Researchers can now watch molecules move in living cells, literally millisecond by millisecond, thanks to a new microscope developed by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
At a recent Gordon Research Conference, Anna Gudmundsdottir described the work of her research team, including efforts to build organic magnets, and systems using light to release chemicals, including fragarances.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read moreOn 20th July 2011 the project "Molecular Sorting for Resource Efficiency", coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal, Germany, was officially started
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
A liquid does not have to be a disordered bunch of particles: A team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) and the University of Vienna has discovered intriguing structures formed by tiny particles floating in liquids. Under mechanical strain, particle clusters in liquids can spontaneously form strings and dramatically alter the properties of the liquid.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
New microresonators produce light over a range of more than an octave and are at the same time precisely tunable. This achievement brings a variety of applications into reach, such as optical telecommunications or the precise calibration of spectrographs in astrophysics.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read moreDer duennste Draht der Welt, hergestellt aus purem Gold, wird von Physikern der Universitaeten Wuerzburg und Kassel untersucht. Fuer Aufsehen sorgt jetzt seine ungewoehnliche elektrische Leitfaehigkeit: Die Elektronen bewegen sich nicht frei durch den Draht, sondern wie Autos im Stop-and-Go-Verkehr.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
Researchers have achieved perfect vertical and planar alignments of liquid crystals using nickel nanoparticles with different morphologies.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
The self-assembly of two-dimensional inorganic nanodiscs enhances the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
Tiny bright fluorescent spheres promise to simultaneously provide diagnosis and treatment for multiple targets.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
Atomic clusters in bulk metallic glasses drive crystallization on the nanoscale but prevent it on the macroscale.
Aug 8th, 2011
Read more
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Aug 7th, 2011
Read moreScientists at Berkeley Lab find nanoparticle size is readily controlled to make stronger aluminum alloys.
Aug 7th, 2011
Read more
Thermal and mechanical stimuli switch the luminescence of a liquid-crystal mixture between three different colors.
Aug 5th, 2011
Read moreRice University materials scientists have made a fundamental discovery that could make it easier for engineers to build electronic circuits out of the much-touted nanomaterial graphene.
Aug 5th, 2011
Read more
Using a newly developed type of spectroscopy, Berlin researchers have shown that electrons in a semiconductor are best described as a cloud with a size of a few nanometer. The cloud size is determined by the interaction of the electron with vibrations in the crystal lattice.
Aug 5th, 2011
Read more
High-speed laser measurements reveal new insights into rearrangements of light-driven chemical structures with implications for solar-energy conversion and opto-electric devices.
Aug 5th, 2011
Read more
Subscribe to our Nanotechnology News feed