Gyroid Structure to "Self-Assemble" a Low-Cost Photovoltaic Cell

You never know where basic research may lead. For decades materials scientists have been experimenting with a corkscrew-like polymer structure called a gyroid. Now an international team of researchers has shown that the gyroid structure can be used to "self-assemble" a low-cost photovoltaic cell.

24 Nov 2008

Scientists Conjured New Idea for Invisibility Cloak

Two physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisibility require exotic materials and would only work at certain colours of light.

23 Nov 2008

Powerful New Software for Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Applications

The Olympus ASW v2.0 Software Suite is designed to maximize performance and ease-of-use for the new line of FluoView® FV1000 confocal and FV1000-MPE multiphoton laser scanning microscope systems.

21 Nov 2008

Carl Zeiss Setting New Record Resolution Benchmark for Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopy

Carl Zeiss SMT has set a new record resolution benchmark for scanning electron and ion microscopy - pushing scanning beam technologies beyond its current limits.

21 Nov 2008

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