New technique maps twin faces of smallest Janus nanoparticles
Researchers have developed the first method that can rapidly and accurately map the chemical properties of the smallest of these Janus nanoparticles.
Sep 27th, 2011
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Two UCSB faculty members will receive US presidential science awards
President Obama today named two UC Santa Barbara faculty members as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor the nation can bestow on a scientist or engineer at the beginning of his or her career. Benjamin Mazin, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, and Sumita Pennathur, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering, are among 94 individuals across the country to receive the early career awards.
Sep 27th, 2011
Read moreBold approach could change electronics industry
Professors receive $1.5 million to study new idea that could drastically reduce power consumption and increase speed in the next generation of computers.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreAccidental discovery provides a unique route for tuning graphene's electrical properties
An accidental discovery in a physicist's laboratory at the University of California, Riverside provides a unique route for tuning the electrical properties of graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material. This route holds great promise for replacing silicon with graphene in the microchip industry.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreA faster, cheaper method for making transistors and chips (w/videos)
It may soon be possible manufacture the miniscule structures that make up transistors and silicon chips rapidly and inexpensively. EPFL scientists are currently investigating the use of dynamic stencil lithography, a recent but not yet perfected method, for creating nanostructures.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreCopper nanowires may be coming to a little screen near you
Nanowires of copper could eliminate busted cell phone screens and make solar cells more competitive with fossil fuels.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreCheap and efficient solar cell made possible by linked nanoparticles
Researchers of the Chemical Engineering department and the Kavli institute of the TU DElft have demonstrated that electrons can move freely in layers of linked semiconductor nanoparticles under the influence of light. This new knowledge will be very useful for the development of cheap and efficient quantum dot solar cells.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreE-textiles get fashion upgrade with memory-storing fiber
Researchers have developed a new flexible memory fabric woven together from interlocking strands of copper and copper-oxide wires. At each juncture, or stitch along the fabric, a nanoscale dab of platinum is placed between the fibers.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreNanoCode Project newsletter no. 2 now available
The second issue of the NanoCode newsletter has been published. It provides information on the NanoCode project.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreSEEC microscopy reveals unexpected labelled lipid behavior on solid surface
A research group from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany reports in Langmuir how Surface Enhanced Ellipsometric Contrast (SEEC) microscopy can be used to provide a plausible scenario as to the behavior of labelled lipids at a surface.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreNext-generation optical tweezers trap tightly without overheating
Improved device eliminates a barrier to handling nanoscale particles.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreDeadline for International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge is this Friday
To illustrate is to enlighten. The National Science Foundation and the journal Science created the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge to celebrate that grand tradition - and to encourage its continued growth.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreFachDialoge Nanotechnologien
Die NanoKommission wurde 2006 im Rahmen des Nano Aktionsplans der deutschen Bundesregierung als zentrale, nationale Dialogplattform geschaffen. Die NanoKommission arbeitete in zwei Dialogphasen (2006-2008 und 2009-2011) und schloss diese jeweils mit einem Abschlussbericht und Empfehlungen an die Bundesregierung ab.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreSEMATECH announces keynote and plenary speakers for 2011 International Lithography Symposia
Leading lithographers from North America, Asia and Europe will gather to discuss potential solutions to critical technical issues on bringing extreme ultraviolet lithography into high-volume manufacturing.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreGraphene thin film transistors: Cutting down costs
Reduced graphene oxide provides a low-cost basis for the fabrication of flexible thin film transistors.
Sep 26th, 2011
Read moreProducing 3D polymer structures from 2D patterns
Three-dimensional polymer structures can be produced by growing polymer brush structures from a printed two-dimensional pattern of polymer initiators.
Sep 26th, 2011
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