Researchers around Dr. Michael Hirtz from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan from the University of Manchester have developed a new method to produce artificial membranes: Using a nanoscaled tip, they write tailored patches of phospholipid membrane onto a graphene substrate.
Oct 14th, 2013
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Scientists of Kiel University unravel widespread natural adhesion system.
Oct 14th, 2013
Read moreFree Guidebook to the UK's World Class Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Sector.
Oct 12th, 2013
Read moreResearchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI). In a new paper in the journal AIP Advances, the international collaborators report that they grew two types of TI materials inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber on both smooth and rough surfaces and then evaluated their abilities to transport electrons.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have developed a material that can be used for the controlled release of a substance when subjected to cyclic mechanical loading.
Oct 11th, 2013
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A researcher at the University of Rochester has developed a process to grow highly customizable coatings of foam-like polymers.
Oct 11th, 2013
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The Graphene Flagship - one of Europe's first ten-year, 1,000 million Euro flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies - was launched during a ceremony in Gothenburg today.
Oct 11th, 2013
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Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications.
Oct 11th, 2013
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New work opens the fascinating prospects of single-molecule microscopy and spectroscopy on a smart phone. One can now speculate on the possible applications of such a portable imaging device and on the perspectives it may open in different fields of science and technology.
Oct 11th, 2013
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Researchers fabricate all-carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates through CVD and transfer methods.
Oct 11th, 2013
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A sequence of ring-forming chemical reactions produces organic semiconductors ideal for flexible electronic device applications.
Oct 11th, 2013
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Researchers in Japan have demonstrated a scalable fabrication method that greatly eases the production of metamaterials that can interact with light at visible wavelengths.
Oct 11th, 2013
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A breakthrough in photonics that will help create extremely compact optical chips, a hair's width in size and delivering a photon at a time, has been achieved by researchers from the University of Sydney.
Oct 11th, 2013
Read moreInvestment by leading technology companies will create 1,000 new jobs, establish computer chip commercialization consortium to jump-start Nano Utica under construction at SUNYIT.
Oct 10th, 2013
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A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda.
Oct 10th, 2013
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Researchers have used an electron microscope to bend, deform and melt the one-molecule-thick glass. These are all things that happen just before glass shatters, and for the first time, the researchers have directly imaged such deformations and the resulting 'dance' of rearranging atoms in silica glass.
Oct 10th, 2013
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