Empa researchers and representatives from industry explained at the "Technology Briefing" why scarce metals are essential for many key technologies and how an impending scarcity might be avoided.
Jan 31st, 2012
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In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have created a DNA-based "write-once-read-many-times" (WORM) memory device.
Jan 31st, 2012
Read moreZiel des mit 10,4 Millionen Euro gefoerderten Vorhabens ist es, industrierelevante Mengen von hochwertigen Nanoteilchen moeglichst energieeffizient und umweltschonend herzustellen.
Jan 31st, 2012
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Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a new way of harvesting electricity from light.
Jan 31st, 2012
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Dr Clemens Franz leads a group of researchers at the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he works on expanding the use of AFM for cell biological applications.
Jan 31st, 2012
Read moreA new progress report discusses the versatility of the atomic layer deposition technique for the fabrication of novel functional materials.
Jan 31st, 2012
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Rice University researchers have confirmed a long-held theory that solid-state materials are capable of producing an effect known as superfluorescence.
Jan 30th, 2012
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Research at Rice University leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing.
Jan 30th, 2012
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The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian tissues.
Jan 30th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have successfully shown that they can replace useful little particles of monosodium titanate with even tinier nano-sized particles, making them even more useful for a variety of applications.
Jan 30th, 2012
Read moreA side-by-side comparison shows similar research frameworks.
Jan 30th, 2012
Read moreA panel led by The Guardian will discuss nanotechnology's role in our future. Members of the panel are high level academic figures and policy makers.
Jan 30th, 2012
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An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.?
Jan 30th, 2012
Read moreScientists with the Berkeley Lab have discovered why a promising technique for making quantum dots and nanorods has so far been a disappointment. Better still, they've also discovered how to correct the problem.
Jan 30th, 2012
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The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube growth: That the chirality of a nanotube controls the speed of its growth, and that armchair nanotubes should grow the fastest.
Jan 30th, 2012
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A new company formed around Michigan State University nanotechnology promises to move speedy detection of deadly pathogens and toxins from the laboratory directly to the field.
Jan 30th, 2012
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