Comments on: Nanotechnology tool takes things apart atom by atom

By: Maurice DuBois

Maurice DuBois — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:27:32 +0000

please send me more info.

very interested in stock potentials!

thank you

Mr. Maurice DuBois

By: Christine Peterson

Christine Peterson — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:07:53 +0000

Thanks to those of you sending corrections to the story. That’s one good thing about the web: it is possible to post corrections attached directly to the problematic item.

Sounds like NUCAPT could benefit from some more aggressive PR. —Christine

By: Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography

Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:21:01 +0000

Inaccurate Small Times Article on NUCAPT/Ford collaboration spreads

Another mention of the Ford-NU collaboration, but no link to NUCAPT (even when we have sexy pictures). Worse, there are inaccuracies.

By: Martin G. Smith

Martin G. Smith — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:10:33 +0000

Christine – this is indeed interesting news, yet with a price point beyond the reach of most research labs these days, one wonders if access to the technology will remain beyond the reach of all but the well connected and thus, funded. That said however, there is also the opportunity to bring such a tool within the reach of the wider research community, having just committed CDN $3.5 Million to a major upgrade of our main facility, the opportunity stands to create a new resource, a free standing resource, an opportunity, this very day, being actively investigated. Thank you, as always, for your diligence in keeping current with the Crest of the Wave.
As an aside, we were discussing the whole process which brought the crew at Camp One into the world on NanoTechology, one member said ‘Yeah, we have to find someone to blame.’ Foresight was the unanimous choice.

By: Phillip Huggan

Phillip Huggan — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:00:51 +0000

It is hard to discern what new nanotechnology tools (new one invented every month or two) may be useful for MNT. This one could fit the bill.

Its neat that they can construct an accurate map of a material’s surface from a remote detector screen rather than directly like an SPM does.

By: atom prober

atom prober — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:24:32 +0000

The Small Times article has a number of inaccuracies in it. Some of these made it into your excerpt. There are more than four LEAPs in North America, the instrument can use either a laser or high voltage to ionize atoms, it must use a mass spec to measure the identity, and hasn't been used on plastics very much. To see some of the atomic images, you can browse the website of the Northwestern University Center for Atom-Probe Tomography, who owns the LEAP Ford will use.