Innovations by a team of Yale University researchers could lead to improvements in basic solar power technology that result in lower-cost, higher-efficiency photovoltaic systems.
Dec 8th, 2011
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Graphene's star is rising as a material that could become essential to efficient, environmentally sound oil production. Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene's outstanding strength, light weight and solubility to enhance fluids used to drill oil wells.
Dec 8th, 2011
Read moreResearchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that until now have posed as obstacles for their integration into devices.
Dec 8th, 2011
Read moreICE Publishing, the publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers, today announces the immediate availability of 28 ahead of print articles - including 2012 Themed Issue articles of Bioinspired Materials - from its new flagship journal series: ICE Science.
Dec 8th, 2011
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HZB researchers achieve X-ray spectroscopy at nanoscale spatial resolution.
Dec 8th, 2011
Read moreIn this project funded by the Danish EPA the Technical University of Denmark and National Research Centre for the Working Environment has initiated the development of a screening tool called NanoRiskCat (NRC) for the evaluation of exposure and hazard of nanomaterials contained in products for professional and private use.
Dec 8th, 2011
Read moreThe new cell shows potential to meet the major requirements for future device-level nonvolatile memory. RRAM is an emerging technology for nonvolatile memory, a candidate to replace NAND Flash technology in the scaling race to sub-10nm memories.
Dec 8th, 2011
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Analogy could help engineers develop materials that make use of repeating patterns.
Dec 8th, 2011
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Researchers at Yale University have developed a novel nanoparticle with promising applications in gene therapy, a type of medical treatment that addresses the root causes of diseases now typically treated for symptoms.
Dec 7th, 2011
Read moreDiscovery is of a fundamental interest for the development of future electronics.
Dec 7th, 2011
Read moreNew research results will lead to improved understandings of the impact of nanomaterials on human health and more effective strategies for detoxification of nanoparticles.
Dec 7th, 2011
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An international collaboration led by the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has used scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) to acquire images of the magnetic structure inside patterned nickel-palladium (NiPd) thin film nanostructures, revealing peculiar magnetization textures that can affect the behavior of these ferromagnetic alloys in experimental applications.
Dec 7th, 2011
Read moreIf you are new to graphene, the European Graphene-Flagship initiative has produced a nice short film introducing graphene, the 'wonder substance' set to revolutionize the electronics industry.
Dec 7th, 2011
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Researchers at Brown and Johns Hopkins universities have found optimal configurations for creating 3-D geometric shapes - like tiny, highly simplified geodesic domes that assemble by themselves. The Brown team developed the algorithmic tools, and the Johns Hopkins team tested selected configurations. The research may lead to advances from drug-delivery containers to 3-D sensors and electronic circuits.
Dec 7th, 2011
Read moreResearchers spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework - measurements in a "typical dwelling" of the release, distribution and fate of particles almost as tiny as the diameter of a single DNA molecule. Particles ranging in size from 100 nanometers down to 2.5 nanometers that were emitted by gas and electric stoves, hair dryers, power tools and candles were tracked and analyzed.
Dec 7th, 2011
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Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories.
Dec 7th, 2011
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