Nanofiltration method could play a role in search for innovative drinking water treatments
In industrialized countries water utilities are ageing and need to be renewed. In partnership with the water sector, the aquatic research institute Eawag is identifying ways of ensuring that high-quality drinking water supplies remain available in the future.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreQuadrupole DNA sequencing
Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is exploring how a system of nanotubes, magnets and electrically charged particles could lead to a quicker, cheaper way to conduct DNA sequencing.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreExploiting quantum entanglement could lead to a million times more efficient detectors
A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according to new insights by an MIT leader in the field.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreNovel tungsten oxide nanotubes expected to be useful as indoor photocatalysts
Researchers in Japan have successfully synthesized tungsten oxide nanotubes by a simple hydrothermal method. These nanotubes are composed of aggregates of crystallites and have a nanoporous structure with fine, nanometer-scale pores on their walls. This structure provides the nanotubes with a large specific surface area, enabling high photocatalytic activity.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreNIST seeks suggestions for future R+D funding areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting suggestions on areas of critical national and societal needs that could be addressed by transformative new technologies.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreTrends in Nanotechnology event covered new and existing European projects
The ninth edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology Conference (September 1-5, 2008) held in Oviedo, Spain, presented a broad range of current research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as well as related policies (European Commission, etc.) or other kind of initiatives (iNANO, CIC nanoGUNE, GDR-E, etc.).
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreYet another technique for making an invisibility cloak
Scientists in Spain have managed, by means of a numerical technique known as Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) Modelling method, to hide an object or make it invisible in a certain frequency, inside an electromagnetic simulator.
Posted: Sep 12th, 2008
Read moreResearchers reveal reason behind selective gas adsorption of flexible PCPs
Researchers in Japan have revealed important information about why the threshold of gas pressure required for the structural transformation of flexible, three-dimensional molecular networks known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs) varies for different gases.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreNew technique enables study of the internal structure of unstable nuclei
A team of Japanese researchers has developed a technique that will enable the study of the internal structure of unstable (radioactive) nuclei with electron scattering
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreLasers pushing the limits - a departure for more extreme light-matter interactions
In a quest to push the limits of intensity to achieve extreme light-matter interactions in large molecules, a team of researchers from RIKEN?s Advanced Science Institute in Wako, the SPring-8 Center in Harima, and the University of Tokyo, has demonstrated the ionisation and consequently the dissociation of nitrogen molecules using a free-electron laser.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read more'Impossible' molecule undergoes improbable chemistry
An unusual molecule once thought to be too strained to exist has been transformed into another contorted compound by RIKEN chemists, testing the limits of how far carbon-based molecules can be distorted by combining them with metal atoms.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreNano-size 'cargo ships' in blood stream target and kill tumor cells
Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the body's immune radar system and ferry their cargo of anti-cancer drugs and markers into tumors that might otherwise go untreated or undetected.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreResearchers take 15 nanosecond snapshots of nanoscale transformations
Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreNew NSF grants support fabrication of nanosensors, actuators and nanodevices
A team from Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project 'MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching System for Nano/Micro Device Fabrication.'
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreWorkshop on nanowire growth mechanisms
It is the aim of this workshop to stimulate discussions and understanding of the general mechanisms and structural features behind self-assembled nanowire growth within the wide range of materials systems.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
Read moreInternationaler Workshop - Nanodraht-Spezialisten treffen sich
Nanowire Growth Workshop 2008 an der Universitaet Duisburg-Essen am 15. und 16. September.
Posted: Sep 11th, 2008
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