Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
Researchers have used graphene to develop a new composite material which can produce the toughest fibres to date - even tougher than spider silk and Kevlar.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
Polyera has achieved a certified world-record 9.1% efficient polymer/fullerene organic solar cell in an inverted bulk heterojunction architecture using its newest proprietary ActivInk PV2000 semiconductor material.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
A team of University of Bristol scientists explores whether new models or concepts are needed to tackle one of the 'grand challenges' of chemical biology: understanding enzyme catalysis.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
The antennaless RFID tag developed at CNSE could help companies track products as varied as barrels of oil to metal cargo containers.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
Derivation of equations that describe the dynamics of complex magnetic quasi-particles may aid the design of novel electronic devices.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap, easy alternative to traditional solar cells.
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Posted on: Feb 3rd, 2012
A new kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
A Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene research. Their research shows a transistor that may prove the missing link for graphene to become the next silicon.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
An international consortium of scientists from The Netherlands, Sweden and Ukraine claim a breakthrough in the theory of ultrafast magnetic phenomena.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Cash prize and grant awarded during SPIE BiOS/Photonics West 2012 conference.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Grants will enable technologies targeting clean energy and the environment, nanomedicine and health care, and military applications.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
2012 Knowledge Series to commemorate 25th anniversary.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Using a self-assembled photosystem, researchers are turning the term 'power plant' on its head
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
DNA is a useful building material for nanoscale structures. In a way similar to origami, a long single strand of DNA can be folded into nearly any three-dimensional shape desired with the use of short DNA fragments. The DNA nanostructure can also be equipped with specific docking sites for proteins. Researchers have now introduced a new method for attaching the proteins by means of special "adapters" known as zinc-finger proteins.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Today sees the announcement of full details of how an additional GBP50 million will be spent to keep the UK at the forefront of research into 'wonder material' graphene. Also below are details of further investment strands for graphene engineering and research technology.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Engineers have developed a prototype device that could power a pacemaker using a source that is surprisingly close to the heart of the matter: vibrations in the chest cavity that are due mainly to heartbeats.
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Posted on: Feb 2nd, 2012
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have made a grating coupler that transmits over 45 % of the incident optical energy from a plane wave into a single surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode propagating on a flat gold surface, an order-of-magnitude increase over any SPP grating coupler reported to date.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
The NanoRelease project will support the development of methods to understand the release of nanomaterials used in products.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Students from Albany High School slipped on goggles and gloves to participate in hands-on classes today in the nanobioscience labs at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), part of the successful "NanoHigh" program developed by the City School District of Albany and CNSE.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
A study that combines experimental observations of spider webs with complex computer simulations shows that web durability depends not only on silk strength, but on how the overall web design compensates for damage and the response of individual strands to continuously varying stresses.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Affinity capture devices provide a platform for viewing cancer cells and other macromolecules in dynamic, life-sustaining liquid environments.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
A relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods - rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals - to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures has been developed by a team of researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Rice University lab uses nanoparticles to increase thermal properties of transformer oil.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
A new form of proteins discovered by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin could drastically improve treatments for cancer and other diseases, as well as overcome some of the largest challenges in therapeutics: delivering drugs to patients safely, easily and more effectively.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Nikon Corporation announced that the NSR-S621D ArF immersion scanner began shipping to IC manufacturers in January to deliver ultra-high productivity and superior overlay accuracy for the most demanding immersion double patterning layers.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
On February 2, 2012, experts in the field of nanoparticle and aerosol research will come together to discuss background information, present implementation options, and answer questions for any and all interested in this ever more important topic in the free webinar "Nanotechnology Emission Assessment Technique".
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Samples can have lines and holes, or have multi-layer structures. The new Motorized Tilt and Rotation Sample Holder allows analysis of the sample from all visible sides and enables a unique 3D image of your sample.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
A fabrication method that does not require etching and pattern transfer pushes recording densities in bit-patterned media to 3.3 terabits per square inch.
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Posted on: Feb 1st, 2012
Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density by packing multiple bits of data into each memory cell.
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