A scientific endeavour carried out by two French groups belonging to INSERM and CNRS at Aix-Marseilles University shows for the very first time that both bacterium adhesion to and bacterium motion on a surface are driven by the same mechanism.
Jun 26th, 2012
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A drawing programme and a 3D printer: that could be all it will take to produce the micro- and nanostructures required for the millions of devices and sensors of the future.
Jun 26th, 2012
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Heat transfer in everything from computer chips to powerplants could be improved through new analysis of surface textures.
Jun 26th, 2012
Read moreAs the Si counterpart of graphene, silicene is an atom-thick, ultimately thin, two-dimensional crystal of silicon. A team of researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has succeeded in preparing silicene on Si wafers via a ceramic zirconium diboride buffer layer, paving the way for an integration of silicene with existing Si-based technologies that intrinsically face limits with top-down approaches.
Jun 26th, 2012
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A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communication devices that deliver much better signal quality.
Jun 26th, 2012
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Scientists report that surfaces coated with bionanoparticles could greatly accelerate the early phases of bone growth. Their coatings, based in part on genetically modified Tobacco mosaic virus, reduced the amount of time it took to convert stem cells into bone nodules - from two weeks to just two days.
Jun 25th, 2012
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a way to create much slimmer thin-film solar cells without sacrificing the cells' ability to absorb solar energy. Making the cells thinner should significantly decrease manufacturing costs for the technology.
Jun 25th, 2012
Read moreThe American Chemical Society Science and the Congress Project is organizing a luncheon briefing on "Nanomaterial Safety: Do We Have the Right Tools?"
Jun 25th, 2012
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INASCON is an annual conference organised by students for students. It is aimed at students who have completed at least two years of study in a nanoscience or nanotechnology related university program.
Jun 25th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have studied a material that is simultaneously magnetically and electrically polarizable. This opens up new possibilities, for example, for sensors in technology of the future.
Jun 24th, 2012
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Building larger porous coordination polymer architectures.
Jun 24th, 2012
Read moreUT Arlington researchers have been awarded a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to study a new model for how motor proteins behave in the body.
Jun 22nd, 2012
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Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have identified a catalyst that provides the same level of efficiency in microbial fuel cells as the currently used platinum catalyst, but at 5% of the cost.
Jun 22nd, 2012
Read moreCarl Zeiss Microscopy, a company of the Carl Zeiss Group and leading provider of light, laser-scanning and electron and ion beam microscopes, announces its 2012 'ZEISS on Your Campus' traveling tour, bringing free workshops designed to educate scientists and their students in the fundamentals of various microscopy techniques to universities across the country.
Jun 22nd, 2012
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Multidisciplinary team develops mathematical approach that could help in simulating materials for solar cells and LEDs.
Jun 22nd, 2012
Read moreDiscovery provides clues to deficiencies in inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease.
Jun 22nd, 2012
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