Researchers in Japan have developed organic materials that melt from solid to liquid (i.e., undergo phase transition) with only the irradiation of light, without heating, and can furthermore be restored to their original solid state.
Jan 26th, 2011
Read moreScientists with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies have developed a 3D tracking microscope to follow three-dimensional movement of individual protein molecules inside live cells.
Jan 26th, 2011
Read moreBei der Tagung 'Chancen und Risiken der Nanotechnologie: Sicherheitsforschung in Bayern' am 13. Dezember wurden Chancen und Risiken der Nanotechnologien fuer Umwelt und Gesundheit aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln objektiv und ausgewogen dargestellt und zwischen Referenten und Teilnehmern der Tagung zum Teil kontrovers diskutiert.
Jan 26th, 2011
Read moreThe topic of the workshop will be 'Actionable Strategies for Company Building and Moving to Market'. This workshop is an add-on to the established North Carolina Nanotechnology Commercialization Conference, which is hosted by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, in partnership with the Charlotte Research Institute, the Small Business and Technology Development Center, and COIN.
Jan 26th, 2011
Read moreIn a development that may revolutionize handheld electronics, flat-panel displays, touch panels, electronic ink, and solar cells, as well as drastically reduce their manufacturing costs, physicists have created a spintronic device based on 'armchair' graphene nanoribbons.
Jan 26th, 2011
Read moreA team of physicists has taken a big step toward the development of useful graphene spintronic devices.
Jan 25th, 2011
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Measuring the attractive forces between atoms and surfaces with unprecedented precision, University of Arizona physicists have produced data that could refine our understanding of the structure of atoms and improve nanotechnology.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreResearchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make microfluidic devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis. The innovation represents a way to enhance commercially available diagnostic devices that use paper-strip assays like those that test for diabetes and pregnancy.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreResearchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson University and the University of Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60-90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreThe theme for the event is Innovative Technologies for an Energized Future. The commercialization of technologies and processes used to produce bioenergy from a variety of biomass resources highlights this half-day program. The BioEnergy Summit will also explore innovative nanotechnologies for bioenergy production and technologies for producing energy from wastewater.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today launched a new competition for grants to support the construction of new or expanded scientific research facilities at institutions of higher education and nonprofit scientific research organizations.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreLight-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an increasingly popular technology for use in energy-efficient lighting. Researchers from North Carolina State University have now developed a new technique that reduces defects in the gallium nitride (GaN) films used to create LEDs, making them more efficient.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreCertain types of pollution monitoring may soon become considerably easier. A group of researchers centered at Kyoto University has shown that a newly-formulated entangled framework of porous crystals (porous coordination polymers, or PCPs) can not only capture a variety of common air pollutants, but that the mixtures then glow in specific, easily-detected colors.
Jan 25th, 2011
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Researchers are developing a new class of 'plasmonic metamaterials' as potential building blocks for advanced optical technologies, including ultrapowerful microscopes and computers, improved solar cells, and a possible invisibility cloak.
Jan 25th, 2011
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Imec announces the launch of a new industrial affiliation program on high-bandwidth optical input/output (I/O). The primary objective of the new program, which is part of imec's research platform on deep-submicron CMOS scaling, is to explore the use of optical solutions for realizing high-bandwidth I/O between CMOS chips.
Jan 25th, 2011
Read moreDie Bundesanstalt fuer Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BAuA) fuehrte am 17.01.2011 die Veranstaltung 'Dialog-Forum Nanomaterialien am Arbeitsplatz' mit ueber 200 Interessierten aus Betrieben und Behoerden durch.
Jan 25th, 2011
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