In the past 100 years, 11 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to nearly two dozen people for the discovery or theoretical explanation of such cold materials - superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates, to name two - yet a unifying theory of these extreme behaviors has eluded theorists. Physicists have now discovered a commonality among these materials that can be used to predict or even design new materials that will exhibit such unusual behavior.
Jun 11th, 2012
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The Health Council of the Netherlands has published a draft report in which a committee of the council advices on the implementation of an exposure registry and a system of health monitoring when working with engineered nanoparticles.
Jun 11th, 2012
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Scientists at TU Eindhoven for the first time succeeded in creating a plastic that emits light when pulled. The researchers can make the plastic emit red, yellow, blue and green light.
Jun 11th, 2012
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Recent studies have shown that microporous membranes can facilitate migration of epidermal cells, enabling the development of a seal that resists movement of fluid and microorganisms and therefore improving the implant life. Researchers have now devised a simple but innovative approach that combines both of these aspects simply by coating silicon nitride microporous membranes with a conformal coating of ultrathin ultrananocrystalline diamond films.
Jun 11th, 2012
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The $3.2 million FEI Titan G2 8200 Sandia accepted in February is 50 to 100 times better than what went before in terms of resolution and the time it takes to analyze a sample.
Jun 11th, 2012
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Trinity College Dublin scientists establish link between autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and nanoparticles.
Jun 11th, 2012
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Das Institut f�r Laserphysik der Universit�t Hamburg hat gemeinsam mit vier Universit�ten in Grossbritannien, Frankreich und Griechenland eine europ�ische Graduiertenschule zum Thema Quantensensoren eingeworben.
Jun 11th, 2012
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The collaboration agreement sets the framework for future collaboration projects between imec and Tohoku University where students, research staff, and professors will be exchanged between both organizations.
Jun 11th, 2012
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An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has uncovered the structure of the protective protein coat which surrounds many bacteria like a miniature suit of armour.
Jun 10th, 2012
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A group of Swiss researchers from UNIGE, HUG and the University of Basel have developed a veritable 'time bomb,' a treatment for atherosclerosis that can recognize the diseased areas and treat only them.
Jun 10th, 2012
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Enabling bioengineers to design new molecular machines for nanotechnology applications is one of the possible outcomes of a study by University of Montreal researchers that was published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology today.
Jun 10th, 2012
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New technique can dramatically improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of preparing different classes of semiconducting materials.
Jun 9th, 2012
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UMass Amherst physicists have identified a fundamental mechanism by which complex patterns such as wrinkles and crumples emerge spontaneously.
Jun 8th, 2012
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A solicitation posted today calls for development of nanoplatforms that treat a variety of diseases. Such nanoparticle therapeutic platforms could be rapidly modified to treat a broad range of diseases, but more importantly will be based on safe and effective technologies.
Jun 8th, 2012
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The continuing trend toward miniaturization in electronics demands the use of new materials. Components made of carbon nanotubes may meet this need - and the properties of single nanotube devices can now be characterized with the required resolution.
Jun 8th, 2012
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Cutting-edge computer processors consist of 1.4 billion transistors. Such tiny structures, however, have a major drawback: The read-out process can influence their states in an uncontrolled way. A new model is able to detect and to avoid these "back-action effects" particularly at the quantum level.
Jun 8th, 2012
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