Winners announced in 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition
2 grand prize winners have innovations related to cell engineering and tools for quadriplegics.
Oct 21st, 2009
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New 'stereocenters' introduce triangular joints into otherwise linear nanomaterials
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreNanotechnology can help crops grow faster
With potential adverse health and environmental effects often in the news about nanotechnology, scientists in Arkansas are reporting that carbon nanotubes could have beneficial effects in agriculture.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreSmart integrated biodiagnostic systems for healthcare
The EC-funded SmartHEALTH Integrated Project to present its latest results at a booth and a dedicated workshop at ComPaMed, Dusseldorf, 18th-20th Nov 2009.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreBiosensor to battle cancer
A powerful new biosensor developed by European researchers will help identify cells in the immune system that actively suppress tumour growth, then put them to use. Enlisting the patient's own immune system would be like sending reinforcements for resistance fighters.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreThe Spin Cycle: Nanotechnology could lead to next generation of transistors
Scientists now have discovered that transistors could use less energy, generate less heat and operate at higher speeds if they exploited another property of the electron: its spin.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreTwo new grants to investigate directed self-assembly
Eric Furst, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received two grants totaling $727,000 for his work on directed self-assembly of soft materials.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read moreChemist turns light into a weapon against cancer
Chemist Michael Therien works at the interface of light and matter, as when sunlight shines on a leaf.
Oct 21st, 2009
Read morePhysicists turn to radio dial for finer atomic matchmaking
Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland and their collaborators have found that properly tuned radio-frequency waves can influence how much the atoms attract or repel one another, opening up new ways to control their interactions.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreUsing self-assembly to make molecule-sized particles with patches of charge
Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules that may one day serve as drug-delivery vehicles to combat disease and perhaps be used in small batteries that store and release charge.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreCarbon nanotubes may cheaply harvest sunlight
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are studying how to create inexpensive, efficient solar cells from carbon nanotubes, which are sheets of carbon rolled into seamless cylinders 1-nanometer in diameter.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreResearchers pin down quantum particles
Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Nanosciences at Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in getting hold of the environment of a quantum particle.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreSmallest nanoantennas for high-speed data networks
Scientists have now succeeded for the first time in specifically and reproducibly manufacturing smallest optical nanoantennas from gold.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreNew material could boost data storage, save energy
North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read more0.2 second test for explosive liquids
New research explains how a new form of spectroscopy, a scientific method that uses electromagnetic radiation to identify materials, and a novel nanoelectronic device to detect signals, can identify explosive liquids, or liquid components for the fabrication of explosives, in usual plastic bottles almost instantly.
Oct 20th, 2009
Read moreTerepac and IMEC join forces in low-cost flexible electronics packaging
Terepac Corporation, an emerging leader in electronics miniaturization, packaging and assembly, and IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, announce their collaboration on novel packaging technologies for flexible electronics.
Oct 20th, 2009
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