Image sensors as used in cell phones are partially color-blind. This is because of their coating, which prevents UV light from passing through. CMOS chips have as a result not been suitable for spectroscopy up to now. A new production process makes the coating transparent - and the sensors suitable for special applications.
Feb 1st, 2011
Read moreThe electronic chips of the future might not be made of silicon or even graphene but of a material called molybdenite (MoS2). EU-funded research presented in the journal Nature Nanotechnology demonstrates that molybdenite is a highly effective semi-conductor that could be used to make transistors both smaller and more energy efficient.
Feb 1st, 2011
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The work could lead to improved methodologies for creating materials by design.
Feb 1st, 2011
Read moreThe Centre for Environmental Law Decisions and Corporate Ethical Certification (CIGA) at the University of Padua and the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, organize an international workshop titled Dilemmas of choice. Responsibility in nanotechnology development, which is aimed at presenting and debating contributions from different disciplines on several issues concerning the relationship between nanotechnology innovation and responsibility.
Feb 1st, 2011
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An der Uni Bielefeld forschen die Physiker Prof. Dr. Armin Goelzhaeuser und Dr. Andrey Turchanin intensiv an dem vielversprechenden Nanomaterial mit besonderen elektronischen Eigenschaften.
Feb 1st, 2011
Read moreThe aim of the workshop is to bring together leaders in the emerging field of computational nanotoxicology to form an international Community of Practice for accelerated development of the science of QNTR.
Feb 1st, 2011
Read moreThe aim of the workshop is to bring together scientists and engineers working on different technological uses of graphene in a multidisciplinary and multisectorial (academia/industry) environment.
Feb 1st, 2011
Read moreStanford engineers dance with plasmonics to yield new direction for thin, inexpensive solar cells.
Jan 31st, 2011
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Inspired by the popular confidence trick known as 'shell game', researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the ability to hide and shuffle 'quantum-mechanical peas' - microwave single photons - under and between three microwave resonators, or 'quantized shells'.
Jan 31st, 2011
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'Cornell Dots' -- brightly glowing nanoparticles -- may soon be used to light up cancer cells to aid in diagnosing and treating cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of the new technology.
Jan 31st, 2011
Read moreResearchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Nanotechnology Center, along with collaborators at Cornell University and Hybrid Silica Technologies, have received approval for their first Investigational New Drug Application (IND) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an ultrasmall silica inorganic nanoparticle platform for targeted molecular imaging of cancer, which may be useful for cancer treatment in the future.
Jan 31st, 2011
Read moreWashington University in St. Louis is starting a Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program with a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
Jan 31st, 2011
Read moreThe next big thing in medical diagnostics could be minutes particles of rust, iron oxide, coated with the material from which sand is formed, silicon dioxide. These magnetic nanoparticles, a mere 29 to 230 nanometers across, can be used to trap antibodies to the virus that causes cervical cancer and to the bacteria that causes potentially lethal diarrhea.
Jan 31st, 2011
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Cheaper, lighter and more energy-efficient broadband devices on communications satellites may be possible using metamaterials to modify horn antennas, according to engineers from Penn State and Lockheed Martin Corp.
Jan 31st, 2011
Read moreThe Universitat Jaume I will lead the project 'Materiales y dispositivos de nanoescala para conversion y almacenamiento de energia' ("Nanoscale materials and devices for energy conversion and storage"). This three year long project has the main objective of promoting cooperation among countries in Latin America through the development of basic and applied research in various areas of nanotechnology in order to achieve clean energies such as photovoltaics, batteries, LED and a system to get fuel with sunlight.
Jan 31st, 2011
Read moreThe new transistor achieves a record high-switching performance which will make our future electronic devices - such as PDAs and computers - even more functional and high-performance.
Jan 31st, 2011
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