Optical gyroscopes, also known as rotation sensors, are widely used as a navigational tool in vehicles from ships to airplanes, measuring the rotation rates of a vehicle on three axes to evaluate its exact position and orientation. Prof. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Physical Engineering is now scaling down this crucial sensing technology for use in smartphones, medical equipment and more futuristic technologies.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Traditional x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) works only in a vacuum, while fuel cells need gases under pressure to function. Now a team of scientists from the University of Maryland, the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories, and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used a new kind of XPS, called ambient-pressure XPS (APXPS), to examine every feature of a working solid oxide electrochemical cell.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new 'templated growth' technique for fabricating nanometer-scale graphene devices. The method addresses what had been a significant obstacle to the use of this promising material in future generations of high-performance electronic devices.
Oct 5th, 2010
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A recent paper in Nature Communications sheds light on key behaviors of polymers in specially engineered confined spaces, opening the door to a level of control that has previously been impossible.
Oct 5th, 2010
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The 2007 landmark article in Nature Materials "The rise of graphene" by the just announced winners of the 2010 Nobel prize in physics, Andre Geim and Kosta Novoselov, has now been made available as a free access article.
Oct 5th, 2010
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) will honor the discovery of fullerenes, the scientific achievement that gave birth to nanotechnology, as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in a ceremony to be held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 11.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Two teams of researchers from China and France report success in making and testing tiny high-frequency capacitors made from a complex manmade mineral: barium strontium titanate (BST). By introducing an ultrathin (1.2 nanometer) titanium oxide seed layer, the researchers made thin BST films that exhibited excellent microwave properties up to 40 GHz.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Two Case Western Reserve University researchers are building implants made of diamond and flexible polymer that are designed to identify chemical and electrical changes in the brain of patients suffering from neural disease, or to stimulate nerves and restore movement in the paralyzed.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Researchers shed new light on the growth process of carbon nanotubes. In particular, the researchers examined the influence of hydrogen gas.
Oct 5th, 2010
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A prototype device developed in Hong Kong will allow laboratory researchers to non-invasively test drugs for their ability to kill tumors by subjecting cancerous cells with different concentration gradients.
Oct 5th, 2010
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A new electrofluidics design from the University of Cincinnati and start-up company Gamma Dynamics that promises to dramatically reshape the image capabilities of electronic devices.
Oct 5th, 2010
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An important step - one that is essential to the ultimate construction of a quantum computer - was taken for the first time by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. The research involves the entanglement of three quantum bits of information, or qubits. Before now, entanglement research in the solid state has only been developed with two qubits.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Researchers tailored nanoparticles to deliver cisplatin and docetaxel, two drugs commonly used to treat many different types of cancer.
Oct 5th, 2010
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, University of Manchester, 'for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene'.
Oct 5th, 2010
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The Phantoms Foundation and the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) will bring together for the first time a nanoscience and nanotechnology Spain Pavilion at Taiwan Nano 2010.
Oct 5th, 2010
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Physiker der Uni Bonn habe eine Art 'Lichtdimmer' entwickelt, der aus einem einzigen Atom besteht. Bedient wird er ueber einen Laserstrahl. Moeglicherweise kommen aehnliche Bauelemente kuenftig in der Quantenkommunikation zum Einsatz.
Oct 5th, 2010
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