Magnetoresistance: Silicon joins the party
Magnetoresistance in silicon can be enhanced to match that of commercial devices by designing appropriate device geometries.
Dec 5th, 2011
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Record high two million gold nanoparticles inserted into a single cancer cell
By changing the organic molecule that coats gold nanorods, scientists at Rice University in Houston have increased the number of gold nanorods inserted into a single, living cell to over 2 million. The previous record was 150,000. This achievement could greatly improve photothermal therapy for cancer, which uses near-IR light to heat nanorods inside cancer cells to destroy them.
Dec 5th, 2011
Read moreVirginia Tech's Rylander wins national biomedical engineering award
Biomedical engineer Marissa Nichole Rylander, associate professor jointly appointed in the mechanical engineering department and Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, at Virginia Tech is the recipient of the 2012 Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award.
Dec 5th, 2011
Read moreSenate approves $50 million for nanotechnology R+D at UAlbany
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Armed Services Committee, secured Senate approval for an increased focus onnanotechnology research by the Defense Department, including a study to determine the need for a center for nanotechnology.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreResearchers create "squeezed' quantum vacuum filled with atoms
Based on a new detection method to access previously unobtainable measurements in atomic gases.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreGiant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices
Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories across the U.S. who have fabricated piezoelectric thin films with record-setting properties.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreChallenges and opportunities for structural DNA nanotechnology
A recent review in the edition of Nature Nanotechnology examines the technical challenges in the field of structural DNA nanotechnology and outlines some of the promising applications that could be developed if these hurdles can be overcome.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read morePhotovoltaik: Sonnige Aussichten
Mit der Konferenz "Next Generation Solar Energy - From Fundamentals to Applications" ist es der Bayern Innovativ GmbH und ihren Partnern erstmals gelungen, mehr als 40 der international renommiertesten Photovoltaik-Wissenschaftler und Entwickler aus innovativen Unternehmen bei einem Kongress in Deutschland zusammenzufuehren.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreInstant nanodots grow on silicon to form sensing array
New methods for creating 3D nanostructures deposited on an array of regularly spaced indentations on the surface of silicon films opens the door for innovative nanosensors.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreA novel way to concentrate sun's heat
MIT researchers find a way to generate power without the usual mirror arrays.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreSharpening the focus of microscopes
Based on non-linear optical effects, imaging with light has reached atomic precision in the most precise microscope ever built.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreFunktionalisiertes Graphen leistet wenig Widerstand
Graphen ist an sich ein hervorragender elektrischer Leiter. Doch muss nutzbares Graphen ueber Kontakte elektrisch an die Umgebung angebunden sein - das kann sich nachteilig auf die Leitfaehigkeit auswirken. Ein Team von der Uni Duisburg-Essen hat nun erstmals nanometergenau den Widerstand an den Kontaktstellen gemessen.
Dec 2nd, 2011
Read moreSolar-bio-nano wastewater system generates energy, produces drinking water
A Michigan State University researcher is using a $1.92 million Department of Defense grant to develop a portable wastewater treatment system that could improve the military's efficiency.
Dec 1st, 2011
Read moreNew switch could improve single-molecule electronics
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions within a single molecule. The incorporation of such single-molecule elements could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient electronics.
Dec 1st, 2011
Read moreCIDETEC-IK4 will create ecological plastics from organic waste using nanotechnology
The Basque technology centre CIDETEC-IK4 is heading a European project to develop new plastics from organic waste, such as banana plants and almond and crustacean shells, using nanotechnology, which would represent a cleaner and more sustainable alternative to petroleum derivatives.
Dec 1st, 2011
Read moreWie lange leben Elektronen in Graphen?
Wissenschaftler aus dem Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf haben mit internationalen Kollegen einen wichtigen Baustein zum Verstaendnis des derzeit intensiv erforschten Materials Graphen hinzugefuegt: sie haben die Lebensdauer von Elektronen in Graphen in niedrigen Energiebereichen bestimmt.
Dec 1st, 2011
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