Versatile electronic gadgets should employ a number of important criteria: small in size, quick in operation, inexpensive to fabricate, and deliver high precision output. A new microlaser, developed at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia embodies all these qualities. It is small, tunable, cheap, and is essentially the world's first practical three-dimensional laser.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreA team of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to communicate and perform computations.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreResearchers use magnets to tune supercooled gallium arsenide semiconductors.
Dec 8th, 2010
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Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have shown that a magnetically polarised current can be manipulated by electric fields.
Dec 8th, 2010
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The MBE facility, located at Argonne National Laboratory, could provide the basis for new materials to improve fuel cells, electronics and batteries.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read morePaul Haney and Mark Stiles of the CNST have developed a theory of current-induced torques that generalizes the relationship between spin transfer torques, total angular momentum current, and mechanical torques, and is applicable to a much wider range of materials than previous theories.
Dec 8th, 2010
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Das Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) hat rund 13 Millionen Euro fuer insgesamt vier Verbundprojekte im bereich Anwendung von Quantentechnologien in der Informationstechnik zur Verfuegung gestellt.
Dec 8th, 2010
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Researchers studied how the tensile forces by which cells stretch connective tissue fibres affect the interaction between bacteria and fibronectin.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreThe NanoTrust project of the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has published several dossiers on important information about nanotechnology.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council request comments from the public regarding the draft National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreToday at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec presents an ultra-thin hybrid AlGaN-on-Si-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager with only 10um pixel-to-pixel pitch.
Dec 8th, 2010
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The repair of organs, such as human kidney and liver, hinges on the development of three-dimensional (3D) tissue scaffolds with well-defined microstructures. Andrew Wan, Jackie Y. Ying and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have now developed a photolithography method that can be used to fabricate microstructured 3D tissue materials with high precision.
Dec 8th, 2010
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Scientists have developed a silicon nanowire-based biosensor that can detect the 'reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction' product of dengue type 2 (DEN-2) viruses in less than 30 minutes. The device utilizes silicon nanowires affixed with peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probes to recognize complementary DNA fragments of DEN-2.
Dec 8th, 2010
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Hybrid designs could greatly enhance the resonant response of terahertz metamaterials.
Dec 8th, 2010
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The successful growth of high-quality indium nitride thin films makes it possible to produce nitride-based light-emitting diodes with a full visible emission spectrum.
Dec 8th, 2010
Read moreHere's the vision: an elderly woman comes into the emergency room after a fall. She has broken her hip. The orthopaedic surgeon doesn't come with metal plates or screws or shiny titanium ball joints. Instead, she pulls out a syringe filled with a new kind of liquid that will solidify in seconds and injects into the break. Over time, new bone tissue will take its place, encouraged by natural growth factors embedded in the synthetic molecules of the material.
Dec 7th, 2010
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