All Articles Tagged As: tools

Discovering new tools for nanoscience (4/3/2010)

Directors of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science discuss their new "high-risk, high-payoff" mission to push the technology of observation, measurement and control to ever-smaller dimensions. ...> Full Article

Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects (8/31/2009)

Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers. ...> Full Article

New tool for next-generation cancer treatments using nanodiamonds (5/20/2009)

A research team at Northwestern University has demonstrated use of a Nanofountain Probe that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. ...> Full Article

Nanotechnologists gain powerful new materials probe (2/27/2009)

Researchers at NIST and The Johns Hopkins University have constructed a unique tool for exploring the properties of promising new materials with unprecedented sensitivity and speed, potentially allowing them to identify quickly those most useful for nanotechnology and industrial applications. ...> Full Article

Researchers Write Protein Nanoarrays Using a Fountain Pen and Electric Fields (10/19/2008)

Team of researchers have demonstrated the ability to rapidly write nanoscale protein arrays using a tool they call the nanofountain probe. ...> Full Article

New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision (8/21/2008)

Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer hard drives. ...> Full Article

Scientists discover new method of observing interactions in nanoscale systems (1/18/2008)

Scientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle usually would prohibit, according to a study published Jan. 17 in the journal Nature. ...> Full Article

Atomic-level microscopy now 100 times faster (11/4/2007)

Using an existing technique in a novel way, researchers have made the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) -- which can image individual atoms on a surface -- at least 100 times faster. ...> Full Article

Researchers develop 'tractor beam' for manipulation of cells on silicon (11/4/2007)

Tool could manipulate tiny objects on a chip ...> Full Article

New force-fluorescence device measures motion previously undetectable (10/12/2007)

A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton forces. ...> Full Article

Science of Ultra-Small Poised to Bring Gigantic Gains, University Positions Itself as Nanotechnology Leader (9/30/2007)

The University of Alabama is the third academic institution in the nation to purchase a Local Electron Atom Probe, which is used to determine the position and type of atoms in various materials and view the structure in 3-D. ...> Full Article