There's nothing worse than a shonky pool table with an unseen groove or bump that sends your shot off course: a new study has found that the same goes at the nano-scale, where the "billiard balls" are tiny electrons moving across a "table" made of the semiconductor gallium arsenide.
May 14th, 2012
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New technologies from Marin Soljacic's lab could have a far-reaching impact on daily life.
May 14th, 2012
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Die Fraktion fordert die Bundesregierung in einem 20-Punkte-Katalog auf, dafuer zu sorgen, dass das Prinzip der Vorsorge zum Schutz von Mensch und Umwelt zum Leitprinzip in der weiteren Entwicklung und Nutzung der Nanotechnologie wird.
May 14th, 2012
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New approach is a promising first step toward the development of tiny devices that harvest electrical energy from everyday tasks.
May 13th, 2012
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A team of Duke University engineers has created a master "ingredient list" describing the properties of more than 2,000 compounds that might be combined to create the next generation of quantum electronics devices.
May 13th, 2012
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A team of physicists from the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky have taken a big step toward the development of practical spintronics devices, a technology that could help create faster, smaller and more versatile electronic devices.
May 11th, 2012
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A group of researchers at the College of William and Mary have made important advances in technology combining polymers - the material of the present - with graphene - the material of the future.
May 11th, 2012
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Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has discovered a new nanometer-scale atomic structure in solid metallic materials known as metallic glasses.
May 11th, 2012
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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced a $2.2 million gift to support engineering education at the University of California, Berkeley. The university will use the gift to transform its traditional introductory Electronic Design Laboratory into a dynamic learning environment for undergraduate students.
May 11th, 2012
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The development of a new combination of polymers associating sugars with oil-based macromolecules makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization with a 5-nanometer resolution. This opens up new horizons for increasing the capacity of hard discs and the speed of microprocessors.
May 11th, 2012
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On 1st May 2012, 40 delegates came together from academia and industry at Eversheds in the City of London to hear about the positive developments in nanotechnology and actively help businesses to further develop and launch commercially viable applications.
May 11th, 2012
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Wissenschaftlern der Uni Goettingen und der Uni Leipzig ist es gelungen, die Erzeugung von extrem ultravioletter Strahlung an Nanostrukturen mit Laserpulsen in ein neues Licht zu ruecken. Die Forscher konnten einen bisher in grossen Teilen unverstandenen physikalischen Mechanismus aufklaeren.
May 11th, 2012
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Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles", researchers are developing new methods to inject drugs and genetic payloads directly into cancer cells. In tests on drug-resistant cancer cells, the researchers found that delivering chemotherapy drugs with nanobubbles was up to 30 times more deadly to cancer cells than traditional drug treatment and required less than one-tenth the clinical dose.
May 11th, 2012
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A new type of implant developed by researchers at Brown University may be able to deter breast cancer cell regrowth. Made from a common federally approved polymer, the implant is the first to be modified at the nanoscale in a way that causes a reduction in the blood-vessel architecture that breast cancer tumors depend upon, while also attracting healthy cells into breast tissue.
May 11th, 2012
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A team of investigators from the Northwestern University Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (Northwestern CCNE) has developed a rapid, array-based technology using gold nanoparticles that is capable of detecting miRNAs at levels as low as 1 femtomolar (about 30,000 molecules in a drop of blood).
May 11th, 2012
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Drugs made of protein have shown promise in treating cancer, but they are difficult to deliver because the body usually breaks down proteins before they reach their destination. To get around that obstacle, a team of researchers has developed a new type of nanoparticle that can synthesize proteins on demand. Once these "protein-factory" particles reach their targets, the researchers can turn on protein synthesis by shining ultraviolet light on them.
May 11th, 2012
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