) ISO/TS 80004-4:2011 gives terms and definitions for materials in the field of nanotechnologies where one or more components are nanoscale regions and the materials exhibit properties attributable to the presence of those nanoscale regions. ISO/TS 80004-5:2011 lists terms and definitions related to the interface between nanomaterials and biology.
Nov 23rd, 2011
Read moreKlappe, die erste... Der Startschuss fuer "nanospots" ist gefallen. Es handelt sich um den Wettbewerb zum 1. Nano-Kurzfilm-Festival fuer (Nachwuchs-)Wissenschaftler, mitinitiiert von der Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg und gefoerdert von der Volkswagenstiftung. Als Hauptgewinn winken 5000 Euro fuer den besten Spot zum Thema "Leben mit Nano: Der Mensch zwischen Natur und Hightech".
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that could be the basis for a new class of sensors and micromechanical devices controlled by magnetism.
Nov 23rd, 2011
Read moreA team of university researchers, aided by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have succeeded in integrating a new, highly efficient piezoelectric material into a silicon microelectromechanical system (MEMS). This development could lead to significant advances in sensing, imaging and energy harvesting.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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In a cooperative between Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), scientists have produced the first three-dimensional representations of ruthenium catalyst particles only two nanometres in diameter using electron tomography.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Researchers have created a nanoscale thermoelectric generator (TEG) using silicon nanowire arrays.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Polymer-based nanostructures that can selectively burst open bacteria show promise for tackling drug-resistant microbes.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Researchers have developed a convenient method to characterize the interactions between single-stranded DNA and their binding proteins.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Short, capped single-walled carbon nanotubes may serve as ideal probing tips to study friction, lubrication and wear at the microscale.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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In a series of observations and experiments, engineers at Brown University and in Korea have discovered unusual properties in wrinkles and folds at the nanoscale. The researchers report that wrinkles created on super-thin films have hidden long waves that lengthen even when the film is compressed. The team also discovered that when folds are formed in such films, closed nanochannels appear below the surface, like thousands of super-tiny pipes.
Nov 23rd, 2011
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Berkeley Lab researchers find simpler approach to making plasmonic materials.
Nov 22nd, 2011
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Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing a metal cap over a small hole in a metal film does not stop the light at all, but rather enhances its transmission.
Nov 22nd, 2011
Read moreElectronics could be 100 times less energy-hungry thanks to a quantum phenomenon known as the tunnel effect - by 2017 in consumer electronics.
Nov 22nd, 2011
Read moreA magnetic force microscope (MFM) can determine the distribution of stray fields at a level of tens of nanometers near the surface of magnetic films, and therefore is an effective tool for observing the domain structures in magnetic grains of submicrometer size.
Nov 22nd, 2011
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Professor Kaustav Banerjee, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named winner of the 2011 international research award by the Electrostatic Discharge Association (ESDA).
Nov 22nd, 2011
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