Carbon nanotubes are known for their remarkable mechanical and electrical properties - but can these properties be improved upon? Calculations have now shown that three-dimensional arrays of nanotubes could have strikingly enhanced mechanical and electronic properties.
Dec 5th, 2011
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Similar proteins demonstrate different charge transport characteristics offering a route to biological electronic devices.
Dec 5th, 2011
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Researchers in Japan have developed a photoluminescent liquid-crystalline material that can switch between three colors in response to both mechanical and thermal stimuli.
Dec 5th, 2011
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Magnetoresistance in silicon can be enhanced to match that of commercial devices by designing appropriate device geometries.
Dec 5th, 2011
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By changing the organic molecule that coats gold nanorods, scientists at Rice University in Houston have increased the number of gold nanorods inserted into a single, living cell to over 2 million. The previous record was 150,000. This achievement could greatly improve photothermal therapy for cancer, which uses near-IR light to heat nanorods inside cancer cells to destroy them.
Dec 5th, 2011
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Biomedical engineer Marissa Nichole Rylander, associate professor jointly appointed in the mechanical engineering department and Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, at Virginia Tech is the recipient of the 2012 Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award.
Dec 5th, 2011
Read moreU.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Armed Services Committee, secured Senate approval for an increased focus onnanotechnology research by the Defense Department, including a study to determine the need for a center for nanotechnology.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreBased on a new detection method to access previously unobtainable measurements in atomic gases.
Dec 2nd, 2011
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Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories across the U.S. who have fabricated piezoelectric thin films with record-setting properties.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreA recent review in the edition of Nature Nanotechnology examines the technical challenges in the field of structural DNA nanotechnology and outlines some of the promising applications that could be developed if these hurdles can be overcome.
Dec 2nd, 2011
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Mit der Konferenz "Next Generation Solar Energy - From Fundamentals to Applications" ist es der Bayern Innovativ GmbH und ihren Partnern erstmals gelungen, mehr als 40 der international renommiertesten Photovoltaik-Wissenschaftler und Entwickler aus innovativen Unternehmen bei einem Kongress in Deutschland zusammenzufuehren.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreNew methods for creating 3D nanostructures deposited on an array of regularly spaced indentations on the surface of silicon films opens the door for innovative nanosensors.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreMIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.
Dec 2nd, 2011
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Based on non-linear optical effects, imaging with light has reached atomic precision in the most precise microscope ever built.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreGraphen ist an sich ein hervorragender elektrischer Leiter. Doch muss nutzbares Graphen ueber Kontakte elektrisch an die Umgebung angebunden sein - das kann sich nachteilig auf die Leitfaehigkeit auswirken. Ein Team von der Uni Duisburg-Essen hat nun erstmals nanometergenau den Widerstand an den Kontaktstellen gemessen.
Dec 2nd, 2011
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A Michigan State University researcher is using a $1.92 million Department of Defense grant to develop a portable wastewater treatment system that could improve the military's efficiency.
Dec 1st, 2011
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