McDermott Will and Emery offer their Special Report '2013 Nanotechnology Patent Literature Review: Graphitic Carbon-Based Nanotechnology and Energy Applications Are on the Rise' as a continuing study of trends observed in our 2013 and 2012 reports, and also present a renewed focus on trends in the energy sector.
Feb 13th, 2014
Read moreA paper-based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China.
Feb 13th, 2014
Read moreChemists have developed a one-pot synthesis process to encapsulate nanoparticles. This type of particle could improve the antimicrobial coating of implants.
Feb 13th, 2014
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Using a superfluid atomtronic circuit, physicists have demonstrated a tool that is critical to electronics: hysteresis. This is the first time that hysteresis has been observed in an ultracold atomic gas.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreNew research at the University of Arkansas reveals a novel magnetoelectric effect that makes it possible to control magnetism with an electric field.
Feb 12th, 2014
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Joint research on super-resolution microscopy from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Cambridge has been selected as a highlight of 2013 by the Journal of Optics, making it freely available to view online.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreThe Spanish foundation BBVA honors Haider, together with Prof. Harald Rose, senior professor at Ulm University, and Prof. Knut Urban, Forschungszentrum J�lich, for the development of a new generation of so-called aberration-corrected electron microscopes that reach resolutions in the atomic range.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreAccording to Fourier's law, heat spreads evenly throughout a system. For two- and one-dimensional objects such as films or the finest of wires, however, other rules seem to apply. Scientists have now pinned these down.
Feb 12th, 2014
Read moreAdding carbon gives iron-platinum nanocrystals the ideal optical properties for heat-assisted magnetic recording.
Feb 12th, 2014
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Nanoparticles with a core-shell structure can minimize the overheating of cells during bioimaging experiments.
Feb 12th, 2014
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Simulating the magnetic properties of nanostructures could help to design electronic memories with increased storage capacity.
Feb 12th, 2014
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Scientists have used both simulations and experiments to investigate the nonlocal effects displayed by electrons in metal nanostructures.
Feb 12th, 2014
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Molecular physicists from Radboud University Nijmegen have produced images of the changes in direction of colliding nitrogen monoxide molecules (NO) with unprecedented sharpness. By combining a Stark decelerator with advanced imaging techniques, they were able to obtain very high resolution images of the collision processes.
Feb 11th, 2014
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Scientists have discovered that a polymer can provide a key to get into tumors: They have developed a new paradigm to home nanoparticles, containers that measure a few 100 nanometers in size, to endothelial cells.
Feb 11th, 2014
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Researchers at the University of Vienna unveiled the superconducting pairing mechanism in Calcium doped graphene using the ARPES method.
Feb 11th, 2014
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By varying the geometry of the nanoholes in plasmonic color filters - their diameter, shape, periodicity and pattern - it is possible to control the colors that are transmitted and to create transmit a broad spectrum of colors for imaging applications.
Feb 11th, 2014
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