Chips that can steer light with nanophotonic arrays
Record-setting 'optical phased arrays' could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreRecord-setting 'optical phased arrays' could lead to better laser rangefinders, smaller medical-imaging devices and even holographic TVs.
Jan 10th, 2013
Read moreOver the past decade or so, atomtronics has been under development, employing not electrons but neutral atoms as the vehicle for information. The latest chapter in this development is the demonstration of a rudimentary atomtronic analog of capacitance
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreA noted researcher in nanomedicine will deliver the inaugural presentation in "The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture" at the next National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreScientists are reporting development of chemical modules that can reproduce, on an "unprecedented" molecular level, changes and interactions that occur in natural populations of plants and animals, including those of hunting and being hunted for food, conducting mutually beneficial relationships and competing for resources.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreScientists have set a world record for energy storage, using a clever "yolk-shell" design to store five times more energy in the sulfur cathode of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery than is possible with today's commercial technology.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreA new review highlights the progress of nanocatalysis through metal, bimetallic nanoparticle, metal semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and oxide nanoparticles for various reactions.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreHaving blood drawn and analyzed to diagnose disease is a process that can take a few days, but what if your doctor could perform this analysis in moments, right before your eyes? That's the promise of "lab on a chip" technology, and researchers are working on a variety of fronts to remove technical roadblocks.
Jan 9th, 2013
Read moreBy taking a "bottom-up" approach, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have observed for the first time that "size does matter" in regards "pyroelectricity" - the current/voltage developed in response to temperature fluctuations that enables technologies such as infrared sensors, night-vision, and energy conversion units, to name a few.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreNew device could contribute to a major increase in the rate of future optical communications.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated a new technology that combines a laser and electric fields to create tiny centrifuge-like whirlpools to separate particles and microbes by size, a potential lab-on-a-chip system for medicine and research.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreGraphene oxide has a remarkable ability to quickly remove radioactive material from contaminated water, researchers at Rice University and Lomonosov Moscow State University have found.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreNew bio-inspired coating that increases LED efficiency by 55 percent.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreNew research looks at the dynamics of how DNA molecules are captured by solid-state nanopores, tiny holes that soon may help sequence DNA at lightning speed.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreResearchers found an integrated experimental and computational approach that demonstrates a lithium-ion composition-dependent stability of vacancy-enriched cubic TiO2 anode subjected to high pressures in the GPa range.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreTo understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales - from the behavior of a single tumor cell in the body on down to the activity of that cell's inner machinery.
Jan 8th, 2013
Read moreA new review describes the latest developments of applications in this emerging field, including the rising research about photothermal therapy for Alzheimer's disease and cancer, human telomerase and other cancer biomarker/cancer cells diagnosis, drug/nucleotide/peptide delivery and cell imaging, and proliferation and differentiation of stem cell on graphene platforms.
Jan 8th, 2013
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