Researchers have demonstrated tiny machines that could make possible super-accurate sensors and motors, with far-reaching applications from computer storage to altimeters, detecting petroleum deposits to measuring DNA-binding forces.
Jul 11th, 2012
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A Harvard-led team of engineers presented a strategy for building self-thermoregulating nanomaterials that can, in principle, be tailored to maintain a set pH, pressure, or just about any other desired parameter by meeting the environmental changes with a compensatory chemical feedback response.
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Scientists will use high-throughput techniques to identify materials whose internal structure changes shape in response to external stimuli like heat or light.
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Researchers who are studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have discovered how to amplify it a thousand times over - a first step in making the technology more practical.
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The materials scientist Dr. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer has received the 2012 Gutenberg Lecture Award.
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A team of researchers from Drexel University's College of Engineering has developed a new method for quickly and efficiently storing large amounts of electrical energy.
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Rice University researchers have settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the world, kill bacteria.
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The problem of long-distance transmission of quantum information is one of the biggest obstacles to the realization of communications networks based on quantum phenomena. LMU physicists have taken a significant step towards overcoming this hurdle.
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Imec and Tokyo Electron announce that they will accelerate their Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) activities at imec's recent 300 mm fab-compatible DSA process line. Over the past two years, both companies have been actively engaged in DSA development. Based on promising results achieved on imec's 300 mm DSA process line, imec and TEL will now expand their focus to explore DSA as a cost-effective and manufacturing viable patterning technique for 2x and beyond technologies.
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Based on the existing data and the survey results, there appear to be no risk of health effects or environmental effects.
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In the context of its 7th annual 'Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development,' the European Union has approved funding in excess of 10 million Euros for the thin film solar cell project 'Scalenano' through 2015.
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Whether your electric vehicle has two or four wheels, the chances are that it runs on a lithium-ion battery. LMU researchers have developed a more efficient matrix for storing electrical energy, based on a novel lithium titanate nanostructure.
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Knowledge to create business opportunities is the slogan of Tecnalia's Nano Programme.
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Der ReSINa-Verbund f�hrt im Herbst 2012 mit betroffenen Unternehmen ein Planspiel durch, das einen Praxistest ausgew�hlter Regelungen erlaubt.
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A team of researchers from Greece and Spain have managed to synthesize silver nanoparticles, which are of great interest thanks to their application in biotechnology, by using strawberry tree leaf extract. The new technology is ecological, simple, cheap and very fast.
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Curtin University chemistry researchers have confirmed the viability of advanced metal nanoparticle creation techniques, bringing the development of new nanotechnology a step closer.
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