Nanotechnology discovery could lead to breakthrough in infrared satellite imaging technology
Researchers develop lens-less, gold-covered 'microlens' that enhances imaging signal without increasing noise.
May 18th, 2010
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New nanoscale electrical phenomenon discovered
At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phenomenon - one that could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices and push back frontiers in building micro-mechanical and lab-on-a-chip devices.
May 18th, 2010
Read moreSupramolecular architecture explains the incredible strength of fibrin blood clots
A new study unlocks the previously unknown structural features that underlie the incredible elastic resilience of fibrin, the main protein in blood clots.
May 18th, 2010
Read moreResearchers make breakthrough in hyper-entangled Schroedinger cat state
Ten-qubit hyper-entangled Schroedinger cat state was successfully generated recently by a research group from the Quantum Physics and Quantum Information (QPQI) Division of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale at the University of Science and Technology of China.
May 18th, 2010
Read moreWorld's smallest nanopump could be used to sample or treat single cells
A team of engineers has created the world's smallest pump. The minute device, similar in size to a human red blood cell, is powered by an electrode made from something that doesn't usually conduct electricity - glass.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreStripes offer clues to superconductivity
New images of iron-based superconductors are providing telltale clues to the origin of superconductivity in a class of ceramic materials known as pnictides. The images reveal that electrons responsible for the superconducting currents in some pnictides tend to flow primarily along the boundaries between the crystal grains that make up the superconductors.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology for biomedical applications - free webinar
Find out more about current developments, network with other researchers and share research interests in a free online workshop on 'Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications' organized by the ICPC Nanonet project on Friday May 28th.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreHigh-performance photocatalyst surface-treated with cesium
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have developed a tungsten oxide photocatalyst that provides a significantly higher quantum yield under visible light than conventional photocatalysts.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreSurvey results on micro- and nanotechnology in Germany
The 'Micro/Nano Atlas of Germany' gives a complete and unique overview over the micro- and nanotechnology industry in Germany, including research activities and priorities in six federal states and 38 regional clusters.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreSpeeding up broadband spectroscopy
Birgitta Bernhardt, a graduate student at of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, will report on a novel use of two frequency comb devices simultaneously to record broadband spectra, which speeds up the task of recording a spectrum by a factor of one million compared to the traditional Fourier transform spectroscopy.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreBrightest X-ray machine in the world probes molecules
Becoming operational last fall, the first experimental results from the LCLS are starting to appear at scientific meetings. In San Jose, Li Fang of Western Michigan University will report on how the powerful LCLS X-rays can be used to strip electrons away from a nitrogen molecule.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreLaser cooling of solids for sensitive sensors
Mansoor Sheik-Bahae of the University of New Mexico and colleagues are developing a technique to cool semiconductors loads that would use a vibration-free solid-state technology: laser cooling, which has traditionally been used to lower the temperature of dilute gases but can also cool transparent solids doped with rare-earth ions by kicking out energetic photons.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreUsing light to inscribe nanoscale plastic parts
One of the biggest obstacles in microscopy and in micro-fabrication is the so-called diffraction limit. Now scientists at the University of Maryland have pushed this limit, achieving pattern features with a size as small as one-twentieth of the wavelength.
May 17th, 2010
Read moreScientists home in on lithium battery safety flaws
Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of 'seeing' chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.
May 16th, 2010
Read moreUCLA gets $5.5 million from Defense agency to create new rotating microscale motors
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded $5.5 million from the U.S. Defense Department's central research and development agency to advance MEMS technology for use in defense systems.
May 14th, 2010
Read moreFishing for new drug targets with molecule-sized bait
UCLA researchers and their collaborators have developed a method that could open the door for investigations into the function of half of all proteins in the human body.
May 14th, 2010
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