NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it -- a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology.
Nov 9th, 2011
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A review article on graphene's present and future.
Nov 9th, 2011
Read moreAm 15.11.2011 von 10.00 - 16.30 Uhr findet in Berlin die Konferenz "NanoCode - Die Zukunft des Europaeischen Verhaltenskodex fuer verantwortungsvolle Forschung im Bereich der Nanowissenschaften und -technologien (EU-CoC)" statt.
Nov 9th, 2011
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Scientists at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Oslo in Norway are collaborating with SINTEF to develop a new environmentally friendly technology called thermoelectricity, which can convert waste heat to electricity.
Nov 9th, 2011
Read moreNot to pick up electrons, but tweezers made of electrons. A recent paper demonstrates that the beams produced by modern electron microscopes can be used not just to look at nanoscale objects, but to move them around, position them and perhaps even assemble them.
Nov 9th, 2011
Read moreA new class of ultrasmall peptides with biomimetic properties paves the way to diverse biomedical applications.
Nov 9th, 2011
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Transistors and solar cells have traditionally used different kinds of polymers, and this can severely complicate the fabrication process. Researchers have now developed a versatile polymer that is suitable for both kinds of devices.
Nov 9th, 2011
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated, theoretically, that by exploiting sources of external noise, they can make the network switch between different logic functions in a stable and reliable way.
Nov 8th, 2011
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Using leftover high-speed electrons from SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers have successfully generated intense pulses of light in a largely untapped part of the electromagnetic spectrum - the so-called terahertz gap.
Nov 8th, 2011
Read moreHow nickel-titanium nanometric-size particles change back to their memorised shape.
Nov 8th, 2011
Read moreCEA-Leti, CEA-Liten, CSEM, Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics and VTT combining expertise to help European aerospace industry maintain leading position.
Nov 8th, 2011
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Forscher der Uni Basel und des Paul Scherrer Instituts konnten im Nanomassstab zeigen, wie sich Karies auf die menschlichen Zaehne auswirkt. Ihre Studie eroeffnet neue Perspektiven fuer die Behandlung von Zahnschaeden, bei denen heute nur der Griff zum Bohrer bleibt.
Nov 8th, 2011
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Graphene can enable the best quantum resistance standard. This is one of many advances emerging from the active research into graphene at Chalmers University of Technology. Chalmers will now receive the lion's share of a new Swedish research grant of SEK 40 million for the supermaterial graphene.
Nov 8th, 2011
Read moreSilicon Valley's premier program exploring the impact and potential of exponential technologies on the future of health and medicine: Scheduled for February 6-11, 2012.
Nov 8th, 2011
Read moreResearchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical patterns as small as 20 nanometers.
Nov 7th, 2011
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Mark Prausnitz, Regents' professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health research project focused on using microneedle patches for the low-cost administration of polio vaccine through the skin in collaboration with researchers Steve Oberste and Mark Pallansch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Nov 7th, 2011
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