Chemical engineering researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report this week that they've discovered a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics, at 90 percent yield from lignocellulosic biomass, the highest yield achieved to date.
May 29th, 2013
Read moreUniversity of Madeira and Centro de Quimica da Madeira, Madeira Island, Portugal, invite applicants with a Bachelor or a Master degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics or related sciences/engineering courses to apply to the 2nd Edition of the Master Programme in Nanochemistry and Nanomaterials.
May 28th, 2013
Read moreWhat may be the ultimate heat sink is only possible because of yet another astounding capability of graphene. The one-atom-thick form of carbon can act as a go-between that allows vertically aligned carbon nanotubes to grow on nearly anything, including diamonds.
May 28th, 2013
Read moreScientists at the University of California, San Diego, have designed tiny spherical particles to float easily through the bloodstream after injection, then assemble into a durable scaffold within diseased tissue. An enzyme produced by a specific type of tumor can trigger the transformation of the spheres into netlike structures that accumulate at the site of a cancer.
May 28th, 2013
Read moreCornell's National Science Foundation-supported nanotechnology experimentation and fabrication facility, has formed a partnership with the Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., part of SUNY's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, to streamline the design process and help companies plan for mass manufacturing.
May 28th, 2013
Read moreNewest class of 23 Albany High School students completes innovative program focused on nanotechnology education and research.
May 28th, 2013
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Researchers have offered a surprisingly simple model to explain the difference between glass and molten materials.
May 28th, 2013
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Scientists at Tokyo Tech have developed a new self-assembled nanostructure that can survive very hot or saline environments.
May 28th, 2013
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There were high hopes of using carbon nanotubes, particularly for ultra-fast water transport to desalinate seawater. However, a simulation now reveals that these ultra-fast transport rates might have not been properly grounded after all. Researchers who work with experiments and computer models have been at odds over the capabilities and governing physics of the material ever since.
May 28th, 2013
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Colorfast pigments made from amorphous arrays of silicon dioxide and carbon black.
May 27th, 2013
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Scientists have succeeded in building a microscope that allows magnifying the wave function of excited electronic states of the hydrogen atom by a factor of more than twenty-thousand, leading to a situation where the nodal structure of these electronic states can be visualized on a two-dimensional detector.
May 27th, 2013
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A light wave oscillates perpendicular to its propagation direction - that is what students learn in school. However, scientists of the Vienna University of Technology now perform atom-physics experiments with light oscillating in the longitudinal direction.
May 27th, 2013
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World's 'smallest birthday cake', 2000 times smaller than a grain of salt unveiled.
May 27th, 2013
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Scientists have studied the conditions in which at the nanoscopic level the switch from smooth sliding to stick-slip regime occurs, simulating 'toy-like' systems of 'cold ions'.
May 24th, 2013
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For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space. The easy-to-build lens could lead to improved photolithography, nanoscale manipulation and manufacturing, and even high-resolution three-dimensional imaging, as well as a number of as-yet-unimagined applications in a diverse range of fields.
May 24th, 2013
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Nano-sized needles developed by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim can force medicine into cells, even when the cell membranes offer resistance. The needles will make it easier to study the effects of medicines on cells.
May 24th, 2013
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