Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels
Creative engineering produces hollow nanoshell whispering galleries that trap light to improve performance of thin solar films.
Feb 7th, 2012
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New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials
Website offers a way of optimizing solar cell materials and production.
Feb 7th, 2012
Read moreFirst industrial-scale foam forming research environment for forest sector
VTT Finland invests to new sustainable and added value fiber-based products for the forest sector.
Feb 7th, 2012
Read moreBronze-Matryoshka: The metal in the metal in the metal - design of new, highly efficient catalysts
A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surfaces these structures can serve as highly efficient catalysts.
Feb 7th, 2012
Read moreSmallest tools could give biggest results in bone repair
When William Murphy works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, he thinks about making tools that can fit together. These constructions sound a bit like socket wrenches, which can be assembled to turn a half-inch nut in tight quarters, or to loosen a rusted-tight one-inch bolt using a very persuasive lever. The tools used by Murphy, however, are proteins, which are vastly more flexible than socket wrenches - and roughly 100 million times smaller. One end of his modular tool may connect to bone, while the other end may stimulate the growth of bone, blood vessels or cartilage.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreDARPA's SyNAPSE program name one of best innovations of 2011
The DARPA Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program seeks to realize this goal by creating electronic systems inspired by the human brain that can understand, adapt and respond to information in fundamentally different ways than traditional computers.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreNanomaterials "just out of REACH" of European regulations
REACH, the European Union's primary regulation on chemicals is failing to identify or control nanomaterials. That is the conclusion of "Just Out of REACH: How REACH is failing to regulate nanomaterials and how it can be fixed", a new report by the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Feb 6th, 2012
Read morePlaying RFID tag with sheets of paper
Researchers in France have developed a way to deposit a thin aluminum RFID tag on to paper that not only reduces the amount of metal needed for the tag, and so the cost, but could open up RFID tagging to many more systems, even allowing a single printed sheet or flyer to be tagged
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreWorld's largest nanotechnology fair will open next week in Tokyo
Bringing together the latest nanotechnology ideas and products contributing to life and green innovation.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreCooking with carbon spaghetti - new fabrication routes for carbon nanotubes
A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreEngineers weld nanowires with light
Harnessing plasmonics, the engineers are able to very accurately weld tiny silver wires that could usher in new electronics and solar applications.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreThe butterfly effect in nanomedical diagnostics
Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical diagnostics.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreNanorod-assembled order affects diffusion rate and direction
3-D computer simulations reveal diffusional behavior.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreNanoscopy delivers sharp images from the living mouse brain
Max Planck scientists in Goettingen have for the first time made finest details of nerve cells in the brain of a living mouse visible.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read morePhotonics technology roadshow - free events
A series of one day regional roadshows will facilitate face-to-face discussions with scientists and researchers who work with the latest tools and techniques in the world of photonics. The first meeting will be held at Imperial College, London on Thursday 26th April.
Feb 6th, 2012
Read moreMaterials for first optical fibers with high-speed electronic function are developed
For the first time, a group of chemists, physicists, and engineers has developed crystalline materials that allow an optical fiber to have integrated, high-speed electronic functions. The potential applications of such optical fibers include improved telecommunications and other hybrid optical and electronic technologies, improved laser technology, and more-accurate remote-sensing devices.
Feb 5th, 2012
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