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NT-MDT has announced the first finalists of the annual international competition of AFM-images ProIMAGE Contest 2012! The annual international competition of AFM-images, ProIMAGE Contest started on...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of AFM systems in the group of Dr Bart Hoogenboom of the...
I was just made aware of another book (published in August of 2011) that has a Space Elevator as a “major player”. This book, The Tower of Babel: NASA’s Great Endeavor, was written by Dr. Victor Nelson. We hadn’t heard of him and he hadn’t heard of ISEC until very recently. After some brief correspondence [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Michele Griffa for winning a Soft Matter poster prize at the conference ‘Micro-structure, setting and aging of cement: from soft-matter physics to sustainable materials.’
His winning poster was titled “Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity and microstructural developments in cement-based materials due to micro-damage processes”.
Dr. Michele Griffa works at the Concrete and Construction Chemistry Laboratory Empa [...]
Space Elevator Conference chair David Horn was interviewed by BBC’s Richard Hollingham recently and the result of that interview is posted here, on the BBC Future website.
It’s a good article and gets the basic facts right. It does incorrectly state that ISEC has been the organizer of the Space Elevator Conferences for the past 10 years (this is the [...]
A Hot Review from Tagliazucchi and Szleifer discussing macromolecular layers on nano-curved surfaces. Topics include the fast-growing field of polymer- and polyelectrolyte-modified nanopores and nanochannels, and the practical implications of introducing soft materials into nanofluidic devices.
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Stimuli-responsive polymers grafted to nanopores and other nano-curved surfaces: structure, chemical equilibrium and transport
Mario [...]Bruker today announced the release of the Photoconductive Atomic Force Microscopy (pcAFM) module for its industry leading Dimension Icon platform. The new accessory enables sample illumination while...Bruker announced today the release of the new PeakForce Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM) mode for its line of atomic force microscopes (AFMs). PeakForce KPFM utilizes frequency-modulation...
The tissues of the body deal with extreme stresses and mechanical loads daily. Tendons, joints, ligaments and similar tissues are precisely engineered by the body to deal with these pressures through intricately crafted structures. These structures are highly resistant to the wear and tear of daily use, but nonetheless are very difficult to repair following [...]
NT-MDT is happy to announce the webinar "AFM imaging of DNA related structures". The speaker of the webinar is noted scientist Dr. Alexander Kotlyar, Professor of Tel Aviv University, Israel. Dr....
Spider silk has outstanding mechanical properties, and the study of this biomaterial can lead to the development of synthetic high performance fibers. However, there is still limited knowledge of how the structure of silk affects the mechanical properties.
Plaza and co-workers studied the microstructural changes of supercontracted major ampullate silk fibres during deformation, in our first Hot Paper. [...]