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Latest IMM-newsletter "IMMage" published
Special issue "reforming technology" „Micro systems for the people" was the motto of the last issue of our newsletter "IMMage". The urgent need for a sustainable, environmentally sound and resource sparing energy supply is certainly one of the questions concerning our... view more (2004-07-13)

New NASA satellites shipped to launch site
NASA 's Space Technology 5 (ST5) micro-satellites have arrived at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., launch site and are in the beginning stages of final launch preparation. ST5 is scheduled to launch in February 2006.   view more (2005-12-21)

Surrey successfully launch two more satellites
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) yesterday successfully launched its two latest satellites. SNAP-1, weighing just 6.5kg, the world's most advanced nanosatellite, was launched with another Surrey-built satellite, Tsinghua-1 - a microsatellite built as a collaborative project with Chinese... view more (2000-06-29)

Milestone in Microsystems Technology
Lithographic processes are applied to manufacturing components of microsystem technology. In X-ray as well as UV ranges the SU-8™ photoresist allows for the production of three-dimensional metallic micro structures with large aspect rations by LIGA (Lithography Electroplating Moulding)... view more (2003-10-16)

VTT technology helps in the assembly of microscopic components
Nowadays, micro-sized components that are invisible to the human eye are already being used both in electronics products and elsewhere. Components range from a millimetre to a micrometre in size and are getting even smaller. VTT has developed a unique prototype machine viewer system for use in the... view more (2001-12-05)

UCSB researchers show how to make polymeric micro- and nanoparticles
Researchers in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara have discovered how to make polymeric micro- and nanoparticles in a wide variety of different shapes and sizes using commonly-available lab chemicals and equipment.   view more (2007-07-10)

New method provides better earthquake warnings
The new method of analysis makes it possible to estimate the complete stress tensor and monitor changes in the magnitude of stress and the instability of faults, which roots the analysis in physics in a manner that earthquake methods normally lack.   view more (2007-01-15)

ACHEMASIA 2004: Scale-out for Highest Product Purity
The Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM) has developed a flexible system which evenly distributes a liquid flow to six different micromixers without an active flow regulation being necessary. The liquid distribution system was operated with selected impinging jet micro mixers and... view more (2004-05-13)

New satellite and microwave-based systems for highway toll payment
Robotiker Telecom is collaborating with Telvent traffic, road transport and toll payment systems R+D group in the design of satellite and microwave (wireless) tele-payment at highway/motorway toll booths.   view more (2004-11-23)

Gas-guzzling bacteria
The discovery of a new soil bacterium that consumes methane by oxidising it under atmospheric conditions is reported in Nature, out today. In well-drained soils, these methane-oxidising bacteria can reduce atmospheric levels of methane by 10 per cent. Methane is an important greenhouse gas, and... view more (2000-05-10)

SSTL win BNSC rural broadband study
The British National Space Centre has awarded Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), and Avanti Communications Limited a £100,000 study contract to examine the provision of satellite based broadband services. The study will focus on the provision of cost-effective broadband internet... view more (2003-08-06)

Science From Space
Scientists working at the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol will be staying up all night to watch the lift-off of the largest and most powerful Earth observation satellite ever to be launched by the European Space Agency. The satellite, called ENVISAT, is 25 metres high, ten... view more (2002-02-28)

ESA assessing the situation to bring the Artemis satellite back into the right orbit
Ground controllers are evaluating possibilities to recover the mission of the Artemis telecommunications satellite, one of two spacecraft launched by a European Ariane 5 vehicle on Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 18:58 local time in Kourou, French Guiana , 23:58 (CEST), but that was left stranded in a... view more (2001-07-13)

Scientists isolate world's oldest recorded plant virus
A Japanese poem written by Empress Koken, in the summer of 752AD, is thought to be the world's first record of a plant virus. Scientists from the John Innes Centre in Norwich (JIC)(1) have today reported, for the first time, the isolation and characterisation of the plant virus (eupatorium yellow... view more (2003-04-25)

International Training-centre Micro-electronics
Tsinghua University and TU Delft sign agreement International Training-centre Micro-electronics in Beijing a Fact TU Delft and the Tsinghua University of Beijing have signed an agreement for the foundation of an international training centre for micro-electronics in Beijing. The chairman of TU... view more (2001-05-03)

SSTL gets ready to launch two new satellites
Tsinghua-1 & SNAP-1, the two latest satellites built at SSTL, have been shipped from the UK to the launch site at Plesetsk, Northern Russia. They are being readied for launch at midday Wednesday June 28 onboard a COSMOS rocket as secondary payloads alongside the Russian Nadezhda COSPAS-SARSAT... view more (2000-06-27)

BIOTECHNICA 2003: At the Pulse of the Chip Lab
The clinical and industrial analytics as well as diagnostics show an increasing demand for more sensitive and more rapid detection methods using smallest sample volumes. Within the BMBF joint project "MODULAB" a „chip-based-lab" construction kit is developed in which all the... view more (2003-10-07)

No Magic: Catalysts from the Cylinder
The Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM) has further developed its catalyst screening reactor for heterogenously catalytical applications. The new cylindrical shape of the stainless steel screening reactor (Catalyst Testing Micro Reactor CTMR) allows test temperatures of up to 800°... view more (2004-04-19)

Pinpoint accuracy with the Proba camera
A new star tracker allowing a satellite to determine its orientation in space with an accuracy never seen before has proved its worth aboard ESA`s Proba mission. Proba (Project for On-Board Autonomy) built by Verhaert (Belgium) for ESA was launched in Autumn 2001 and is now fully operational,... view more (2002-06-04)

Irish airport to take part in the EGNOS system
On 24 July, ESA signed a contract with the Irish Aviation Authority to install satellite navigation equipment at Cork airport in Ireland. This will form part of EGNOS, Europe's first venture into satellite navigation and the first step on the way to Galileo, Europe's own satellite navigation system... view more (2001-08-09)

Growing green gold
A new way to make gold form inside the cells of a micro-organism is published today in the Institute of Physics journal Nanotechnology. Researchers from the National Chemical Laboratory and the Armed Forces Medical College, both in Pune, India, have been using “green chemistry” to... view more (2003-06-06)

Press invitation: "The first check-up of the Earth", media event Frascati, Italy
During the night of 28 February/1 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Envisat satellite on an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.   view more (2002-03-14)

MEDIA BRIEFING: Sustainable Production: Nanotechnologies Lead the Way
MONDAY 7 OCTOBER 2002, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen Building on the highly successful briefing held in at the MINATEC Centre in Grenoble in June, the European Commission will organise a follow-up, targeted briefing which will focus on the key role of micro and nanotechnologies in... view more (2002-09-11)

Flight 146 a success
In the early hours of this morning Flight 146 blasted off into the skies of Kourou, the site of Europe's spaceport. On board the Ariane-4 launcher was the Direct-4S telecommunications satellite tailored to offer viewers in the United States a wide choice of local TV channels. The flight campaign... view more (2001-11-27)

New micro instrument controls medicine flows
Research scientists at the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory in Oslo have developed a flow metre with fluid channels thinner than a strand of hair. The new device controls that patients receive the correct dosage of medicine.   view more (2004-11-03)
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