Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized. A researcher has adapted Google's PageRank software to create moleculaRnetworks, which scientists can use to determine molecular shapes and chemical reactions without the expense, logistics and occasional danger of lab experiments.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
PI is the first nano/micropositioning company to offer its own informative, (mostly) non-commercial app for portable devices like the iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
The theme of this year's World Congress on Brain, Spinal Cord Mapping, and Image Guided Therapy is "Nano-Bio-Electronics", which focuses on the integration of nanotechnology, stem cell research, and biomedical engineering, and imaging of the brain and spinal cord to make progress in the fight against neurological diseases.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and UCLA's California Nanosystems Institute report that they have significantly enhanced polymer solar cells' performance by building a device with a new "tandem" structure that combines multiple cells with different absorption bands. The device had a certified power-conversion efficiency of 8.62 percent and set a world record in July 2011.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Individual atoms can make or break electronic properties in one of the world's smallest known conductors - quantum nanowires. Microscopic analysis is delivering a rare glimpse into how the atomic structure of the conducting nanowires affects their electronic behavior.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
A research group led by ETH Zurich scientists has succeeded in making a decisive breakthrough in the synthetic chemistry of polymers: they have for the first time created two-dimensional polymers.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
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Highly efficient 3V cathodes for rechargeable sodium-ion batteries have been developed. With a near-theoretical capacity of 250 mAh/g, excellent rate capability and cycle life, and high energy and power densities of 760 Wh/kg and 1200 W/kg, respectively, these bilayered V2O5 systems can be used in applications at ambient temperature.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
A new, single-step method of fabricating microcapsules, which have potential commercial applications in industries including medicine, agriculture and diagnostics, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
A discovery by a research team at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), shows that the flexibility and durability of carbon nanotube films and coatings are intimately linked to their electronic properties. The research could one day impact flexible electronic devices such as solar cells and wearable sensors.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Scientists under the direction of ETH Zurich have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. They succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form a kind of "molecular carpet" on a nanoscale.
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Posted on: Feb 13th, 2012
Ein Wissenschaftlerteam vom Center for Nanointegration (CENIDE) der Uni Duisburg-Essen (UDE) hat eine ausgekluegelte Methode entwickelt, Nanodraehte fuer ultraleichte Solarzellen nutzbar zu machen.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for creating scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, providing an alternative that is more flexible and less time-intensive than current technology.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
As concern grows about the potential adverse response to sub-micron aggregates within therapeutic proteins, tools capable of measuring and quantifying these aggregates need to be developed.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
The European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme encourages unconventional match-ups like chemistry and IT, physics and optics, biology and data engineering. Researchers funded by FET are driven by ideas and a sense of purpose which push the boundaries of science and technology.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
FlexTech Alliance announced the recipients of the 2012 FLEXI Awards. FLEXI nominations are open to all organizations involved with the flexible, printed electronics and displays industry. The awards celebrate and recognize people, companies and organizations that are leading the development of this emerging industry with innovative and commercially viable technologies.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that funnels all its photons into lasing, without any waste.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Wissenschaftler des Helmholtz-Zentrums Berlin entwickeln Verfahren, um elektronische Oberflaechenzustaende mit Graphen dauerhaft zu machen.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Innovativ, wissenschaftlich und kreativ - die Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg und die science2public starten einen neuen Wettbewerb: die nano-Spots! Nano-Wissenschaftler werden zu Regisseuren, animierte Bildfolgen aus dem Nanokosmos zu spannenden Kurzfilmen. Gefoerdert wird das Ganze von der VolkswagenStiftung.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Researchers have demonstrated a microscopic system in which light can be converted into a mechanical oscillation and back. This interaction is so strong that it becomes possible to control the motion of the oscillator at the level where quantum mechanics governs its behavior.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
A new method to map nanostructures within materials may lead to biological imaging of the internal organization of cells.
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Posted on: Feb 10th, 2012
Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons", according to researchers at Rice University.
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Posted on: Feb 9th, 2012
Controlling the thermal expansion of composites is important for producing nanometer-scale electronic circuits, as well as the next-generation fuel cells and thermoelectric devices. An ability to combine negative thermal expansion materials with 'normal' materials which expand upon heating ensures a reduction in thermal expansion in a composite material.
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Posted on: Feb 9th, 2012
A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the widely used industrial catalyst molybdenite has been developed. This technique holds promise for the creation of catalytic materials that can serve as effective low-cost alternatives to platinum for generating hydrogen gas from water that is acidic.
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Posted on: Feb 9th, 2012
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.
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Posted on: Feb 9th, 2012
Scientists from Chalmers have demonstrated a new kind of detector for sound at the level of quietness of quantum mechanics. The result offers prospects of a new class of quantum hybrid circuits that mix acoustic elements with electrical ones, and may help illuminate new phenomena of quantum physics.
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