New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreWiley-Blackwell today announced that it will double the publishing frequencies of its leading materials science journal Advanced Materials and its leading nanoscience journal Small in 2009.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreAbout 10 individuals / organizations will be offered an opportunity to make 10 minutes podium presentations on their research ideas and business plans, followed by one-to-one business meetings.
Nov 24th, 2008
Read moreLeatherhead Food International and the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) have teamed up to launch a focus group to promote and develop a dialogue between the Government and the Food Industry to concentrate on the role of emerging micro- and nanotechnologies in food, drink and pharmafood applications.
Nov 24th, 2008
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Research chemists at the University of Warwick have devised an elegant process which simply and cheaply covers small particles of polymer with a layer of silica-based nanoparticles.
Nov 24th, 2008
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A possible recipe for building a variety of nanoscale 'footballs' with boron, an element just next to carbon in the periodic table, has been proposed by researchers in China.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreIn which foods and products are nanoparticles used? In what ways do consumers come into contact with nanoparticles? Does this lead to health risks? How can they be assessed? What information do consumers need about nanotechnologies? At the sixth BfR Consumer Protection Forum at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin the list of questions from the 200 participants to be addressed was long.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreResearchers have, for the first time, tracked the magnetic processes going on within a hard-drive read head - similar to the heads that read the data off computer hard discs.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreTwo physicists may have found an easier way to make things invisible. Cloaking devices, which are a form of advanced stealth technology, are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek. So far all methods for invisibility require exotic materials and would only work at certain colours of light.
Nov 23rd, 2008
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140 years since its discovery, and despite the best endeavours of many scientists, helium, the lightest of the 'noble' gases, still stubbornly refuses to enter into any chemical alliance. Now a new glimmer of hope has emerged as a chemist has calculated that two new compounds containing a helium-oxygen bond could be formed.
Nov 23rd, 2008
Read moreA new International PhD program - supported by the Polish Foundation of Science - is offered by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw.
Nov 23rd, 2008
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Royal Philips Electronics has developed a handheld device that uses nanotechnology to detect marijuana, cocaine, Speed and other drugs in saliva within 2 minutes.
Nov 22nd, 2008
Read moreJust as artists at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios bring Mickey Mouse, Shrek and Nemo to life, life science artists are using animation to bring viruses, bacteria and even nanowires to life and demystify scientific concepts.
Nov 22nd, 2008
Read moreAn EU-funded study by physicists in Germany, France and Hungary has demonstrated conclusively that the Standard Model of particle physics, a theory describing the fundamental interactions of the elementary particles that make up all visible matter in the universe, accurately accounts for the mass of protons and neutrons.
Nov 22nd, 2008
Read moreA team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras.
Nov 21st, 2008
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Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity.
Nov 21st, 2008
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