3 tiny qubits, another big step toward quantum computing
A team led by Yale researchers has achieved the entanglement of three solid-state qubits, or quantum bits, for the first time.
Sep 29th, 2010
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WUSTL awarded $18 million to treat heart, lungs with nanotechnology
An $18 million research program headed by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will research therapies and diagnostic tools for heart and lung diseases that use nanotechnology.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreQuantum computer moves closer to reality
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol in the UK has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used to perform complex calculations that cannot be done by today's computers.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreUNC scientists receive grant to develop nanotechnology for pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment
A team of University of North Carolina (UNC) scientists has received a five-year $2,308,800 grant from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnerships to address the critical need for early diagnosis of and more effective treatments for pancreatic cancer.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreREACH register to ensure traceability of nanomaterials
Ahead of a regulatory review next year, the Belgian EU Presidency is proposing to create a specific register for nanomaterials under the bloc's REACH chemicals regulation and wants to make it mandatory to label their presence in consumer products.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreNanoparticles for therapy and regeneration of osteoarthritis
Researchers aim at inducing the self healing capacity of damaged cartilage and bone by coordinated cooperation/interaction of gene vectors, mesenchymal stem cells, polymers and magnetic nanoparticles.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreCarbon nanoobjects will facilitate the construction of futuristic power sources
The Layer-by-Layer method (LbL) is applied in particular to create three-dimensional structures made of polymers only or alternating layers of polymers and nanoparticles on the surface of electrodes.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreDevelopment of high performance electron source for world's highest resolution in electron microscope
Researchers in Japan have succeeded in establishing a surface cleaning and crystal control technologyfor lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6), nanowires and are able to set a goal of practical applications of LaB6 nanowires, which is expected to significantly improve the performance of electron microscopes.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreApplied physics: A head-to-head comparison
Hard disk drives could cram ten terabits of data per square inch of area using a new read head design.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreCrystal engineering: Composition of functions
Compositional tuning proves to be an effective approach for the fabrication of semiconductor nanocrystals with novel optical functions.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreNew technique allows 3-D visualization of quantum property
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that maps the magnetic vector potential - one of the most important electromagnetic quantities and a foundation of quantum mechanics - in three dimensions.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreNIST to award up to $15 million to University of Maryland to support nanotechnology research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) will award a five-year cooperative agreement totaling $15 million to the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, Md., to develop and implement a Postdoctoral Researcher and Visiting Fellow Measurement Science and Engineering Program.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreGrowing nanowires horizontally yields new benefit: Nano-LEDs
While refining their novel method for making nanoscale wires, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) discovered an unexpected bonus - a new way to create nanowires that produce light similar to that from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreNanotechnology brings personalized therapy one step closer to reality
A novel technology can make nanoscale protein measurements, which scientists can use in clinical trials to learn how drugs work.
Sep 29th, 2010
Read moreTiny generators turn waste heat into power
Using tiny structures called ferroelectric nanowires, a team of researchers can rapidly generate an electrical current in response to any change in the ambient temperature, harvesting otherwise wasted energy from thermal fluctuations.
Sep 28th, 2010
Read moreFinding a buckyball in photovoltaic cells
New research describes a technique that analyzes the reflection of neutrons to locate the buckyballs within the composite material in plastic solar cell film.
Sep 28th, 2010
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