A tunable infrared laser system for the selective processing of organic layers in opto-electronical components is the goal of the new research project IMPROV, which started in September, 2010. The EU has provided approximately 2.4 million Euros support from the 7th Framework Programme for the project, which will run until 2013.
Nov 9th, 2010
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Der Arbeitsgruppe Prof. Robert Tampe an der Goethe-Universitaet ist es in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Walter-Schottky Institut der TU Muenchen gelungen, eine neue Methode zur automatisierbaren und Hochdurchsatz-geeigneten Untersuchung der hochempfindlichen Membranproteine zu entwickeln.
Nov 9th, 2010
Read moreA new report from the inspector general of the U.S. EPA on the lack of sufficient monitoring of water supplies provides more reason for Americans to consider using 'final barrier' technology in their homes, according to the Water Quality Association.
Nov 9th, 2010
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers Jeremy Busby, De-en Jiang and Sergei Kalinin are among 13 Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.
Nov 9th, 2010
Read moreBlinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number on a small LCD signals the success of a five-year effort to power conventional electronic devices with nanoscale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment using an array of tiny nanowires.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreScientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have reported another breakthrough in their quest to develop green technologies for pharmaceuticals synthesis. They have devised a new environmentally friendly technique to transform carbon dioxide, an abundant and renewable carbon source, into highly functionalized propiolic acids, which are basic building blocks for the synthesis of a wide range of pharmaceuticals such as cholesterol-reducing drugs and peptidomimetic and other small molecule inhibitors that may be used, for example, to kill cancer cells.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreTwo scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were among the 85 researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on early-career researchers.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreNatural gelatin, extracted from the shiny skin of a seagoing fish called Alaskan pollock, may someday be put to intriguing new biomedical uses.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreFindings could help investigators develop agents for pulmonary drug delivery and provide key information for use in air pollution control.
Nov 8th, 2010
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Robert Curl, Ph.D., awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 as one of the co-discoverers of carbon cage compounds called the fullerenes, will discuss the timeline of human experience with elemental carbon and its chemistry during the lecture 'A Brief History of Carbon'.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreUniversity of Manchester scientists have created a new material which could replace or compete with Teflon in thousands of everyday applications.
Nov 8th, 2010
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Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in storing quantum information using two 'entangled' light beams. Quantum memory or information storage is a necessary element of future quantum communication networks.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreEmpa-Forschende haben mit einer oberflaechenchemischen Methode graphenartige Materialien synthetisiert und den entsprechenden Reaktionsmechanismus im Detail aufgeklaert.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreA timely review analyzing the correlation of synthesis methods and physical properties of single-layer and few-layered graphene flakes.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreRevealing research breakthroughs, engineers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program will present technical papers at the 56th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) from December 6-8, 2010, at the Hilton in San Francisco, CA.
Nov 8th, 2010
Read moreJust like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic transparency in plasma can act like a fast optical switch allowing the flow of light through otherwise opaque plasma.
Nov 8th, 2010
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